My iPhone sometimes stops outputting sound after I remove my earbuds/headphones? How can I fix this?
Though the fix for this particular issue has remained unchanged for some time now - which can be surprising because it is so un-elegant - this issue continues to come to us from iPhoneFAQ readers. It also continues to pop up on Apple's iPhone discussion forums and on other iPhone related websites. So, we figured we'd publish the all-too-uninteresting solution.
For those unfamiliar with the issue, on occasion, the iPhone will stop outputting sound out of its external speaker after headphones are removed from the headphone jack . Essentially, the iPhone thinks the headphones are still connected and will continue to ouput sound only through the headphone port until you're able to "convince" it that the nothing is plugged in. Often, even powering down and back up one's iPhone won't solve the problem.
Why? Because that attempted solution is just too fancy. Believe it or not, the only known fix to this issue is to repeatedly insert and remove a device from the headphone jack. Remember to play a song or otherwise output sound when plugging and unplugging your earbuds, headphones, etc.
We've forwarded this solution to everyone who has written in with this same issue, and we've yet to hear back from anyone reporting that it did not solve the problem.
Oh wow - it seems so obvious but I didn't think of it. Rebooted my phone like 6 times and it didn't fix. The headphone jack trick worked like a charm. Thanks!
Hi, phones been stuck in 'headphones' mode for half a day.............. I tried everything on the forum from hard reboots (holding home and power button till phone turns off and apple logo appears) to air canisters and continuously plugging and unplugging the headphones from the jack, even tried playing ringtones, speaker worked for the ringtone but went back to headphone mode when i tried making a call or playing music.........
THIS IS WHAT WORKED FOR ME......!
SETTINGS>AIRPLANE MODE............... TURN ON>AND THEN TURN OFF AGAIN...............!
JUST TURN AIRPLANE MODE ON AND OFF.................
WORKED FOR ME (",)
Yess!! This worked for me!! Thank you!!!!!
Eto ginawa ko nd this really fixed sound problem,,thanks indeed
yay aeroplane on - off worked for me when none of the other solutions did:) ta!
Thank you SO SO much! My phone was driving me crazy and this was the only thing that worked!
I have the same problem bro.. When go to settings->ring tones then I am getting sound and the volume is in "Ringer mode". But not working once i come out of settings. It is back to "Ringer (headphones).. I tried turning my airplane mode on and of 3-4 times..but no result. Please tell me howmany times I should be doing it? It is urgent..
I tried all the suggestions to try and fix the problem with sound- blowing into the socket , putting head set in and out, pressing the middle etc and in the end none worked.
I fixed the problem by having no head set in and going into sound settings, holding my finger on the volume key on the side of the phone and with my other hand slide the messge alert, mailbox etc on and off untill I heard the sounds. Worked for me
hemel
i changed the back housing and now when i try to adjust the volume it says headphones, even tho none are plugged in!!!! ive heard that there are two different types of headphone jacks that apple uses....any1 know how to find out which one u have??? or how to fix without having to change the housing again??
+1 for the tip about playing around with the ring tones in the settings. I'd be blowing, poking and throwing my phone around for two days before trying this method, and in the end it was all the stupid thing needed. Cheers.
Just played a ringtone....baam off headphone mode. NOTHING else worked!
I bought a brand new iphone today - havent even had it for 6 hours yet...this trick did not work. HELP! I've tried reseting the phone and plugging in and unpluging the headpones - still nothing. What am I to do next?!?
I've tried doing this and yet my iphone4 still doesn't have sound when i do what you told me to do I've
The Middle Squeeze has just worked for me; And I was mighty skeptical.....But it did work!
I put my iPhone in the fridge for 5 minutes and start working . I didn't have problems with the phone in the winter, but now here is summer and is very hot all the time, and I saw a comment that the reason can be the hot temperature, I tried everything else, but my fridge helped me :)
good luck
I had that same problem and I tried putting the phone in the fridge for 5 minutes and it didn't work. So I removed it from the case and put it in the fridge for another 15 minutes and it work. Thank you.
hahahahahhahahahahahahahah XD
This does *not* fix my issue. The sound is not being solely output through my headphone jack... I know this because it still makes lock and unlock noises.
No audio comes out of the speaker, OR is received by parties at the other end of my line. This happens with apple earphones, bluetooth headset or plain.
When I initiate a call or accept a call, default audio mode is 'speaker', which also does nothing.
HELP!!
SAme here,
my iphone completely works except on calls.
On a call i cannot hear the other party and they cannot hear me (weather on loud speaker, earphones, or normal). This is not the headphone jack problem.
using the VIBER app the phone works perfect, I cant find anything on this problem and it is very fustrating.
PLEASE HELP ME ANYONE
Any Ideas ???
I was super frustrated and hating my iphone while reading your solutions, and thank you all for them. I just wanna be the guy who states the obvious because I missed it bigtime. I couldn't figure out why my phone was silent on the locks, the keyboard, incoming calls and texts, yet playing music from my itunes. Then I realized that my phone was on silent, not my doing, happened in my pocket.
Anyway, I want to save others the frustration, check the silent tab on the side of the phone.
Unbelievable...I didn't even know this button existed-mine was on silent too-THANKS!!!
Yup that was my issue to. Too bad it took me an hour to figure this out. I just came back here to post the solution also.
OMG! That was it! Thanks so much, It has been a frustrating week without the sound! Thank you for an easy fix. Deb
Oh my God. I didn't even know there WAS a silent tab. Thank you so much for posting this.
This happened a few months ago to my phone, I tried all the tips that eveyone had posted--inserting head phones, blowing into the jack, squeezing the middle of the phone. Nothing worked, then the sounds miraculously started working a week later, but I had no idea what prompted the fix.
Sounds just went out again today and after reading this post, I realized that the silent tab was on. I feel equal parts stupid and relieved!
Thanks!
Omg! This worked for me too. Happened in my pocket too. Didn't even know that button was there. Too bad I restored my phone to new. Could have saved a lot of time if I'd looked here first before calling apple. Thanks so much!
Omfg thank you for that info I totally forgot about that switch!! I was getting really irritated until now! Thanks so much'
THANK YOU!! never knew this button was here.......it worked!!
I have the opposite problem. I pull out the headphone Jack and music starts playing through the speaker. Even though I was not listening to music.
Re your iphone sound not working without headphones,you may have accidentally turned off the small silver audio speaker switch which is located above the volume control on the top left hand side of your iphone,flip it back on if you have and problem solved.
I haven't had sound forever without headphones :(
I tried all kinds of "fixes" nothing worked.
I got to the bottom of this forum and it said squeeze the phone. lol...
I squeezed the sides and nothing, so i pressed in the middle of the screen and it was MAGIC.
SOUND YAY
thanks everyone :)
oh man...i was reading all of these different comments..i tried blowing as hard as i could and m nothing...but then when i squeezed the middle....my phone rang!!! yayyyyyyyy
Not the best first impression I got from my new iPhone 4 (32GB Black). I got the phone yesterday, brand new, played around with it and checked some menus. And then no sounds from speakers. Vibration did work so I knew when someone called me, and I could hear them on the phone and they hear me, but no ringtones, SMS tones or sounds from iPod.
Trying to change the volume didnt say headphones.
What I did to make it work was press with my thumbs as hard as I could around the square button (from the left and right sides of it). Then it started working, played some music for 20 minutes and now (as of writing this) it stopped working again, sounds just stopped. Pressing around the square does make the sound come back, but stops almost immediately I release the pressure.
Has to be a defect in manufacture, a connectivity issue with some wires or such. Stupid phone :(
! :O i am almost going insane ! my phone isn't an iphone but i have exactly the same problem. this was the only website with solutions so i guess i hoped to find something. but it shouldn't be different because of another phone ? i tried the fridge thing and blowing until my cheeks were totally sore and the plugging and unplugging but nothing is working ! this problem showed up shortly after i had dropped it but it was a few hours later ... can that be the reason for my problem or can this be solved ?
please help !
I had the "iPhone thinks the headphones are still plugged in problem" this morning and found this thread. Headphones in and out 100x didn't work, squeezing the phone didn't work, and blowing really hard didn't work.
BUT the can of compressed air you get to clean off keyboards and the like DID work. Put the little tube in the headphone jack hole and let 'er rip. After about 10 seconds, I got sound again.
God bless the internet.
Thanks a lot, blew as hard as I could into the headphone jack and viola sound again.
happened to mine, i just blow into the earphone socket.
it's been 30 minutes now, and nothing has worked. I'm so pissed off!
This fix didn't work for me. When I put a headphone I can hear the audio through the headphones. When I take it off, it goes back to mute.
connecting and reconnecting the headphones to the iphone didn't work for me so i tried scraping it gently with a wooded toothpick and it worked great a lot of crud came out of the port i was very suprised
So as a girl with this problem.. I have to insert the Jack numerous times before it expresses it's sound.. How endogenous.
So as a girl with this problem.. I have to insert the Jack numerous times before it expresses it's sound.. How endogenous.
I read down through a few posts and other websites, all have lots of different "solutions" to this issue and I think there can be many different causes. The issue specifically where some sounds work and others down is related to your iPod volume. If you turned down your volume while iPod app was open, then close/kill it certain app sounds (like games) won't work even though it appears your normal volume buttons raise and lower the sound. The solution of course is to open iPod again and turn the volume up within it - then you can close/kill it, etc.
Wow I tried everything, from blowing in it really hard squeezing it but I didn't have the headphones by me so I didn't try that but then I read some more comments and going to settings and playing a ringtone worked like magic! I can't believe it thanks everyone!
So thankful for this thread! I tried inserting headphones and pulling them back out again and again, pressing the center of the phone gently, blowing into the earphone jack, cleaning it with a cotton swab, restarting, restoring..... Nothing worked. I left the phone alone for 30 mins and the sound was back. I have had my iphone4 since the summer and this is the first time this happened.
Thank you for the solution. Life saver!
i tried plugging and umplugging the headphones and resetting.. but what really did the trick was the compressed air. at first i just held it for very few seconds and didnt blew much air into it (i was afraid it would damage it) but it didnt work.. so i blew a lot of air into it with the little tube and.. it worked! thanks!
i have a problem where i cant hear anything and no one can hear me in calls even if i have headset on, and im sure its not a headset issue. The problem have been occuring since my 1st call when i got the phone(3 days ago), and the problem have been coming and going duno wtf is the problem.
I reset & restore & reboot & restart and done every possible thing and still the problem comes and goes, can anyone PLEAAASE help me?
Okay... same issue, not on mute... 3 weeks old Iphone 4. No sound from External Speakers, yes with earphones-
Diagnosis-
Earphones plugging in and out changes volume settings in ipod - Phone is not stuck in earphone mode-
With that in mind, I've still tried everything. blowing, headphone jack in and out, multiple types, upside down in and out, squeezing sides and spots next to home button, playing ringtone, off and on, hard reset... everything.
Noticed speaker phone was not working during face time or regular calls..
Time to call it a full on manufacturer defect?
Any suggestions?
Hi,
I've had same problem... did everything .. squeezed middle of the iphone, played ringtone from setting but dint work.. The thing that finally worked for me is earbud... i inserted an ear bud in the headphone jack and did rotate the earbud few times and voooooooooollllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh
It worked..
Tried all these tips and none of them worked... Tried the last suggestion, the one about twisting the headphone jack when its inside the iphone and that totally worked!!! Thanks!