Q: iphone thinks headphones are plugged in even when not - how to fix

I tried everything

but last night i knew a drop ( yes a drop) of water had probably entered my earpiece.

i dint have a hairdryer so i held my phne oveer my lighter..

and it WORKED....

was about to reset my phone..

Guys... its moisture.. try the hairdyer or some warm air generating thing.. (like a lighter)

but dont hold it for too long..

i held my phone over fire for like 10 sec... phones earpice plcae got real hot..

hold it for 1-2 sec..increase yourvolume to see if its still in headphone mode..

Awesome, thanks, this worked right away. I used a thick needle and just "scraped" the sides of the jack. It only took me twice to go around the circumference and it went back to "ringer".

Yes Paper Clip guy win. Worked as soon as I did it.

Crazy, but only the combination of que tip cotton, wrapped around the end of a paperclip, followed by sucking on the headphone jack ended up working for me! When I tried each of the solutions seperately, I failed. Thank you good people.

Thank you, "Paper Clip Guy."  Tried the other ones, didn't work for me.  I used a hairpin and it worked like a charm!

Sucking worked for me straight away. Thank you!

This happened to my ipad mini all I did was update to ios 7.0.4 and it solved my problem so it may also be a bug .

The sucking method worked for me, Thank you!

i tried everything else on here. and the dry qtip worked best for me.

I tried resetting the iphone, I tried inserting the earphone jack several times, nothining was working.  But this did the trick instantly.

i had the same problem.  took a toothpick and dug out some lint.  thanks for the help.

I was franticly trying to find something that would work. I tried everything till I found this. It really worked, thanks so much!!

Thanks for all the great suggestions, folks!

I had my phone in my pocket when I was outside during a wet snow, took a few pics then came in (which caused condensation from the temp change).  Next thing I know no sound is coming out of my phone and it's telling me the headphones are plugged in.  I figured it was a moisture issue.

I was about to try to bag of rice trick but read the suggestions here...I cut a q-tip in half and used the end to push some tissue in and out, twirled it a bunch of times and the sound came back

..EDIT...sound went back out again.  *sigh*  Gonna stick it in the back of rice for a while.

Qtip works. Was a bit rough and abusive, but I was reaching the end of my tether. Was in no mood to spend hundreds of dollars. Thanks Apple Community. You are the best.

I dropped my phone on top of snow. It was hard enough for it not to get submerged, so I was hoping it didn't get wet. Once I got home and unplugged the headphones I knew some moisture must've collected inside the phone after all. Because of that I tried the q-tip and rolled up paper solutions first. I twisted regular toilet paper and put it in the jack and pushed it down slightly so it'd fill it up. Neither worked, so after that I tried the paper clip. I don't know if it was a combination, a coincidence or if the clip did it in the end... but it started working right then.