iPhone stuck in "headphones" mode

What worked for me w/ the issue of 'EarPod volume controls stopped working w/ iphone 5' -

take a very small bit of tissue paper, roll/twist it into a shape similar to a headphone plug, soak it in rubbing alcohol, and insert it all the way into the headphone port while twisting for a full minute. Mine came out dirty and now the volume controls/mic on the EarPods work again. I had tried many other suggestions in this thread, but this is the only one that worked for me.

Using compressed air to clean out the lightning power port fixed a problem where the iphone 5 started having problems charging via the lightning power cord.

I dropped my phone in the snow by accident last night, and it got stuck in headphones mode. I figured I messed up something electrically, so it was a lost cause. But I tried everything, like cleaning out the headphone jack with a q-tip and rebooting the phone. I read that sucking in at the headphone jack worked, but I didn't really want to put my mouth on my phone so I saved it for last. It worked perfectly though! After a few seconds of sucking in really hard my phone went back to normal!

I tried everything suggested above except a Q-tip. I didn't have one, but I did have a black coffee stirrer (looks like a tiny straw). Wiggled it, blew in in it and bang... fixed!

If you're at work and have this problem, seek the coffee bar for your salvation.

I live in Colorado. Mile High City. Dry as can be. I tried every single thing on this forum. NOTHING worked. But, as soon as I took a hair dryer to it (on cool) for a couple minutes, it worked. Like I said, I live in one of the detest spots in the nation, and there appeared to be some moisture in it. TRY THE HAIRDRYER. IT WORKS.

I tried cleaning out with a Q tip, hair dryer, resetting, finally I stuck my vacuum hose to headphone jack and it worked!! Must have been lint or something in there. Vacuum was on lowest setting for 2-3 minutes.

Hi guys I had the same problem, but I used a toothpick to get out of headphones mode.

Gently fiddle inside the headphone port with the toothpick, and then check it with the volume rocker buttons ... It should come back to normal mode.

Hope this works for you guys ! :)

Cheers !

hard reboot by holding home and lock button at same time until apple logo shows then letgo and press home buttong twice

when phone is booted up take out headphones. go to music and play a song and leave it until the phone auto locks itself. then plug in headphone jack, unlock phone and go into music. stop song and go back to home screen. take out headphone jack.

perform another hard reboot

at is point you should have use of your normal speakers but the volume will keep going to zeroon its own. go to settings, sound and de-activate change with buttons. manually put sounder slider to max and hey presto hopefully you should be back in business. its all about time. in 24 hours even my screen has dried out nd there is ow no water marks under thenscreen. the only issue im left with is the + volume bottom on left of phone doesnt work but that doesnt matter as i had to deactivate that function anyway.

i can go into more detail on request as i have had to brief tonight. let me know if u need more info

Thanks, russellsimpson70,

I upgraded my iPhone 4S to iOS 7.1.2 and started experiencing the severe battery drain problem. I started trying posted fixes, one of which was to "reset all network settings." As soon as the phone rebooted after resetting the network settings, it was stuck in headphone mode. The only sound without headphones was incoming phone ring. The volume control buttons didn't work, no keyboard click, no sound from music, etc.

I followed the above instructions and after the 2nd hard boot my speakers were back ... I didn't have the volume going to zero issue, so I didn't have turn "change with buttons" off and on -- but maybe that's because I was doing that before I found Russell's instructions.

I still haven't fixed the battery problem, but at least the speakers are back.

Had this problem once with my iPhone 5s and today with my iPhone 6. I tried resetting the phone and plugging and unplugging the headphones multiple times to no avail. What worked was I connected to a bluetooth speaker and then disconnected and it's fine now.

I had this same problem today tried everything from sucking it in haha and cleaning it and also plugging the headphones back in and out. Nothing worked until when I put them in and twisted them everything worked!

OUt of the blue, my IPHONE 6 went into Headphones Mode...... Was really worried...... Tried everything from inserting headphones , hard reboot, Factory Reset....... Nothing worked.......Finally I switched on SIRI and the phone went back to ringer mode....... This is kind of funny......Looks like a software bug.....

This fixed it!! Voila!! I NEVER use headphones or ear buds. Long story short, I fainted (hit the floor - OUT!!!!) and happened to be in the restroom. After I picked myself back up off the floor, my phone was IN THE TOILET!!! Ph had bn stuck in headphones mode ever since!! Locking the screen, then inserting my ear buds once then right back out..... VOILA!! Great, super easy fix!!! THANKS JACOB JACKSON!

iphone 6 fix ( troubleshoot in order)

- go to settings

- click on sound

- Make sure the "change with buttons" option is green

- try turning this option on and off

- also try raising and lowering the volume by using the volume button

- also try cleaning the headphone jack with a q-tip

- this should work

I too had same issue. I was playing video on Whatsapp , i stopped it in middle n close whatsapp.

After 10 mins around my iPhone 6 gone to Headphone mode ( only God knows y ).

i tried all possible way out to get dis mode off but failed.

Then I inserted / removed headphone 2-3 times and guess what ? It's started working fine 🙂

Had some issue on iphone 6 played with the heaphone jack 50 times like everyone else,powered down ,looked through settings and nothing fixed even went out to garage and use air compressor to blow into headphone jack hole and still nothing so if all this still doesnt help then try something silly. Did this after reading someone elses post ,this fixed their issue buy doing this .Just suck hard as you can on the headphone hole and blow too not sure which helped but after doing this for 10 seconds pressed volume button and tada **** things back to normal. hope helps good luck

Really appreciative of all of the suggestions in this thread, but none of them worked for me. I tried the q-tip and the tissue, and sucking air through the headphone jack as well as blowing air into it. All of that and the phone remained in headphone mode. I also tried playing music through the iTunes app and removing the headphone jack but that didn't work either.

What did work, however, was going into the settings app, going into the ringtone section, and selecting a different ringtone. The ringtone played out on the speakers and now I can listen through the built-in speakers or plug in headphones.

Dropped mine in water, also, maybe an hour or two ago fyi.