iPhone stuck in "headphones" mode

I had this issue and I sympathize, it's quite frustrating. After reading these posts, I noticed some lint in the USB socket, used a toothpick to clear it and this solved the issue. I had been docking the phone in a Soundwave, so this may have pushed the lint up in there. Good luck fixing. iPhone 4s.

I just fixed the stuck headphone mode on my ipad2.

After reading about solutions for the iPhone problem here

I used a hot hair dryer on the headphone jack of my ipad2 to remove

any moisture that might have gotten in there. Sofar it's back to normal

This forum helped me realize what happened.

After two hours searching the Ipad forums I couldn't find

Anything as informative as the info here

Thanks

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to give my 2 cents about this "headphone mode" problem.

Basically.. my iphone 5 was stuck on headphone mode.. from the day one. Now i tried all the methods.. HAIR DRYING it.. freezing it.. blowing into the headphone jack.. plugging and unplugging the headphone.. 1000 times( not literallly).. even bought compressed air to blow into the headphone jack.. and many moree!! n e ways NOTHING WORKED.

UNTILLLLL NOWW!! OOhhh yeahhh..

basically i had a laptop clearner set that came with an brush which is anti static one. Well desperate time calls for desperate measures .... so i shoved that brush right in the headjack.. and gave it a brushing all around that area... well 🙂 its gangnam style from here on end!!

Hope it helps!

Ciao

Toonnnyyy

My IPhone 5 with IOS 7 got stuck in "headphones" setting resulting in no sound coming out of speakers. This problem occurs when the headphone plug is not fully inserted. I was playing with volume control in control center while trying to remove the headphone plug. This is when the problem occurred. From then on my Iphone was stuck in "headphones" mode.

The solution is to put the headphone plug back into the jack.I am not sure the complete sequence of steps, but by starting and stopping the sound in control center while removing the jack slightly and then moving all the way has the effect of allowing IOS 7 to figure out the setting. While going through this exercise you will notice the indicator in the control center showing "Ringer".

One more new solution after all others failed. I connected the phone to my docking station and played music. As the music was playing, I rebooted the phone while still connected to the docking station and playing music. After reboot was complete, with the phone still connected to the docking station, I played music through the docking station speakers. I then disconnected the phone from the docking station and the music finally came through the speakers. I am no longer stuck on headphone mode.

There are some interesting descriptions earlier in the thread about why this might occur

When I realised today that I had no audio for the phone in normal operation but it worked when selecting "Speaker", only then did I come to learn I was stuck in headphone mode. I did the reboot but that didn't work, was all ready to go home and plug in and remove my headphones 3 or 4 times as used successfully by some, when I happened to go looking for the solution to a completely different problem that has nothing to do with headphones or iPhones

I went to watch a video on You Tube...yes as soon as I The Player was on my screen I saw the volume was "off" (left end). I moved the slider right to turn volume up and hey presto we have volume, I press the iPhone volume buttons to check and they work and no pesky reference to Headphones anymore.

While swiping my lock screen to take a picture, my 1 month-old iPhone 5s (7.0.4) suddenly rebooted. I noticed after a couple of hours that I was now stuck in "headphones" mode..

Before trying all the physical tips discussed in this thread, I tried to insert headphones in and out, and play youtube video, etc. no luck...

Then I've seen this post mentioning Control Center (thanks @Fraser357). I went to Control Center, started playing music again, and MAGIC, the sound came out of the iPhone's loudspeaker. Now my phone is back in regular mode.

Apple, please fix this...

This worked immediately! My headphone socket had not worked for around 2 days, for what reason, I don't know why. But I tried almost everything, the sucking of the socket, drying, airing it out, nothing worked! But I came across this post and it worked a charm! Must have turned on airplane mode for around 2-4 minutes, turned it off and then, voila! It worked amazingly, thank you!!!

Had the same issue on my iPhone 5 after a day snowboarding (snow, cold and humidity).

My solution was:

1) Leave iPhone in some dry place

2) Go to sleep

3) Wake up, play some music through AirPlay/Bluetooth

4) Accept incoming call twice while listening to music

Alright. I Spent an hour reading this forums and different websites and even youtube videos and NOTHING worked. I decided to try something on my own just cause i was literally trying everything. Im not sure if this was a combination of all the previous attempts or if this fixed it all on its own. All i did was:

1) Put the phone on airplane mode.

2) Turn off my phone

3) Wait 30 seconds

4) Turned phone back on

Thats it. I hope it works for y'all!

Ok- today I was playing in the snow with my family and had my iPhone in my pocket the entire day. It didn't get wet or anything, but when I came inside I noticed the sound wasn't working. The only sound my phone could make was the ringing from a phone call, and when I put my phone call on speaker phone. So, I tried a lot of peoples suggestions and put them together! Heres what I did:

1) I turned my iPhone off with the headphones in

2) I turned it back on with the headphones still in

3) I took the headphones out

4) I took a q-tip and jammed it in the hole where the headphones go, and cleaned out the hole a little bit

5) I sucked on the hole where you put your head phones in for a little while (crazy right?! But it works!!)

6) I plugged in head phones

7) While the headphones were still in I twisted them around in the hole a little bit

8) I repeaded stepps 6-7 7 times

Then it started working! YAY! I really suggest this method it worked for me! Just try a bunch of stuff, and if it still doesn't work and you still have your warranty you can get a new phone for free! Hope this helped 🙂

Ok so I just had this problem. I went online and it said to keep inserting the head

Phones into where you insert it and taking it out. Eventually this did work for me but Another thing I did was

1. Go to settings

2. Turn the sound off and back on this worker for me

And also doing the other thing

I've had this same problem( stuck in headphone mode) with my iphone 5. If I am using headphones at night, then remove headphones, my alarm isn't audible the next morning. When someone calls me, headphone problems suddenly gone. Another fix for me is to go to one of MY own videos, click on that, and suddenly..headphone probs resolved. I have also done the "jack-sex" thing and has worked a few times. Now, I have an iPad air and guess what? You guessed it - same thing, different device. C'mon Apple- quit getting your kicks out of watching how us nimrods invent things like "jack-sex", q-tip twists, ball point pen probing, and all of the other little tricks we do to help ourselves fix this problem in your product. This problem has been going on for a few years now. If your not going to fix this, then you should include some contemporary mini ****** with your products.

I tried lots of these suggestions but the only thing that worked was a vacuum cleaner covered except in a small area, to which the phone was placed. After a few minutes it started going back and forth between Ringer and Headphones mode, but it seems settled for now into Ringer.

I never use headphones. Presumably this is due to some accumulation of crud, but I don't see any with the naked eye, but maybe the Apple Store has a high power microscope and illuminator to look better. With a 37 page thread on this issue it sounds like they must see this problem a lot.

At the Apple store they used as otoscope to look into the headphone jack. There was a bit of dust, but not much. They use a can that sprays air to dislodge dust.

They offered to replace the phone because of the problem, even though it seems to have resolved after using the vacuum cleaner. I decided not to take a replacement phone since the problem seems to have been from crud dislodged by the vacuum cleaner. But I have a few more months until I hit the 1 year warranty period, and if the problem happens again I'll take it to the store to resolve since we'll be able to see if crud was causing the problem.