iPhone stuck in "headphones" mode

After reading through this thread it became quite apparent that this is no single problem. There is a multitude of different ways your phone can get stuck in "headphones mode" and each requiring their own solution. For instance, to fix my audio i had to toggle speaker phone on/off and plug in/out headphones during a call. I think my problem had something to do with using the speaker phone, as i had been using it before this occurred.

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Also i think i had taken calls on a multitude of occasions when my phone was connected to an aux cable, and i would end up unplugging the cable during the call to hear them through the phone.

variation on the sucking trick: use a coffee straw/stirrer. I tried for a good 20 times to do this by mouth (ha, ha) and it didn't work. The tiny straw is a perfect fit for the port and worked. Note: my phone was inadvertantly stuck into a cup holder filled with Coke. I ended up carefully dunking it in a little water (since I know that hasn't killed it in the past) then using the straw. Going off the assumption the Coke being sticky as it dries it would need a bit of help.

I went through every fix on this thread after my iphone 6 did this without the headphones having been anywhere near it. Bluetooth, flight mode (I admit I didn't leave this on for longer than 5 minutes because I am impatient), the paper clip, sucking every er... iphone hole on my phone (stale iphone air tastes horrible by the way), network reset, the speaker-on-and-off-during-call, everything bar a full hard reset.
In the end I thought before I back it up and do the hard reset I'd better check the Liquid Damage Indicator to see if I'd somehow water damaged it without realising (it wouldn't be the first iphone to experience sweat death). The iphone 6 LDI is inside the sim card slot, so you have to remove the sim card to check it, no water damage seen but ringer is now back on!

Suspect I will be handling it with kid gloves for the next few days... and keeping my headphones with me constantly in case it happens again.

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Oh for the love of Christ it's just done it again. I give up.

"Inhale into your headphone jack for like 5-10 seconds. And Viola!

This is the only thing that worked for me. "

This helped me... I think somethink got stuck in the headphone jack and when I inhale, it got cleared..

Do what Bigbillpns said. Try sucking in air through the headphone jack, speaker, and charging port. Also try blowing in the headphone jack, speaker, and charging port. This worked great for me. Thank you so much big bill!!!!

I tried every. Single. Thing and none of it was working and I was just about to give up. So I dropped my i(pod) in the bathtub and quickly rushed it into rice for liek 4 hours. I made sure it was turned off during that time. It was fine, but then it acted like the headphone were connected. I tried the sucking thing, didn't work. I tried the rebooting didn't work I tried the timer didn't work I tried the unplugging and plugging in didn't work. Tried the cotton didn't work. The thing that FINALLY worked was blowing INTO the charger hole. You may have to do this a bunch, but it worked for me.

It would mainly be because of moisture or dust that’s been accumulated in

your headphone slot.

For water drops or moisture, you can try sucking it, like the way mentioned in the above comments.

If it’s dust then maybe you try this... 👇-1F3FC;👇-1F3FC;

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1343532?answerId=31381848022#31381848022

For me, the solution was to clean up my iPhone - it was running low on memory and that's what caused it to switch to the Headphones mode. The moment I dumped my photos/videos into computer and cleared some space, the problem went away. Weird stuff.

I had the same issue on a borrowed iphone 5S -

I sorted it by doing the following:- Ensure headphones are plugged into the headphone jack.

• Open music and play any song long enough for you to do the following task.
• Open Settings
• Scroll down to "Music" and select.
• Scroll down to the header entitled "Playback".
• Select "volume limit" - the letters in grey may say "off".
• Check if max volume slider bar is on mute (the most left position).
• If so then slide button to the full volume position (the most right position).
• You should start to hear the music playing through the headphones as you adjust the slider bar.
• If not then its definately a hardware problem.

I hope this resolves your issue.

Good luck.

Nick.😎

i actually just dropped my iphone top first into a cup of water. all i did was just clean the headphone slot out with some paper towels and its like brand new. i tell you this phone is a TANK

I turned Siri on and it fixed it

Using a hair dryer worked for me!!! Would never have thought of it! Thank you!!!