iPhone stuck in "headphones" mode

Thank you so much for suggesting this. It did make me laugh, but it worked!

Found a solution, simply by mistake!

I tried everything that has been posted here:

- Plugging and unplugging the headphones many times (using more than one set of headphones)

- Reboot

- Shutdown and restart

- Play a song, pause, remove headphones

- Q-tip

- Airplane Mode

Nothing had worked so I finally gave up and made an appointment with the Genius Bar for the next day.

I went to bed and set the phone on vibrate so I could 'hear' if someone called me.

The next morning, much to my surprise, my iPhone alarm sound woke me up. It took me several seconds to realize what had just happened, my phone wasn't stuck on headphones anymore. The alarm was going off and I could hear it.

So one of these three things did the trick for me:

1. Vibrate mode (althought I have no idea why that would work)

2. Time (simply leaving it alone over night)

3. Alarm (maybe the alarm going off is what fixed the issue)

- Bold one revive my phone sound back out of "Headphones" mode and save me a lot of buck ! yes im in 2016 and just experienced a few hours to suffer this problem but bold method save me a lot !. thanks mannyotr

Okay, this is going to sound weird and dumb, BUT THIS WORKS! I tried everything with my phone I used the Q-tip, I sucked on it, blew air into it, I mean everything. Then I stuck it in the freezer for 10 minutes to the dot and it worked the second it came out. I don't know why this works but just give it a shot if nothing else is working... What do you have to lose?

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.

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.

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

Liquid damage is irreversible. If you know or suspect that liquid has entered one of your device's ports, you should start planning on replacing the device as soon as possible (at least be sure you are backing up your device regularly so you do not lose anything when it eventually shuts down completely). Since corrosion caused by liquid damage is not repairable, you will likely be looking at the out of warranty replacement cost for your device (found here: http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/repair/). With that being said, the replacement cost is normally only around half of the device's full retail value.

If you are experiencing this issue and know that no liquid has entered any of your device's ports, restore as new and check to see if the issue persists. If it does, this is something that would be covered by your warranty or AppleCare+. If you are already outside of warranty or service agreement coverage, you could try your hand at cleaning out the headset port. Lint does tend to accumulate in the headphone jack and Lightning port and this can absolutely cause issues. Powering the device off and (carefully, paying special attention to avoid scratching the connecting pins in the Lightning port) using a paperclip to remove any built-up debris will result in improved performance with headphones and charging/syncing cables.

I've never seen this particular issue with the iPhones I've owned over the last 4 years (4S, 5s, 6, and now 6s). I do have a friend who's experienced this and at least one of those times I know his iPhone (6s) had been temporarily submerged in water.

It worked for me yayyy!!! thank you. it was driving me crazy😁

TThe only thing that worked for me was to plug the headphone while the iPhone was on and unblocked. Turn the iPhone off (with the headphones still plugged) then only remove the headphone when the iPhone was completely off. Turn it back on and it works.

IF your phone was recently wet make sure to comply dry it using a blow dryer dont make the phone get to hot. Direct the heat to the headset jack / speakers and plug a set of headphones in and out 3 or 4 times fast while clicking the volume buttons randomly simontaniously. That worked for me

Tried methods above like Q-Tip, re-set, blowing - still stuck in headphone mode. But my iPhone mysteriously worked correctly (and got out of "headphone" mode) after backing it up to my computer and installing the software update that happened to be around. Perhaps it the software update was like wiping it and restoring. Very random. Or perhaps it dried out enough in the 20 min. it took to backup and install the OS update. Anyway, very happy! Disaster averted!

Nice, I wish I could get my iPhone 6 to restore , stops with error 9

:-(

Yep. This worked for me, too. Must've hit some sensor or something inside the jack. One quick rotation of the paper and viola ... working as good as new.

I dropped my iPhone in the toilet and it seemed fine after I did the emergency drying. About 5 hours later it got stuck in headphone setting. After looking it up, most sources said this was a problem with the pins on the inside getting stuck and not switching it back to ringer.

So I got my headset jack, and just kinda massaged it around for a while. I'd angle it in a few times and just did it for about 5 or 7 minutes. Eventually it went back to ringer mode and fixed the problem.

OMG this worked! Thank you so much for your post, I was getting so upset and imagining costs. I think I might of got water in it today when some idiot splashed me from a muddy puddle when driving by. I'm a mail carrier for USPS, and I was po'd! I was soaked in mud water from head to toe and especially all my poor customers mail for that relay. I thought my phone was done for so thank you again for suggesting this. Better end after a bad day ;-)

my phone facing the same problem after getting wet from rain

i been reading those comment over and over , at la this solution it's work and is the most simple way ^.^