iPhone stuck in "headphones" mode

Trying suck air through the head jack, charging port, and speaker. It sounds funny but it worked for me. you must suck in a lot of air but it worked. Also try blowing through the port.

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 was having the same problem and I did exactly that. I freaking worked! 7 years later and this still works cheers mate

This worked, I can't believe it. I tried everything else and it had sat for hours in front of an AC vent as well as a hair dryer. My iPhone 6 got creek water in it and I thought the headphone jack was permanently messed up. I tried sucking on it but it didn't work, so I took a tip from someone else in this thread and used my shop vac. It cured it almost instantly, within a few seconds. Just put the attachment over the headphone jack and turned on the vac. Thank you!!!!!

great tip - I had few water drops near the headphone jack... Probabllty due to water my phone was stuck in headphone mode tried cleaning etc but nothing worked .... Your sucking the headphone socket idea dI'd it.. Just kept my mouth and sucked couple of times fixed the problem... Funny but worked great !!! Thanks

This is a common issue with iPhones, as it's happened when I had my 4S, 5S and now my 6+. In all instances, I used the same fix. To get a better understanding, if you look at your headphones or headphones with mic, you'll notice 2-3 divisions in the plug. This corresponds with the 3 connections in the jack. Shine a flashlight in the jack, and you'll notice 3 tiny steel balls. These steel balls are spring loaded and align with the three divisions in the plug. On occasion, most likely caused by dust or dirt, one of the balls gets stuck in, confusing the iPhone into thinking a headphone plug is plugged in. Now that you understand how it works and how it fails, you have to get the problem ball unstuck. Grab a cotton swab, dip in rubbing alcohol, spin it tight and out between your fingers, and stick it in the jack while spinning it. This will clean out any dirt stuck in the jack. Now grab a plastic head tack, and stick it in the jack. Press it against the side with the steel balls at an angle. You should feel the three steel balls with the point of the tack. The problem ball, should feel like a hole, because it's stuck in the in position. Pay particular attention to that hole. Pull out while maintaining pressure at an angle against the side of the jack. Check your volume button. If you still see Headphone on the display, repeat the procedure until you see Ringer. Problem should be resolved.

HI guys. to fix this issu which happened to mee as well, i first cleaned the inside of the headphone hole with a small and little bit wet rag after turning iPhone off. I could see many mostur and dust coming out of the hole. After cleaning the hole, i turn my iphone on and everything came to normal. It took me only 3 minutes!

problem this is in the charging plug. beleive me i tried almost anything but at last i got a pin and insert in the charging port and clean all the junk safely. i hope this helps Thanks

I'm so gobsmacked at the help that worked through such a simple technique, I had to create an account in order to reply to say thank you! I tried everything from a "Techie" minded point of view, yet dismissed something so simple, and the sucking worked! I had Soundcloud playing and as I started to suck I could heard it crackle through, so I continued and it is now working fine 🙂 Many thanks!

Thanks! This helped!

EFFICIENT:

Use a que tip. First, rip off most of the cotton leaving just enough to fit into the headphones socket. Stick it in there, twirl it around and out comes some type of residue (mine was black). I started to notice as I pulled it out and pushed it back in gently (but repetitively) that my Spotify icon started appearing on and off, on and off the bottom left corner of the screen. If it dissapears when you pull the que tip out completely then it is fixed.

MAnnnnn I had to make an account to thank you for this. The funny thing I tried it and it didn't work the first time. I resorted to using q tips which did nothin more than clean out the jack. Then finally I tried ur method one last time and it worked!!! The satisfaction was beyond incredible because it was really infuriating me. Thank you so much!

It really worked, Thanks alot mate, You saved my 500 INR

Thanks

i was almost having a heart attack, when I discovered this issue and nothing seemed to help. And after sucking, blowing, restarting, cleaning and praying, I tried your method and it worked!!!

I've never felt happier, honestly. Thank you so much!

Hi, i had the same problem in iphone 6 i tried ever thing given in the posts but noting worked, at the end i tried putting it on airplane mode and back, it worked for me.