iPhone stuck in "headphones" mode

ha! they should put that into the manual 🙂

Can’t believe this actually worked I’m dead 💀😂

Thank you so much for this! It actually worked!! However did you think this up?

How did you turn the phone and ringer off simultaneously?

Thank you sir! It worked.. me and my room mates laughed our a** out

What is iPod mode?

This is the funniest suggestion ever. And it freaking works!!! Ahahahahhaha

Worked for me too....still laughing😂😂

Oh my goodness! I read this and thought "no way", but I was totally frustrated and thought why not....It worked like a charm! Thank you!!!!!

I tried plugging the headphones in and out several times while reading these posts... no luck. I shut the phone off and plugged the headphones in and took them out a couple more times and that worked! Not sure if there was a correlation, but I'm happy with the results.

I also tried powering down, blowing in and sucking the headphone jack, turning off Bluetooth, and a few other unsuccessful manouvers prior to the headphone trick.

Thank you all!

Spent about 25 mins on live chat to an advisor he was taking me through all the steps to try and fix it none of them would work. He then asked me to backup my phone and restore it, was a bit skeptical of it working but it actually worked and now my phone is working fine. Still not sure why it was thinking the headphones were plugged in.

I have iphone 6S Plus, IOS 10.2. I have digital hearing aids that allow me to stream my music from my phone, through a Bluetooth remote into the receivers in my ear. If I just turn off the remote the phone will stay in headset mode. I have to change it back to music directly from iphone before turning off.

Might sound a bit weird, but I stuck one of those sticks that you get in diffusers into the headphone jack a few times and got some dust out (idek how that got in there) and inserted n removed headphones once, and then it worked :)

I was like no way is sucking my headphone jack going to work, but i was desperate and out of options. I guess the first few tries i wasn't sucking hard enough, but i kept trying and it worked. you are a genius! 😎

Has happened to me twice.

Both times it was related to being out in the rain and the headphone jack getting wet. Can't remember how I fixed it first time but this time tried everything suggested here: Qtip, sucking on the headphone jack, playing with volume, calling from another phone and then shutting down call while in speaker mode, pressing on speaker area exteriors, using a toothpick to pick out debris from phone jack....!!! Nothing worked. Was getting a headphone jack plugin notification and there was no audio on calls/texts/tweets.. With the rain association in mind decided to use hairdryer on cool mode to send air into headphone jack. Bingo!