Q: iPhone stuck in "headphones" mode

I found a fix which worked quite well for me. Had tried all of the above suggested methods but none worked. I dissessembled a basic ballpoint pen and took out the tube which contains the ink. I used the back end of this (a skinned Q-tip would likely work as well), and put it in the headphone jack. I then went to a song, and noticed that if I put the tube in the right place in the headphone jack and pressed play the music would play through my speakers. I kept re-adjusting this and playing the music until it finally was playing the music through the speakers when nothing was in the headphone jack. It is now working proper, and headphones can be plugged in and taken out properly with no issues.

Turn on your alarm. Let it go off in locked mode.

Cancel and unlock. Voila!

This solution worked immediately!

I guess it works for the software/firmware version of this problem.

(It obviously will not work for lint-in-the-hole)

Same story - moisture from a bit of misty weather in the headphones jack.... Stuck in Headphones mode.

The "sucking the headphone jack" thing really works.  Try it for a miniute or two.

I've had this issue several times. First time I was able to fix the problem by cleaning jack with qtip. Next time i inserted apple earbuds and circled the jack in and out, then same thing with other brand earbuds for a couple minutes. The third time neither one of those solutions worked so I plugged in my iPhone to my laptop and boom! Solved the issue. I never thought to try plugging in my phone to my laptop thr first two times the problem occured.

This problem tends to happen to my phone when I switch cases or earbuds.

THIS WORKS 100%

Softly insert qtip into headphone jack

Turn a couple times

There ya go!

Thank me laterrrrr

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 tried everything: Hairdryer, q-tip, toothpick, rolled up paper, rolled up tissue, headphone jack repeatedly, alarm set, timer set, clicks and other sounds off and on, reboots, blowing in the headphone jack, and nothing...EXCEPT, when I draw in air from the headphone socket with gusto (OK yes I'm trying to avoid saying 'suck') it fixed the problem. The first itme it only fxed it for 5 seconds, then it went back to 'headphone' mode, the second time it was 10 secs, then 20, then 30, then a minute. Then the sixth or seventh time, it was fixed for good. Well, a couple of days so far...

This exact same problem just happened to me today. I tried doing all the things suggested, from plug in plug out, headphones in and out, switching phone on and off, blow drying, etc. but nothing worked. My husband suggested to clean the headphones input with a toothpick. I blow dried it first with cool air, high speed, for a couple of minutes, then inserted the toothpick as trying to clean the jack with a circling movement. Went to check the volume level and it worked! It was finally out of headphones mode and back to ringer.

I just spent two hours trawling through the internet and Apple forum for suggestions.  I tried reinserting the headphones several times, sucking on the headphone jack, turning on the alarm in lock mode etc.  The only thing that worked for me was inserting a cocktail stick into the jack and moving it around very gently to try to dislodge anything that may have been in there.  It paid off, as two small pieces of silver debris came out (I did have to suck out the second piece, but this came out easily as it was no longer 'stuck' at the bottom.  I then switched on the phone and it's now back in ringer mode!   I'm not sure what these pieces of debris are, but they were obviously causing the phone to lock into headphone mode.

I tried everything suggested above except a Q-tip. I didn't have one, but I did have a black coffee stirrer (looks like a tiny straw). Wiggled it, blew in in it and bang... fixed!

If you're at work and have this problem, seek the coffee bar for your salvation.

Thanks!  Worked perfect!

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 numerous mentioned methods, the only one which helped me was the using of toothpick. Just try to "clean" the jack with it, and the problem will be solved

Thank you for that tip-it sounds weird but it worked wonders.From a v happy person (now)

I tried all recommendations.  The way I got it to work was to take a can of Duster and blast the earphone jack and speakers.  Works like a charm!