USB C Headphone lead on iPhone 15 SOLVED (sort of)

I finally found the solution on my iPhone 15 pro. Try this out:

-Settings

-Accessibility

-Audio & Visual

-Headphone accommodations (top option)

-Turn on and adjust to your liking

…And boom plugged in my $5 generic usb-c to 3.5 headphone jack from Amazon. The message “do you want to use headphones” came up.

Been working ever since.. Hope it works for anybody else trying the same.

Same here v v frustrating. £1000 phone I've just bought a TRS to TRRS audio cable to see if that would work, but what a terrible solution for Apple. Steve J would never have allowed this to happen.

IMO Apple are loosing some of their considered and careful approach to Product development and launch to market. Sloppy.

Lets see if 3 cables fix the problem

I solved this issue with a rather interesting approach. I have a V-Moda Crossfade M-100 Master that I wanted to connect to my iPhone 15 Pro Max using a standard Apple USB-C to 3.5 mm audio adapter. My phone screen was locked when I plugged the USB-C adapter + headphones into the phone and a notification popped up saying "Trying to connect an accessory" or something. I lost this prompt when I got an incoming call and the iPhone routed the call directly through the phone audio bypassing the headphones + mic setup.

I restarted my phone, connected the same thing and expected to see the prompt but did not. I had to trick the phone into thinking I was doing this afresh, so I pulled the 3.5 mm audio out and slid it in halfway into the adapter till I could hear the all too familiar audio noise in the headphones, and the notification popped up again. This time I selected "Yes" and audio + microphone came through. The setup works flawlessly now.

I hope this works for everyone who has an issue as well. Thanks!

P.S: My headset comes with a microphone cable, and a plain audio cable with 3 bands.

They changed because EU regulations made them change to a standardized dongle. Too expensive to design and manufacture different phones for different markets, so now they are all USB-C.

USB-C is overall going to be a better change - maybe a few hiccups along the way though.

This is spot-on. I play music through my iphone into a mixer during gigs to play music for the house while my band takes a break. No problem with a lightning dongle to 3.5mm cable into my mixer for years. then bought an iphone 15 and it uses a USB C, so I bought the Apple dongle to connect and now the mixer won't recognize the 3.5 mm cable. Turns out that I have to loosely connect the 3.5 to my PA mixer, but tightly connect it to the phone dongle. It works, but if the cable gets bumped while playing music, I am sure it will break up or disconnect the sound. I am using a 2-ring 3.5 mm cable. Sheesh....

I have tried this and it still doesn't work. Why can't it be as simple as plugging the USB back in? this is so frustrating. I'm already using all apple products and the apple connector and I can't get the popup to come back

[WARNING] Issue not solved, just a bunch of complaints and useless information below.

…. And my Pioneer Rayz, with noice cancellation and Lightning, sort-of work on my iPhone 15, with the Apple lightning to usbc adapter. I get music but the rayz app does not recognise the headset so I can’t update its firmware or customise the buttons.

Solution: Just don't buy another apple product if they don't work and or are very inconvenient. No one should have to study or lift a finger to figure out a product. It either works, is user friendly, or not.

now lets see if they even allow negative comments on here. Smh

I have the same problem. Leeum118's solution didn't work for me.

I also have a set with a Lightning lead which did not work with a 3rd party adapter. I bought an Apple Lightning to usb-c adapter and this set now works.

since I switched to the 15 I have not been able to do one of the apps that I use a lot through my earphones that would also pick up sounds at the microphone. Very frustrating. I wonder if they have a USB to headphone adapter piece that has three slots that will pick up the microphone

I’m hoping somebody can help me. I recently bought the adapter for my phone so that I could play it through my cars cassette deck. When I plugged in the adapter, my iPhone asked if it was for headphones. Since it was the adapter, I put no when I actually should have put yes. It gave me a message that I could change this in Settings but I can’t figure out how to change it. Would anybody know where I would have to go in settings to tell it that it is headphones that I’m trying to plug-in.