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

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.

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.

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

I have bought new 15 pro max iPhone. I am unable to listen to the music via headphones. Tried many different adopters but no success. Very frustrating situation I am in Can someone help me with this?

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

[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.

I purchased an iPhone 15 Pro Max and successfully used an Apple compatible splitter for charging and listening with headphones at the same time for several months. Recently it stopped working so I purchased a new splitter and then new headphones and they did not work either. I went to the Apple Store and they tried off the shelf devices to test my earphones and the results didn’t change. There is no visible damage to my phone. Now I discover others seem to be having the same or similar problem. Is there a fix coming from Apple ?

This is the correct solution for getting phone audio out of the USBC. You are basically telling the iPhone that your accessory is a set of wired headphones. - From Tanmaynehete

To fix this issue follow below steps

go to

sound & haptic

>>. Head phone safety

>> USB audio accessories >>

1st click on forget all USB Accesories

then enable connected to headphones option.

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