iPhone 16 Pro: Wired headphones stopped working after update

I have wired type C headphones from AliExpress that worked fine in the past year. They still work on other phones, but since I updated my iphone 16 pro last week to ios 26.5.2 it stopped recognizing wired headphones. I tried three sets that worked on other android devices. BT headphones work fine, as well as the charging.

I tried to force restart multiple times (volume up-volume down-side button until apple logo) and cleared the list under the headphones safety, still not working (and the option of clearing that list is no longer present)