iPad headphone jack not working

Suddenly last week, my earphones wouldn't work with my iPhone. At the Apple store, I waited about an hour for the Genius Bar. The genius flicked a setting and all was OK. I felt dumb, but I left with my ear phones working. Thinking the problem would never recur, I forgot what the fix was, and yesterday, the problem happened again. So for the first time ever, I went to this help exchange. Skype??? I couldn't believe it. But I really did not want to go back to the Apple Store, so I installed the Skype app, plugged in the earphones, and , they work! (BTW, this was not the Apple Genius solution.) No idea why the Skype fix works, but Thank You.

My ipad 2 has the same problem. I only just tried to listen via headphones and sound continues to come out of ipad speakers. Did the uninstall skype and restart but that doesnt help. Tried 5 different headphones including the apple ones but nothing. Any more bright ideas? About to go to apple i think....

What happens with my iPad 1 with ios 5.1 when ear phone jack is plugged into audio out is that the sound drops to mute. To get sound to ear phones simply use sound bar to restore sound. Skype and/or powering down does not work.

Hello, last night they were working fine. Now nothing. I barely hear it. I've also notice it keeps blowing out one of my ear pieces. Any ideas on how to fix? Thanks. I have iPad 1. I can not afford another one right now. I have sound fine as longs I don't use headphones.

It appears you had, or still, have the same problem i just had. Took me a while to find the answer, but for me it was going to settings>music>volume limit and turning that off. Someone the limit got turned on and it as zet to "zero". I adjusted this and problem was solved.

Nice!!! Thought my Bose headphones must have been toast..... Started Skype and they work. Apple must have a software fix on the way for that? Wonder if the problem goes away if Skype is deleted?

Thanks for the temporary fix!

Well that is interesting to know. The posts I have read about the Headphone jacks not working seem to have been caused by dust or lint getting into the headphone jack.

I will keep this in mind just in case I ever need to try it. Thanks for posting your fix.

Hi all,

I'm also having problem with the headphone jack and has tried not installing skype at all, but there is still no sound from the headphone jack. Whenever I do a factory reset, the headphone jack works, but when I store back to previous backup, the problem starts again. Any advise??? Thanks!!

Thanks for posting this. I was having a hard time trying to figure this out. Last night my headphones worked now nothing. But I did what youmsaid above. Now it works. Thanks. I did the Skype thing and nothing. But, this fixed it and I just wanted to say thanks. ;)

Kenganly.

Thanks soooooo much.

Stood in a queuing at the Apple store for 20 minutes to find out i was queuing to get an appointment!!! you saved me from that fate. Brilliant advice 12 month problem solved.

My Son will think I'm an even bigger hero!!

It's not an issue with Skype at all, after reading this thread I downloaded it for the first time to fix the issue. It did, so must e something else causing it.

Same problem, same nonsensical fix, i.e. start Skype. So I got my headphones working but since Skype appeared to be responsible the problem and since the iPhone version running on an iPad is a lousy application compared to other platforms for Skype I decided to uninstall Skype. Everything was working fine until I switched headphones and the headphone jack was not working again this time with Skype not even installed. So I had to reinstall Skype in order to get the headphone jack working again. I think this is an bug Apple has to solve.

I had this same issue, and I think I may have another solution - it involves uninstalling Skype, though.

I have a first generation iPad with iOS 4.3.3, installed a couple of days after it was released. A couple of weeks ago I noticed that there was no sound whenever I used headphones or whenever the iPad was connected to my Jensen Rocker. As noted upthread, opening Skype and making a test call was the only thing that brought the sound back. The built-in speaker has always worked fine.

What I did was uninstall the Skype app and then I restarted the iPad by holding down the lock button to power it off (and turning it back on again). I then opened up the iPod app and played a song with my headphones and I just finished listening to it.

I hope this solution is helpful to some, even though it means going without the app because I don't think it's been updated since February. I should also note that the last time I used the Skype app (which was about a month ago) the people I called could not hear me. I think it might have something to do with iOS 4.3.3, because it worked fine before I updated the iPad.

I have an iPad 1 so therefore do not have skype. After reading all the comments above I decided to simply just switch my iPad off, leave it for a couple of minutes and then switched it back on again and the earphone jack started working again! Strange but true. Hope this might help first generation iPad owners :-)

Thanks for the tips.

Angie x

I discovered a setting that had the sound turned all the way to the right earphone. Moving it to the center position solved the issue for me.

Solution for me was going to:

Settings

General

Accessibility

Hearing

L & R level to the center position.