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iPad headphone jack not working

Recently during an airplane flight I wanted to listen to my iPad with headphones. No sound. The iPad's internal speaker works just fine. In the car, I hooked a recharge/line out adapter and still no sound. This has never happened before. After some experimentation I found a reliable fix: start up Skype. For some reason it fixes everything. iOS 4.3.3

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Posted on May 22, 2011 11:44 AM

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Posted on May 28, 2017 11:56 AM

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.

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Apr 27, 2012 12:00 AM in response to danfromoakland

I have a smilar problem. I have new ipad.


With earphone there is no problem, every sound workd well with earphone.

But when I unplug the earphone, ipad does not undersatnd that the earphone jack is unplugged. When I decrease or increase the sound level while the earphone is unplugged, it still controls only headphone mode (not sound effects mode)


I plugged-unplugged earphone several times, reset etc. But still I can not solve the problem:(

May 29, 2012 7:43 PM in response to Anne1008

Anne1008

Try this


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. I had been having the same trouble and replaced my iPad twice and each time i restored from iCloud the problem returned.

Solution for me was going to:

Settings

General

Accessibility

Hearing

L & R level to the center position.

Jun 14, 2012 6:11 PM in response to btimes2

btimes,

thanks so much.

I've tried what you suggested, but still no sound. I decided to just load it as a new ipad and try installing one app at a time. Although I didn't find anything wrong with all the apps, but at least now there is SOUND! But whenever I re-install from backup, the sound will go off after a few hours. Not sure what is the cause but at least it's solved now.

Thank you once again 🙂

iPad headphone jack not working

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