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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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May 28, 2017 11:56 AM in response to danfromoakland

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.

Feb 28, 2017 9:07 AM in response to Cansinp

I haven't finished reading through this thread but just yesterday I had the same problem. Have you tried restarting the iPad? thats what I did and it's working fine again.


but if that doesn't help, take it to a cellphone repair place and have them look at it. Or find an Apple Store near you and ask them about it. Make an appointment at you local Genius Bar. im sure you'll find a solution there.


IF that doesn't work, I'd save up for a new iPad and make sure to back up everything on your current iPad. That way you can load it onto the new one.


Good luck, I hope this helped! 🙂

Jun 26, 2011 12:26 PM in response to danfromoakland

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.

Jul 6, 2011 11:31 PM in response to danfromoakland

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.

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