Headphone jack broken snapped inside ipad, iphone, ipod... socket

DO NOT WASTE TIME OR MONEY!!!! Just buy a simple BIC pen (or just find one anywhere in the house). take the ink tube and slide it in the socket, when you feel a little pressure just push a bit harder. Then pull out fast. Quick, simple, cheap.

I used my smallest bit in an electric drill. Placed the ipad on a level surface, braced it, drilled slowly and carefully. Once deep enough, 3mm maybe, I levereged the drill bit and while lifiting up on the bit to secure it inside the shallow grove I was able to pull it out. It took me 2 minutes. This was more effective than the BIC. Good luck.

Chema777 is absolutely correct, after spending upwards of 12 or so hours trying to get the broken piece out of my headphone jack on my IPhone, at about 11:30 pm or so while I was walking to go to bed, I realized that if I took a plastic ink pen cartridge out of a cheap click pen, it should work. So I took a cheap cheap pen and took the ink tube out of it and used the opened end and jammed it in the headphone jack, not slid it but jammed it in si the broken piece would slide into the open end, and pulled it right out, in about 10 seconds I was done and in bed with restful sleep, I know if I hadn't gotten it out I would've been up all night trying to get it out. Lol. Good luck to all

where did you get yours fixed here in the phils.?

I got this idea from the last few posts. I used the ink cartridge inside the pen and used the hole at the bottom. As a grip I used the hard plastic on the outside that holds the ink cartridge. I pushed down until it was securely around the piece f the jack in pulled out and it took me .5 seconds to realize that it worked. I got a new set of headphones 1 hour after and everything works perfectly.

Thanks this worked and costed nothing🙂

Thanks Chema777..!!

It took me less than 20 secs to pull out the broken piece with a BIC pen. iPad back to normal sound output. For those who want to use drill bits and super glue, please do so at your own risk.

mine is not stuck but it is bent how can i fix it my self and if u brought it into the apple store would i have to pay to fix it??

Awesome. Thanks. Read your post. Then it was like the movie - Signs, but with pens instead of glasses of water. I have tons of old pens in a shoebox. I got the shoebox out and tried pen after pen. Then 6th one clicked and I pulled it out. I could not find the tip of the earphone jack. Then I saw it wedged in the pen tube. It was in there so tight that I had trouble getting it out - not that I really needed to.

The key is finding a pen tub whose outer diameter will fit in the earphone hole and whose inner diameter is just the right size to fit snugly over the broken earphone jack end. If you have lots of old ink pens, you are sure to have one that fits. Once you find the right one, it is a 3-second operation.

Hey there. I had the broken jack problem as well. I tried the super glue, no success. I luckily found a drill bit kit in my friends apartment, picked the smallest bit, and went to town on the protruding stuck jack. I drilled and drilled and drilled until it was deep enough for me to leverage the broken headphone piece out. It flew across the room. I took my pants off and danced in my underwear for a minute. Thanks for the ideas and help, previous posters.

The Bic pen trick did the job!!!! AWESOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME!

THANK YOU!!!!

My mother took it out with scissors.. 0_0

I just freaked out when the tip of the headphone pin was lodged inside of my 15 inch MacBook Pro. After trying to pry it out with small rods and then use Krazy Glue with a cut-off Q-tip, I found the solution.

I applied Krazy Glue (Green label with red top) with the brush included in the bottle to the remaining part of the headphone pin. I then placed this into the headphone jack and applied pressure. After about fifteen seconds of pressure, I pulled the headphones out, and with a little force, retrieved the piece that was stuck. Whew!

Great...my daughter has got the headphones jack stuck in the headphone hole...and yes she used superglue before telling me what she had done...Grrrrr...tried the bic pen method...no go, debating weather to drill it out, I did take it to a local shop that fixes iPads...iPods etc and he reckons the screen will need to be taken off, with the added worry that if it cracks in the process I have to pay for a new one!!! ... I'm getting my drill out !!!

( a very slightly peed off mother !)