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

This happened to me today. I read all the suggestions and tried the one using the ink pen cartridge. That worked for me. I used an almost empty cartridge, cut it long enough to give me some grip, and used a hammer to gently wedge the tube into the broken jack tip. Once done, I was able to pull the broken part out.

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I must say after buying a set of tweezers watch repair stores use, and reading all of this. I just stuck in a pen and pulled the motherf**ker out. Of course after reading this and taking it to the Apple Store and cursing Apple... Get a pen stick it in... that simple! 🙂

I Put superglue insde a capillary collection tube from the lab at work. Probably similar to BiC pen. Worked in two minutes.

HI! I also had the problem of my headphone jack snapping inside of my iPhone 6. I don't have any of the tools (super glue, drill bits,...) that everyone is talking about. YouTube couldn't help me either. I was just about to give up, but then went to the bathroom to look around and see if there was anything I could use. And then I found a much easier way to get the headphone jack out of my iPhone! All it takes is a nail clipper, pretty sure everyone has this at home. You will just have to try to push the earphone jack a little bit forward whit a qtip or something, so that you can have grip of it the snapped earphone jack. after that you just pull (with nail clipper)very gently trying not to damage the 'earphone port' I guess. There's nothing you can do wrong really... And it worked for me in a time of less than 15 seconds 🙂 I really hope it will work for some of y'all!! If it does please reply to this, it would make me very happy to know that I helped someone out 🙂

Used the same trick however found out to stop the metal part of the jack gettin stuck on of the sides of the headphone jack wall i got a piece of plastic drinking straw forced between the wall of the headphone jack.

From the picture the yellow part is the straw cut down its length so it can fit in the audio jack. The audio jack is only the final section of a headphone jack.

Below is the picture of it assembled.

THANKS!! This trick worked!!

I thought i was going to need to get the jack replaced, or a new phone... almost 😟!!

Hi there.

Thought i would log in to say i did the biro pen trick and it worked. It took me a few different pens due to the diameter being a bit too wide and not actually gripping the piece.

I found a narrow one and used a pair of long nose pliers to grove out a wider hole. Clicked and pulled it straight out.

Thanks guys,

Joe.

this method worked fine. saved me a fortune. the hole in the pen cartridge was too small to grab the broken piece of the headphone jack. I tried heating up the pen cartridge to get a good grip and it came out smoothly! no damage has been done!

thank you all for the valuable information! 🙂

Easy:

1) Get a push pin (the kind with the plastic top like you see on bulletin boards)

2) Force the point into the broken headphone jack

3) Force the push pin slightly to the side

4) Lift

5) Enjoy the feeling of relief

From what I can tell, the solution varies on whether there's a little prong sticking up. If so, then grabbing that little prong is the way to go.

Mine, however, broke off cleanly, and WAY up into the jack hole. The genius bar had no luck, after an hour, which is pretty surprising, because I ended up doing it pretty easily. (I took it to the genius bar figuring I'd rather have them screw with it first.)

I ripped the fuzzy end off a Q-tip, placed a little superglue on the end of it, held it firmly in the hole against the broken piece for about 15 minutes, and then pulled. Voila! Very easy, and if you're careful with the superglue, then you won't get any on the interior of the jack hole. I tried it first with regular "arts-and-crafts" glue, which wasn't strong enough. I know some of you seem hesitant to put glue in your phone, but I figured it was better to try that then cough up $300 for a new phone.

Worked for me.

Take the refill ink tube out off a ball point pen. Use bottom plastic part that is open and push down into your jack port where the broken off piece is. push down and twist so it grabs around the edges and pull out! The broken off piece should pull out with the pen refill and be lodged inside of it! Problem solved! Q-tip method did not work for me as well and all that tweezer prying business... The pen refill method worked right away!

I managed to get it out using a BIC pen! Break the pen and use the back of the plastic tube. Put it in the headphone plug and pres. This wil work if the part inside the phone is the metal part and the part left on the headphone jack the plastic.

No Glue, no screwing... this is the best solution i came across.

I had this problem todaybp with my iPad mini 4. I used a push pin (bullitin board kind) a Q-tip and tweezers. I found some plastic and used the Q-tip and tweezrs and that got out most of the plastic out but it still had a metal bit in it with I pushed up on with the push pin and it popped out. If this don't work try using these steps in a different order as mine popped out in sections.

After having tries all sorts of stuff during several hours, and nearly killed off the iPad entirel, I found this advise. It took me one minute, with a baby on my arm, and I could even reapply the tube to the pen! Thing came out in first try.

Thank you so much!