My volume adjuster disappeared. How do I get it back?

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My volume adjuster disappeared. How do I get it back?

Today I tried listening to music on my iPhone 4S, only to find that my volume adjuster had disappeared. And just to clarify, when I say that it disappeared, I mean that when I press the volume buttons on my phone, I see the speaker icon but the gauge bar is gone. I tried to test if this issue was only happening in one place, by checking out if I could adjust my volume through my YouTube app. Unforuntately, the volume slider has disappeared from the app as well.

I tested my alarms, etc. and the problem is not my speakers -- my phone is still fully functional in this regard.

I can't figure out what I did to cause this change, but I would love any advice you have on how to fix my phone. If it makes any difference, I have already tried restarting it several times.

Thank you in advance for all of your help and advice. 🙂

iPhone 4S, iOS 5

Posted on Jan 18, 2012 10:16 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 19, 2012 11:24 AM in response to BytheRoadside

I'm having the same problem. I'll be listening to music (iPod) through my phone's speakers and suddenly the volume cuts out and I see the volume bar slide down and never comes back unless I plug in headphones. This happens on the YouTube app now too. It just started doing this maybe 2 days ago and I've had my iPhone 4S since the day it came out in October. I was wondering if my phone was trying to connect to one of Mac's to play through the computer's speakers but both my iMac and MacBook Pro were shut off completely.

Please help!

EDIT: I've tried shutting my phone on and off and doing the restart multiple times but the same problem ends up happening within minutes of turning my phone back on.

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Answer 2

Apr 19, 2012 12:01 AM in response to BytheRoadside

I am also having the same problem as described, but with a slight difference: The sound works fine on my iPhone 4S (running iOS 5.1), can adjust volume, sound is on w/ video apps, youtube, music... then when I plug it into my charger--poof! Sound cuts out... and this is with my ringer on. I don't even get the button clicks or the lock sound when the phone's put to sleep.

I've tried everything: cleaning out charger port/headphone jack, turning phone off and back on, rebooting phone, even restoring phone to factory settings... nothing worked. I'm thinking maybe iOS 5.1 has a bug that's causing this on 4S phones... any way you can fix this? This never happened with my 3GS--it was running iOS 5.1, but I was able to get sound and volume control, even when plugged into the charger, ringer on or off.

Hoping someone from Apple tech support is reading this so they can work on a bug fix asap... this is just ridiculous!

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Answer 3

Apr 23, 2012 6:02 PM in response to BytheRoadside

It's not just on the iphone 4s, I have just a regular iPhone 4 and a few months after I got the update of ios 5.1 it just disappeared. It happened about a week ago. I thought my boyfriend did something to it, but everything I knew to do before did absolutely nothing. I also have an iPod Touch that it had happened too and I was able to fix it. I don't think we'll be able to fix it until an available update has been sent out to us.

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Answer 4

Susemcd

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May 13, 2012 10:32 PM in response to alschuler

I am having the same problem- no volume for YouTube or in fact any videos (Facebook etc) also the volume indicator has stopped working- the speaker appears but the small lines that indicate the volume don't appear. Also no music playable at all! Sooooo infuriating! Anybody from Apple oranybody else got ANY ideas or solutions please???

Thanks in advance,

Susemcd.

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