iphone volume slider has disappeared

I had the same problem and I've spent all day with Verizon & Apple trying to fix this issue. Then I read below to try a fine paint brush and see if any debris was in the dock port and there was. After dusting it out the volume sliding bar appeared. I can once again listen to my music and Pandora Radio. I can't believe this worked!!!

Awesome answer by Dltmdwn95. It worked!!!! Just clean the doc. It will work properly.🙂

Hey Guys ive tried everything! I cleaned out the connnector port and the headphone jack ! But no luck 😟 help!!

Btw I have iphone 4s IOS 5.0.1 and its jailbroken !

I was having all the problems everyone has talked about above. Volume bar would show up intermittently, I would have to unplug then plug my earphones back in to get it back so I could listen through the ear plugs. I could charge it on my dock but can't play music on it through the dock.

A friend had accidently spilled red wine on my phone the night before I was to fly out of the country for a couple of weeks, it had a pretty good case on it, and everything seemed to be working so I didn't worry about it. Then it started showing the warning that its connected with something not compatable, even though nothing was plugged in.

My fiance pulled the phone apart, gave it a good clean out (as people here had suggested). It didn't help. He then pulled it further apart and saw that there were some plugs in the dock connecter that were burnt. He said it would have been caused by the wine, the dock connected part getting wet, and shorting out.

So I have ordered a new dock connector assembly part, he is fairly certain that will fix. Will update when we get it (hopefully in a few days)

i was having the same problem so i took compressed air and cleaned the bottom port which didnt work. then i took the red straw from the can and put it in the headphone jack as far as it would go down and sprayed and it fixed it right away. no problems with anything since

i had teh same problem yesterday andi tried a step before the restore and it worked 🙂 there it is so that it might help anyone:

from settings, i pressed "reset all settings" without ereasing any content. and after this step, the volume control bar was abck to normal and i was hearing sound from teh headphones and from any speakers again 🙂

Using a brush to clean the dock port worked for me. The dust in there made the iphone think it was docked.

Hi, I had the same problem and I have managed to fix it by, I know you may not want to do this but, puting a blunt knife in the bottom port and slightly pushing up the connecter, it seems to have worked !!! :) just a suggestion :)

This solved the problem! Thank you so much!

Hi, I had the same problem and I have managed to fix it by, I know you may not want to do this but, puting a blunt knife in the bottom port and slightly pushing up the connecter, it seems to have worked !!! 🙂 just a suggestion 🙂

A really BAD IDEA to use any metallic tool like a blunt knife to apply pressure around the dock connector. Briefly shorting the wrong pins together can and will damage the phone.

I would suggest doing exactly as you stated but use a non-metallic tool like a plastic or wood blade. Same benefit without the risk.

Had the same problem. Restored my phone - nothing changed. Turns out the omlyd ting i had to do was connect it to my computer and click on the 'push out' button In iTunes before disconnecting. Try it before you do all the other stuff:-)

It happened to my iPad2 and after doing a little search on internet i saw that many people solved the issue cleaning the dock, blowing air into it.

I used a business card, some paper towel and a cheap display cleaner. I cleaned the dock (quite energically i must say) for a couple of minutes and everything got normal. The slft slider is back and the hard volume is controlling it normally.

This sound weird but cleaning the dock is the solution.

Restoring and hard rebooting the machine won't solve this issue at all so don't waste your time looking for digital solutions but use the old good elbow grease :)

The only way I can get sound playing back through its external speaker from my iPad (other than pluggin in my headphones) is if I plug in my HDMI adapter. Model number A1388. I don't have to plug in an HDMI cable nor do I have to plug it to a TV, but as soon as I plug that adapter in, all sound comes back as if it was normal. But if I take the adapter out, the iPad goes mute again - volume slider gone, volume rocker does not respond, etc.

This is pesky. It's a hardware and OS bug. If the OS team is watching this - this needs to be fixed!

I agree, deff a harware/software problem. I went to an apple store today and some "genius" (oh, how ironic) told me that I had water damage and that it short circuited my volume controls and that my volume wouldn't work for adjusting it while on a phone call either. BS, I can adjust volume then, just can't while listening to music/watching videos without being plugged into a dock or listening via headphones. From reading other forums, I see so many people with this problem. I blame IOS 5.1.1! For the love of all that is good in the world, Apple needs to fix this now and retrain their employees. Freaking apple store tried to charge me $200 for repair!!!

It didn't for me, I had only one device that was doing it and now I have 2 on 3....

iPod touch, now my iPhone 4s.... only one of my iPod is still working on the dock station...