iphone volume slider has disappeared

Haha I was dealing with the same problem today

The volume would only work when the headphones were plugged in

And as soon as i took them out, the volume control went missing o.o

So as it turned out, it's either that your 32pin port is clogged up with dirt

Or you've somehow got water on your device so that the it thinks its connected to the doc.

Just take a thin brush and slide it across the pin port to remove the dust

Then with your finger or a small object, press down lightly on the sides

Hopefully, your colume control shoould be back :)

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)

After reading about this issue on the internet and trying several suggestions I took my iphone into the Genius Bar at Apple. They said that they have seen this issue and it is a hardware issue. The phone needs to be replaced but of course it is 13 months old so the warranty is no longer in effect. They said I am out of luck. I am surprised that Apple is not dealing with this when so many folks are experiencing the problem.

If you continue to have problems with any device, you can always plug it into your computer, open iTunes, and sync and backup and then press the "restore" button. Restore your iPhone from "2/13/12" or when ever the latest back up was. That usually fixes any glitch.

Another, possibly quicker solution would be to double click the home button, press and hold one of the apps until they start dancing, and then press the little red "close" button on all the apps to exit them.

I have the same problem...I was watching a video and suddenly lost volume and the actual volume bar. When I press the external volume controls, the button registers on the screen, but no bar is shown and no volume change. I have tried hard reset and no luck. Help!

I'm having the same problem and I think Dltmdw95 is having the solution for my problem, since I got a bit of water spilled over my iPhone. Unfortunately, the problem is not fixed yet.

Q: what do you exactly mean with press down lightly on the sides: is this in the pin port?

Ideal! Took 10 seconds to removes the large piece of fluff from the headphone jack, and clean the 32 pin port, and all seems rosy now! I'll just hav to see how long it lasts! Thanks for the advice Dltmdwn95

Yeah I had the same problem, and it was very annoying! I had been to the beach with it, and I guess some sand found its way inside the dock? Anyway, what I did was turn it off, and spray some air in the dock from a can of compressed air. I waited a while, turned it back on, and haven't had the problem since =)

I had the same problem. My iPhone recognizes that it is connected to a music dock and the phone speaker won’t work.

It’s definitely a hardware problem APPLE could have solved by software. With that problem when using VIBER you can select the sound output either to music dock, earpiece, or phone speaker. APPLE just needed to implement the same in the phone SETTING.

So how to solve without APPLE support? (Getting APPLE support is best but in my case the nearest APPLE store is hundreds of kilometers from my residence, so not worth enough). First I cleaned the connector pins and put a silicon dust cap (with two tongues) which more or less squeezes the inner connector pins and the volume slider and sound was back. When I remove the cap for charging the volume slider and sound disappear again (not immediately but sooner or later).

Since whether connected to a music dock or not is recognized by the resistance between two pins on the connector, for me it seems that the cap made the resistance go to infinity which was close to the dock connection value without (why, I have no idea, the air moisture?).

"dock connector" option issue means your iphone believes that the phone is still plugged into a device such as a computer or iphone dock. To solve the audio problem just connect your iphone to a computer and open itunes. Once your iphone finishes syncing you must PROPERLY disconnect your iphone from the computer. You have to find your phone listed on the left side of itunes and hit the eject button. This will properly end data communication between the iphone and computer. Now you can disconnect your iphone from the USB cable and play audio normal like before.

I had the same problem and solved it by cleaning the dock connector on the bottom of the iPhone.

My method of cleaning is to take a commercial contact cleaner sold at Radio Shack and elsewhere called DeOxit, a spray which is very popular for older plated electronic contacts which have developed corrosion. I sprayed the DeOxit into a female dock connector and essentially filled the female connector with the fluid. I then pressed the female dock connector into the bottom of the phone to bring the dirty edge connector contacts of the phone into direct contact witn the cleaning solution. By rocking the connector back and forth a few times and inserting and removing it a few times, the corrosion / dirt on the iPhone edge connector was removed.

One application was enough, and the phone now works properly.

Hope this helps,

Larry

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!!!

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 🙂

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 :)