I was only hearing music played out of the left channel, either with or without headphones and also when played through a dock.
I found the solution:
Go to Settings : General : Accessibility and slide the L - R slider to the middle. Now the music plays out of both the L and the R speakers.
(If you tap the mono button there, then you will also hear sound out of both speakers, but you won't hear stereo effects, so don't do that).
iPhone 4, iOS 5.0.1
Can you direct me to how I properly adjust these settings so both sides of stereo music play through the one iPhone speaker and headphones? Thank you.
Thank you so much! I thought I was going crazy! I have an iphone 6 that was doing that. Your solution fixed my problem!
Ah...iPhone has only ONE speaker. Been this way since the first iPhone was introduced. What appears to be a second speaker is actually a microphone.
wow - thanks for this info - i just spent an hour on the phone with apple and did a restore and to no avail still only played through one headphone - found your thread and yesssss - thank you so much!
Yes, that is a helpful addition to this thread, but my solution has to do with the speakers and the headphones that are plugged into the iPhone, as well as the stereo effect coming out of the iPhone itself. When the accessibility slider is not in the middle, then you only hear one channel of the stereo program whether fromt he iPhone or from plugged in speakers.
:-) The little things mean a lot!
Does your music only play out of one speaker?
