IOS 5.1.1. update bug (Volume Control)

This problem is ridiculous... September 21st cant come soon enough....

After trying everything suggested anywhere online short of jailbreaking or completely restoring as new, I fixed my problem immediately by using the hair dryer on the speaker and headphone jack. Then about two minutes later, it happened again. It seems likely there's water somewhere, even though I've had it in a lifeproof case.

Just a quick update came across this problem and i will let the apple geniuses? (engineers?) shop staff,know how to fix it, replace the charging port a voila it all works again 😉

I have just experienced the problem of the volume switch not changing the ringer volume.

I found that plugging the charging cable into the bottom and wiggling it from side to side a few times sorted it out. Its working fine now.

Same issue - so we have to just wait for an update - I have 2 iPhone 4s phones and it only affected my daughters - any timeframe ?

The solution suggested by miphone4s has worked perfectly for me.

Thanks!

I had the EXACT same problem however I don't think it is a bug. People say to clean it out with a (dry) toothbrush to get rid of the dust in the charging slot because it thinks it's a dock. Do it thoroughly though. It worked immediately for me.

Duh? Doesn't anyone watch Sesame Street? Every time Apple has an impending rollout, the prior software updates mess up our current hardware. It makes it slower or inoperable because "the hardware can't support the advanced program requirements".

I REALLY hate sounding like a conspiracy theorist. But, it's consistency is undeniable.

Come on Apple people!! Even Steve Jobs would've considered this a cliche at this point!

Just had this issue. Restored to original, still having the problem.

TO FIX THIS CLEAN THE IPOD CABLE CONNECTION!!!!!

What I did was take a business card and cut it 1/2" wide and use that to clean/scrape out dirt/lint above and below the terminals in the ipod cable area. I did this along with just blowing the loosened lint out and the problem is instantly fixed!

Try it out. Takes 1 minute and solved my headache and trip to Apple store!!!!

I made a youTube video for those of you having the problem. Worth a shot! My iphone was jailbroken before and using iexplore to delete the sound file did not fix it nor did restoring it with the latest software back to factory settings.

This simple trick of cleaning out the cable connection fixed ALL issues immediately

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74odB4caJGA

I just updated to iOS 6 on an iPhone 4S and nothing... Volume bar stills gone (but siri and ring tones make noise). ¯\(o_o)/¯ ...What a bummer. I'm buying another phone but without iOS. 😟

Hi guys i have iphone 4s and i get same issue like we discuse already but what i understand the has confused because i use my ph in dock music player and i remove and play so many time and my ph get this germs since 1 week and from 2 day i try get my ph on normal i did some steps. I put on alarm and after stop the alarm i get the volune bar and play the music and leave some time in play its stop and some time i put my ph on dock and play the music there nothing wrong with the docking connector if u clean thats ok. When u get the volume bar play the music. My phone is working normal today

Just updated to ios6 on an iPad 2 and volume buttons don't work. No bars on screen........just a volume icon with SOUND EFFECTS underneath. Anybody else experience this??????

Okay, after about a month and a half with this problem, it suddenly just started to work correctly again.

I followed three solutions, just not the jailbreaking solution. I cleaned the port several times on several occasions with a dry clean toothbrush, I used a 1/2-in thin piece of a business card and swiped it around the port a few times, and I used the USB plug and kept plugging it in and unplugging it.

None of them worked right away, but a few days later after the last attempt, my phone slowly became it's old self again.

??? Whatever, but it's back to normal, for now.

I still can't believe the Apple store couldn't help me or even heard of this problem. It seems to be prevalent.

I just had the same problem with upgrading to ios 6, I tried following the other tips but it didnt work.So I tried to connect to iTunes and the i played a song from my iphone and it worked but when you pull out the connector it stops. So this what I did:

I did it again and played from my iphone a song while connected to itunes and the i just restart it while plugged in and when its restarting i pulled it out and now it works!!

Hope this helps