iphone thinks headphones are plugged in even when not - how to fix

Ok, when I read this I laughed. Then I tried it and laughed my *ss off at myself for "falling for it". Then I realized I didn't form a good seal when trying it. Then I tried again, AND IT WORKED! I laughed so freaking hard! It sounds ridiculous and I felt like a dork doing it but it really worked!

edited to add: This is regards to this advice:

"This happened to me. I read on another site that if you suck really hard on the headphone port it would fix it. I tried it, and it worked instantly!" by KBlomquist

Same happened to me after my daughter threw my phone in literally a teaspoon of milk in her cereal bowl.

Sucked on the headphone jack (not a pleasant sight)

Stripped an ear bud (q-tip) this helped but didn't resolve the problem.

Activated my music so I would know when it worked, rolled up some kitchen roll and bingo! Thank you. This just saved me a trip to the apple store.

Worked for me !

I tried all methods before, but only worked with your solution

Thanks !

I tried Q-tip, paper clip, blowing, slight banging, etc. and nothing. The only thing that worked for me was sucking the headphone jack and it worked instantly!!! Great tips - and saved me a lot of time from visiting the Genius Bar.

Pushing rolled tissue to the bottom worked for me! Thanks a lot to Cdaamn...

Solved my problem too.... Used regular paper napkin and it worked!!! Thanks a lot!!!

Hi all. Just had this problem and stuck a needle in headphone socket and pulled out loads of fluff. Works fine again now

The partially-denuded Q-tip did the trick for me after nothing else worked. I realized that a small amount of water must have gotten into the headphone jack when I was out in a driving rainstorm earlier that day. Even though I had an umbrella and my iPhone was in my purse, it was in an outer pocket that obviously was exposed to some moisture.

A similarly low-tech solution fixed my wireless mouse, which kept losing its connection after I changed batteries. Apparently slipping a piece of paper between the batteries as well as laying on on top before closing the lid keeps the batteries from moving; the commenter said that all batteries are not the same size and if you buy slightly smaller ones it causes this issue. I love these low-tech solutions to high-tech problems!

I tried everything

but last night i knew a drop ( yes a drop) of water had probably entered my earpiece.

i dint have a hairdryer so i held my phne oveer my lighter..

and it WORKED....

was about to reset my phone..

Guys... its moisture.. try the hairdyer or some warm air generating thing.. (like a lighter)

but dont hold it for too long..

i held my phone over fire for like 10 sec... phones earpice plcae got real hot..

hold it for 1-2 sec..increase yourvolume to see if its still in headphone mode..

Awesome, thanks, this worked right away. I used a thick needle and just "scraped" the sides of the jack. It only took me twice to go around the circumference and it went back to "ringer".

Yes Paper Clip guy win. Worked as soon as I did it.

Crazy, but only the combination of que tip cotton, wrapped around the end of a paperclip, followed by sucking on the headphone jack ended up working for me! When I tried each of the solutions seperately, I failed. Thank you good people.

Thank you, "Paper Clip Guy." Tried the other ones, didn't work for me. I used a hairpin and it worked like a charm!

Sucking worked for me straight away. Thank you!

This happened to my ipad mini all I did was update to ios 7.0.4 and it solved my problem so it may also be a bug .