iOS 6.1 has removed sound, volume controls

but after you take the iphone out of the dock station the volume is gone again!

I also tried connecting the earphones- volume control came back again, but when dissconnecting them the volume contol vanished again.

I'm using Iphone 4s. so what now? this is a huge problem!

I was having this issue as well after updating to ios 6.1 on my iPhone 4s - I made a blank playlist on the phone and it started working again - Weird.

None of the suggestions worked for me. I lost all interface sounds after the upgrade this morning :( Both iPad and iPad mini are Ok, but iPhone 4S is silent

hey guys,

i have the same problem here with my 4s. Seems like it's a general issue. Upgraded yesterday and realized today sound is set by default to "dock connector" while i am not using a dock and have never used one with my idevice. I connect it to the charger connector and "iphone" briefly appears as an option when using airplay audio output selector. Hard restart does not correct the problem and from what i have read here and there on the web, restoring does not resolve the issue either. I have contacted apple support. Hope they come up with a solution. Or perhaps, some of you, folks here, have heard about a solution.

software is the blame

we will have to wait the new update, because is a software problem

Update to my earlier post - my 4S is back to normal after plugging in headphones, playing music and unplugging headphones. As a side note - I tried docking it after my sounds were restored - it removed them again. Lets hope for 6.11 soon

Same issue here. I have an iphone 4s. I upgraded to 6.1 and now i cant play music on speaker and cant here videos. When i plugged in my headphones the volume controle re appears and i can here everything. My ringtone works just fine. I dont have a dock. Any other fixes

The same problem here. No sound when playing music. When someone calls I hear it just fine. Can't adjust ringer volume with buttons.

double click home button

swipe to the left twice

turn up the volume

I don't have the problem anymore but when I had the problem this solution of yours was not possible. There was no slider in the volume control. That round thingy did not exist when I had the problem.

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I also lost all my sound and I've tried everything to get it back plugged in headphones and put on dock nothing has worked. This did not happen until I updated to 6.1 so I tried to restore the phone I did what I've always did backed it up before. After the restore it still had the 6.1 software no sound and for some reason it did not back up so I've lost priceless photos and videos of my grandchildren! I am not very happy with apple at this point all I've ever owned is the iPhone this phone is not a year old and I can't upgrade so any help at least so I can get sound thanks

On my 64GB iPhone 4S I have the same issue updating from 5.1.1 to 6.1 - docking than undocking does temporarily solve the problem - but once you reboot your back at square one with no sound.

Restoring as a new phone does fix this issue entirely as I just tested. It's the moment I restore my backup that I lose both sound and the volume slider. Clearly not a hardware problem...

had exactly the same problem with photos messages etc. If you have been syncing/backing up to oyur computer there is a free utility called iphone analyzer which I used to recover them - this was on a windows 8 pc but you could find and transfer the files if you need to. The link was http://www.crypticbit.com/zen/products/iphoneanalyzer

hope this helps I'd have hated to lose all my photos.

cheers