why do my apple headphones not fit into my macbook air?

The AIR, like all other Macs and nearly 100% (all actually) of notebooks have a 1/8th " stereo mini-jack for standard headphones.

check your headphones, MOST professional headphones now come with a LARGER jack that unscrews OFF the smaller one.

Youd have to go back to the early 1980s to find a permanent huge headphone jack on a pair of headphones (almost).

MarthaAngelica wrote:

I just have the standard headphones, the ones that came with my IPhone 5S,

then youre looking at the wrong hole.

any Iphone headphones will fit ANY macbook AIr headphone jack, ....so thats impossible. 😉

those are EAR BUDS, not headphones that came with your Iphone

I have exact same problem.... funny thing is it worked for past three year...it' only today all of a sudden it stopped working... I can't insert the pin into the audio jack all the through. that sucked! Does it require someone at apple support to be looked at or I can fix it on my own?

They fit in everyone else's MacBook Air. Are you sure you're not trying to plug them in to the microphone hole? That's right next to the headphone one.

take a picture of this "too small hole", your description is very vague,

what you are saying is not even possible. 😉

I thought I was having the same problem but I just had to push my headphones in harder. I couldn't fit my headphone jack in all the way but with a bit more pressure it works fine. Hope this helps x

See the "headphone port" section of this article:

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10571

The headphone port on the MacBook Air accepts a 3.5mm standard plug, just as other Apple devices do.

What do you mean your headphones don't fit your MacBook Air? Please provide more information.

Austin

MarthaAngelica wrote:

LOL, I wish it was that, but the hole has an icon of headphones next to it, clearly it's not the wrong hole. Don't see any other holes either.

again, its impossible.

There may be something blocking the audio output port (broken jack?). Bring the MBA in to an Apple store genius bar and have them look at it. The evaluation will be FREE.

Ciao.