No sound afternoon upgrading my iPad to iOS 8

My volume buttons didn't work when I updated, but there is a sound slider on the swipe-up menu on the bottom of the screen that worked to turn my sound back on. Hope it's that easy for you! 🙂

I Have same problem. I checked all settings for volumes under all categories. All sounds are enable and nothing (sounds) works after upgrading to IOS 8. Sometimes random sounds come back on their own, but most are not there anymore. Restarting the iPad brings back sound to YouTube and other apps, and that's it. I need help too.

Hello everyone, I have all lost all sound after upgrading to iOS8, and my iPad is super sluggish now! It worked perfect prior to update. I checked all settings, even in individual apps, and still no sound. That inclures Apple producs, like GarageBand. Etc. what a tragedy this update turned out to be. I am regretting being an early adopter. I expected better functionality from IOS8 update. I can only hope that Apple techs and devs are hard at work preparing a fix. Or give us the ability to downgrade to IOS 7 which was fantastic!

I solved this on my ipad mini retina by setting the 'rotation lock' slider to 'sound off':

- Go to Setting->General

- Change from rotation lock to sound off.

- Wiggle the slider: sound will return

- Now you can set the slider back to rotation lock again

I Have the same problem with my iPad 4 (retina display). When I connect my original EarPods, I hear only in the right side, and the sound is still not clear. On the left side there is no sound at all.

The same EarPods work fine with my iPhone 5s, and my PC.

I am experiencing the same issue of receiving no sound from my IPad Air. It continues to be stuck in headphone mode. I have tried a hard reboot, check all applications for sound issues, and applied a Reset! to no avail. As long as headphones are plugged in, there is sound. I paid too much for this device to experience difficulties with every upgrade. I also spent a considerable amount of time with Apple technical support, just to repeatedly be asked if my tablet was exposed to water. It worked fined before the iOS 8 and subsequent upgrades.

Hi

i encounter this issue as well.

my story is a bit different so if anyone encounter some of the symptoms here it is

symptoms:

after update to iOS 8 i started to hear really distorted sounds from the speakers and from the head phones.

i did reset my iPad mini to no avail , i thought my iPad got screwed. i decided to wait few days to see what a new day will bring.

about a week later i noticed there is another update (8.0.2) , so i immediately update my iPad.

the sounds problems did not solved and it seems to be worse.

i reset my iPad again and after that, surprise surprise : no sounds at all , not from speakers not from headphones.

solution:

after digging a bit and it appear no sounds setting related would solve this issue.

but then i went into Settings -> General -> Accessibility

under Hearing there is the Mono Audio switch, i turned it on.

now i could hear - it appear the audio was back, i set it (mono setting) back off and tested audio from headphones, it appear to be working as before.

for all who have this kind of problems i suggest check this method.

The "Mono Audio switch" fix worked for me. Many thanks for taking the time to dig past the obvious settings!

I updated to iOS 8.0.2 and the next day, while watching a TV show on my ipad, the sound completely stopped. I did a hard reset, thinking this would solve it, but it didn't work. Sound is not on mute. I tested out all apps that play sound, nothing was playing through the speakers; however, I can hear sound if I use headphones. I did the ipad reset suggestion I saw in a few articles, but still that hasn't work. Any other workarounds or am I going to have to go into the apple store? I tried the mono switch thign too with no luck 😟

Yes, thank you for your suggestion on the mono switch, which worked. ( I've had this problem off and on since I purchased my iPad Air 6 months ago with ios 7).

Same issue on my iPad Air as well. After I downloaded the IOS 8 update, I have lost all sound, my iPad is sluggis, and my cap lock will not turn off, after typing the 1st letter.

HEre is an example of the typing issue,

WHen

HOw

STop

FIx

THis

ISsue

PLease,

after the 2nd letter caps, its fine until I hit return, and then it starts all over again.

i (or it won't cap lock at all, as this (I) didn't cap lock at the beginning of the sentence.

i WIsh I could uninstall the latest update, because I would.

any ideas?

LOri

I faced also sound problem now, but not after iOS 8.0.2, it started after I updated Infinity Blade 3 and restart my iPad Air yesterday.

When I open any app with sound, it will Beep once and then muted. But if I plugged in the earphone, I can hear sound (with lots of noise)

Actually after updated infinity blade 3, I had faced 3 problems in my iPad Air, but 2 of them already solved after deleted Infinity blade 3, the sound problem on and off. (soft restart will solved temporarily)

I found issue of capital letter (cap lock) same like yours when I was typing above issue.

Same issue on my side, iPad Air, on the beta it was working fine but since the official releases of iOS 8 and 8.0.2, no sounds on games such as Star Wars Commander or Pirates Plunder. When I use earphones it works, when I use bluetooth speakers no problem, but without these I can't ear the sound on games.

I tried the ideas posted on the topic, none of them worked (now I have to put back my settings...)

It pretty sad to see that something as basic as the sound is not working well on such expensive hardware!

I Have same problem. I checked all settings for volumes under all categories. All sounds are enable and now thing works after upgrading to IOS 8. Sometimes random sounds come back on their own, but most are not there anymore. Restarting the iPad brings back sound to YouTube and other apps, and that's it

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MY Latin Drum Machine App Works today after Switching the Stereo Sound to On through IPad settings, this fixed the sound for my other apps as well so far!

See my thread on my issues with iOS8 and iPad: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6584804