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iphone 6 headphone jack Issues

The iPhone 6 jack has too much tolerance and 1/2 the headphones I own cause cut outs or music to stops playing. In addition Siri will sometimes engage erroneously do to the movement in the headphone jack. I tried and iPhone 5 and all of my jacks fit very snug without any issues. The problem appears to be that the the iPhone 6 jack was designed to allow rotation of the connector and this is a problem for a number of headphones.

iPhone 6, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 20, 2014 6:25 AM

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Feb 1, 2016 7:46 AM in response to Javed_YVR

Received the replacement iphone6 plus. And I can confirm now that it is a manufacturing defect. The brand new device never left my desk. So the all the lint related noise is inapplicable. Within first two weeks the same fault has reappeared on the brand new replacement device. No wonder, apple is reportedly dropping the headphone Jack from iphone7 on wards.


Now my options are downgrade to iphone5 or switch to an Apple competitor manufactured device. But what about the rip off that occurred due to unaccepted Apple manufacturing defect. I paid for this crappy phone model for nothing as its of no use to me and has only caused embarrassment to me in front my customers and employer.

Feb 20, 2016 2:44 PM in response to MikeApex

FIXED:

I got this issue with the jack (original Iphone 6s, Bose or DJ headphones) , none of them could get inserted. I called Apple, they refereed me to nearest AT&T store with certified Apple technicians. They took a look inside the jack with a flash light and a doctors tool to see inside the ears.


In my case, I normally use jeans, how you ever look inside a jeans pocket???? It was cotton from the jeans pocket what was blocking my jack.

They used this tool from Samsung Galaxy (Brush Solution for charging ports) to get out the "mop", (marked in red in my picture) enough big to block my headphones jacks to get full inserted. All back to normal, now even I can use the +\- bottoms on the cable.


The technician mention that this issue is normal, because people normally put the phone on the pocket with the "hole" down, in case someone call, just get the phone a little bit out to see who is calling and if you are going to respond. Make some sense with me....User uploaded file

Sep 28, 2016 3:04 AM in response to gibi79

I have an iPhone 6 it dies at 54% i'm told its a hardware problem so is scrap 18 months old. I've now just bought the iPhone 6s it's just over 1 month old since I've installed IOS10 the problems have started it started dropping calls one minute I've full 4g the next it drops the call now they have brought out an update to fix the update *** last night since the new update when I plug my headphones in on a call it drops out this is a warning people do not buy iPhones there scrap i've never seen any other cell phone that brings out so many updates to fix the updates that still don't fix the problems I WILL NEVER BUY ANY MORE IPHONES these phones should be taken of the market full stop.

Oct 6, 2016 1:38 PM in response to MikeApex

My headphones got out the box 4 good months after my iPhone 6 did since the headphones for my iPhone 5 were still almost as good as new. The second I plugged it into the iPhone 6 and played music, it sounded like the jack was loose, the notorious "voice cancellation effect" when trying to eliminate vocals from a song.


However, the problem somehow got resolved, but only for the iPhone 6. I can't use it on my HP Laptop (iPhone 5 headphones used to work perfectly), fine. But I was shocked when I plugged it into my MacBook Pro (2009) and got the same output.


I tried all the techniques mentioned in this thread but none of it worked. I solved the issue (complete fluke), and later on understood why it happened.



The diagram below shows the fundamental difference between OMTP and AHJ Standards.

FYI:Apple lines up with AHJ Standards.


User uploaded file

Credits: Cable Chick



✅ ✅ Solution

You need to flip the ground and the microphone for this to work. Just follow the diagram above.


✅ ✅ My (fluke) Solution

You'll need these two adapters, in this order. That's it!

User uploaded file


Hope this solves the problem for the MacBook users.

Dec 22, 2016 1:35 AM in response to MikeApex

Hi! from Paris, I just both my iPhone 6s + 9 months ago and when I updated my iOS (the latest one) days later I had a problem with my headsets (no sounds at all) and until now I'm trying to solve the problem, it's really impossible to do it by myself...I've been an iPhone users for such a very long time and no problem at all but this one seems to be intolerable...I am still trying to fix this coz I don't have the time to go to their shop to fix this up...

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