iPhone is stuck in headphone mode

I read ALL of these threads and suggestions, none worked! I tried plugging in a headset several times, qtip, alcohol speaker, making a call on speaker, then unplugging headset during call, nothing worked. THEN…I saw the thread with some guy took a can of that compressed air with the red plastic tube on the end and sprayed it in the headphone jack for 10-20 seconds, while adjusting the ringer volume up and down and ….IT WORKED!!! It left headphone mode, back to ringer mode. I was having all the symptoms everybody was having on this thread, hope this helps!!!

I have also had this same problem with my iPhone 6 plus several times, but all you have to do is power off you iDevice and then power it back on. Works 100% every time. I have done this and every time it comes back on working perfectly fine. Also doing this will fix a number of other software issues as well.

I had the same Problem. Here is a simple solution. Take an earbud, remove the cotton swabs from either side. Insert the same in the headphone jack and suck hard from the other side. The problem would be resolved immediately. If there is any debris or water you will have this problem.

This is the only solution that worked for me when my iphone 6 was stuck in headphone mode!! I tried all the other suggestions and nothing worked, even an apple tech on the phone could not solve it. Thank you so much!

I tried a bunch of solutions and the only one that worked for me was the "physical" one.

In my case I used a BIC pen – taking the ink tube and sliding it into the headphone jack. Doing a bit of pressure and pulling it out a couple of times seemed to fix the issue.

I think I'm not going to plug in any headphones back again...

This also worked for me after my coffee spilled onto my phone. After cleaning it, drying it, using q-tips, paperclips, a hairdryer, tissues, etc. for an hour, the way I got it to work was make a call with the headphones in, then pull them out during the call and turning on the speakerphone. That's what did the trick! What a relief.

I tried everything in this blog, the q-tip trick, putting a tissue over the headphone hole and inserting the headphone as far as it would go, cleaned the headphone jack with alcohol, used a paper clip and moved it around.... Nothing worked, I tried putting in on airplane mode for 1 hr, then turned it off and nothing would happen, but that was because I was missing something; so here is what I did and worked

Turn on airplane mode → do a full shut down of the phone, not only turn in off, you need to so a restart of the phone by pressing both the home and upper right hand buttons until the apple logo comes out (for about 10 seconds) wait until your phone turns back on and it will be on airplane mode → turn off airplane mode

This should do the trick

i tried everything but the SILVER PAPER CLIP WITHOUT COATING did the trick. Patience is a virtue. Thank you Danny6052. Just put the paper clip inside the headphone port, move it in circular motion touching the sides while playing a music. You know it worked if you already hear the music.

Honestly the only thing that worked for me because I was doing dishes at work and my phone was in my apron pocket so water was my first thought so as soon as I got home I put it in rice and a hour later the stupid headphone setting came off which was a relief.

My iPhone 6s is less than a week old. I hadn't even used the headphones and this happened to me (got stuck on headphone mode). Tried everything to no avail, but this worked just as he said: have someone call you, go on speaker, plug in headphones, unplug headphones, talk on handset. Voila!

Thanks r850723, this is the only thing that worked.

Instantly changed the phone from "headphones" to "ringer" when I made a call with headphones in.

I then switched from speaker to handset with headphones out.

This is the only thing that worked!! but it took two goes, I kept my friend on the line for about 10 minutes, kept him on speaker most of the call, plugged the headphones in and out a few times, then DURING the call tried to play audio through several apps like youtube and iTunes until bit by bit the audio came back. The audio came back pretty quickly for music, then for video, but took a few minutes before I got audio back for the actual phonecall (before I could hear him without speakers)

So the general response seems to be "I tried all the hints here for, like, 5 hours, and finally THIS ONE HINT actually worked. THANK YOU". I think the real lesson is: put your phone in a dry place overnight, and try it in the morning. (That being said, what I was doing when a friend's phone started working again was adjusting the volume using the buttons on cable of the original headphones.)

Hi Guys,

Late to the party...but I had the same issue and none of the above worked for me. Eventually I found that the Bluetooth was overriding everything... Apple, you need to get this sorted... anyway, I switched off Bluetooth and Bingo.... worked instantly....calls, music, you name it...

Hope this helps someone.

So this happened to my iPhone 6 today. My phone is very clean and I have an OtterBox case on it. I never use the headphones. I did go to the beach earlier in the day and at first wondered whether I might have inadvertently gotten some sand into the phone although as I said above I do have a pretty good case and I am very conscientious about where I leave and how I use the phone. I tried all of the suggestions on this page. But with no success. It occurred to me that the only thing unusual during the day was at the phone would've been exposed to more heat than normal. I then put the phone in the freezer for 15 minutes. When I came out it was fixed! Can't swear this was not a coincidence but I feel like based on the above it was probably the freezer that fixed it. Not sure Apple would approve but it certainly beats sending the phone in for repair :-)