iPhone is stuck in headphone mode

Thanks so much this worked for me! I tried all the solutions proposed here, cleaning with qtip, needle, putting it in freezer/fridge, sucking/blowing with hairdryer, resetting hard resetting, calling with headphones and pluggin unplugging it etc. 50 times plugging in out....

What worked was putting on spotify so you can see what happens if you plug unplug it pauses the song. So i played a song and started fiddling with a needle and sucking the jack, surprisingly sucking the jack while playing a song in spotify made it to pause and voila after that it worked! I put play and it switched to normal mode showing the volume when hit the volume buttons instead of headphones! Thanks again! Hope this helps for others

This may not work for everyone but I got stuck in headphone mode, hardly ever used the headphones, tried power off/on, switched back and forth to Bluetooth speakers- to no avail. Turns out battery was less than 20%. Began charging and voila - sound came on speakers!

This has happened to me twice now. The only trick which has worked is the "in and out of speaker mode". This time, instead of having someone phone me, I called an 800 #, went to speaker mode, plugged in some headphones, then removed the headphones. (I may have ended the call first, but I don't think I did.). Good luck! (PS: both times, the problem has come after updating several apps. I don't know which update is causing it.)

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And eventually updated Pokémon Go. The game started running and boom, the audio was back on through the speakers. I had just come back from skiing and figured a flake of snow got in there or something. Cleaned the audio jack with a tiny brush and some isopropyl alcohol. Removed a lot of lint from it too. Who knows, 2 hours later maybe it was dry enough, or the random software update gave it a kick start. I'll never know.

So my phones been stuck in headphone mode too. I looked through all the comments and I found the one that worked was sucking out on the headphone hole.. well hope it works for others! Have a good one!

Worked like a charm! I called voicemail and put it on speaker, plugged in headphones, unplugged and did it a second time. Turned the speaker then tried the headphones again and poof, problem solved. Yay!! Thank you!

Thank you very much. Nothing else helped. I tried all other suggestions and yours worked. I woke up and all of a sudden I couldn't make calls bc no one could hear me and I couldn't hear them. Headphone volume was the only clue I had when I tried to turn up the volume.

Thank you cedrey, spent hours trying all the fixes on here, I killed all applications and now its working perfectly again. Though I do have to say, it always rang when I phoned myself from the landline and the speaker during the call worked too only to return to headphone mode when I hung up. Only text message alerts, notifications, keyboard sounds and music/video apps were silent.

before trying all the software suggestions, resort to getting a Q-tip from your bathroom and cleaning the headphone jack. a few rotations showed some black residue lodged inside. music started playing as soon as the jack was clean...

My dad put some Wd40 on my headphone jack plug, put it in and out the headphone jack on my phone a couple times which loosened up the "balls" inside the phone that grasp the jack plug, and it was fixed immediately after trying all the other lame ideas.

Just in case anyone is struggling with this problem and a clean headphone jack, the Voice Memo trick worked for me. Open it up and hit the speaker button so it turns blue. Nothing else worked until that For me.

I tried everything as well. Tried drying out the headphone jack with a really strong hand dryer in my office. Tried resetting the network settings, tried plugging and unplugging the headphone jack several times, played around with the volume buttons, NOTHING!

Then I put the phone on Airplane mode for about 10 minutes and that Finally worked!!!!

Thank you so much 🙂

My story was yours exactly and I tried Airplane Mode but it didn't work immediately. I was actually waiting for a support chat when a text came in with sound, then I tried YouTube and a phone call and all worked!!! THANK YOU!

I tried eth from plugging and unplugging,blowing compressed air and airplanes mode..Nothing worked for iPhone 6 which was wet in shower..The pin thing worked for me..I was bit reluctant on trying this stupid technique..BUT IT WORKED.m so happy:-)two people are very smart:iPhone makers and iPhone users

This headphone syndrome started only after I used an unknown jack to play my music. This must have bent my s/w temporally

I also noticed something funny while charging my iPhone..it kept stopping to charge intermittently!

So after trying everything mentioned in the forum which didn't work I simply tried doing a Software Update check in Settings General which confirm my s/w was updated and then everything returned to normal...!