iPhone is stuck in headphone mode

I tried EVERY suggestion listed here - nothing worked. What finally worked was going into voice memo and tapping on the speaker icon (it turns blue). Magically, I got out of headphone mode (which was the cause of the issue).

THanks

it it worked for me . I switch it to airplane mode for 2 secs and then switch off airplane mode and working perfectly...

although i I tried all the methods mentioned in above post but thanks again for sharing

Thank you r850723!!! Like another poster, I had done all the "tricks" - unplug/plug, q-tip, soft reset, reset network settings, unplug/plug during call, etc. I was so worried because this phone is only 6 weeks NEW and I knew for sure there was no water damage, it was never dropped, etc. The phone was working fine yesterday then this morning I woke up to change my ringer to loud and then it said headphones only.

I did your trick exactly as you put, except the last step I hung up and then changed the ring/volume switch on the side and voila it went back to "Ringer". Thank goodness I don't have to take a trip to the Apple Store. But if it happens again unfortunately I will go into the Apple Store because it shouldn't be a recurring thing! Thanks!

1) have someone call you (I called myself from my home phone)

2) turn on to speaker mode

3)turn off the speaker

4) plug in your headphone

5) un-plug headphone

6) hang up

7) adjust the ring/silent switch

It should no longer say "headphones"

THIS WORKED! My phone just got stuck in this mode and doing this actually worked. Apple guy on the phone had no clue what to do but directed me to Google which directed me here. Thank you so much! Awesome save!

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.