iPhone 7 Headphones not working

Some people said blow into it but that’s going to make it worse in the long run (just like old Nintendo cartridges, you are blowing the dust deeper into the port and your breath has high humidity). Use a vaccum cleaner to suck the port (female end) out or canned air for electronics and a brand new toothbrush (unused) to blow and brush it out. To clean the lightning plug (male end) use a brand new melamine sponge (not a used one from the kitchen) and give each side of the male plug a few good strokes. Then blow it off with the canned air. Works the charm for me.

Hey buddy I tried that fix and it worked one time. It made my earbuds work for about three hours. Then it was back to the same old problem however I’m excited now. I found a solution tonight that I had never heard of before. I chatted with Apple support and they said to restore the phone to factory settings. I had already done that under settings but, they said to go to iTunes and do it. If you do it on iTunes it erases in reloads everything… Under settings On your phone it just eraces.

I have the same problem thoughout my few years with apple. Most of the time its either the phone jack or the lighting port. Read a lot of suggestions and some work while others dont.

Am gonna list a few things that i tried and would probably works.

Lighting Port: The port's not clean so you may try to use a torchlight to look into the port. Remove all the dusk inside it with a pin or needle. check and scratch gently the pins inside the port to see if there's rust in the pin or dusk between the pins that block the connection to headphones or charging. try to remove them gently.

Lighting Jack: The Jack may have problem when the heads are blocked by dust or rust. Try to clean it with a wet tissue paper first. be gentle though cause if too much material is removed the jack will not work anymore. In extreme cases when it still does not work use a pin to scratch it clean. It may works if the rust is not too deep.

The Charging is especially difficult when it is more easy to rust than the headphone ones as its copper alloy imo. And too much scratching means you gonna need to buy a new one.

The headphone one is easier since its made of aluminium alloy, but rusting still occurs and its almost unnoticeable. so whenever its unable to connect and it still looks brand new, just try to directly scratch it with a pin and its highly likely to work again.

Hope this helps.

Yes! Thank you so much! I was really worried I had broken something in my lightning port but just blowing in it fixes it!

Check the Lightning connector on the iPhone and clean out any lint/debris that you find. Use a toothpick.

I did this a long time ago and I did this and I never felt with this problem ever again. Try blowing in the lightning port

My head phones work fine when plugged in without the adapter in another apple product but when I put it in my adapter if the music isn’t full volume it’s sounds like extremely crappy bass on all audio it really suffers with music the songs have

no treble and weird popping sounds any ideas?

I plug my lightning Jack headphones into my seven and the sound still comes out of the speakers. I’ve tried plugging them in with the phone off and then turning it on. I tried putting them in after it’s turned on. I’ll try them without the music playing to begin with and then with music playing after the fact.

Well, this is simply absurd! Blowing into the port? Cleaning it? Please, gimme back my good old 3.5 jack!
First of all, I cannot charge my iPhone while I use the headsets without an additional split adapter.

Second, I cannot use my favorite headsets without a lightning adapter.

Third, the worst, if I have the headsets on and I call or receive a call, the headsets are ignored!

Here is not a matter of blowing into the port. If you purchase a €800.00 phone you expect that the MOST FUNDAMENTAL features works! Doesn't matter if you have a vocal assistant or fingerprint recognition.

A phone must, first of all, be a phone, and work as any normal phone is expected.

Period.

Just got new lightning earphones, but when I tried plugging into iPad, played through speakers.

Fix: shut dow iPad, restart with lightning earphones plugged in (I'm not sure if that is really required, but it worked for me). Sound now plays through lightning earphones on iPad (iPad Pro 12", iOS 10.2).

I face same issue with iPhone 7 handpho

Have you tried getting rid of the iPhone yet? I have all updates on my work phone and nothing has worked except using a different brand.

I’m having this same issue too, I am unbelievably upset with Apple right now

I have the same problem! Have you found a solution for that yet?

Mine not working too