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iPhone X Headphone Popping \ Clicking

Hi everyone, I have had my iPhone X for 7 months now and have been using the included wired earbuds. I finally got sick of them hurting my ears and bought a set of Corsair wired headphones. The headphones work flawlessly with everything else in my house, laptop, wife's phone (android), desktop pc etc. But when I plug them into the iPhone X with the dongle I get clicking \ popping sounds, I have tried 2 different lightning to 3.5mm jack cables and they both do the same thing, I've also tried resetting the settings and also a full factory reset.


Does anyone have anything else I could try before I have to take phone back? This really seems like a software issue with Apple and them wanting me to buy there headphones which I'm not going to do. I also feel that swapping it over will have the same issue as other people have stated the same thing.


Cheers in advance.

iPhone X, iOS 11.4

Posted on Jul 1, 2018 5:32 AM

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Posted on Jul 1, 2018 3:52 PM

Ok update, I think I have found what the issue is, the clicking and popping is the iPhone trying to figure out what the headset is. This particular headset is a gaming headset with a microphone so the 3.5mm jack has 3 black rings on it (stereo left - right, and mic input all on the one jack). This seems to be confusing the iPhone in trying to figure out if it has a microphone or not for some reason. I have a 20cm 3.5mm to 3.5mm extension cable here at home that only has 2 black rings (stereo left - right no microphone) so it's only passing through the stereo connection not the microphone connection, I plugged that in line with the dongle and the headset (+1 dongle life points heh) and it has completely fixed my problem as the phone is not just detecting that it's a stereo headset, and since I don't want to use the microphone (it's detachable) this solution works fine for me.


I wanted to post an update in hopes it may help some other people 🙂

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Jul 1, 2018 3:52 PM in response to Pancakes1983

Ok update, I think I have found what the issue is, the clicking and popping is the iPhone trying to figure out what the headset is. This particular headset is a gaming headset with a microphone so the 3.5mm jack has 3 black rings on it (stereo left - right, and mic input all on the one jack). This seems to be confusing the iPhone in trying to figure out if it has a microphone or not for some reason. I have a 20cm 3.5mm to 3.5mm extension cable here at home that only has 2 black rings (stereo left - right no microphone) so it's only passing through the stereo connection not the microphone connection, I plugged that in line with the dongle and the headset (+1 dongle life points heh) and it has completely fixed my problem as the phone is not just detecting that it's a stereo headset, and since I don't want to use the microphone (it's detachable) this solution works fine for me.


I wanted to post an update in hopes it may help some other people 🙂

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iPhone X Headphone Popping \ Clicking

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