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Hi All, The sound on my iPad all of a sudden stopped working. The sound works fine with headphones in and I can change the volume, but when I unplug the headphones I get absolutely no sound from the speaker, and I can’t even change the volume. I originally thought this must have been a software issue so I went through all the settings, checked mute etc. After that, I tried a reset using the power and home button, and I even restored to factory settings. I then changed the speaker with a new one, still no luck. I have now changed the headphone jack as I thought this may have been interfering, but there is still no sound. Any help would be very much appreciated!!! Thanks, Michael
I had the same problem yesterday. The headset worked fine but I could get no sound of my speakers on my iPad 3. I searched all over and there are a variety of answers to this from the absurd to the logical. Needless to say I tried them all. What worked for me was blowing very hard into the power connector just below the speakers. I had tried compressed air in all the openings and the only place where the speakers worked intermittently was when I was pushing air in to the power connector. I happen to have a dog that sheds a lot of very fine hair. My guess is that one or more of those went inside that slot and insulated some connection. By blowing hard inside I seemed to have cleared the problem but not totally. The sound is still a little bit scratchy.
I had the same problem with my new iPad. I sent it in and they sent me a new one back and guess what? Same problem. After speaking with tech support again, one guy suggested that I restore as a new iPad rather than restore from my backup, suggesting it was one of my apps. So I did this and it worked. One of the keys to this being the culprit for me was that the system sounds still worked fine! By system sounds, I mean the basic alerts, mail swoosh, keypad tones, etc.
I had the same problem. There is a switch that switches the sound to the head phones when the head phones are pluged in. This switch can get stuck in head phone mode. Get a head phone jack (plug) push it in and out till the switch releases.
Clean the charging dock. It has dust in it or it is a little corrosion on it. Take a tooth pick and scrape it out a little bit. The iPad thinks it is connected to a speaker dock.
This happens to my iPad 4th Gen. Try turning off the iPad, wait 10 seconds, then turn it back on.
Try to clean the speaker or apply little bit air pressure
What worked for me was using the toothpick method to push up on the bottom of the dock connector (ipad laying down with screen facing up) something must have been bent out of place when trying to charge or dock the iPad. Be careful not to break the connector. Apply enough pressure to see the connector physically move up.
The same thing happened to me. When I plugged in headphones, the sound was fine and when I unplugged them, it still kept showing headphones in the volume bar. I tried mute \ screen rotation switch. Restarted ipad. Then I launched Skype on ipad and made a video call without the headphones plugged in and it was back to volume (instead of headphones ringer), I opened youtube and the videos were playing with sound.
Mine started after IOS8 upgrade(related?) started having wifi and no sounds intermittent issues. Just happened again after a few months of no issues. Rebooting didn’t fix it. I then shut down all wifi and other option bits and then rebooted. Sound is working now, turned wifi back on and it’s working now too.
Hi, My solution was the Air-Play had changed to another device, i switched back to ipad and hey presto.
You could take help from this blog - iPad Sound & Speaker Not Working in Games & Apps: Fixed . It is really helpful
I plugged my ipad into speakers… let it play, pulled the cord out while playing, sound stopped then came back on thru ipad speakers!!! I had tried EVERYTHING else suggested before this!
For some odd reason, I had a combination of bugs, so when I had the same problem, I have switched the system sounds bar up and down (move it from side to side), then, after that only fixed the system sounds, I turned Bluetooth on and off and voilà!
Just completed reset, also used some compressed air to blow out headphone port and docking station, and now sound works again!
Hi. I couldnt get sound yesterday on my ipad without putting my earphones in. Finally got it to work today. On the right hand edge, above the volume buttons on i pad there is a little switch. if u have a red button its on mute. switch off here and hopefully youll get your sound back. Hope this helps.
I had the same problem. The only “Sound” that worked without headpnones was “Ringtone”. With headphones plugged in everything worked fine. After sweeping up from the bottom of my iPad to check the volume setting, I happened to click on the “Airplay” icon and found that it was playing to a set of remote speakers when the headphones were not plugged in. I do not know how Airplay got set to the remote speakers, but that was my problem.
First of all, this is a good reference thread…lots of good trouble shooting options. This “no sound” problem was going on for about a week on my iPad Air. I finally started trouble shooting it today. I had the same problem as many others here…no sound from speakers, but did have sound from headphones. I switch off between Bose wired headphones and a pair of Logitech bluetooth headphones. All of a sudden no sound when not using the headphones. After trying the reboots, dusty charge slot, etc, I went into settings/bluetooth and first disconnected all the bluetooth devices and then played music from iTunes to test…No sound. I turned bluetooth off, tada!, Sound! Just seemed like Bluetooth got hung-up blocking sound to speakers. iPad sound works great again!
I have this problem, too. I have Bluetooth off and I don’t use a charging dock, but I will try cleaning out the ipod charging cord and space. ‘Till then, I’m just using headphones and turning the volume all the way up (I don’t like to wear them).
Same exact problem. I tried a ton of fixes, none of them worked. I found that all I had to do was just do a simple restart. To do this, hold down both the home button AND the power button at the same time for 5 seconds (don’t worry, it doesn’t delete anything.) This worked perfectly and it was all back to normal :)
I tried all these things and until I plugged my IPad into a powered jack with a movie playing that’s when the sound came back!
1.go to settings and then to sound 2.turn off lock sounds and keyboard sounds. 3.turn them back on Really worked for me
You can follow this step-by-step trouble-shooting from Apple: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203794
Try connect with the charger again, it works for me.
I will be the first in this thread to say.. I actually had to replace the speaker module on my iPad 3. It was very hard as it required taking out the digitizer, LCD, battery, charging port to replace the speaker which I took from another iPad 3.
