But my MacBook Pro was still covered under AppleCare, so I brought it in for service. Unfortunately, none of these worked for me. Gently insert a stick, like a cotton swab stripped of cotton or a toothpick, into the port and gently move it around to dislodge the switch.Blow compressed air into the headphone port to clean it out.Insert and remove your headphone plug a few times to reset the switch.There are a few commonly suggested remedies for a stuck switch: In System Preferences > Sound > Output, the selected output remains stuck on headphones, even when they’re unplugged.A red light from inside the headphone port.How do you know for sure that the switch is stuck? You’ll see these symptoms: This problem is not rare, as shown by the above Macworld article, as well as Apple support discussion threads here, here, here, and here. When I tried to turn the volume up, the onscreen icon indicated that they were broken, but when I plugged in headphones, everything worked fine.Īfter a bit of research, I learned about the headphone port switch, and deduced that it had become stuck. The Sound of Silence - A few months ago, my MacBook Pro’s internal speakers stopped working. That seems like a sensible design decision, but at least on a computer, it’s flawed, as my examples demonstrate. Remove the plug and the switch flips the internal speakers back on. Plug in your headphones and the switch triggers, shuts off the Mac’s internal speakers, and outputs sound to your headphones. The source of the problem, as Chris Breen once explained in Macworld, is that inside every Mac’s headphone port is a small sensor switch that detects when you insert a plug. I’ve owned dozens, maybe even hundreds, of devices with such a port, dating back to the 1980s, and have never had a problem with one, except for my two Macs: a 2011 MacBook Pro and a brand-new iMac with Retina 5K display. But they all have one common part that has given me more trouble than any other: the blasted 3.5 mm headphone port. #1645: AirPlay iPhone to Mac for remote video, Siri learns to restart iPhones, Apple's Q1 2023 financialsĪpple has the most beautiful, well-designed lineup of desktop and laptop computers ever made.1646: Security-focused OS updates, Photos Workbench review, Mastodon client wishlist, Apple-related conferences.1647: Focus-caused notification issues, site-specific browser examples, virtualizing Windows on M-series Macs.#1648: iPhone passcode thefts, Center Cam improves webcam eye contact, APFS Uncertainty Principle.#1649: More LastPass breach details and 1Password switch, macOS screen saver problem, tvOS 16.3.3 fixes Siri Remote bug.
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