Since what I propose below is a permanent, hardware-level fix, also look earlier in the thread I linked to find dondavanzo’s software solution. It’s a very iFixit-style fix, as you should definitely do it with at least a boardview for your computer and only if you’re confident you know what you’re doing, but if done right it’s actually the perfect solution. Finally I came across a real solution at this thread. I’m glad others have had success sticking things in their jacks to fix this issue-that’s worked for me a couple times but the jack still gets stuck eventually even though I never insert a headphone plug. Yeah I lost the aux port now but my internal speakers are working now and who uses an aux port these days anyway as I still have Bluetooth and USB. The problem came back with the tissue removed so I just further pushed it in with a screwdriver, cut off the excess and sharpied over it, What I finally found to work was twisting up some strong tissue paper and inserting as much as physically possible until it was rock hard when the internal speakers option finally came back Repeatedly inserting and removing a jack.

Seeing if there was a software workaround (heads up: there wasn’t) I had this issue after buying a blackbook a1181 with a broken optical jack stuck in the port,Īfter removing it I found the port was pretty much ruined (headphones kind of worked but sketchy) and also had the optical audio light on and system speakers was not an option.

Macbook pro no audio headphone jack