Piece of lanyard stuck in headphone jack.

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I have one of those styluses that have a lanyard that plugs in the headphone jack.

Like these: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00BPK5964/

I dropped the phone and the lanyard plug broke off in the headphone jack. So now I have a piece of the plastic plug stuck down inside the jack where it can’t be gotten hold of, making the jack unusable.

Any suggestions how to get it out?

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If the piece that’s stuck in the headphone jack is soft (plastic, for example) you could try a needle. Perhaps one of the nurses, or a patient there would have one that you could borrow? You could jab it into the piece and carefully pull it back out.

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I’ve discovered that Youtube has a large number of videos on this subject. They’re all about extracting a piece of a headphone jack that’s broken off, but it’s the same principle.

Some involve super glue which strikes me as having a good chance of making things worse.

One suggests using a very thin screw, inserting it in the hole, screwing it into the.broken piece, and pulling it out. I think that’s the.one I’ll try.

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Fixed this same issue a few weeks ago. Heated up a sewing pin with a lighter till hot, stuck it in the broken piece of plastic and let it cool for a few minutes. All it took was a gentle tug to remove the needle and piece of plastic.

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This sounds perfect! I’ll have to wait till I’m out of here because I have neither a pin nor a lighter but if I don’t have it out before then I’ll definitely try it. It’s hard to see how it wouldn’t work.