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I recently go new EarPods and they were working fine until one day I plugged them out. When I went to plug them back in, they wouldn’t go in fully! I searched the headphone jack for anything suspicious and there is this weird dot on the side near the top of the headphone jack. I tried to get rid of it with a needle, but it isn’t budging! I don’t know if that’s what stopping it or not, but I only got my EarPods on Christmas Day so they’re new. PLEASE HELP
The problem may be that your headphone jack is dirty. Take a Q-tip with some denatured alcohol and try cleaning it with that. A rocket blaster/compressed air would help too. Hope this helps!