iPhone Shocked Me Through Headphones

[goldengram]

So I had my phone plugged in charging, headphones on while sitting on my couch and made a phone call. A couple minutes in to the conversation I started to move and I started getting shocked through my headphones. The person on the other side could also hear a shocking noise go through the phone. I yanked off my headphones and it stopped the shocking.

I tried to replicate the issue with the headphones in my hand moving them around but no luck. An hour later or so I made another phone call and it started to shock me again. It started when the call was ringing and I yanked off the headset right away.

After that call I used it with headphones on walking through my house making a call and nothing.

Make an appointment with Apple??

 

[Intell]

This is caused by static electricity. It's normal.

 

[verwon]

^^this!

 

[Hastings101]

I guess it's pretty common, when I searched google about it there were a lot of articles and forum comments about it. Apple's even said something about it and has a support article on it lol

 

[ecwhite4S]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A406 Safari/7534.48.3)

Same effect when you walk on carpet/rub your feet on carpet and touch something/someone. Never had it happen to me on my iPhone.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

I never actually got shocked, but I do hear the crackle noise from the static thru my headphones.

 

[cyks]

So I had my phone plugged in charging, headphones on while sitting on my couch and made a phone call. A couple minutes in to the conversation I started to move and I started getting shocked through my headphones. The person on the other side could also hear a shocking noise go through the phone. I yanked off my headphones and it stopped the shocking.

I tried to replicate the issue with the headphones in my hand moving them around but no luck. An hour later or so I made another phone call and it started to shock me again. It started when the call was ringing and I yanked off the headset right away.

After that call I used it with headphones on walking through my house making a call and nothing.

Make an appointment with Apple??

if anything, you're shocking your iPhone... not the other way around.

 

[Arnezie]

I wish you could share in my laughter in imagining you trying to replicate being shocked by your phone.