Cannot hear out of ear speaker

Just made a phone call and could not hear out of the ear speaker. When I tried to increase the speaker level the phone indicated that I was increasing the head phone level. I tried the same routine with my wife's Iphone and it did not indicate that the head phone level was increasing. It appears that my phone believes my head phones are connected. This issued occurred several days after I have used ear phones. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this issue? I hate to have the only options are to use bluetooth or head phones.

Well both. The connections made in jack causes software to activate/deactivate how and where it sends sound output.
Dirt/lint inside while putting in or out jack causes mix up in connectors as it slides in and out having the software miss the signal due to no connection.

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