Why does my headphones only work out of one side on my iphone?

When I put my headphones into any device i have, both sides of the headphones work, except when using my iphone. When I play music in my ipad and computer with the same headphones they work perfectly fine. Then when I put them into my iphone only the right side works. I just don't understand why the one side works but the other one doesn't. I know it isnt my headphones, because they work perfectly fine in any other device. Someone please help me.

I have the same problem, except, weirdly, I have it with respect to my iMac, my iPhone and my iPad all at the same time.  It is afflicting multiple outputs (both speakers and earphones) so I know it's some kind of problem with the devices.  I can't believe all the jacks are broken, but I also can't find any way to modify the balance settings on the mobile devices.

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