Audio Issue with iPhone 11

[BigBoz]

Hi everyone I am experiencing issues with audio randomly stopping on my iPhone 11. It happens when I start playing a song on Spotify or a video on Youtube, they play for a few seconds then just entirely stop. I can restart the video or song but it will just stop after a few seconds. I have cleaned out my lighting port, restarted the phone multiple times, and closed out the apps altogether but they continue not to work. I have looked online for the past hour but haven't found anything useful so any helpful suggestions or tips are greatly appreciated. 

[Roswell]

What happens if you play the same audio sources over Bluetooth? If the answer is that it works fine, there's probably something physically bridging pins in the lightning port making your phone think you connected wired headphones.

[BigBoz]

3 minutes ago, Roswell said:

What happens if you play the same audio sources over Bluetooth? If the answer is that it works fine, there's probably something physically bridging pins in the lightning port making your phone think you connected wired headphones.

I used it with CarPlay earlier today and the problem still occurred. Around 15 mins ago I just rechecked the lighting port and there was still something in there so fully cleaned it this time and now it seems like it's finally working. 

[BigBoz]

I just fully cleaned the lighting port again and now the problem is gone so make sure to clean the lighting port so the phone doesn't think wired headphones are being plugged in.