Compared to wireless headphones, wired headphones are a lot more convenient for most people.

In addition to being easier to connect to devices, they are also cheaper.

Why does this happen in the first place, and how do you fix it?

woman wearing headphones while using laptop

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Let’s find out!

Why Cant Windows 11 Recognize Your Headphones?

In that case, move towards the troubleshooting methods below.

Sound option in Control Panel

This will help you narrow the issue down and resolve it more quickly.

Here is how to enable your headphones:

Thats it!

You should now be able to use your wired headphones without any problems.

Choose the Playback tab

This troubleshooter is present in the tweaks app of Windows.

The best course of action, in this case, would be toupdate the drivers.

it’s possible for you to do this via the gadget Manager.

View the disabled devices

Hopefully, this will handle the issue once and for all.

Hopefully, the methods listed above were helpful in resolving your problem.

To avoid such issues in the future, confirm you keep the relevant drivers updated at all times.

Choose a default device

Run the Playing Audio troubleshooter