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Step 2: Right-click the driver associated with your headphone in the list of Audio inputs and outputs, and choose Update driver. Step 1: open Run window by pressing Win + R key, and type the command “ devmgmt.msc”to open the Device Manager. If your headphones can’t work, you can try to update the audio driver to solve headphones not showing up issue. If the headphone works, you can take reference from the following ways to resolve the issue. Before you start to solve it, you need to make sure there is no hardware issue with the headphones by connecting them to other device.

Please make sure you check there and enable them.

Headphones are disabled by default: Sometimes your headphonesare disabled in Playback devices.

Drivers are old or outdated: Old drivers are always a common cause of problems, so you can take updating them into consideration.

Realtek HD Sound: For some reason, this sound manager was to blame and the problem went away after you uninstalled it.

The causes of headphones not showing up in playback devices are usually associated with some bugs or non-related activities you may have done. Read more: 3 Solutions Quickly Fix the Requested System Device Cannot Be Found. You may have encountered with the problem: when you are trying to listen to audio using headphones on your computer with Windows 10 system, you can’t hear any sound, nor do the headphones appear in playback devices.