Facebook Live/iOS 14 does not recognize Rode I-XLR

Been using iPhone XR to livestream Church service to Facebook Live using Rode I-XLR

connected to pro microphone. Has been working flawlessly since July. This past weekend (November 7), the audio was from iPhone internal microphones and NOT I-xlr that was plugged into phone. No settings were changed. Only thing I can figure is that it’s iOS 14 and Facebook. Did Apple just make the Rode I-XLR obsolete? Are Apple and Facebook having compatibility issues? Any fixes? Help. Thank you.

iPhone XR, iOS 14

Posted on Nov 9, 2020 10:26 AM

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PolkaMan Author

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Posted on Nov 25, 2020 10:04 AM

I’ll try to make this brief. I received an email

back from Rode. He said he had received quite a few emails regarding this situation. He recommended that I engage/start the Facebook Live stream FIRST, then plug in the iXLR lightning plug into the iPhone LAST. I tried it and the iPhone recognized the iXLR external mic and not the iPhone internal mics. I’ve been doing this procedure for two weeks and I have had no further problems. It is unclear whether this is a Facebook app issue

or an Apple iOS issue. Good luck.

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