Hi. I wanted to know if there’s a way when you conect your iPhone to a speaker via bluetooth, is there a way to make use of the phone’s microphone? As everytime Im conected to a bluetooth speaker, I cant send voice messages or use the mic at all unless I disconnect the bluetooth device (which is a pain in the ***). I was able to do this with my other android phones so I wondered if there’s a way to do that somehow. Thank you!
iPhone 13, iOS 15
Hello there amaia1493,
I understand you've noticed that your microphone doesn't work when you're connected to a bluetooth speaker, so let's see if the following information may be able to help with that.
In regards to using Bluetooth and your microphone at the same time, the device connected may be taking control for the iPhone to use a microphone that is built-in with the speaker. Are you aware if the device you're connected with may have a microphone that picks up your voice when you're nearby? If you're not certain, try that out to determine if that is what is occurring.
In addition to trying that, see if you're able to use Siri while connected to the device. For assistance with using Siri, check out the following information. When using Siri, see if it's able to hear what you state to determine if this is isolated to the device, iPhone, or app.
As for being unable to send voice messages, are you able to make a recording within Voice Memos? This will further help to isolate what may be causing this to happen to be able to turn your focus there. For assistance with testing this, be sure you're connected to the device then use the steps of this resource:
Make a recording in Voice Memos on iPhone
If you still haven't isolated what is causing this to occur, Contact Apple Support to look into this with you in more detail.
Cheers!
Hi! So I discovered the speaker has indeed a built in microphone. However, when using Siri, the phone uses its own mic and not the speaker’s built in mic. Is there a way, when recording voice memos (or sending voice messages) to instead of using the speaker’s mic, using the phone’s microphone?
Thank you very much for your help.
Bluetooth speaker + iPhone mic
