Solution For Microphone - Low Volume or Not Working

yes, people can grab their Macs where the mic holes are and clog them with hand oil/ dirt.

So long as one is merely removing debris and not taking a super thin needle and actually poking the microphone (bad idea) , then alls well.

😊

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I've been scouring the help forums for several weeks now. The needle did the trick.

thats good,

dynamic and condenser microphones have very delicate diaphragms, poking a needle near one is always a very careful procedure.

Thanks a million! PlotinusVeritas!

A needle was to big as the holes are so tiny.

I took an old toothbrush and used one of its hair. They're made to be thin and quite tough.

This made the trick and my Macbook Air's microphone works like charm now 🙂

Great technique 🙂 It helped.

It works! Many many thanks.

I also blowed strong directly at the small holes and it works, now input from microphone is back to normal.

Regards

That worked great. I made a video diagnosis and fix tutorial here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aWpC8N8W08

Thank you so much for posting this. I have a second hand MacBook Air 13", and I knew I couldn't afford the Genius bar to fix it. I tried the microphone needle cleaning thing.

It helped a lot! It's not nearly as good as my 5-year old MaBook Pro (both are about the same age). The Pro is still maxing out on the input volume, but the Air I just cleaned is like 4 notches below.

That's still better than it was before.