{"id":6596,"date":"2025-11-10T09:32:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/?p=6596"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:34:06","slug":"macos-set-up-iphone-as-mac-microphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/2025\/11\/10\/macos-set-up-iphone-as-mac-microphone\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS: Set Up iPhone as Mac Microphone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This is very useful if you don&#8217;t have a microphone available but need to quickly record a sketch into Logic for example. This is how to set up your iPhone as a microphone using your Mac&#8217;s built-in utilities, no third-party software needed:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Connect via cable:<\/strong>&nbsp;Use a charging cable (Lightning or USB-C) to physically connect your iPhone to your Mac.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Select &#8220;trust this computer&#8221; on the iPhone:<\/strong>&nbsp;Tap&nbsp;<strong>Trust<\/strong>&nbsp;on your iPhone when prompted, and enter your passcode.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Open Audio MIDI Setup:<\/strong>&nbsp;Locate and launch the application in the&nbsp;<strong>Utilities<\/strong>&nbsp;folder (<code>\/Applications\/Utilities<\/code>).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Open the &#8220;Audio Devices&#8221; window:<\/strong>&nbsp;If the window is not visible, navigate to&nbsp;<strong>Window<\/strong>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<strong>Audio Devices<\/strong>&nbsp;(or press&nbsp;<strong>Command<\/strong>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<strong>1<\/strong>).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Click &#8220;enable&#8221; below the iPhone name in the sidebar.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is very useful if you don&#8217;t have a microphone available but need to quickly record a sketch into Logic for example. This is how to set up your iPhone as a microphone using your Mac&#8217;s built-in utilities, no third-party software needed:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,233],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-6596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-tools","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6599,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions\/6599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}