Zoom, external microphone, and iphone help needed!

[truedungeon]

Hello!  Here's what I'm trying to do.  I want to connect to a Zoom meeting on an iPhone and use an external microphone for the audio.  I have tested the external microphone and it works when recording a video, but once I switch over to Zoom, the audio goes through the phone and bypasses the microphone.  I'm GUESSING that is because the microphone is input only and not output, but I'm wondering if anyone has successfully used an external wireless mic for speaking to a Zoom meeting.

Thank you!

[Ray_Harwood · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Zoom Community, @truedungeon. Sorry for the delay in responding to your post.

The Zoom Support article relating to audio on iOS is located here:

https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0064460 

It says this about calling using the app and Internet audio:

• Call using Internet Audio: Uses your iOS speaker and microphone.

Unless there's a way to tell the iPhone that your external mic is the active iOS microphone, I don't think that will work.  (I have an iPhone, and tested this using my Rode GoII mics, and couldn't get it to work.)

You might try using the dial-in capability and join that way:

• Dial in: Prompts you to dial into the meeting. This option is not available if the host selected Computer Audio only when scheduling the meeting.

So there are some limitations.  Hopefully you can look around in the iPhone support world and get some guidance/options there.  If you do, please come back here and let us know, so others can find it.

[truedungeon]

Thank you!  Yeah, I'm fairly certain it won't work because there is not input and output for the mic, so the phone doesn't know what to use as output.  Bummer, too, because it made the sound for our virtual escape room super great, but c'est la vie!  

Lori

[Ray_Harwood]

Consider the possibility of connecting to the meeting using the desktop Zoom app, but then use the Share Screen feature for iPhone/iPad:

Test it out... I don't recall whether that brings in audio or not... but I think if you select the Share Sound option (yellow highlight), it might work.  As long as your device is on the same wireless network as the PC, it should be fine.  I've tested using iPhone video before, but not audio.

Good luck!

[DrDarrow]

This is very aggravating as I have been able to do this in the past with an iPhone 13 and my Godox wireless mics. I was planning on using this ability in a few days to broadcast a funeral, but now I'm gonna be stuck dragging a camera and laptop to it. I'm so tired of Zoom finding a way to break or remove features with updates!!!

[merv2gene]

I have essentially the same question and an insight to the problem.  I want to use the DJI MIC-2 in a Zoom call.  The setup works fine using an iPhone 15 but does not work using an iPhone 16.  The iPhone 16 and DJI Mic-2 works just fine when recording an iPhone video, but Zoom doesn't recognize the external mic module.  When the DJI Mic-2 module is plugged into an iPhone 15 the Zoom speaker icon has options but the speaker option doesn't appear in Zoom on the iPhone 16.  To me Zoom has a bug.  Where do I go from here?