PSA: Apple AirPods can&8217;t be used to record audio with the iPhone camera app

Here's a public service announcement for Apple customers who use their AirPods to record audio while shooting a video with your iPhone camera app: stop!

While the AirPods microphone works just fine when talking on the phone or recording audio with the Voice Memos app, the mic on Apple’s wireless earbuds cannot be used to pick up audio when recording video with Apple’s own native iPhone camera app.

For users looking to record video, AirPods appear to be a perfect consumer-level product to function as a wireless microphone as well as an out-of-sight pair of earbuds. Upon discovering the incompatibility problem, those same Apple customers have been voicing their disappointment with the AirPods camera app issue on social media for years now. Read more...