

It is possible that the problem is with your microphone. Please follow the steps below one by one until the problem is fixed. Still, several users may prefer to use external microphones.

We previously explained what you can do when you are unable to use your built-in microphone.Ĭommon USB microphone problems you may experience on your Mac include: However, none of this gets me any closer to a solution.This article explains what you can do if your USB (external) microphone is not working properly on your Mac. Which leads me to believe older Macs were possibly treating Apple headsets differently, but newer ones don't distinguish any more. I vaguely recall having the same issue with another Macbook Pro (2016 I think I don't have this anymore) that didn't recognize the mic unless the headset was an Apple one, even though Android phones could recognize the mic for both headsets. I have no idea whether that makes a difference to the Macbook Air.Īlso, since the Macbook Pro 2019 recognizes the HTC headset mic, I assume that it has to be CTIA (my brief research leads me to believe that TRRS sockets only accept one standard, not both). There was one difference: the HTC resistance was 18 ohms while the iPhone headset was 36 ohms. Only the tip & second ring registered resistance, so they're both CTIA. I measured resistance between the tip & second ring, and between the tip & sleeve. Is this is a known issue for certain Macbook models? Is there something I can try, to get the Air to recognize the HTC headset mic?Īrmed with the info from re: CTIA vs OMTP, I used a multimeter to discover the ground in both headsets. It seems like the Air can tell the difference between the headsets beyond the fact that they are both TRRS.

I'm trying to use a TRRS headset with my Macbook Air 2017 (Catalina), but the Air is only recognizing it as output, but ignoring the microphone as input.
