I mean, why does USA TODAY need to get to my microphone? Here you can see that I have six apps on my own iOS 7 iPhone 5s that request access to the device microphone, and only four have been granted permission. Lots to pay attention to if you want to lock down your privacy with the device. Note the other capabilities of the phone here too, including motion activity. Things Iv tried so far is hard resetting the phone, reinstalling skype, making sure skype has permission to use the microphone under the privacy menu and the skype setting menu, backing up and restoring my phone. You need to go into “Privacy” to find what you seek, so tap on “Privacy”. A tuning app that can’t actually “hear” the note your playing is not useful at all!įortunately the fix is easy to implement, and I bet you’ll be surprised how many of your apps already have access to your microphone (not to mention all the stealth apps installed by the National Security Agency. Making it rather dead weight on your iPhone, for sure. My guess is that when you first launched the guitar tuner app it did just that but you interpreted it to mean something else and said “no”. Why? Because apps that request access to the microphone on your iPhone (or iPad, or iPod Touch) should pop up a dialog box indicating that it needs access and requesting permission. You are exactly right in your supposition, though either it’s a poorly written app or you were moving a bit too fast when you first launched the program.

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