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How to Use Your PC as a Microphone for Your Phone
Phone Link allows you to make calls from your PC
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Updated onMarch 3, 2024
updated onMarch 3, 2024
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There are plenty of ways to use the phone mic on a PC, but it’s a bit harder to use your PC as a microphone for your phone. We have tested various solutions in the Windows Report lab so read below to find out how to use the PC mic on your phone.
Can you use your PC mic as an Android or iPhone mic? Yes, you can use the PC mic as an Android or iPhone mic.
How do I use my Windows 11 PC as a mic for smartphone?
What you need before setting up:
1. Use the PC as a mic to take calls
1.1 On Android
With Phone Link and Link to Windows apps, you won’t need to rely on the internal mic of your laptop. You can connect an external microphone to your PC.
Also, with Phone Link, you can see the text messages from your phone and send text messages as well. You may also see the photos from your phone and download them on your PC.
Our guide on how tolink your phone using Phone Linkwill offer more information on the process.
1.2 On iPhone
The procedure is almost identical, but you need to install Link to Windows from the App Store on your iOS device. Of course, you will go through the same Bluetooth pairing with the Windows 11 PC.
Our guide onhow to use Phone Link on iPhonewill help you with the pairing process.
Initially, Phone Link was developed exclusively for Samsung Android phones. However, Microsoft extended the support for many other brands, but they didn’t publish a complete list of supported Android phones.
As you have seen from our tests, we managed to link a Motorola G72 which is not a top-of-the-line model so our recommendation is to try it. Please note that it won’t work with all Android smartphones.
2. Broadcast any sounds from your PC to the smartphone
As you might have noticed, you can also use AudioRelay to broadcast the sound from your microphone or apps on your PC. You just need to set the phone as the Server and the PC as a Player and connect them on the same server IP.
Unfortunately, AudioRelay is not available for iOS, but it can work on Windows, Linux macOS, and Android.
How to use your phone as a webcam on PC?
The camera on your phone is definitely better than any built-in webcam on your laptop and you can use the smartphone as a webcam.
The process involves downloading some third-party apps. We have a full guide onhow to use the phone as a webcam on your PCor laptop.
Other smartphone-PC possible applications
If you want to do it the other way around and use the smartphone as a mic for a Windows PC, you can also use a USB cable to connect it to PC and download an app on your phone.
To be honest, in the tests from our WR lab, the audio quality when using the built-in laptop mic was pretty poor. However, when we connected an external mic to the PC, we got high-quality audio.
It will also work with a wireless microphone connected by Bluetooth but the audio quality will suffer once again.
To conclude our guide, it is possible to use your PC as a microphone for your phone by employing the help of apps such as Phone Link and AudioRelay. There are probably other third-party apps out there allowing you to do that but the ones we tested in the WR lab work 100%.
There is also the option ofmirroring the screen of a smartphone on a PCand vice versa.
How aboutusing your Android phone as a webcam on Windows 11? The highlighted guide will help you with that.
If you know about other working and tested solutions, don’t hesitate to leave us a note in the comments section below.
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Claudiu Andone
Windows Toubleshooting Expert
Oldtimer in the tech and science press, Claudiu is focused on whatever comes new from Microsoft.
His abrupt interest in computers started when he saw the first Home Computer as a kid. However, his passion for Windows and everything related became obvious when he became a sys admin in a computer science high school.
With 14 years of experience in writing about everything there is to know about science and technology, Claudiu also likes rock music, chilling in the garden, and Star Wars. May the force be with you, always!
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Claudiu Andone
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Oldtimer in the tech and science press, with 14 years of experience in writing on everything there is to know about science, technology, and Microsoft
