
Specific operating systems don’t even recognize the microphone at all but the built-in speaker of a MacBook Air still stops workingĬonnecting the microphone through the USB port of your MacBook Air rather than the headphone port is another way of allowing the external microphone to function independently of the computer’s built-in speaker.


So, while you can use it to record, you will need to unplug the microphone to listen to the recording. In other words, your built-in speaker stops work, as it does in a smartphone. Instead of recognizing the microphone as a microphone it sees as a microphone and headphones at the same time. We would like to point out the fact that the recent MacBook Air generations, with one headphone jack, do not recognize external microphones like the older ones with separate microphone and headphone ports.

If the built-in speaker of your MacBook Air stops working after connecting the microphone to your computer, relax, take a deep breath, then please note the following points:įirst, this is normal.
