Your iPhone becomes a system microphone
Install a signed, Apple-notarised driver and the iPhone appears under System Settings › Sound › Input — working in Zoom, Teams, FaceTime and every recording app.
- A real driver-level device, not a shim inside one app
- Signed and notarised by Apple, and it does not touch system files
- Selectable in any recording or meeting app
Talking across the room means nobody can hear you
A laptop microphone array points at the screen, so the moment you lean back you are talking away from it. In a meeting room it is worse: the laptop sits in the middle of the table and everyone shares a microphone several metres away. So everyone puts on headphones, or nobody hears a thing.
Install a driver, then pick it
Everything happens in the app, and only the driver step asks for a password.
- 1
Open Virtual Microphone
Tap it on the iPhone and the computer will offer to walk you through installing it.
- 2
Confirm the install
It asks for your administrator password once. The driver is signed and notarised, and you can disable it in System Settings at any time.
- 3
Select it in your app
Open the audio settings of any meeting or recording app and "RemoteCrab Microphone" is in the input list.
Why this one needs a driver
Cameras can ride on the system extension mechanism. Microphones cannot — which is why there is a real driver here.
Code signed and notarised
The driver is signed and notarised, so the system does not block it with an "cannot verify developer" error.
No system files modified
It is a standalone audio plug-in package installed in the standard plug-in directory. Uninstalling means deleting it.
Revoke whenever you like
Changed your mind? Remove the package, restart the audio service, and the computer is back to how it was.
Standard sample rate
48 kHz, so every meeting and recording app takes it without conversion.
Place it away from the computer
Stand the phone at the other end of the table facing you. Far better than talking at a screen.
Keeps working in the background
Audio keeps flowing when the phone is locked or backgrounded — you never have to watch it.
Placement matters more than the device
Where you put the phone changes the result more than which phone it is.
- Middle of the table — everyone talks to the phone instead of a distant laptop mic, and it is dramatically clearer.
- Lay it flat near a wall — a little reflected room sound beats a dry mic right against your mouth.
- Narrating a whiteboard — talk and write without adjusting the computer at all.
- Recording a class or podcast — slightly above and back from the source reduces plosives.
What you need
- macOS 26 or later on Apple silicon (M-series)
- iOS / iPadOS 26 or later
- Both devices on the same WiFi network
- One administrator password to install the driver
The audio service restarts once after the first install; after that every app remembers the input device.
Do not type — just say it
Hold the button on your phone and on-device speech recognition turns it into text at the computer cursor, Chinese included.
See hold to talk →Make sure everyone can hear you
Download the desktop app, install the driver once, and it will be selectable in every meeting app.