thread Re: Square Needs Access To Microphone in Hardware Setup & Troubleshooting

Square Needs Access To Microphone

cymru78 — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:44:29 GMT

I've just started up the app on the iPad in my shop, and all I am getting is a page stating that Square needs access to microphone. From settings, visit privacy>microphone to enable access.

But there's nothing there under the setting for the App.

Is this some sort of joke? How am I meant to take payments through my terminal in my own shop?

I don't even use swipe card payments. Never have and probably never will. And why would it need access to the microphone anyway?

Re: Square Needs Access To Microphone

cymru78 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 11:13:30 GMT

I've no idea why these suddenly came up, but I had to uninstall and re-install the app.

Posting this for future reference.

Re: Square Needs Access To Microphone

Sam_400º — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:55:42 GMT

@cymru78 wrote:

I don't even use swipe card payments. Never have and probably never will. And why would it need access to the microphone anyway?

Glad you got it sorted - reinstalling the app is often a good quick fix as it sounds like iOS had some permission issues!

The app needs access to the microphone as the original readers (and the lightening ones too I guess when the port was taken out) used the headphone/mic combo communication protocol to transfer the information needed from the card swipe. It's still used for any card swipes as they're the only way to do it.