Dynamics 365 v9 iPhone Mobile App access to Device Microphone not available

I have a Dynamics 365 Solution built on v9 (Cloud) and it is built on the new Unified Client Interface (UCI – also known as Unified Interface).

When I render my UCI App on Dynamics 365 Mobile app running on an iPhone Mobile Device, everything works fine except one issue: My Speech to Text web resource does not work. When I checked, I found out that the Dynamics 365 Mobile App (latest version as of Feb 2018) does not have access to the iPhone Device Microphone.

Moreover, when you go to check under the iPhone Settings –> Privacy –> Microphone, you can see all Apps that requested access to the Device Microphone but you will find that Dynamics 365 App is not listed. I also could not find a way (initially) to get the App to request acces to my device microphone.

This issue has now been reported to the Dynamics 365 Product Group team responsible for the Mobile App – so they are aware of it and hopefully will fix it in an upcoming release.

However, thanks to my friend and fellow MVP, Marius Agur Pedersen, he alerted me to the fact that there is a “Microphone” icon on the Timeline control on several Dynamics 365 entity forms. Once you click on this “Microphone” icon, I managed to get the standard Dynamics 365 Mobile App to request access to the Microphone from my iPhone Device and the App now shows up on the iPhone Microphone Setting under Privacy.

Here is how you can initiate this request from the App to access the Device:

I’ll be updating this post with more information once I get confirmation from the Product team that the App can request access to the Microphone when it runs for the first time. But for now, the above work around should be good enough and should allow your voice recognition, audio and/or Speech to text web resources and modules to work inside Dynamics 365 Mobile App.

Hope this helps!