I can see and hear my friend on Skype but he can only see me.

I tried to set up Skype with my friend last night so we could use the video conferencing feature and review a project we are collaborating on.

Well. . . it took us a while to figure out why I could hear him but he could not hear me. Our first guess was that it was some config/setting on his iPad. Nothing seemed to work so my friend tried the Skype test call. Confusingly, the test call worked perfectly and he could hear the test tones.

Undeterred I searched the interwebs and got nowhere.

What could possibly be wrong?

The only thing that seemed to be common to the complaints I saw was that users had recently upgraded to iOS 7.  My friend had not upgraded (he is afraid) but I had!

I proceeded to check my iPad settings and first looked at Sounds. I also checked the Skype node and the General. Nowhere was there any hint as to why he couldn’t hear me.

Ah Ha!

Eventually, I ended up checking every node in settings and found something promising in Privacy.

Microphone!

So look, I’m not going to pass judgment or anything here but I really don’t see how placing microphone settings in Privacy makes a lot of sense.

Sure enough, when I expanded the microphone submenu there was one item and it had the name Skype next to it. The slider was set off, so I turned it on, basically giving Skype access to the Mic.

Not sure how I feel about this exercise but I’m glad its over.

Here is hoping  that this helps someone else.

Bah!