How to increase volume of sound recorded using AVAudioRecorder

Question

I am using the link mentioned below to record audio through my iPhone app:

How do I record audio on iPhone with AVAudioRecorder?

When I try to play my recordings using AVAudioPlayer on my device, I have seen that the sound volume of my recordings is very low even when my device volume is full.

Recording is working fine.

What can be done to increase the volume?

Answer 1

When recording audio, set the audio session to AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord or just AVAudioSessionCategoryRecord. When you're done, set it back to just AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback.

Answer 2

Solution for iOS 12 + Swift 5.0:

• When starting recording use:

  recordingSession.setCategory(.record) // recordingSession is of type AVAudioSession

• When playing the record audio use:

  recordingSession.setCategory(.playback)

Note: Place the statements into a do-catch block.