Can I use a walkie-talkie app to send audio from 1 iOS device to another?

By Jessica Brown, 18 December, 2014

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iOS and iPadOS

There are a bunch of wifi walkie-talkie apps in the app store. Would it work if I got 1, hook something like a cd player or mp3 player up to an iOS device through the headset jack or lightining connecter, then send the audio to a second iOS device on the same network if both iOS devices were running the same app?

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By DPinWI on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 - 18:48

The results would likely not be impressive. Assuming you could get audio in the headphone output or lightning connector, and then found a way to route it to the walkie talkie app, the sound received won't be great to listen to. These apps use bandwidth saving compression and frequency filtering to minimize data usage.

While some tout HD quality sound, I think you'd find it wouldn't sound much better than if you made a regular phone connection and put one device up to a speaker, and the other to your ear.