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title: Management of devices during a call
description: "Desktop Mobile To change your audio and video devices during a call, follow these steps. Changing call devices 1. During a call, go to the call options and click on **Settings**. ![](https://www.linphone.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Parametres-dappel-1.png) 2. **A sidebar will open**, allowing you to…"
url: "https://www.linphone.org/en/docs/audio-video-devices/"
updated: "2026-09-16"
category: Calls
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# Management of devices during a call

Desktop    Mobile

To change your audio and video devices during a call, follow these steps.

Changing call devices

1. During a call, go to the call options and click on **Settings**.

![](https://www.linphone.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Parametres-dappel-1.png)

2. **A sidebar will open**, allowing you to choose the desired device for :

 

![Devices](https://www.linphone.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Parametres-1.png)

**The speaker:**

- Default playback: Uses the default audio device set by your system.
- Manual selection: Choose another audio output device.

**The microphone :**

- Default playback: Uses the default microphone of your system.
- Manual selection: Choose another audio capture device.

**The camera :**

- Select the video source from the detected devices.

**Validation and closing :**

- The changes are applied automatically as soon as a device is selected.
- Close the panel by clicking on the cross at the top of the panel.

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To change your audio and video devices during a call, follow these steps.

Changing call devices

- **Without an external device** :
  - Tap the **speaker** icon  to switch between the earpiece and the phone’s speaker.

  ![](https://www.linphone.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Mobile-options-speaker.png)

- **With an external device (wired headphones, Bluetooth, etc.)** :
  - - Click on the **speaker**  icon.
    - Select the desired device from the list.

![](https://www.linphone.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/mobile-peripherique-1.png)

Switch video device

- **Switch between the front and rear camera** :
  - Click on the**camera rotation ** icon at the top of the screen to change the camera orientation.

![](https://www.linphone.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Camera-rotate-1.png)

Learn more

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