How to Check Your Camera and Microphone Before a Video Visit on an Android Phone

What you need: An Android phone with the Chrome app, the app with a round red, yellow and green icon with a blue center.

Before you begin: The test page is free. When you tap its buttons, Chrome may ask whether the page may use your microphone and then your camera, and your phone may ask too. Choosing Allow while visiting the site lets this website use them on your next visits as well, so it does not need to ask again. Nothing you say or show is recorded, saved or sent. The page turns your microphone and camera off by itself during the test, and also when you leave the page. If your video visit opens in Chrome, this test shows whether Chrome can use your camera and microphone for it.

Steps

1. Look for the Chrome app, the round red, yellow and green icon, on the Home screen and tap it. If you do not see it, put your finger in the middle of the Home screen and slide it up to see all your apps, then tap Chrome.
2. Tap the address bar, the wide box with rounded ends where you type a website's address. It is at the top of the screen, or at the bottom if your Chrome is set that way. The keyboard appears.
3. Type stepsonscreen.com/test, then tap the key at the lower right of the keyboard, usually an arrow or the word Go. The page Test Your Camera and Microphone opens, with a Microphone section, a Camera section and a Sound section.
4. In the Microphone section, tap Test my microphone. If Chrome asks whether the website may use your microphone, tap Allow while visiting the site.
5. If your phone then asks Allow Chrome to record audio?, tap While using the app. On some phones this choice reads Allow only while using the app.
6. Say a few words in your normal voice. A bar in the Microphone section fills from the left as you speak, and the page shows ✓ Your microphone works in this browser. About two seconds later the page turns your microphone off by itself and shows The microphone is now off. If about 10 seconds pass and the page shows The bar has not moved. instead, the page explains what to do next. Follow what it says.
7. Slide one finger up the screen to scroll down to the Camera section. Hold the phone so its screen faces you. Tap Test my camera.
8. If Chrome asks whether the website may use your camera, tap Allow while visiting the site.
9. If your phone then asks Allow Chrome to take pictures and record video?, tap While using the app. On some phones this choice reads Allow only while using the app.
10. A picture from the front camera appears, shown like a mirror, with the question Do you see yourself? under it. Tap Yes. The page turns your camera off by itself, the picture goes away, and the page shows ✓ Your camera works in this browser. and The camera is now off. If you do not see yourself, tap No, the picture is black or frozen. The page turns the camera off, explains what to do next, and you follow what it says.
11. Slide one finger up the screen to scroll down to the Sound section. Tap Play a test sound and listen for a short chime. If you cannot hear it, tap Play the sound again, and while it plays, press the volume-up button on the side of the phone. If you still cannot hear it, tap No under Did you hear it? and follow what the page says.
12. If you heard the chime, tap Yes under Did you hear it? The page shows ✓ Your sound works in this browser.

Expected result: The page shows a ✓ message for the microphone, the camera and the sound, and then says Your camera, microphone and sound work in this browser.