iOS force speakers when recording

From what I see in this forum, when mic is recording, sound is directed to ear speakers and not the usual speakers. This has been a bug since 2016. Any fixes to this please?

I can see the option in Player Settings to force iOS speakers when recording. But this renders headphones useless if the player is using it. Is there a workaround for this? Can the forcing be done (maybe just once) programmatically, in unity or natively, so that the player is being given a choice to use speaker or headphones at the start of the app?