How to ONLY use headset mic with iPhone Skype?

Latest iOS, Latest Skype app. I own many wired headsets, from Apple original, to a Jabra call center headset, to Bose QC25 noise-canceling headphones with cord mic. No matter which of these I try, the iPhone's built-in microphones stay on when I make Skype calls. I'm using a headset because I chose the headset mic. Deliberately. I don't want any other mic to be on, for many reasons that should be completely obvious.
If I'm sitting still with the iPhone near me on a table, this leads to the extraordinary sound quality that lead me to Skype in the first place. If the iPhone is in my pocket while I unload the dishwasher, any noise-isolation features of my headset mic go out the window; my activities are louder than my voice.
Worse, with the Bose QC25 headphones, I don't hear my own voice looping back. With various headsets, the other party hears me much more faintly if I throw the iPhone under a pile of comforters or a pillow. As if Skype not only insists on using the iPhone mics in addition to the headset mic, but it is using auto level control to balance them.
While Steve Jobs is my hero, one of the worst days in the history of computing was when he decided that the iPod interface should be dumbed down as far as possible on the theory that users are morons who can't tolerate user interface options. I'm not finding any options to control mics on the Skype app, a direct heir to this legacy.
So, is this a "feature" or something I can fix?

ok so playing around with it, i think i fixed it. in the surround mixer i turn off the source line in , and then select line in for rec?

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