Image pickup apparatus having function of recording voice data, control method for image pickup apparatus, and storage medium

Abstract

An image pickup apparatus which reduces variations in volume of voice data recorded by a voice memo function without increasing the number of components therein. The image pickup apparatus, having a first and a second display part, determines a display destination of image data according to a detection result of an eye approach detection part, and performs synthesis processing of adding voice data recorded by a sound collecting member to the image data, wherein in a case where user's eye approach is detected by the eye approach detection part and the image data is displayed on the second display part, when voice recording is started by a user operation, a first sound collecting sensitivity adjustment process of adjusting a sound collecting sensitivity of the sound collecting member is performed.