With Live Listen, your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch becomes a remote microphone that sends sound to your Made for iPhone hearing aid. Live Listen can help you hear a conversation in a noisy room or hear someone speaking across the room.
You can use Live Listen with an iOS device that works with Made for iPhone hearing aids.
Turn on Live Listen
Go to Settings > Accessibility, then select Hearing Devices.
Tap the name of your hearing device under MFi Hearing Devices.
Tap Start Live Listen.
Place the device in front of the person you want to hear.
Turn off Live Listen
Tap Settings > Accessibility, then select Hearing Devices.
Tap the name of your hearing device under MFi Hearing Devices.
Tap End Live Listen.
Use the Accessibility Shortcut
You can also use the Accessibility Shortcutto turn Live Listen on and off or control other features of your hearing aid. Set up the Accessibility Shortcut to include Live Listen. To use the Accessibility Shortcut, quickly press the Home button three times. On iPhone X and later, triple-click the side button.
The Accessibility Shortcut lets you do these things:
Start or end Live Listen
View battery life
Adjust the volume for either or both hearing aids
Choose an audio preset
To use the Accessibility Shortcut from the Lock Screen, go to Settings > Accessibility, then select Hearing Devices and turn on Control on Lock Screen.
Get help if you can’t see Live Listen
Make sure your hearing device is connected to your iPhone. You may need to pair or reconnect your hearing device.
Make sure your hearing device appears in the device selection area of the playback controls in Control Centre.
If you see a different accessory there, tap it and then select your hearing aid in the list that appears.
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