Use Live Listen with Made for iPhone hearing devices
With Live Listen, your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch becomes a remote microphone that sends sound to your Made for iPhone (MFi) hearing device. Live Listen can help you hear a conversation in a noisy room or hear someone speaking across the room.
Turn on Live Listen
Make sure that your hearing device is connected to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Go to Settings > Accessibility > 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
Go to Settings > Accessibility > Hearing Devices.
Tap the name of your hearing device under MFi Hearing Devices.
Tap End Live Listen.
Use the Accessibility Shortcut
If you add Live Listen to Accessibility Shortcut, you can use triple-click to quickly start or end Live Listen, view the battery life of your hearing device, and control other features such as volume and audio presets.
Learn how to set up Accessibility Shortcut
If you don't see Live Listen
Make sure that your hearing device is connected to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Open Control Center and make sure that your hearing device appears in the device selection area of the playback controls. If you see a different accessory there, tap it, then tap your hearing device in the list that appears.
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