If you have a Pixel phones (Pixel 3 and up), you can also use Conversation Mode with a headset. By pointing your phone’s camera at the person you want to chat with, or turning the camera upside down and letting them hold your phone, you can more easily reduce background noise and focus on your chat partner (feature This is for busy environments like coffee shops where background noise can be an issue).
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Any iPhone owner with supported Apple or Beats headphones can adjust the sound to suit their hearing and improve the clarity of music, movies, phone calls, and podcasts. Go Setting > Accessibility > Audio/Visual, turn on Room at Headphones, then press Custom sound settings. If you go to Setting > Control Center and add Hearingyou can also use Listen live to hear people better by placing your iPhone microphone near them.
If you have AirPods Pro or AirPods Max, you can use Transparency Mode. Go Setting > Accessibility > Sound / Picture > Room in headphones > Transparency modeand then turn on Custom transparency mode and Reduce ambient noise to select the allowable ambient noise level.
With AirPods Pro (8/10, recommended wired) you can also use Enhance conversationwhich you can find under Transparency mode. Voice amplification feature, but it means Wear your AirPods in live chats. After you have enabled it and added Hearing arrive Control Center through the Settingyou can turn it on by opening Control Center and adjusting gain, balance, timbre, and ambient noise with a set of sliders (it will remember your preferences).
How to use hearing aids with your phone
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Apple has a Made for iPhone (MFi) hearing aid program. Connect a supported hearing aid to your iPhone via Bluetooth and you can access most of the features we’ve outlined above for headphones on your hearing aid. For example, go to Setting > Accessibilityoption Hearing aids and choose yours, and then Start listening live Use your iPhone’s microphone to hear people better. You can also stream music or podcasts directly to your hearing device.
