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    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

    iPhone Settings showing the Hearing Devices section, a step in enabling Live Listen for Made for iPhone hearing devices.

    1. Make sure that your hearing device is connected to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

    2. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Hearing Devices.

    3. Tap the name of your hearing device under MFi Hearing Devices.

    4. Tap Start Live Listen.

    5. Place the device in front of the person you want to hear.

    Turn off Live Listen

    iPhone settings screen showing the "Hearing Devices" options, relevant to setting up Live Listen.

    1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Hearing Devices.

    2. Tap the name of your hearing device under MFi Hearing Devices.

    3. 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

    iPhone Control Center showing Live Listen settings for Made for iPhone hearing devices.

    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.

    iPhone Control Center showing audio output options, highlighting how to select a connected hearing device for Live Listen.

    Learn more

    Use Live Listen with AirPods or Beats

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    Published Date: May 19, 2026
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