How To Use Your iPhone As A Remote Mic For AirPods
The iPhone has a little-known ability to work as a remote microphone for Apple's AirPod and some Beats audio devices. This feature is excellent when trying to listen to someone speaking, playing music, or performing in a noisy environment. This was initially meant for use with hearing aids but works with AirPods now as well, opening the feature up to more users.
Apple has several Accessibility features designed to make it easier to use AirPods for listening to a variety of sound sources. For example, with 'Headphone Accommodations,' soft sounds can be amplified, and specific frequencies can be raised or lowered to help improve the sound of music, movies, phone calls and podcasts. Users with hearing impairment can even use an audiogram in the Health app to customize the audio for their particular needs.
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Apple's 'Live Listen' feature for the iPhone allows it to be used as a remote microphone for AirPods and some Beats earbuds. Here's an example of how it works. With AirPods worn by the listener, users can place the paired iPhone near a person speaking in a noisy environment, and the sound will be picked up from the iPhone's built-in microphone and transmitted to the AirPods. First, the user should add 'Hearing to the Control Center' via the Settings App. Then swipe down from the upper-right to open 'Control Center' and tap the 'ear' icon to activate the 'Live Listen' option.
This Accessibility feature first appeared in 2018 designed to work with compatible Made for iPhone hearing aids. More features were added over the years, including compatibility with some Apple and Beats audio devices instead of hearing aids. Several types of earbuds are compatible,
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