In honor of World Hearing Day (WHD), which falls on March 3 every year. It’s a day about recognizing, preventing, and advocating hearing and hearing loss. Let’s take a look at what Safe Listening features are available on iPhone, iPad, and AirPods.
Tips for maintaining healthy hearing and hearing accessibility features on AirPods, iPhone, and iPad.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are 430 million people worldwide or 5% of the world’s population with hearing loss. Studies have shown that people with hearing loss may have difficulty talking to friends and family, responding to alerts, and hearing loss. or hearing doorbells and alarms, so Apple’s hearing aid features aim to help with all of these many hearing needs.
Below is information about hearing health features. It focuses on helping users monitor and protect their hearing health. including hearing accessibility features to help users with hearing loss
1. The Noise app on Apple Watch helps protect and monitor hearing health.
from the results of a study in Hearing Study of Apple found that 25% of study participants were exposed to sounds from their everyday environment. Noise levels (which include traffic, machinery, public transport, etc.) are on average above the limits recommended by the WHO.
The Noise app on Apple Watch uses the microphone to measure decibel levels in the environment. and will send noise alerts. If the noise level in the surrounding environment reaches a level that may affect our hearing.
How to turn on noise notifications
Go to the Watch app on your iPhone > tap the My Watch tab, then tap “Noise.” Tap “Noise Threshold,” then select a decibel level.
Tips:
- Notifications can be adjusted directly from your Apple Watch by going to Settings > Noise.
- You can open the Noise app on your Apple Watch to measure the decibel level of your surroundings in real time.
2. Adaptive Transparency mode and Active Noise Cancellation on AirPods reduce hearing loud noises around you.
Adaptive Transparency mode on AirPods Pro (2nd generation) continuously reduces the level of harmful environmental noise. Be it loud construction sounds or sirens from passing vehicles. It responds instantly to very high-decibel sounds.
This reduces the level of harmful noise in everyday activities such as your morning commute or your lunch walk. It’s also very useful when going to a concert or other live entertainment event.
And if you have to spend a lot of time in a very loud environment, turning on Active Noise Canceling beforehand The more useful it is. The Noise app on Apple Watch can also provide real-time awareness of how How much environmental noise was reduced while wearing AirPods Pro using Adaptive Transparency or Active Noise Cancellation?
How to turn on Adaptive Transparency mode
Go to Settings > [AirPods ของเรา] and turn on “Adaptive Transparency Mode”.
To turn on active noise cancellation
go to settings [AirPods ของเรา] and turn on “Active Noise Cancellation.”
3. Headphone Volume Properties – Understanding How Headphone Volume Can Affect Our Hearing Health
For those listening loudly with headphones for long enough that it can affect their hearing, the iPhone and Apple Watch can automatically send notifications. to suggest that they should turn down the volume and after notification The next time we plug in the headphones or connect using Bluetooth, the volume will automatically be set to a low level. We can also use the app’s settings to set the maximum decibel level. that makes the sound from the headphones at a comfortable listening level
How to set up headphone security
Go to Settings > Sounds & Vibration > Headphone Safety > enable “Reduce Loudness,” then drag the slider to the desired decibel level.
trick If we set Screen Time for family members It can prevent them from changing the noise level.
Go to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions.
Turn down the volume and select “Disallow”.
Hearing accessibility with AirPods
1. Earbud Adjustment for AirPods – Personalizing AirPods to our needs
Whether we listen to music, watch movies, or talk to our loved ones. The Headphone Assist feature allows us to tailor the sound to our hearing needs. Whether it’s amplifying soft sounds to be loud and adjusting the frequency to suit the needs of each person.
which if we already have a graph showing the results of the audiometry test You can import data from paper or PDF. But if not, we will give you a step-by-step listening test. This allows us to set up to 9 unique profiles based on our individual sound preferences.
See below how to use this feature on each of our devices.
2. Voice Enhancement feature on AirPods to hear others more clearly in noisy places.
when we talk to someone in a noisy place The call boost feature on AirPods Pro or AirPods Pro Max can help us hear the other person’s voice more clearly. By focusing on the voice of the person in front of us. The Conversation Enhance feature uses on-device machine learning to detect and amplify certain sounds. For example, the voice of someone talking to him from across the chaotic room.
How to turn on call boost on AirPods Pro and AirPods Pro Max
Put on our AirPods and make sure they are connected. On your iPhone, iPad, go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio/Visual > Headphone Accommodations. And make sure the Headphone Assist feature is turned on > tap Transparency mode. Turn on the external sound mode adjustment. and turn on adding voice chat
Note: The Call Boost feature is available on AirPods Pro (1st and 2nd generation).
3. Live Listen Feature – Using your iPhone or iPad as a microphone for our AirPods.
With Live Listen, our iPhone or iPad can act like a microphone that sends sound to our AirPods, for example, to help us hear someone’s voice more clearly. like family members on the other side of the living room Live Listen also works on Beats headphones and Made for iPhone hearing aids.
How to set up and use the Live Listen feature for AirPods, Beats, or MFi hearing aids.
Add Live Listen to Control Center Go to Settings > Control Center, scroll down and tap the Control Center Listening “Add” button. [ชมวิธี]
Using the Live Listen feature
Open Control Center on your iPhone or iPad, tap the “Hear” button, tap “Live Listen.”
Place our iPhone, iPad in front of the person we want to hear. If we still can’t hear clearly Let adjust the volume on our device.
Other hearing accessibility features on both iPhone and iPad
1. Voice Recognition – Silent Alerting
Speech Recognition on iPhone and iPad sounds something urgent. such as the sound of smoke detectors and doorbells. using on-device intelligence and notify us when it is detected. We can also train our devices to listen to specific electrical devices in our environment. For example, the alarm sound of our kitchen appliances.
How to use voice recognition
Go to Settings > Accessibility > Speech Recognition, then turn on “Speech Recognition.” Tap “Voices,” then turn on the sounds you want iPhone to recognize. [ชมวิดีโอ]
Tip: How to quickly turn voice recognition on or off use control center
2. Made for iPhone Hearing Aids – Stream audio directly from your iPhone or iPad to our hearing aids.
Made for iPhone (MFi) hearing aids are the world’s most advanced smartphone hearing aid platform. Available in nearly 200 models from more than 40 manufacturers, hearing aid wearers can stream audio such as phone or FaceTime calls, music, Siri and other content directly from iPhone and iPad. to their own hearing aids The bidirectional MFi hearing aids also include a microphone to help us make phone calls and FaceTime hands-free on our iPhone and iPad.
Choose from MFi-compatible hearing aids, including bidirectional options.
Set up and use MFi hearing aids.
Make sure Bluetooth is on. Go to “Settings” and select Bluetooth > Open the battery cover of our hearing aid.
On our Apple devices go to Settings > Accessibility > Hearing Aids and select “Hearing Aids”.
Close the battery cover of our hearing aid. The Apple device will search for our hearing aid. Then tap on our hearing aids name under MFi hearing aids.
Tap “Pair” when we see a pairing request on the screen. If we have two hearing aids We will receive two pairing requests. Pairing can take up to a minute. We will be able to start using our hearing aids. When we see the name of the device listed under MFi Hearing Aids with a check mark.
It can be seen that Apple takes hearing health seriously. Has hearing-protective properties and provides many accessibility assistances for users to use safely and smoothly.