You can use MFi hearing aids or sound processors with iPhone and adjust their settings. It’s not limited to one device, either. You can use your hearing devices with more than one device, and turn on Hearing Aid Compatibility.
If you have AirPods Pro 2 or AirPods Pro 3, you can use your iPhone to take a hearing test, and if you have perceived mild to moderate hearing loss, you can get hearing assistance with the Hearing Aid feature.
Pair hearing devices with iPhone
If your hearing devices aren’t listed in Settings > Accessibility > Hearing Devices, you need to pair them with iPhone.
If your hearing devices are already paired to another nearby device, such as a Mac or iPad, make sure Bluetooth® is turned off on those devices. (When you finish pairing your hearing devices to your iPhone, you can turn Bluetooth on again on those devices.)
- Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
- Tap Accessibility and tap Hearing Devices. Tap Pair MFi Hearing Device
- Follow the onscreen instructions to setup your hearing aids or sound processors.
You only need to pair your devices once (and your audiologist might do it for you). Then your hearing devices reconnect to iPhone automatically each time they turn on.
Adjust the settings and view the status of your hearing devices
- In Settings: Go to Settings > Accessibility > Hearing Devices > MFi Hearing Devices.
- By triple-clicking the side or Home button: Use the Accessibility Shortcut if you’ve set it up.
- In Control Center: Tap the Hearing Devices button. (If you don’t see the Hearing Devices button, add it to Control Center.)
- On the Lock Screen: Go to Settings > Accessibility > Hearing Devices > MFi Hearing Devices, then turn on Control on Lock Screen. From the Lock Screen, you can do the following:
- Check battery status.
- Adjust ambient microphone volume and equalization.
- Choose which hearing device (left, right, or both) receives streaming audio.
- Control Live Listen.
- Choose whether phone and media audio are routed to the hearing device.
- Choose to play ringtones through the hearing device.
Use your hearing devices with more than one device
Pair your hearing devices with more than one device, like both iPhone and iPad, and the connection for your hearing devices switches automatically from one to the other. That happens when you receive a phone call on iPhone, or when you do something on the other device that generates audio.
When you change hearing device settings on one device, those changes sync automatically with your other devices.
- Sign in to your Apple Account on all the devices.
- Connect all the devices to the same Wi-Fi network.
Turn on Hearing Aid Compatibility
With some hearing aid models, Hearing Aid Compatibility may reduce interference and improve audio quality.
- Open Settings, tap Accessibility, and then tap Hearing Devices.
- Turn on Hearing Aid Compatibility.
Hearing aid compatibility ratings aren’t a guarantee that a particular hearing aid works well with a particular phone. Some hearing aids might work well with phones that do not meet the FCC requirements for hearing aid compatibility. To ensure that a particular hearing aid works well with a particular phone, use them together before purchasing.
Stream audio to your hearing devices
You can stream audio from phone calls, music, movies, podcasts, Siri, and more.
- Tap the Playback Destination button in Control Center, on the Lock Screen, or in the Now Playing controls for the app you’re listening to.
- Choose your hearing device.
You can also automatically route audio calls to a hearing device.
