Customize headphone audio levels on your iPhone or iPad

Amplify soft sounds and conform sure frequencies for your hearing needs with Headphone Accommodations in iOS and iPadOS fourteen and later on.

A pair of AirPods and an iPhone showing Custom Audio Setup asking which audio sample sounds better.

Headphone Accommodations works with these headphones:

  • AirPods (3rd generation)
  • AirPods Max
  • Apple EarPods (with 3.five mm Headphone Plug or Lightning Connector)
  • AirPods (2nd generation)
  • AirPods Pro
  • Powerbeats
  • Powerbeats Pro
  • Beats Solo Pro
  • Beats Fit Pro

When using automated device switching with your AirPods, your custom audio settings will transfer betwixt your iPhone, your iPad, and your paired Apple tree Lookout man (on watchOS vii), but they won't transfer to your Mac.

Gear up Headphone Accommodations

  1. Cheque that you have the latest version of iOS or iPadOS.
  2. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio/Visual > Headphone Accommodations. Plow on Headphone Accommodations.
  3. Choose how you lot want to apply your custom sound settings:
    • Turn on Phone to employ these settings to telephone calls, FaceTime calls, and any third-party video call apps.
    • Turn on Media to apply these settings to music, movies, podcasts, audiobooks, Siri, voicemail, and Live Listen.
  4. Customize your headphone sound settings:
    • Apply Custom Audio Setup. Yous'll listen to audio samples and choose which ones sound meliorate to you. And so you can apply the custom settings suggested based on your choices.
    • Use your audiogram data.
    • Manually suit sound settings.

Utilise Custom Audio Setup

  1. Reset whatsoever electric current audio configurations to their default settings:
    • Become to Settings > Music > EQ, and then tap Off to turn off Music EQ.
    • Go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio/Visual, so adjust the Residuum slider. Set the audio volume residual to the center.
  2. Connect your headphones. Make sure that you lot're in a serenity surround.
  3. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio/Visual > Headphone Accommodations. Tap Custom Audio Setup.
  4. Follow the instructions on your screen. When finished, tap Employ Custom Settings to utilize the custom settings suggested based on your choices. Y'all can switch back to standard settings at any time.

Use your audiogram data from the Health app

Tap Custom Audio Setup, then tap Use Audiogram to employ your audiogram data from the Wellness app to customize audio settings.

If you have a near symmetric audiogram, Headphone Accommodations will accept the average of the two ears and fit the left and correct audio channels with that contour. If you lot accept an asymmetric audiogram, it volition fit the left and right sound channels for your amend ear.

Manually adjust sound settings

From the Headphone Sound screen, you tin too adjust tone and amplification settings manually. Tap Play Sample to hear an audio sample with your current settings. Y'all can alter these settings while listening to the sample to compare them.

To adjust the sound volume balance between left and right channels:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio/Visual.
  2. Adjust the Balance slider.

If you're using Transparency mode on your AirPods Pro or AirPods Max, learn how to adjust the sound-volume residuum betwixt left and correct channels.

Customize Transparency way on your AirPods Pro

Headphone Accommodations supports Transparency mode on AirPods Pro, making tranquility voices more audible and tuning the sounds of your environment to your hearing needs. Learn more almost Transparency mode and how to turn it on.

When Transparency fashion is on, your Headphone Accommodations settings might modify how you hear your own voice or increment your environs'due south noise level. You might need to conform these settings to notice a setup that'due south most comfortable for you. You can start from a milder setting by adjusting the Tone or Amplification slider. Then gradually increase to the setting that's nigh helpful for hearing people's voices or natural sound effectually you.

To customize Transparency mode settings:

  1. Check that you take the latest version of iOS or iPadOS.
  2. Put your AirPods Pro in your ears and connect them to your iPhone or iPad.
  3. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Sound/Visual > Headphone Accommodations > Transparency Mode.
  4. Tap Custom Transparency Mode and turn it on.

To adjust the audio-book balance betwixt left and right channels, adjust the Transparency Residual slider. You can besides adjust Transparency mode settings by tapping the Hearing button in Control Center.

Use Conversation Boost on your AirPods Pro

Conversation Boost focuses your AirPods Pro on the person who'southward talking in front of yous. This makes it easier to hear when you lot're talking face-to-face.

To plough on Conversation Boost:

  1. Cheque that you have the latest version of iOS or iPadOS.
  2. Put your AirPods Pro in your ears and connect them to your iPhone or iPad.
  3. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio/Visual > Headphone Accommodations > Transparency Fashion.
  4. Tap Conversation Boost.

You can too plough on Conversation Boost past tapping the Hearing button in Control Center.

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