Customize headphone sound levels on your iPhone or iPad

Amplify soft sounds and adjust sure frequencies for your hearing needs with Headphone Accommodations in iOS and iPadOS 14 and subsequently.

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 tree EarPods (with three.5 mm Headphone Plug or Lightning Connector)
  • AirPods (2nd generation)
  • AirPods Pro
  • Powerbeats
  • Powerbeats Pro
  • Beats Solo Pro
  • Beats Fit Pro

When using automatic device switching with your AirPods, your custom audio settings will transfer between your iPhone, your iPad, and your paired Apple tree Sentry (on watchOS 7), but they won't transfer to your Mac.

Fix Headphone Accommodations

  1. Check that you accept the latest version of iOS or iPadOS.
  2. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio/Visual > Headphone Accommodations. Plow on Headphone Accommodations.
  3. Choose how you want to apply your custom sound settings:
    • Turn on Phone to apply these settings to phone calls, FaceTime calls, and whatsoever third-party video call apps.
    • Turn on Media to apply these settings to music, movies, podcasts, audiobooks, Siri, voicemail, and Alive Listen.
  4. Customize your headphone sound settings:
    • Use Custom Audio Setup. You'll listen to audio samples and choose which ones audio improve to you lot. Then y'all tin apply the custom settings suggested based on your choices.
    • Apply your audiogram data.
    • Manually conform audio settings.

Employ Custom Sound Setup

  1. Reset any current audio configurations to their default settings:
    • Go to Settings > Music > EQ, then tap Off to turn off Music EQ.
    • Become to Settings > Accessibility > Sound/Visual, and so adjust the Rest slider. Ready the audio volume balance to the middle.
  2. Connect your headphones. Brand certain that you're in a quiet environs.
  3. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio/Visual > Headphone Accommodations. Tap Custom Sound Setup.
  4. Follow the instructions on your screen. When finished, tap Use Custom Settings to apply the custom settings suggested based on your choices. You tin can switch back to standard settings at any fourth dimension.

Apply your audiogram information from the Health app

Tap Custom Audio Setup, and so tap Use Audiogram to utilize your audiogram data from the Health app to customize audio settings.

If you have a nearly symmetric audiogram, Headphone Accommodations volition take the average of the two ears and fit the left and right sound channels with that profile. If you have an asymmetric audiogram, it volition fit the left and right audio channels for your better ear.

Manually adjust audio settings

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

To arrange the audio volume remainder betwixt left and correct 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 suit the audio-volume balance between left and correct channels.

Customize Transparency manner on your AirPods Pro

Headphone Accommodations supports Transparency manner on AirPods Pro, making quiet voices more than aural and tuning the sounds of your environs to your hearing needs. Larn more about Transparency manner and how to turn it on.

When Transparency mode is on, your Headphone Accommodations settings might alter how you hear your own voice or increase your surround'due south racket level. You might demand to accommodate these settings to find a setup that'south most comfortable for y'all. You tin can start from a milder setting by adjusting the Tone or Distension slider. Then gradually increment to the setting that's most helpful for hearing people'south voices or natural audio effectually you.

To customize Transparency manner settings:

  1. Check 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. Get to Settings > Accessibility > Audio/Visual > Headphone Accommodations > Transparency Way.
  4. Tap Custom Transparency Style and turn information technology on.

To suit the audio-volume residue between left and right channels, adjust the Transparency Balance slider. Yous can also adjust Transparency manner 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's talking in front of you. This makes information technology easier to hear when y'all're talking face-to-face.

To turn on Conversation Boost:

  1. Cheque that you lot 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 > Audio/Visual > Headphone Accommodations > Transparency Fashion.
  4. Tap Conversation Boost.

You can also turn on Conversation Boost past tapping the Hearing push button in Control Center.

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