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Best iOS14 feature? Customize your individual headphones frequency

SBlue1

SBlue1

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The best feature of the whole iOS update for me is the possibility to adjust certain frequencies to my hearing. I know my left ear has lost some very high frequencies. Thank you Marshall amp! :) Anyway, I made a hearing test with an app and the hearing profile is saved in the health app. As soon as I found this feature today I turned it on and it even asked me to use my hearing test results to adjust the music. Wow, just wow! No need for third party apps, no need to crank up the volume, just use the music app and hear everything clear again. 🧡

Oh and kids, protect your ears if you play guitar in a band. You will thank me in 20 years. :cool:
 
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Sounds like something I could do with! Same issue with right ear (possibly both).
Would you tell me which app you used to make the hea test and save the profile?
thanks 😊

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What app did you do the test with? I've been hoping for something like this (left ear has a cookie bite hearing loss, its not as delicious as it sounds..) I've seen new headphones of late (aura maybe? it was an Australian company) that run a custom profile for each ear, profiled by an app and I believe the actual headphones do the frequency boosting onboard.. maybe I misremember, but you don't need to use an app while listening I think. I hope apple get to this point with iOS giving you a hearing test for each air and your AirPods get a profiled signal for each ear for everything you listen to :)
 
They used to have a music app as well called Mimi music which used the test result and played the music back with the frequencies adjusted but it’s been pulled.
 
alexballvideos said:
I hope apple get to this point with iOS giving you a hearing test for each air and your AirPods get a profiled signal for each ear for everything you listen to :)
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Well this is exactly what iOS 14 does. :) Go to settings, accessibility, audio/visual and select headphone accommodations. Under "tune audio for" you can select your test which health calls audiogram.
 
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Would it be best to do the test with noise cancelation activated, or should all those features rather be off for best accuracy?
 
sageman72 said:
Would it be best to do the test with noise cancelation activated, or should all those features rather be off for best accuracy?
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I would try both. You can delete one audiogram if they are showing different results.
 
msvadi said:
Unfortunately, this works only with AirPods and Beats.
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What a shame, just tried it with my Sony headphones and this is not working! Not even with my old Apple in-ear Headphones. Just with my AirPods. This is crap.

Luckily I still had my Mimi music playback app which still works with all my headphones without any problems. Thanks for the heads up, I was about to delete it. It's been pulled from the app store so I could have not downloaded it again.
 
matrix07 said:
I’m still not clear on the devices. Is this algorithm applied when using iPhone only?
Can this settings applied to iPad and Mac as well?
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Looks like its iOS only. I just tried to see if there is a similar option in the MacOS settings but could not find anything. Maybe someone who has an Apple TV can check if tvOS has that option?
 
SBlue1 said:
Looks like its iOS only. I just tried to see if there is a similar option in the MacOS settings but could not find anything. Maybe someone who has an Apple TV can check if tvOS has that option?
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So it get ported over when using iPad?
 
My old iPad mini can’t run iPadOS 14 but I’ve seen screenshots of iPads having the same options as the iPhones. So it should work.
 
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