Apple’s AirPods Will Get A Helpful New Feature In iOS 12 For People Who Are Hard Of Hearing
Apple touted a massive number of updates at its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote this week, but the AirPods-centered feature was left out of the presentation. The company’s industry-leading fully wireless headphones will be getting a small but interesting software update, one that allows them to act like a low-budget set of hearing aids. As first noted by TechCrunch , Live Listen is coming to the AirPods with the iOS 12 update, letting iPhone users position their iPhones as a directional mic and have the audio relayed through the AirPods. Apple in 2014 introduced a Live Listen feature that"s designed to allow the iPhone to pair with hearing aids and then serve as a remote microphone that beams the audio the iPhone picks up to the hearing aids. Debuted in 2016 as part of Apple"s Made for iPhone program, Live Listen is a Bluetooth-based solution that grants supported hearing aids streaming access to an iPhone"s microphone. With the IOS 12 software, Live Listen will...