iPhone User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in iOS 12
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- Wake and unlock
- Learn basic gestures
- Learn gestures for iPhone X and later
- Use 3D Touch for previews and shortcuts
- Explore the Home screen and apps
- Change the settings
- Take a screenshot
- Adjust the volume
- Change the sounds and vibrations
- Search for content
- Use and customize Control Center
- View and organize Today View
- Access features from the Lock screen
- Travel with iPhone
- Set screen time, allowances, and limits
- Sync iPhone using iTunes
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
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- Accessories included with iPhone
- Connect Bluetooth devices
- Stream audio and video to other devices
- Control audio on multiple devices
- AirPrint
- Use Apple EarPods
- Apple Watch
- Use Magic Keyboard
- Wireless charging
- Handoff
- Use Universal Clipboard
- Make and receive Wi-Fi calls
- Use iPhone as a Wi-Fi hotspot
- Share your iPhone Internet connection
- Transfer files with iTunes
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- Get started with accessibility features
- Accessibility shortcuts
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- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Learn VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPhone using VoiceOver gestures
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor
- Use the onscreen keyboard
- Write with your finger
- Control VoiceOver with Magic Keyboard
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Speak selection, speak screen, typing feedback
- Zoom in on the screen
- Magnifier
- Display settings
- Face ID and attention
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- Guided Access
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Get information about your iPhone
- View or change cellular settings
- Learn more about iPhone software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Class 1 Laser information
- Apple and the environment
- Disposal and recycling information
- Copyright
Stream audio from iPhone to your hearing devices
Stream audio from iPhone and its apps to your hearing devices. You can even use Live Listen to stream sound from the microphone to your Made For iPhone (MFi) hearing devices or AirPods.
Stream audio to your hearing devices
To stream audio from Phone, Siri, Music, Apple TV, and more, see Connect Bluetooth devices to iPhone.
Route audio calls
You can automatically route the audio of incoming or outgoing phone or FaceTime calls to your headphones, speaker, or hearing devices.
Go to Settings
> General > Accessibility > Call Audio Routing.Choose Automatic, Speaker, or your hearing devices to determine where audio is heard during a call.
To have iPhone answer calls automatically, tap Auto-Answer Calls, turn on Auto-Answer Calls, then tap
or 
to set the duration of time before the call is answered.
During a call, you can switch the audio routing from your hearing aid to the iPhone speaker by removing the hearing aid from your ear. See Use hearing devices with iPhone.
Use iPhone as a remote microphone with Live Listen
Stream sound from the microphone on iPhone to your Made For iPhone (MFi) hearing devices or AirPods. This can help you hear better in some situations—for example, when having a conversation in a noisy environment.
If you’re using AirPods, place them in your ears.
Turn on Live Listen with one of the following methods:
Open Control Center, tap
, tap your hearing device or AirPods, then turn on Live Listen.(If you don’t see
, add it to Control Center—go to Settings > Control Center > Customize Controls, then choose Hearing.)Triple-click the side button (iPhone X and later) or triple-click the Home button (other models), tap Hearing Devices, then tap Live Listen.
Position iPhone near the sound source.