Appendix A    

Accessibility 

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Video Descriptions

Video descriptions provide an audible description of video scenes. If you have a video that 

includes video descriptions, iPad can play them for you.

Turn on Video Descriptions. 

Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Video Descriptions.

Hearing aids

If you have Made for iPhone hearing aids (compatible with iPad 4th generation or later and 

iPad mini), you can use iPad to adjust their settings, stream audio, or use iPad as a remote mic.

Pair with iPad. 

If your hearing aids aren’t listed in Settings > General > Accessibility > Hearing 

Aids, you need to pair them with iPad. To start, open the battery door on each hearing aid. Next, 

on iPad, go to Settings > Bluetooth and make sure Bluetooth is turned on. Then go to Settings > 

General > Accessibility > Hearing Aids. Close the battery doors on your hearing aids and wait 

until their name appears in the list of devices (this could take a minute). When the name appears, 

tap it and respond to the pairing request.
When pairing is finished, you hear a series of beeps and a tone, and a checkmark appears next to 

the hearing aids in the Devices list. Pairing can take as long as 60 seconds—don’t try to stream 

audio or otherwise use the hearing aids until pairing is finished.
You should only need to pair once (and your audiologist might do it for you). After that, each 

time you turn your hearing aids back on, they reconnect to iPad.

Adjust hearing aid settings and view status. 

Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Hearing 

Aids, or choose Hearing Aids from the Accessibility Shortcut. See 

Accessibility Shortcut

 on 

page 130. Hearing aid settings appear only after you pair your hearing aids with iPad.

For shortcut access from the Lock screen, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Hearing Aids, 

then turn on Control on Lock Screen. Use the settings to:

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Check hearing aid battery status.

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Adjust ambient microphone volume and equalization.

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Choose which hearing aids (left, right, or both) receive streaming audio.

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Control Live Listen.

Stream audio to your hearing aids. 

Stream audio from Siri, Music, Videos, and more by choosing 

your hearing aids from the AirPlay menu  .

Use iPad as a remote microphone. 

You can use Live Listen to stream sound from the 

microphone in iPad to your hearing aids. This can help you hear better in some situations by 

positioning iPad nearer the sound source. Triple-click the Home button, choose Hearing Aids, 

then tap Start Live Listen.

Use your hearing aids with more than one iOS device. 

If you pair your hearing aids with more 

than one iOS device (both an iPhone and iPad, for example), the connection for your hearing 

aids automatically switches from one to the other when you do something that generates audio 

on the other device, or when you receive a phone call on iPhone. Changes you make to hearing 

aid settings on one device are automatically sent to your other iOS devices. To take advantage 

of this, all of the devices must be on the same Wi-Fi network and signed in to iCloud using the 

same Apple ID.