Hi Robin, I like having my hearing aids paired with my phone. It means I can check notifications or text someone silently without putting on headphones, which can be convenient. I turn off Bluetooth when I want others to be able to hear my phone.
Cheers, Anna > On Oct 29, 2023, at 4:21 PM, Carolyn Arnold <2carolynarn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have Oticon hearing aids with MFI (made for iPhone) capability. I do have > to turn off Bluetooth, say for Jim to talk to my daughter-in-law, because if > I don't, and I'm anywhere close to him, her conversation will come through my > hearing aids. > > My sighted sister and husband both got hearing aids at the same time, always > use Bluetooth, as does my other sighted sister. > > One time, the sister and husband were up in the morning, and her phone rang. > She couldn't hear a thing, but he could. They'd gotten their hearing aids > mixed up! He had on hers, and she had on his. We got a lot of laugh mileage > out of that one. > > So, yes, both my sighted sisters keep theirs on Bluetooth to their hearing > aids. > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > R Van Lant > Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2023 5:12 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: hearing aids and iPhone > > Hi, > > I am plunging into the world of hearing aids. While it’s mostly because I > have difficulty with quiet voices and loud environments, the guy who will set > up my aids did tell me they can connect to my phone. I’m assuming most > sighted people only connect theirs when listening to a book or music; that is > what the guy made it sound like. I’m trying to get my head around what that > is like for voice over users. Do you leave hearing aids always connected to > the phone? Sometimes I’m on my phone and want to show my sighted family > something. Would I have to turn off the hearing aid connection to let them > hear the audio from the phone? They guy told me I’d have 4 to 5 programs set > for different contexts. Any recommendations of things I should ask when I go > in to have the programs set up for the aids? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Robin > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> . > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/MW4PR14MB471678AC10F0F5F049D5B72EAFA2A%40MW4PR14MB4716.namprd14.prod.outlook.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/MW4PR14MB471678AC10F0F5F049D5B72EAFA2A%40MW4PR14MB4716.namprd14.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/217501da0aad%24e8968710%24b9c39530%24%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/B906D3CB-C06F-46A5-B9E8-0FD21ED088F0%40att.net.
