iOS 13 - MFI hearing aids now playing all notification sounds

This may help a bit until they get this bug/setting fixed:

Go to settings, accessibility, touch, scroll to bottom to call audio routing, set that to Bluetooth headset.

Then go to settings, accessibility, hearing devices, turn off the play ringtones switch, then go into audio routing, set call audio to automatic, set media audio to never hearing devices.

That will make the call ringtone come through the speaker but the audio will route to the hearing aids. The text alerts will not sound in the hearing aids and will sound on the phone speaker. The problem is that no media audio will go through the hearing aids.

Or you can set the call routing up like I mentioned, leave the media audio routing on automatic, and change your alert tone to none for texts (settings, sounds and haptics, text tone, none). If you do this, you will want to use a text vibrate pattern that is long enough for you to feel and recognize when it goes off.

I would guess if enough people at Apple see that we are upset about this, they will change the settings back to how they were.

JasonPamplin wrote:

I have already requested this. Obviously you can stream notifications to hearing aids but some people didn’t like it. I was thrilled. Can we just make it an option?

Let Apple know what you'd like to see:

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Cochlear7user wrote:

I too do not need to hear all the notifications. Therefore it would be wonderful to make it user's choice on preference for certain notifications to

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Zsuzsanna001 wrote: "I think Apple is terrible for people with disabilities.

This should be confronted in the next keynote.

I am very disappointed with this brand..."

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Hi all,

I also have the exact same issue, tried the turn play ringtone off but not the immediate fix.

What does work for me is to switch of the message sound via the notifications setting.

Hopefully this is a temporary fix and Apple will address the issue in the next update.

It’s good to know that this isn’t an isolated issue and good to hearing from everybody in the community with similar issues, some being lucky and others not quite so lucky. My best run using the Resound Enzo2 was the iPhone 6 running on iOS 9.

Hopefully Apple has been listening, iOS 13.1.3 holds promises...snippet of release note, here’s to hoping it’ll sort out the Bluetooth and mfi hearing aids issues, not upgraded yet but hopefully it’s the fix we have all been waiting for; good luck!

We all have the same problem!

Regarding the unwanted notification sounds, a temporary fix that worked for me was to switch off “sounds” in the Notifications setting;

Also for your contact numbers in Belgian number, switch off “Dial Assist” in your phone setting;

I am having exactly this issue as well since installing iOS 13. It is very, very annoying. The behaviour should not have been changed in iOS 13, as it worked fine before. The setting is called "Hearing Aids Play Ringtones", and disabling it before would fix this i believe. But since installing iOS 13 this setting does nothing.

This means the phone keeps interrupting anything my hearing aid does as soon as it gets a notification.

I updated to iOS 13 this morning and now I am having this same issue. Did a chat session with Apple support and they were clueless about the issue. Hopefully there is a fix soon or I will revert back to iOS 12.

My Mom, who wears a BAHA 5 Cochlear devise, is no longer connecting to her iPhone after 13.1.1 update. Bluetooth sometimes connects and most times doesn't. Apple is aware of this problem too and I am hoping the 13.1.2 update will fix it. Mom is 90 years old. If I knew this update was a "major one" I would have waited to update her. Apple told me no way to get back to 12.4.1

I’ve got the same issue, it is very irritating! Just changing Hearing Devices-Audio Routing-Media Audio to “Never Hearing Devices” fixed the problem for me. The only problem now is if I want to use the hearing aids to stream audio I have to go back and turn it back on. Apple, why change something that was working perfectly??

JPilot, We updated Mom to 13.1.2 and she is back to being able to hear through her BAHA 5 Cochlear devise. I was told by Apple that this latest version of the iPhone OS fixed Bluetooth issues so if you haven't updated yet - try it. Mom and I became so dependent on talking via iPhone that it was a difficult week trying to use a Caption Phone. I hope this version works for your issues too. And I will be much more cautious doing a future update until it has been out for quite a while. Best of luck to you.

I am having the same issue as discussed above, however, my resound aid will constantly not stream correctly. I can see it connected in the accesibility menu and can change the volume/program but when I go to stream music it does not work. The only thing that fixes it is forgetting the device and re-pairing it. It is very annoying and making me not want to use the phone at all.