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iOS 13 - MFI hearing aids now playing all notification sounds

I've updated my iPhone to iOS 13. Since then, all notification sounds play through my MFI (Made for iPhone) hearing aids, which is annoying. I can't see any settings to change this.

To explain further, the ios behaviour was;

Audio (e.g. Spotify, Youtube, phone calls) played through the hearing aids.
Notifications (e.g. a beep of a message arriving in whatsapp) played through phone speaker.

In iOS 13, everything now plays through my hearing aids. This means if my hearing aids are receiving audio from my TV for example, they switch to my hearing aids for a second to play a 'bing' of receiving a SMS, then go back to the TV. It's extremely annoying unfortunately. Any ideas?

iPhone 8 Plus

Posted on Sep 20, 2019 12:32 AM

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malapropic

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Posted on Sep 29, 2019 4:44 PM

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.

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