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So, I am having a dillema and I cannot seem to find anywhere but does anyone know if you can play your alarm/timers from your iphone to your hearing aid?

I could’ve sworn when I demo’d an Oticon, it played through the hearing aid and now staying with ReSound One and my timers/alarms are going through the inbuilt speaker from iPhone which is causing a bit of nuisance for my partner!

Thanks all!

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Check to see if Play System Sounds is on in Settings, Accessibility, Hearing Devices. You can also check audio routing, and determine if the devices are set for audio streaming.

Hey mate,

Thanks for replying back. I can confirm that System Sounds is toggled on (When I don’t have my phone on silent I can hear the key sounds) Audio Routing is on Automatic and tried ‘Always Hearing Devices’ but the alarm/timers are still routing through my inbuilt speaker.

Anyone else have ‘MFI’ hearing aids and on iPhone? I wonder if it’s just me or ‘working as intended’ Apple Support doesn’t offer much help :frowning:

Maybe is it a stupide question, but In the settings have you made: settings-general-accessibility-hearing aids MFI then audio redirection?

I have my iphone set to audio to go to hearing aids for all sounds, call audio > always hearings devices and media audio ? Automatic, sure i get tones etc etc through if on in notifications.

I confirmed the behavior with the alarm that you are experiencing. The alarm sounds through my iPhone speaker and not the hearing aids.

As far as I’m concerned, the alarm is ringing in my hearing aids and not my iPhone. The setting must be incorrect.

Using iPhone SE (original model), Kirkland KS-8 aids, and all sounds set to route to hearing aids, the alarm rings in the phone’s speakers. It will not route to with my mifi setup.

Using iPhone 6s, Jabra ’s (basicly Resound One) I get ALL sounds thru the HA’s, including alarms. There must be a setting off somewhere… only suggestion I have is reboot the phone and triple check settings. Should be all sound to aids.

I triple checked my settings, and cannot get the alarm from the Apple clock to ring though my hearing aids.

Are you referring to generic alarms, or specifically the alarm that rings from the alarm setting in the native Apple clock app?

This is with Cochlear Nucleus 7 and Kanso2 processors with a Google Pixel 3 phone.
Using the phones clock app I can set alarms and timers and they do set off alarms in the processors.
I would think this would work on hearing aids too. If I remember correctly this was true with my Phonak aids with the Samsung S9 phone.

I set all the settings to send sounds to my aids, and set the alarm to bark. No bark in the aids, iPhone speaker only.

What specific settings do you have set for the aids?

Hey all,

Sorry for not replying back recently as work got hectic :sleepy:

I went through all the settings and the audio plays through the iPhone speaker AND the hearing aid now (so I guess partially right) after I made the changes for the audio routing to always go to hearing aid instead of automatic. I turned my phone off Silent (As my default set up is silent) and still plays through the in built speaker.

I have the iPhone 11 Pro Max, no changes to audio settings beside from the accessibility > hearing aid section. On the latest iOS 14.x (14.3 I think?)

Judging from some of the responses, it definitely seems that what I want to do is possible fingers crossed

Update: The alarm sound does come thru the ’s on my setup. I didn’t realize it but it is also coming through the phone speaker. With the HA’s in I didn’t know that but confirmed with the wife as she hears the alarm coming from the phone.

Learned from Apple support that the alarm app will always come through the phone speaker, even if it is also coming through another device. Apples reason for this is people depend on the alarm app to get them up for work…etc… and connections could be lost to external speakers or headphones.

Bottom line is there is no way to keep the alarm sound from coming out of the phone speaker. There are third party alarm apps that do alow this, but it’s no big deal to me personally.

As far as the OP issue of the sound not coming out of the aids I have no idea. Per the OP things seem to be correct in settings, so it should work. It doesn’t, so there is a problem somewhere but I don’t have a clue where it is.

I set up all the settings, rebooted my phone, and tried it again. The alarm rang through the phone speaker and my Apple Watch. I guess rebooting the phone got the watch to work properly. My having an Apple Watch in the mix may be what’s preventing the sound being directed to the aids. Oh well, no big deal for me. I’m just curious about differences people experience and what might cause the differences.

I too fhave an apple watch (actually use it more than the phone). I do keep the watch in silent mode, and volume all the way down.

If you really need alarms only in the ’s try one of the third party apps, I’m sure one would do what you want.

My ’s are Oticon, linked to my android mobile via my streamer and bluetooth I can listen to music, pod casts make phone calls and all alarms and notifications come through my aids. The only thing that doesn’t work is the radio, I spoke to Sony technical (mobile make) and it’s because the usual headphone wire acts as an antenna. I can use online radio though.

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