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One of those features is Live Listen mode. While it was designed to help those with hearing problems, it can be also used to spy on your conversations.
Primarily intended to assist hard of hearing consumers, Live Listen allows your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to act like a microphone.
Apple explains that Live Listen can help you hear a conversation in a noisy area, as an example. With your AirPods in your ears and your iPhone near the person you’re trying to hear, it will transmit the closest audio to your AirPods.
Pretty nifty, but the technology can also be used by other people to listen in on your conversations. The only thing they have to do is place an iPhone close enough to you, activate Live Listen and eavesdrop on what is being said — even from another room.
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Again, Live Listen is meant for use by people who have problems hearing, and you can set it up if you have a pair of AirPods or Powerbeats Pro wireless earbuds paired with your device.
You would first need to add the mode to the Control Center of your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. To do this:
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