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macOS Sequoia expands custom audio setup with Headphone Accommodations from the iPhone and iPad to the Mac

2024 June 25
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macOS Sequoia expands the Headphone Accommodations feature for AirPods and Beats products from the iPhone and iPad to the Mac.

Mac owners can now customize how their AirPods or compatible Beats headphones sound by optimizing the sound for specific scenarios, adjusting the level of amplification, importing audiograms to personalize audio to their liking, etc.

Surfaced in the second developer beta of macOS Sequoia, this feature will be available to all users when Apple publicly releases macOS Sequoia in the fall.

macOS Sequoia brings the Headphone Accommodations settings to the Mac

When macOS Sequoia is released and you install the update, a new Headphone Accommodations section will pop up in System Settings > Accessibility > Audio (on iOS 18, go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio > Headphone Accommodations).

After switching on Headphone Accommodations at the top, you can tune your AirPods Pro or Beats audio for balanced tone, vocal range or brightness. The Balanced Tone setting provides “a boost over a range of frequencies,” Apple says.

Moreover, you can configure Apple’s computational audio algorithm to optimize soft sounds slightly, moderately or strongly, as well as apply your settings to music, phone calls and/or media.

How to import an audiogram on a Mac

To import your audiogram from the Health app, click the Custom Audio Setup button. You can create an audiogram on your iPhone with iOS 17.4 and later.

An audiogram maps your headphones to your personal hearing profile to precisely tune the audio performance to your liking. This feature is especially handy for people who can only hear higher or lower frequencies.

Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2024/06/25/mac-headphone-accommodations-custom-audio-setup-macos-sequoia/

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