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Learn what to do if you want to turn off all listening modes (Transparency, Adaptive, and Noise Cancellation) for your AirPods on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, but you don’t see an option to do that.

AirPods 4, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max have three Listening Modes that block outside noise (Noise Cancellation), let noise in (Transparency), or mix the two (Adaptive).

You can switch between the three Listening Modes by:

• Pressing and holding the stem on regular AirPods or pressing the listening mode button on AirPods Max
• Expanding the volume slider in Control Center and tapping Listening Mode
• Going to AirPods settings

However, if you don’t see an ‘Off’ option, that’s because by default, Apple enables Loud Sound Reduction to help reduce your exposure to loud sounds, which needs Listening Mode to be always on. Secondly, Apple wants you to use the default Adaptive feature (an intelligent mix of Noise Cancellation and Transparency modes), so it can differentiate its expensive models from the entry-level one that don’t have this feature.

But if you don’t want these effects active all the time, there is a way to turn them off. Plus, disabling them will also boost the battery backup as your AirPods microphones don’t have to do extra work to block the outside sound (Noise Cancellation) or amplify them to come through (Transparency). And on top of that, disabling Listening Mode also eliminates the weird AirPods hissing sound you may hear at times.

Reveal the option to completely turn off AirPods Listening Mode

1) Connect your AirPods to iPhone, iPad, or Mac. You need to follow this procedure on only one of your devices.

2) Open the iOS Settings app or macOS System Settings and select your AirPods.

3) Tap Audio & Routing.

4) Scroll to the bottom and turn on the switch next to Off Listening Mode.

5) Tap OK on the Loud Sound Reduction popup.

Here’s how this setting looks on Mac:

Now, head to Control Center or the previous AirPods settings page, and you’ll see an option to turn off Listening Mode.

To also be able to turn off Listening Mode directly from your AirPods stem, head to AirPods Settings > Controls & Gestures > Left or Right and mark Off as one of the options. After this, you can press and hold the AirPods stem to cycle between all the marked Listening Modes, with ‘Off’ also being one of the options.

In case you still don’t get the option to turn off Listening Mode:

• Restart your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
• Disconnect and reconnect your AirPods.
• Turn off Bluetooth from iOS Settings (not Control Center) and turn it back on.
• Reset your AirPods, then repeat the steps above.
• Turn off AirPods beta updates and wait for the non-beta version to install automatically when it’s available.

More on AirPods:

• How to use custom equalizer settings for your AirPods
• How to use Live Translation with your AirPods and iPhone
• How to use AirPods as iPhone camera shutter button

Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2026/08/28/turn-off-airpods-listening-mode/

Learn how to change the perspective of a photo and fine-tune the angle of a person or subject using the new Reframe editing tool in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate.

The Apple Intelligence Reframe feature changes the perceived angle from which the image was taken.

You can adjust the camera angle change (i.e., reframe photo subject up to a limit) by moving it up, down, left, and right on the editing screen. Once you roughly define the framing, AI will fill in the necessary pixels to construct the final image. You can compare it to the original, then decide whether to keep the changes or reframe again.

Reframing uses the photo’s 3D spatial information to artificially adjust the camera angle, then uses AI to fill in or recreate parts of the subject as well as the sides of the image as needed. It’s based on the same fundamentals that let you set moving 3D Lock Screen wallpaper and extend an image when setting it as a wallpaper.

While this feature works best for images you took with your iPhone camera, you can also use it for other images, like those downloaded from the internet. However, in my testing, I found that all screenshots seem to be blocked from being reframed.

Here’s how to change the camera angle of a photo using Apple Intelligence on supported iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

iPhone or iPad

1) Update your device to iOS 27 or iPadOS 27 (currently both are in beta).

2) Make sure you have set up the new Siri and, by extension, Apple Intelligence.

3) Open the Photos app and tap a picture.

4) Tap the edit icon.

5) Go to the Tools tab and tap Reframe.

6) After the image is prepared, touch it and drag it up, down, left, or right. You can also use two fingers to pan, zoom in to get more range, or rotate the image.

7) Once you have the desired camera angle for the photo subject, tap the Reframe button and wait for AI to fill all the blurred and absent pixels.

8) Tap the screen to compare the reframed version with the original, and if you’re happy, tap the checkmark icon, followed by the Done button to save it.

While you can’t view all your reframed media in one spot, you can swipe up on an individual image, and if it has been retouched with this tool, it will say “Modified with Apple Reframe.”

Mac

The process on Mac is similar to iOS.

1) Update your Mac to macOS 27 Golden Gate or install macOS 27 on a partition if you don’t want beta software to affect your current setup.

2) Make sure new Siri and Apple Intelligence are set up.

3) Open the Photos app, view an image, and click Edit.

4) Go to the Tools tab at the top and select Reframe on the right side.

5) If this is the first time using these AI tools, wait for Apple to finish setting up the intelligent photo tools.

6) Use the sliders to adjust the rotation (vertical and horizontal), pan the image subject vertically and horizontally, straighten it, or zoom in or out. Click Reset to start over, if needed.

7) Finally, click the Reframe button and then Done to save the edited image.

Like most Photos app edits, this one is also reversible. Simply return to the editing pane and use the red Revert button.

What do you think of this new AI feature? Is it something you think you’ll use often?

Also, new in iOS 27:

• Top new features added to iPhone Messages app in iOS 27
• How to use custom equalizer settings for your AirPods

Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2026/08/26/reframe-photo-ios-mac/