Create a Mobile Baby Monitor Using Your IPhone or IPad
For the past few years, Apple has been offering Live Listen as a way for hearing impaired users to turn their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch into a remote microphone that connects to their hearing aids.
Now, with the release of iOS12 in September, Apple has added the same Live Listen support for AirPods, its wireless earbuds. For parents on the go, this means with a few taps you can turn your phone or tablet into an impromptu baby monitor that plugs directly into the headphones.
Tim Hardwicke of MacRumors explains how :
You can use your iPhone or iPad as an impromptu baby monitor when your baby is napping and you are in another room with the TV on. All you have to do is put your iOS device next to your baby cot and put on one AirPod, which should have a strong enough Bluetooth range so that you can listen to music from afar.
Live Listen will work even when other audio is playing on your iPhone or iPad – for example, you can listen to a podcast while monitoring your child. Just note that whatever you’re listening to will switch to mono output to match the Live Listen stream, and AirPods touch gestures will be disabled while this feature is active.
Would you like to use it like a regular everyday monitor? Doubtful. You don’t want your child to babble or scream in your ear all the time. But if you are leaving home for the weekend without a monitor, or visiting a friend on Sunday to play football and your child needs a nap? It can be useful.
Read Tim’s full article for step-by-step instructions on how to set up Live Listen on your iPhone or iPad.