What’s the Point of Transparency Mode on Your AirPods Pro? and How to Set It Up
Transparency mode is one of the best features of Apple AirPods Pro. Using a combination of internal and external microphones, it allows you to listen to music through headphones without completely blocking out the world around you. But not all ears are the same, and some people may want to miss more sound than others, which is why Apple allows you to tweak the AirPods Pros’ opacity mode to boost all sound or make them focus on specific frequencies. This is just one of the many useful AirPods Pro features that you should use , and we’ll show you how.
This is another handy AirPods Pro accessibility feature designed for people with hearing loss. Even if that doesn’t describe you, it’s a good idea to play around with these settings and tweak the AirPods Pro’s transparency mode to your liking.
How to set transparency mode for AirPods Pro
On your iPhone or iPad, go to Settings> Accessibility> Audio / Video> Headphone Placement . Here you can enable headphone placement .
Connect AirPods Pro to your iPhone or iPad , then scroll down the headphone placement settings page and under Apply Using, select Transparency Mode .
On the next page, turn on the custom transparency mode . This will open up a lot of customization options for you. You can start with a slider under the gain . If you move the slider to the left, you decrease the gain of background sounds when wearing headphones, and if you move it to the right, you increase it.
You can also adjust the opacity balance so that one ear lets in more or less external noise. It is ideal for those with hearing loss in one ear.
The next thing to tune is the tone . Move the slider to the left (towards Darker ) and transparency mode will increase focus at lower frequencies. Moving it to the right (towards brightness ) will force it to focus on sounds with higher frequencies.
Optimize your AirPods Pro sound settings
When you’re done adjusting the transparency mode, you can return to the previous page – Settings> Accessibility > Audio / Video > Headphone Placement – and quickly tweak a few more audio settings to make the AirPods Pro work better for you. In the Configure Sound For section, select any option, and then click Play Sample , which is just above the Apply With section.
When playing a sample, you can choose any of three settings and leave the one you like best. Balanced tone enhances sound across the entire spectrum, vocal range enhances mids and makes dialogue or vocals more audible, and brightness enhances higher frequencies.
Finally, you can choose if you want to enhance quiet sounds. Above the playback sample , you will see a slider with three options. Select Slightly for a slight boost for softer sounds, Moderate for more boost, and Strong for maximum boost.
Quickly adjust transparency mode options on your iPhone or iPad
You can quickly change some of these transparency mode settings for AirPods Pro using Control Center on your iPhone or iPad. To access this menu, swipe down from the top-right corner of your iPhone or iPad. (An iPhone with a Home button requires you to swipe up from the bottom of the screen). Make sure your AirPods Pro are connected to your iPhone or iPad and the headphones are turned on. After you take care of this, you will see an ear ( Hearing ) icon in the Control Center. Tap it to adjust the transparency mode settings according to your needs.