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How to receive notifications when you have been listening to loud audio on your headphones for long enough to affect your hearing in watchOS 11 on your Apple Watch

How to receive notifications when you have been listening to loud audio on your headphones for long enough to affect your hearing in watchOS 11 on your Apple Watch

Short guide:

  1. Press the Digital Crown on your Apple Watch and select Settings.
  2. Tap Accessibility.
  3. Scroll down to Headphone Notifications and tap the toggle switch to turn it on.

Before and after

Illustrations of listening to loud audio on headphones before and after Headphone Notifications has been enabled

This section gives you step by step instructions on how to enable Headphone Notifications in watchOS 11, with pictures of the screens to help.

Find the Apple Watch settings

1. Press the Digital Crown on your Apple Watch. If your apps are displayed as icons, tap the Settings icon . If your apps are displayed in a list, scroll down and tap Settings.

Images illustrating the Apple Watch digital crown, the App Icon screen, and the App List screen.

Open the Accessibility settings

2. On the Settings screen, scroll down and tap Accessibility.

Enable Headphone Notifications

3. Scroll down to the Headphone Notifications section and tap the toggle switch to turn it on.

Return to the clock face

4. When you are happy with your settings, you can return to the clock face by pressing the Digital Crown. 

Created on: September-20-2024

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