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This iPhone feature lets you LISTEN to conversations metres away

An actress shared her shock after discovering the feature on her iPhone and said: “So basically we’re all spies now?!”

iphone 11 pro

Photo: Cheryl Kahla/TheSouthAfrican.com

Did you know that your iPhone has a setting that allows you to listen to conversations happening metres away? Well, many iPhone users have actress Elizabeth Hensridge to thank for finding out exactly how, The Sun reports.

Hensridge shared her shock on the social media site Tik Tok after she discovered Apple’s Listen Live feature on her device and said: “So basically we’re all spies now?!”

She is best known for starring as Jemma Simmons in the ABC superhero drama Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

“When someone explains the ear button on your iPhone means you can listen to conversations happening by your phone from 15 metres away,” the star wrote.

Listen Live on iPhone – here how to activate it

The Listen Live feature was actually designed as a hearing aid tool, and can be added to your iPhone shortcuts: If you are metres away from your phone, you can still listen to the sound using bluetooth headphones. To activate, go to Settings and then to Accessibility, and then select Hearing Devices. You then tap the name of your hearing device under MFi Hearing Devices.

“Live Listen can help you hear a conversation in a noisy room or hear someone speaking across the room. With Live Listen, your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch becomes a remote microphone that sends sound to your Made for iPhone hearing aid,” the website explains.