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This wikiHow teaches you how to enable the Raise to Listen feature on the iPhone. This feature allows you to listen to audio messages and voice messages by placing the phone to your ear, instead of having to tap the play button.
Steps
Enabling Raise to Listen
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Open your iPhone’s Settings. The icon will appear as a set of grey gears located on the Home Screen. -
Scroll down and tap Messages. It is located in the fifth set of menu options.Advertisement -
Scroll down and switch the Raise to Listen button to the “on” position. It will turn green. This will allow you to listen to voice messages or audio in text messages just by raising the phone to your ear.
Using Raise to Listen
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Open the Messages app. Its icon has a white talk bubble and can be found on the Home Screen. -
Tap on a message conversation with audio. Audio messages will appear in the conversation with a play button next to a simple wave form (a wavy shape). -
Raise the phone to your ear to listen. The message will automatically start to play. After you have listened to the audio message, you can raise the phone to your ear once more or wait for a short beep to automatically respond to the message.
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1. Open Settings.
2. Tap Messages.
3. Switch Raise to Listen to “on.”
4. Open Messages.
5. Tap on a message conversation.
6. Raise the phone to your ear to listen.
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