Using the Telephone

As telephones do not all work the same, you may experience different results from different phones. You can use many phones by simply holding the receiver to your ear, without the need to change to a dedicated telephone program on your hearing instrument. Remember to move the handset slightly up or back to find the position that sounds best to you.

Depending on the phone type you use, your hearing healthcare professional might have selected a dedicated phone program on your hearing instruments. Therefore your hearing instrument may have an automatic telephone program (easy-t feature), which automatically switches you to a dedicated telephone program when your hearing instrument is close to a telephone receiver.

When the receiver is moved away from the hearing instrument it will automatically return to the previous listening program. If the hearing instrument does not switch to the telephone program automatically when the telephone receiver is placed in proximity, the magnet for easy-t hearing instruments should be attached to the telephone receiver. The magnet is designed to strengthen the magnetic field at the ear piece of hearing instrument compatible telephones.

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