Custom Transparency Mode Keeps Turning Off SOLUTION

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Custom Transparency Mode Keeps Turning Off SOLUTION

Guys, i just find out the solution to this problem, but i really canno get why apple do not share this to community earlier, cuz its not bug, but function "headphone accomodations" that turned off straight on apple watches by default :(

So :

1.make sure that watches not connected to iphone (turn off bluetooth on iphone settings)

2.plug in your airpods, and try to play some track (to make sure that pods directly connected to watches)

3.then if track started playing in your airpods from watches source, press main button on watches, and list down to Hearing settings (ear button), also list down and turn on the Headphone Accomodations, this will turn custom headphones settings (including transparency mode settings) directly on watches

4.Voila! You can turn on bluetooth again to pair back with yo iphone

Posted on Jan 26, 2025 12:41 AM

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Answer 1

Larry011

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Mar 14, 2025 9:21 AM in response to bourdoune

I turned off bluetooth on my phone and still no "headphone accommodations" settings anywhere. Bluetooth off on iphone, music playing from watch. I even typed in headphones in the setting search bar. Nothing. Airpods are playing music from my watch. A quick internet search said

"On your Apple Watch, you can find Headphone Accommodations under Settings > Accessibility > Audio & Visual, where you can turn on the feature and adjust audio settings".

Nothing there either. I looked in watch settings on watch and on iphone watch app. All have the latest ISO updates. If I comepletely turn my watch off, custom transparency works perect, without interuptions.

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Answer 2

Feb 19, 2025 10:54 PM in response to bourdoune

This appears to work for me! Nice find, thank you. I’ve been searching frequently every other week looking for the right solution.

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Larry011

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Mar 14, 2025 7:41 AM in response to bourdoune

There is no Headphone Accomodations on my watch.

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bourdoune Author

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Mar 14, 2025 9:02 AM in response to Larry011

so it means that your headphones not connected directly to your watches, try to disable bluetooth on iphone, connect your headphones to watches, and try to play music in some app like spotify that installed in your watches, to make sure that audio is playing directly from watches source. then this toggle will appear

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bourdoune Author

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Mar 14, 2025 9:36 AM in response to Larry011

you should find headphone accomodations toggle in control bar on your watches, not in settings

when you press the main button on watches, it brings you to control panel of your watches, and you can find out "ear" button, with headphone accomodations toggle inside.

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Answer 6

Apr 9, 2025 12:26 AM in response to bourdoune

Holy tripe, you've only gone and done it. Thank you!

For fellow VoiceOver users, it is sufficient for VO to be speaking through the AirPods before you open Control Centre and press the button called "Hearing Devices". And even when you first switch Headphone Accommodations on, don't be alarmed at first to find that nothing has obviously happened. Reconnect to your phone, fix transparency the way you want it, and the watch will not turn it back off again. And that's what you want: for Headphone Accommodations always to be on, including transparency, even if you can't actually configure that.

Thanks again, OP. Very, very much appreciated.

But what a stupidly obscure find. And why aren't there matching settings in the Settings app, itself? This is what comes of trying to be clever, and obscuring things in the name of user-friendliness. Sigh.