[davidbarker]

Have you considered earphones for your dad? I only ask because my grandmother was quite hard of hearing before she passed away recently and would often miss a lot of the conversation on FaceTime, but once I bought just some standard EarPods for her iPad, she could hear much better.

Sounds like FaceTime alone is a big improvement over the regular phone, but I thought maybe earphones might be even better.

[scarface74]

They won’t go near earphones. They think it will make his hearing worse. Whether that is true or not, that’s a hill I don’t want to die on. iOS has a live listen mode too that will pipe sounds from the iPhone (and maybe iPad?) to AirPods.

[davidbarker]

Ah, that’s a shame. I wouldn’t be surprised if FaceTime gets closed captions in a future iOS release (with all recognition done on device, of course), which I can see being very useful.