BEWARE if someone has left their iPhone in the room as they could be using it to spy on you.
All the snooper needs is Bluetooth headphones such as AirPods and they can literally hear any private conversation through walls.
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The hack was revealed on TikTok by user Dalilamouhib who said she was “shocked” how it could be used to sneakily listen in on partners and friends.
“You can hear everything, everything through your AirPods,” she tells her 99.7k followers.
“You leave your phone in a room, go to another room and you can hear what people talking in the room that your phone is in, loud and clear.
“And they don’t know about it.”
The dodgy move is done by misusing the hard of hearing feature on the iPhone.
It is found within the Control Centre, where you tap the plus sign next to Hearing.
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All a person has to do then is slide down to open the control centre and select the hearing icon.
From there, turn Live Listen on and they can leave the phone in a room and hear everything the phone hears through their headphones.
Of course, spying on people is not encouraged.
It will only work as far as the Bluetooth connection will allow, but could still be used from several rooms away, even with doors closed.
If you think someone is trying it on, an orange microphone icon will be displayed on the top left of the iPhone screen.
Dalilamouhib’s video has been liked by more than 3million people.
“Despite the many other obvious ‘uses’ it may have, the feature is designed to assist those hard of hearing so that they can place their phone near a noise source and hear it even from far away, say for a lecture at university for example,” said Tom Peet from the Repair Outlet.
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