Reviews for Apple iPhone TTY Adaptor

For all you hearing impaired phone users out there that suffer when trying to navigate the newer cell phones and worry about compatibility with your existing hearing aid compatible telephone accessories. I wear two BTE digital hearing aids with T-coil switches for hearing aid use when on the phone. I often use my Hatis Freedom Mach II headset for my office, home and cell phone telephone use. (The Hatis headsets are great by the way, very strong induction signal and great clarity). Hatis headsets all have 2.5 mm headset jacks and must be adpated to work with the iphone 4S headset jack (special configuration of 3.5 mm jack). This TTY adapter does the trick and works very well as an adapter between my iphone 4S and my Hatis Mach II headsets. I also use it to connect my headsets when listening to recorded books on my ipod and/or iphone.

This is the ONLY adapter that will allow you to use your regular cell phone wired hands free headsets with the iPhone. It also allows you to use your house phone wired headset with the iPhone. Those use the 2.5 mm pin, and this adapter plugs that into the 3.5 mm that the iPhone uses. But BEWARE, this is the ONLY adapter that will work in the iPhone jack. The ones they sell in Radio Shack look similar, but do NOT work, as they only have two sections on the pin that goes in the iPhone, not the three that are required. The same thing is true of the other adapters you find elsewhere, they just don't work in the iPhone. Save yourself the trouble and just buy this Apple adapter. It's a shame that Apple doesn't advertise this adapter. Apple calls it the TTY adapter, and it does work for TTY (it's a deaf person typing machine), but it is also the ONLY solution for using a wired handsfree headset with the iPhone, and Apple should TELL people that!

I just bought this along with a plantronics corded headset. The microphone does not work with the adapter, only the audio on my end. What's going on? Oddly enough, it works on my blackberry. I hope it works with my new 4S that is coming tomorrow. Otherwise, It's going back to Apple and I will be very upset.

I have an iPhone 3G and - being deaf - a pair of over the ear Phonak hearing aids. As both devices are loaded with Bluetooth, I can take calls from my iPhone direct, without any wire pug-ins. I can similarly play the iPod straight into the hearing aids without connecting wires, A Bluetooth generator can also be plugged into the audio outlet of a TV set and this transmits the program being viewed straight into the hearing aids without any wires. Similarly, an App will generate a wide variety of world-wide radio programs straight into the hearing aids. Magic! I would like to see Apple [and Phonak] make this facility better known to the deaf community.

I have had the Plantronics M114 head set for a couple years and used it with a Motorola 120t cellular phone with good results. This iPhone TTY adapter allows me to continue to use this headset. I use this combination for work and need both good quality sound to and from the headset. I am very pleased with the results. With the head set microphone set to most sensitive and the head phone volume set to maximum the sound levels are good, for me and for the person I am talking with, with some sound adjustment still available on the iPhone. My iPhone is a 3GS.

One of my frustrations with the iPhone was the lack of plug in telephone headsets. This solves the problem. I am using it with a noise cancelling Plantronics headset and am as happy as can be. Voice and sound quality are both better than with any Bluetooth unit and as good or better than holding the telephone up to your ear.

Note that the three-contact adapters sold at Radio Shack and other places don't work. I am not sure why, but you need to get this four-contact TTY plug for good voice quality. (see the photo and compare to the others to see what I am talking about).

Apple does not mention it, but this little adapter makes a standard corded phone headset with a 2.5 mm jack work with the iPhone 3G. I wear hearing aids, so can't use an in the ear or over the ear Bluetooth. But now I can use my corded Panasonic phone headset with my iPhone! Yes!

yes, the curves on the iphone make it slick and unique, but they are not practical AT ALL. £15 to make a set of headphones fit an iphone? haven't you already spent enough? its very handy and farely small, but it should not be neccesary. unfortunately it is, and this product fits the job nicely. a good, expensive, buy.

£15? To fix a physical design flaw? Apple are having a laugh.