Scenes for every
part of your day

What a scene can change

A scene holds any of these settings, on the models that have them:

Give it a name, an icon and a color. Settings your headphones don't have are skipped, and the app tells you which; so the same scene works across models, applying only what each one supports.

Three scenes to start with

The first time you open the app, it creates three you can use, edit or delete:

• Deep Focus: noise canceling, with Speak-to-Chat off so talking near you doesn't pause your music.
• Out & About: ambient sound at level 12, so traffic and announcements come through.
• Conversation: ambient sound at level 18 with Focus on Voice, for talking without taking the headphones off.

Apply a scene

• Menu bar: click the headphones icon; every scene is a button at the bottom of the panel.
• Sidebar: the first five scenes are listed under Quick Scenes.
• Keyboard: ⌃⌘1 to ⌃⌘9 apply the first nine scenes, in the order of the Scenes menu. More shortcuts in keyboard shortcuts.

The app sends each setting, reads it back from the headphones and tells you how many were applied. A checkmark on a scene means the headphones already match it.

Let scenes switch by themselves

Each scene can have one trigger:

1. On connect. Applied when your headphones connect to the Mac, for example noise canceling every time you sit down at your desk. If several scenes use it, the first one runs.
2. Schedule. A time of day and the days of the week, such as weekdays at 8:30. It runs while the headphones are connected; if they aren't, the app lets you know.
3. App. Applied when a chosen app comes to the front, for example Deep Focus when you open your editor, or Conversation when your video call app opens. It runs at most once every ten minutes per scene, so switching between windows doesn't keep resetting your headphones.

Pause all automations at once from the Scenes page when you want your settings left alone.

Ideas

• Meetings: a scene with ambient sound and Speak-to-Chat off, triggered by Zoom, Microsoft Teams or your browser. See Sony headphones for meetings on a Mac.
• Focus: noise canceling with your favorite equalizer curve, on connect at your desk.
• Commute: ambient sound on a weekday morning schedule.

Scenes are saved on your Mac, not in the headphones, so they're there whenever your headphones connect to this Mac. Noise control and the other settings themselves live in the headphones; see noise canceling on a Mac and the equalizer.