FDA approves Apple AirPods Pro 2 to be used as hearing aids

[Mr. Chewbacca]

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I know few people know for sure but I have a question. My fear is that because I have pretty severe hearing loss the hearing test will just tell me that I need Rx HA (which I do have) and not even let me try to use the functionality, even though I am totally fine with them just being a convenient 2nd option and not a full replacement.

Anyone have any insight?

 

[Night Spring]

I have the exact same fear! Only hope I have is one article I read about the feature (sorry, I don't remember where) said users can edit their hearing profile. If so, I'm hoping I can edit in a profile that is within the capacity of the AirPod Pro. Obviously, that wouldn't totally compensate for my hearing loss, but any amplification helps.

I plan to wait until I hear the feature is rolled out, then go buy the APP to test it out. If I can't get it to work with my hearing, I can just return it.

 

[mfram]

The good news is that you may manually enter audiograms created by your audiologist into the Health app. I assume you already have one of those. I had to do that to get my hearing profile into the phone. Headphone Accommodations tries its best to adjust to what my audiogram says. I'll be happy if I can at least get some help when someone starts talking to me with my APP2 in. But I know they won't powerful enough to use as "hearing aids" in my case. My hearing loss is too much for them.