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Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features

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101 points elsewhen | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 00:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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gedy ◴[22 Oct 24 01:50 UTC] No.41910392[source]▶
Unless I'm misunderstanding, the news here is Apple is adding a hearing test app, and "officially" stating that you can use your Airpods Pro like hearing aids.

I mention this as you can use these today as hearing aids, you just need to use a third party app to create your audiogram. I have fairly bad hearing loss and use Airpods instead of hearing aids.

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dagmx ◴[22 Oct 24 01:56 UTC] No.41910423[source]▶
You are missing that these are now cleared as hearing aids by the government.
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1. gedy ◴[22 Oct 24 02:04 UTC] No.41910467[source]▶
Well kinda in my second point but yes correct. I mentioned as I kept assuming you couldn't use these as such yet, but have been using happily for months now after I realized the functionality was all there.