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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: 0.204s | 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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1. pahkah ◴[22 Oct 24 02:15 UTC] No.41910524[source]▶
Yep, the path for this official recognition was cleared by the executive order two years ago that allowed for hearing aids to be sold over the counter!