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Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features

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149 points elsewhen | 2 comments | 22 Oct 24 00:25 UTC | HN request time: 1.251s | 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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m463 ◴[22 Oct 24 02:45 UTC] No.41910711[source]▶
FDA approval means you can call them hearing aids, not just some marketing term.
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1. grahamj ◴[22 Oct 24 03:00 UTC] No.41910795[source]▶
Either way it's just a label. You've already been able to do the same thing for years. Just use the free Mimi hearing test app, save the audiogram to Health, then apply it in headphone accommodations.
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2. m463 ◴[22 Oct 24 04:45 UTC] No.41911272[source]▶
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/hearing-aids/otc-hearing...

Seems like they are regulated for safety, and there are lots of (decent) requirements.