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Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features

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141 points elsewhen | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 00:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.295s | 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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wrycoder ◴[22 Oct 24 02:32 UTC] No.41910635[source]▶
Without the new software, there is no boost to external sound in transparency mode, so they are not useful as hearing aids. I’m looking forward to testing the new release.
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1. pmcjones ◴[22 Oct 24 03:02 UTC] No.41910804[source]▶
Actually you can set up a good approximation using iPhoneOS>Settings>Accessibility>Audio & Visual>Headphone Accommodations. Under Custom Audio Setup, you can select a audiogram, such as produced by an app like Mimi, or scanned in from your audiologist.