Why are AirPods Pro 2 Hearing Aid features not available in the UK?

rasg wrote:

Well you need to explain to me why moderate hearing loss left ear has magically started working again when I wear my Airpods. I am hearing music like it never went away and the pleasant rain background sound helps to mask my tinnitus when I am relaxing.

Tinnitus is not the same as hearing loss.

It sounds like you work for Apple and you don't want people to know.

If I worked for Apple, I probably wouldn't be allowed to post here. In fact, I work for a primarily undergraduate university.

rasg wrote:

Well you need to explain to me why moderate hearing loss left ear has magically started working again when I wear my Airpods. I am hearing music like it never went away and the pleasant rain background sound helps to mask my tinnitus when I am relaxing.

Tinnitus is not the same as hearing loss.

It sounds like you work for Apple and you don't want people to know.

If I worked for Apple, I probably wouldn't be allowed to post here. In fact, I work for a primarily undergraduate university.

I didn't say that tinnitus is the same as hearing loss. What I said was that the Airpods helped me with it.

I notice you didn’t address this:

"Well you need to explain to me why moderate hearing loss left ear has magically started working again when I wear my Airpods. I am hearing music like it never went away."

On the basis that you work for a University, maybe you should do your research better?

When Apple released the Airpod Pro 2s in 2022 they allowed you to apply your Audiogram to them and it makes a huge difference to many people.

Many of the people around the world are already using Airpod Pro 2s as hearing aids whether you like it or not. Some with severe hearing hearing loss because it works for them. Certainly on the music side of things.

rasg wrote:

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I notice you didn’t address this:

"Well you need to explain to me why moderate hearing loss left ear has magically started working again when I wear my Airpods. I am hearing music like it never went away."

As I am not an audiologist and have no access to your medical history, I can't answer that.

On the basis that you work for a University, maybe you should do your research better?

I'm not going to waste time looking for something I am 99% certain doesn't actually exist. I am, though, happy to look at any links you provide.

When Apple released the Airpod Pro 2s in 2022 they allowed you to apply your Audiogram to them and it makes a huge difference to many people.

That's still not turning them into hearing aids.

Many of the people around the world are already using Airpod Pro 2s as hearing aids whether you like it or not. Some with severe hearing hearing loss because it works for them. Certainly on the music side of things.

If they were hearing aids, they would work on things other than listening to music. But they don't. Or didn't until now.

gr7 wrote:

They do work on improving hearing as well as music. This feature has been available for a while.

You can call it "hearing aid" but that doesn't make it a hearing aid in the technical sense. Telling people they can get the hearing aid feature on versions of iOS prior to 18.1 is misleading.

rasg wrote:

I'm not sure why Idris is arguing the point when he is simply wrong. He is trying to flog a dead horse when we now have two people who are hard of hearing who USE them hearing aids.

How do you know I'm a he and not a she or a they?

Hera is the first video I found on YouTube to set them up.

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gr7 wrote:

'You can call it "hearing aid" but that doesn't make it a hearing aid in the technical sense. Telling people they can get the hearing aid feature on versions of iOS prior to 18.1 is misleading.'

At no point did I call them a hearing aid. Please take the time to read and digest my posts before accusing me of posting misleading information.

You quoted thusly: "If they were hearing aids, they would work on things other than listening to music. But they don't. Or didn't until now." You then responded. And, the post to which you replied initially was giving misleading information and calling them hearing aids. My apologies for misunderstanding that you were actually talking about something different than the subject of the subconversation.

gr7 wrote:

They do work on improving hearing as well as music. This feature has been available for a while.

You can call it "hearing aid" but that doesn't make it a hearing aid in the technical sense. Telling people they can get the hearing aid feature on versions of iOS prior to 18.1 is misleading.

Maybe you should visit a few Hearing Aid forums including on Facebook where many people with mild, medium and severe hearing loss are already using the Airpods as hearing aids and have been since 2022.

I will call it Idris if it makes you feel better but I know of many people who are using them running IOS 17.7.1.

It is not misleading AT all if they are helping people, just because YOU say they don't work!

How do you know I'm a he and not a she or a they?

The only Idris I know of is a male actor so I took an educated guess.

I am now out of this conversation and I will continue to use my Airpods that actually work better than the Jabras that I used despite being told that their efficacy is a figment of my imagination. 😂😂😂

But the UK is not one of them. Why not? I am on the NHS waiting list to get my hearing tested... I am waiting already over 6 months. And the waiting list is ONE YEAR! But the NHS can't or won't approve this useful feature?

Me too! I’ve been waiting since April for an urgent referral: Feb 25!!

I bought my AirPod Pros this weekend after seeing them on YouTube - it wasn’t very clear this functionality was not yet available in the UK so my excitement was quite muted when I couldn’t find the menu items!! ☹️

However, I’m ready and waiting for the eventual release! The conversation boost and transparency modes give some idea of what to expect; this is fab functionality and the headphones music performance and noise cancellation is almost as good as my Sony WM 1000 over ears.

I really beat myself about upgrading to ios18.1 without waiting for bugs to be reported. Not being able to use APP2 as hearing aids is proving to be a real issue for me as I can’t even work face to face with people anymore.

No because I never update my iPhone or computer until the bugs are and glitches are ironed out. If I had recently updated my Mac Mini to the latest OS when Apple kept reminding me it would have cost me over £500 to update our restaurant ordering system.

I never updated my iPhone in the first place.