AirPods Pro 2 Hearing Aids not available in Canada

IOS18.2 est sortie et pas encore accès à la fonction hearing aid . Une situation qui est inacceptable produite par des gens qui veulent notre bien! Les ordres professionnelles. J’en écrirais plus mais apple vas me ...

Typical politician. I’m actually surprised that Apple can’t make more of a push to make this available in Canada. I bought the AirPods Pro 2 with the understanding that the hearing aid function was available. How many people would return the product at that point.

If Apple required that the user agree to some terms before using the hearing aid function would this eliminate the audiologists as a roadblock? This could include a phrase such as " user agrees that this device is not intended to replace proper health care such as annual physical examinations"

if Apple likes this idea they should feel free to send me a new iPhone 17 be they are also too expensive for seniors.

So frustrating and unacceptable. My wife got $4000 hearing aids 5 years and ago and rarely used them as they distorted sound so much. The rechargeable batteries died several months ago and the store where she bought them said the manufacturer no longer supported them and no repair could be done. The audiologists will fight us to the end as their only cash cow is seriously threatened by Apple. I have received nothing but boiler plate brush-offs from the Ontario Ministry of Health. Premier Ford’s office did not even reply.

This why we need Mark Carney as prime minister. One Canada one approval! This pathetic situation of each province having to approve something as basic as this is embarrassing. On the international stage what a bunch of small minded losers we must look like to the rest of the world.

So we arrived in Zurich, Switzerland on a holiday. Of course my hearing aid function works here, too and I’m sure it will continue to work as we travel to Italy in a few days. My partner mentioned to me how beautiful the song birds sounded outside the AirB&B we are staying and I said, I can’t hear the birds, other than the low frequency crows. I put in my AirPods and immediately I could hear the birds. It almost brought tears to my eyes how beautiful it sounded. My partner said, why are you being denied this in Canada? I can see the added joy this brings to your every day life.

Do you know roughly how long it takes for the firmware update when you cross the border? I’m considering a Short trip across the border to enable the hearing aid feature, but don’t want to do an overnight stay. Thanks.

Okay, this is helpful. I turned off my auto iOS updates when returning from Europe, concerned that an iOS update might remove my new hearing assistance feature. Can you confirm that you HAVE done iOS updates since your trip to Florida? You indicate that this has worked for you for 3 months, now.

Thanks very much for this additional information. Hopefully I can migrate the health information from iCloud to my iPad that did not make the trip out of the country. Good to know that this hearing aid information survives iOS updates. I'll let you know if I'm able to migrate the iCloud health information to my iPad. Thanks,

@egad271

Wow! It's amazing that your iPhone knew you were in that tiny portion of US territorial waters, and then enabled the HA functions. Definitely thanks to GPS technology that precisely determined your location.

No doubt you reported to Canada Customs at Swartz Bay and declared your high-tech acquisition while you were 'out of the country'😀😀.

Enjoy your new Apple hearing aids!

Do you think the same process would work if I buy the Air pods- create an US Apple ID, etc? The Sony hearing aids sound great but they are $1000 US.

I think you can purchase the Airpods Pro from Canada. What is important is to get the most recent firmware on the Airpods Pro.

Please let us know if travelling to the US works - thinking to try the same.

I tried everything you described above. I upgrade to 18.1 on my phone in Canada. Thinking of getting a used phone and upgrading the IOS while in US or when it thinks it's in US.

totally agree, outrageous but not surpised!