Hearing Aids Can't Connect to MacBook Pro

I have a new iPhone, a new iPad and a new MacBook. My Miracle Ear hearing aids connect beautifully with my iPhone so I use my hearing aids as headphones on walks and at the gym. My iPad works fine also. Both are accessed via "Accessibility" and then "Hearing Devices". On a MacBook, there is no "Hearing Devices" section under "Accessibility". The Apple Business folks say to just go to Bluetooth, activate the bluetooth feature on the hearing aids, look for them in the Bluetooth window and connect. My hearing aids do not show up as available Bluetooth devices. I am told by Apple that Apple only does hearing aid connectivity to their "mobile devices". But a "laptop" (MacBook) is a "mobile computer" What that means is I must nowdo my weekly video teleconferences from my iPad or iPhone. Or, I can spen $300-400 with Miracle Ear to buy an adapter. But why shouldn't all three Apple mobile devices work the same? Why can't the Apple developers for the iPhone and the iPad explain to the MacBook developers how they do it and MacBook includes the new software in a future update. I don't see this as a technical issue but a policy issue where MacBooks took a "computer" path and not a "mobile" path. If there are MacBook users that have found a way to connect their hearing aids, please let me know how they did it.

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Posted on Oct 19, 2022 7:26 AM

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Posted on Oct 20, 2022 1:11 PM

There is a big difference in iPhone, iPad both running iOS and a MacBook running macOS. Your hearing aids are MFi (MadeForiPhone) which uses Bluetooth LE. Your MacBook uses Bluetooth Classic. You will have to purchase a device/dongle to connect your hearing aids to your MacBook. Some brands of hearing aids have both Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth LE. The person at Apple should have told that only iDevices(iPhone,iPad) not mobile devices.

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Oct 20, 2022 1:11 PM in response to DanKugel

There is a big difference in iPhone, iPad both running iOS and a MacBook running macOS. Your hearing aids are MFi (MadeForiPhone) which uses Bluetooth LE. Your MacBook uses Bluetooth Classic. You will have to purchase a device/dongle to connect your hearing aids to your MacBook. Some brands of hearing aids have both Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth LE. The person at Apple should have told that only iDevices(iPhone,iPad) not mobile devices.

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