2024-03-12 06:00:00
Written by Muhammad Ayman Tuesday, March 12, 2024 08:00 AM
Today’s AirPods offer a number of different features related to hearing health and accessibility, however, a new report today suggests that Apple has big plans for iOS 18: a new “Hearing Aid Mode” for AirPods Proaccording to 9to5mac.
AirPods Pro with iOS 18
In the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes that the AirPods Pro aren’t scheduled to see any hardware changes in 2024. Instead, he says that “the big news will be a new flagship mode for hearing aids, coming alongside them.” With iOS 18 operating system.
AirPods already offer a feature called Live Listening, which launched as part of iOS 12 in 2018, and this feature essentially turns… iPhone To a directional microphone, audio captured by this iPhone is transmitted to the AirPods in real time, and a range of testimonials over the years have shown how useful this feature is.
Apple also introduced Conversation Boost to the AirPods Pro in 2021, which enhances the pickup of the microphone directly in front of you, to better hear someone speaking to you, and a study conducted in 2022 showed that some of these current AirPods Pro features are actually comparable to more expensive dedicated devices.
Also worth noting: In 2022, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) established new guidance to allow a category of hearing aids that can be purchased without a prescription. Hearing aids within this category can be sold directly to consumers in stores or online without a medical examination or Installation by an audiologist.
This isn’t the first time Gorman has written about Apple’s plans to bring new hearing health features to the AirPods, and last year, he reported that Apple was also working on a hearing testing feature for future AirPods as well.
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