Heartwarming Apple holiday video showcases AirPods Pro 2 hearing aid feature

[LiberalArkie]

To me and a lot of others, this is one of the greatest things the Biden Administration accomplished.

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A heartwarming new Apple holiday video entitled Heartstrings showcases the new hearing aid feature offered by AirPods Pro 2.

It shows the experience of a father being transformed from hearing only muffled sounds as his family opens gifts, sings songs and tells him they love him to being able to clearly hear everyone …

AirPods Pro 2 hearing aid feature

The new feature was announced back in September as a free software update for AirPods Pro 2.
Firstly, users can take a clinically-validated hearing test. The hearing test uses your AirPods and iPhone, and can be conducted by a user in under five times. The result of your hearing test can be viewed securely in the Health app.
If hearing loss is detected, the hearing aid mode is then available to use. The AirPods will make it easier to hear sounds from the world around you. A custom hearing profile is automatically applied when listening to audio, like music or podcasts.

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https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/28/heartwarming-apple-holiday-video-showcases-airpods-pro-2-hearing-aid-feature/

Oh. And the built in hearing test is right on the settings that an audiologist has in their test

[LiberalArkie]

1. As one of the open beta tester. Most of us never thought that Apple would get it right.

They would have it amazing; Then it would really suck. Then all it took was playing music on a watch and all the settings were gone.

It was at times so very good. So much better than my $4,000 ReSound hearing aids. I could hear the squirrels running through the trees.

But we were all very surprised when it was released.

I loaded up the new software. I was just completely blown away. The sounds. The noise cancellation. The music. The Bass in the music. The Spatial Audio.

The Spatial Audio was amazing as I was jogging down the road listening to ONE OK ROCK and heard a dog barking behind me. I turn around and there isn't a dog. I keep looking and no dog. I pause the music and the dog goes away..

A lot of people are going to be all smiles this Christmas.

If I had these as a child, my life would have been so different.