Richie Bartlett
Cool feature!Now to get an iPhone-enabled hearing aid for my right ear.
Apple supports the FCC’s hearing-aid compatibility standard to current iPhone models. This summer, developers have released apps supporting Cupertino’s Made For iPhone hearing aids.
An Apple Support list of iOS and hearing aid combinations shows that the currently-shipping iPhone models, the iPhone 4S and greater, support the FCC’s hearing-aid compatibility standard (HAC) and Apple’s own Made For iPhone hearing aids. There are two types of support M (enabling acoustic coupling with hearing aids that don’t operate in telecoil mode) and T (supporting inductive coupling with hearing aids operating in telecoil mode).
Starkey Laboratories this summer updated its hearing aid app TruLink Hearing Control; the software works with Made for iPhone hearing aids from Starkey, Audibel, NuEar, MicroTech and AGX Hearing. The software can deliver optimized music from the iOS device, and lets users create stored and geo-tagged settings, called memories, that can be automatically switched depending on location. Users can also change the volume settings on the hearing aid from their iOS device.
A recent post by Allyson Kazmucha at iMore runs through the steps of pairing an iPhone with a hearing aid in iOS’s hearing Aid Mode. It’s straightforward.
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