Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering John Ternus and vice president of health Dr. Sumbul Desai explain the AirPods Pro’s hearing health features.

Apple AirPods Pro have doubled as a hearing aid to give people worldwide a better chance to hear what goes on in their day to day lives. Okie Allen, a hearing instrument specialist in at Beltone Hearing Aid Center in Eau Claire,

The new Hearing Test feature in AirPods Pro 2 allows you to easily and conveniently check your hearing from the comfort of your home.

The hearing aid feature is available with AirPods Pro 2 models, and requires an iPhone or iPad to set it up. It starts with built-in tests that will help users determine if they have hearing loss, set up the feature if they do, and set personalized amplification levels.

Apple is being sued over the crackling and static sounds and other audio quality issues plaguing its very first AirPods Pro model, released in 2019 and sold through September 2022. Shortly after the first AirPods Pro units arrived,

Macworld A class-action lawsuit filed this month accuses Apple of misleading AirPods Pro customers and failing adequately to address an audio defect reported shortly after the product’s launch in 2019.