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How AirPods Pro 2’s New Features are Transforming Hearing Health
Through the development of a comprehensive, end-to-end hearing health experience, Apple’s latest innovation aims to support users with mild to moderate hearing challenges.
This new suite of features, integrated into the AirPods Pro 2, is a result of years of research and development at Apple’s state-of-the-art Audio Lab in Cupertino, California.
At the heart of this breakthrough is Apple’s Audio Lab, an advanced facility where engineers and acoustic experts collaborate on product design, testing, and optimization.
The lab features various listening rooms and anechoic chambers, spaces designed to absorb sound and block external noise, allowing for precise acoustic measurements. This is where Apple’s team has crafted the technology that powers the new hearing health features in AirPods Pro 2.
The Audio Lab is a hub for innovation, playing a key role in the creation of products equipped with speakers and microphones, such as the iPhone, HomePod, and now, the AirPods Pro 2.
The lab serves as the foundation for Apple’s multiyear project to develop these hearing health features, designed to enhance users’ ability to protect, monitor, and improve their hearing through everyday technology.
To perfect the Hearing Aid feature (not available in Canada of course), the Audio Lab recreated real-world soundscapes, such as busy restaurants, allowing study participants with varying degrees of hearing loss to test the feature’s ability to filter out background noise and enhance speech clarity.
The development of these new hearing features required a rigorous process of testing and validation. Apple’s engineers collaborated with audiologists to conduct thousands of clinical-grade audiometry tests within the Audio Lab.
The AirPods Pro 2’s hearing health capabilities are not only groundbreaking in the field of consumer technology but also demonstrate how technology can make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.
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Might be worth adding that the hearing test and hearing aid functionality is not available in Canada at this point. Only the hearing protection is currently available.
I'm hoping at least the hearing test functionality can be made available in Canada without requiring Health Canada to allow over-the-counter hearing aid sales. It would be nice to have the results of the hearing test at least as a starting point for further medical testing.
In the meantime I loaded the Mimi hearing test app. I was able to put the hearing curves from that into the Airpods pro 2 accessibility settings on the phone and can at least list to fully corrected music through them. That was a big difference already. Can't wait until I'll be able to use my Airpods Pro 2 in hearing aid mode and compare to my hearing aids which work well but no so much for listening to music. Hope this helps.
How does Apple determine you are not in the USA for these features? Is there a way around this? For example, do you need a apple id in the USA but could be anywhere in the world?