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Apple ripped a valuable hearing loss feature from the AirPods line
Everyone is gushing about how AirPods Pro 2 (I guess they're "2" now, now "2nd Generation") are about to be "clinical grade hearing aids" because there's a huge...
Everyone is gushing about how AirPods Pro 2(I guess they're "2" now, now "2nd Generation") are about to be"clinical grade hearing aids" because there's a huge PR push for it and, frankly, no tech journalist is even bothering to dig even a little bit into the history of the thing. The Headphone Accommodations feature itself is even still thereāit's just been stripped down to the basic "Balanced Tone", "Vocal Range", and "Brightness" options with a soft sounds boost slider that you get if you don't have an audiogram. Ask them specifically about how people who had real, clinical hearing tests could load their results into their iPhones and get customized listening and calling sound profiles with their AirPods and Beats headphones.
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