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Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages
How we bypassed Apple's regulatory restrictions, built a Faraday cage and enabled georestricted features on the Airpods Pro 2 for our grandparents.
Last week, right after Apple dropped the iOS 18.1 update, my dad and I set out to go buy a pair of AirPods Pro 2 for my grandma who is hard of hearing. Fifteen minutes after buying them, I found out that the device was for all intents and purposes useless, because Apple has region locked the Hearing Aids feature to the US and some other countries. There are a couple of open source WiFi location databases out there, we chose to sign up on Wigle, and pull some data that we could broadcast on an ESP32 and trick iOS into thinking that we were actually in Menlo Park, California.
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