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How Apple's Hearing Aid and Hearing Test will work on AirPods Pro

Apple is expanding its hearing health features on the second-gen AirPods Pro. Here's how some of those tools will work.

First, the software will check to make sure the fit of your AirPods provides a good seal for the test and that your location is quiet enough for the tech to offer reliable results. If you have minimal hearing loss but could maybe benefit from help in certain frequencies, the software will recommend some tweaks in the Media Assist settings for entertainment audio and calls. To be clear, I didn't actually take a real test, just a simulated version with fake results, but every step in the process was accounted for in my abbreviated session.

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