Forbes December 5, 2024
MacRumors’ Joe Rossignol reports today Apple’s impending iOS 18.2 update expands the system’s hearing test feature for AirPods Pro to 9 countries. They include Cyprus, Czechia, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Romania, Spain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the United Kingdom. In addition, AirPods Pro can be a hearing aid in the UAE.
Apple introduced the much-ballyhooed “clinical-grade” hearing aid feature in iOS 18.1, released in October after teasing it in September. There’s a support document for the feature, which notably (and nicely) turns on Do Not Disturb automatically. Of particular import, Rossignol notes AirPods must be running version 7B19 or later of the firmware in order to use the hearing test and other new hearing health functions.
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