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Hey there...could you expand on "the ability to adjust the audio to be personalised to my audiogram"? Sorry i'm not familiar with AirPods pro but suffer from ti

Hey there...could you expand on "the ability to adjust the audio to be personalised to my audiogram"? Sorry i'm not familiar with AirPods pro but suffer from tinnitus.

turnsout 1y ago
AirPods Pro 2 are now FDA approved to act as hearing aids, and during the setup, you will take a hearing test that generates an audiogram (essentially a personalized EQ adjustment). [0] I have pretty mild hearing loss, but it was very wild to turn it on for the first time. It’s like taking OFF a filter. With that said, I don’t think it would lessen tinnitus, and I don’t think the parent comment was suggesting it would. [0]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/120992 https://support.apple.com/en-us/120992
- msephton 1y ago
  Headphone Accommodations (what I was referring to, adjust to audiogram), Hearing Aid (boosts speech, reduces background noise, and perhaps also audiogram) and Personalised Audio (measure your ears, and other features) are separate but related features.
  - turnsout 1y ago
    Yeah, Apple has made it as confusing as possible. But bottom line, if you do the hearing test you'll get an audiogram, which is great.
msephton 1y ago
If you think of tinnitus being a frequency (let's assume it's one for this example, but this all holds for multiple frequencies and losses) that is persistent, whatever you listen to will have that frequency masked or removed: you won't hear it because it is drowned out by your tinnitus. An audiogram hearing test (done via Health app, or third party app like Mimi) your hearing test will show that missing frequency (and more). After you activate "Headphone accomodations" what you hear will be boosted in all the right places by an amount that will counteract your hearing loss. So, you'll be able to hear the frequencies again! Music like you heard it in your teens. I think you can do the same on macOS, too. Headphone accommodations, Hearing aid and Personalised audio are separate but related features.

Hey there...could you expand on "the ability to adjust the audio to be personalised to my audiogram"? Sorry i'm not familiar with AirPods pro but suffer from tinnitus.

turnsout 1y ago

AirPods Pro 2 are now FDA approved to act as hearing aids, and during the setup, you will take a hearing test that generates an audiogram (essentially a personalized EQ adjustment). [0] I have pretty mild hearing loss, but it was very wild to turn it on for the first time. It’s like taking OFF a filter. With that said, I don’t think it would lessen tinnitus, and I don’t think the parent comment was suggesting it would. [0]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/120992 https://support.apple.com/en-us/120992

msephton 1y ago
Headphone Accommodations (what I was referring to, adjust to audiogram), Hearing Aid (boosts speech, reduces background noise, and perhaps also audiogram) and Personalised Audio (measure your ears, and other features) are separate but related features.
- turnsout 1y ago
  Yeah, Apple has made it as confusing as possible. But bottom line, if you do the hearing test you'll get an audiogram, which is great.

msephton 1y ago

If you think of tinnitus being a frequency (let's assume it's one for this example, but this all holds for multiple frequencies and losses) that is persistent, whatever you listen to will have that frequency masked or removed: you won't hear it because it is drowned out by your tinnitus. An audiogram hearing test (done via Health app, or third party app like Mimi) your hearing test will show that missing frequency (and more). After you activate "Headphone accomodations" what you hear will be boosted in all the right places by an amount that will counteract your hearing loss. So, you'll be able to hear the frequencies again! Music like you heard it in your teens. I think you can do the same on macOS, too. Headphone accommodations, Hearing aid and Personalised audio are separate but related features.