the hearing aid feature is not listed for my country, what can i do ?

By Ramy, 28 October, 2024

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Hello all:
i have a moderate hearing loss, and i was waiting this big improvement to make my Airpods 2 can get this great update to become a hearing aid,
but i discovered that, my country “Egypt” is not listed there,
am very frustrated and do not know what can i do? i contacted apple 2 or 3 times, asking them to enable this feature even for people who suffers from hearing aid problems, even if the country is not listed, but for sure, they did not do this.
so, is there a way or a trick to get this update?
Thanks in advance

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By Chris Smart on Monday, October 28, 2024 - 18:22

I guess you have two choices... wait for Apple to enable the feature in your country, or go see an Audiologist to get hearing aids.

By Holger Fiallo on Monday, October 28, 2024 - 19:06

Apple might not be able to add it. It was needed to be aprove by FDA in the US. Change your language to US English. It might show them.

By Missy Hoppe on Monday, October 28, 2024 - 20:45

Ever since iOS 18, my airpods have not honored transparency mode at all. They used to work great as back-up hearing aids, but now, it almost seems like they're in noise cancellation mode all the time, even when I make sure transparency mode is enabled, as well as custom transparency mode being enabled. I can play movies or music through them just fine for the most part, but the main thing I liked about them was how perfectly transparency mode worked for me. Now that the airpods pro II have been certified as hearing aids here in the states, I'm really hoping that whatever was wrong has been fixed. I've got the airpods plugged in now, hoping they will get a firmware update. Life has been a bit to hectic for me to jump on here and ask if anyone else was having issues with transparency mode before now, but if anyone knows whether or not things have been fixed, I'd really appreciate it if they could share that info here.

By Mert Ozer on Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 11:16

Ok, it is understandable for hearing-aide feature to be unavailable at this time; but what about hearing test? I just would love to test my hearing. Did they have to get a certification from every single country for a test? Rediculous!

By Missy Hoppe on Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 21:23

My airpods pro II are the USBC model. After yesterday's update, things seem to be working better.I enabled the hearing aid feature, which was a bit more complicated than I expected, but it's using my most recent audiogram, which, thankfully, was already in the health app. The airpods disconnected and reconnected to my Apple TV several times for no discernable reason, but apart from that, I'm more or less satisfied that things are back to normal, whatever that is. LOL!

By jim pickens on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 10:08

guys, set your region to the united states, simple as that, you get access to everything, apple intelligence, hearingade, all the good stuff'

By jim pickens on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 12:20

Honestly…, Meow meow here, by the way, just changed my display name, anyway,… I’d set it to the US regardless, because some apps region lock content to specific regions, and this is a very easy way to get past some of those without using a VPN/similar, for instance, I believe at one point in time, Google Assistant had celebrity voices, unfortunately, they were region locked to the US, sure enough, switching the region got me access to the John Legend voice and others.

By Lee on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 12:20

I'd already done this and was going to post it but decided not to as I didn't think the mods would allow it.

By Ramy on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 12:59

for sure i have my hearing audio gram, and am using my Phonak hearing aids, but i need a backup thinggy to help me,
also, i love listening to music or anything using my Airpods,

By Ramy on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 13:01

I have Iphone 13 pro max, so, it will not get any AI at all i think.
BTW, i think that this Hearing aid feature is not related to the apple AI at all

By Shady on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 08:27

If I travelled to USA or any country that allow air pods as hearing aid for few hours as a transit, and then left back to my country.

is it enough to work?