2024-09-12 19:52:24
Apple will be able to install a new feature on its wireless headphones, after the decision by the American health authorities.
The United States health authorities on Thursday gave Apple permission to install a new feature on AirPods, its wireless headphones, allowing them to turn into a hearing aid for people with low to moderate hearing. Users will be able to test their own hearing in minutes by downloading the latest software update to their Apple phone or tablet (iPhone or iPad) for free.
Headphones can then “pick things up” depending on the result and the user will be able to adjust “size and tone controls”wrote the United States Medicines Agency (FDA) in a press release. “Hearing loss is a major public health problem affecting millions of Americans”underlined Michelle Tarver, responsible within the FDA. Order this device without a prescription “On the widely used audio market, is a new step that improves hearing aid availability, accessibility and acceptance”he added.
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There is a feature on AirPods Pro 2
The product, which is authorized for adults aged 18 and over, was tested in a clinical trial with 118 people. The results show that those who do the programs on their own “receive a similar benefit to people who receive repairs by a specialist on the same device”told the FDA. By 2022, the agency authorized the purchase of hearing aids directly at the store, without a prescription or adjustment with a hearing aid professional, in order to reduce costs and improve access to them.
The headphones compatible with this new device will be AirPods Pro 2, the price of which is 249 dollars without taxes (279 euros in France), Apple announced on Monday. Apple says the device is working “Increasing frequencies so that things are clear”. Apple expects this feature to be available — subject to approval from local health authorities — as soon as possible “This fall in more than 100 countries and territories”including Germany and Japan in addition to the United States.
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