Does anyone know if the AirPod pro 2 settings (based on the IOS hearing test) are stored in the AirPods or just on the iPhone/ or iPad?
EDIT: my reason for asking was wanting to listen to music on non-IOS devices and still get the same sound from the Airpods. Now I know the latest settings will always be stored in the Airpod pro 2s and work the same no matter which device you connect them to. Nothing could make me happier!
Big thanks to @OcramSagev, @biggar & @coastal_california
I don’t know. However, my guess is that the is stored in the Apple Health app, meaning that it is likely encrypted and available from iCloud on both the iPhone and iPad. The AirPods Pro2 firmware is updated via internet wirelessly somehow.
Thanks for asking - I hope someone knows and will respond!
Best, Bob.
According to the Apple Doc (Use the Hearing Aid feature on your AirPods Pro 27), “Hearing Aid settings are stored on your AirPods, so if your paired device is not nearby, Hearing Aid will keep working using the most recent settings.”
Of course , you don’t need your phone to use the AirPods hearing aid feature. I thought the question was about where was the data stored so that you could look at it
Technically ( and I can say this as an engineer) programming a device to act a certain way does not mean you are storing the data in that device, you just programmed it to act in a certain way .
Thanks @biggar.
Trying to make my post short and concise, I probably tried too hard.
My reason for asking was - will they sound the same on a non-Apple bluetooth streaming device?
Very happy to read your answer!
Does anyone know if the AirPod pro 2 settings (based on the IOS hearing test) are stored in the AirPods or just on the iPhone/ or iPad?
It looks like you just posted while I was typing this but I will post my answer anyway in case it helps others.
I wasn’t sure why you are asking but if you switch between different hearing test / stored in Apple Health on your phone the Airpod Pro 2’s switch instantaneously to the new audiogram. My guess is the phone sends the different profile to Airpod Pro 2’s which then use it.
My Eargo 7’s are very different . The different hearing tests / audiograms are in the Eargo App but switching the audiogram means reprogramming the Eargo 7’s which takes 5 - 10 minutes.
The Airpod Pro 2’s will keep the hearing test /audiogram you last told it to use but if you want to update the hearing test / audiogram you update it from your phone.
Thanks @biggar.
Trying to make my post short and concise, I probably tried too hard.
My reason for asking was - will they sound the same on a non-Apple bluetooth streaming device?
Very happy to read your answer!
Yes any streaming device (or the real world in transparancy mode) will use the hearing test results you last told the Airpod Pro 2’s to use
I was writing my answer but @coastal_california was faster than me. I agree with his answer. I love how the music sounds with my AirPods! You do have to enable this feature, I can’t remember if it is enabled automatically.
Yes, with your modest hearing loss I suspect you will like this feature.
Maybe you can first find out if you are comfortable wearing those Airpods; most find them OK, I hate them.
My wife uses them to assist her hearing and, like you, I thought it would be nice to give them a try as well. Sadly, I was totally unable to juggle two profiles, using two iPads. When I was done my wife’s settings were all lost, she had to start completely from scratch. Maybe I did something wrong, but setting these things up is a major operation (so she wasn’t happy about this)…
Were you sharing one appleid? The AirPod hearing accommodations are in Apple health, tied to the appleid or Apple user account. Change to one changes both. Changing “login” per user isn’t something apple wanted because they want you to buy your own everything.
Hey, just an update - got the new airpods pro 3 (I was hoping they were using the new H3 chip but they’re not) but haven’t checked them out for hearing assist features yet - just set them up in an Apple store today on a demo phone (I only have Android phone). I couldn’t do a hearing test in the store, too noisy & I couldn’t scan my professional so I entered my results manually, which was fun . Anyway, let’s see how it works out as an assist for medium to mild hearing loss.
I believe it programs the airpods with my hearing results but retains the audiogram on the phone so I can now listen to music & take calls on my android phone with the airpods adjusted to my hearing. Music sounds very good - haven’t taken a phone call yet.
I set these features on the iphone hearing assist area - use my hearing test for media & phone calls -cancel all background noise in hearing assist. So, I will have to return to that store & that demo phone to make any changes
Initial impressions of noise cancellation is scarily good - could not hear an electric kettle boiling that I was standing beside. With my other best ANC earbuds, JBL Live Pro 2, I can just about hear it. Oh, the proper eartip fit is essential for ANC - I initially was not impressed even though airpods felt right in my ears - only doing the eartip fit tests on the iphone & getting the right tips did it kick in
Anyway, looking forward to evaluating the hearing assist
I do have a problem though I have done by two different comapny’s (Boots & Specsavers) audiologists and they differer - it seems to me fairly significantly in parts. The Specsavers showing less hearing loss at certain freqs & more at other freqs. I input the Boots audiogram values into the iphone and this is what it set my hearing profile to. I’m wondering should I try to get a third audioloist test (I couldn’t do an iphone hearing test) or use a rounded average of the two audiograms?
An Audiologist test is likely to be better than using Apple Hearing test results.
Which of your tests is most recent? How long between the tests. If you had an Apple device available to you it is easy to switch between the (which is instantaneous) and see how they sound.
I use the audiogram from my Costco hearing test with my Airpod Pro 2’s
The Boots one was done 17th July & Specsavers on 15th July
The in my sig is the Specsavers one
As I said I didn’t do an iphone one - I just manually fed the Boots one into the iphone audiogram.
Yea, feeding both audiogram values into the iphone & switching between them would be ideal
One thought occurs to me - if hearing varies from day to day & based on different circumstances then an average of the two audiograms would probably be a good compromise? The diff in low freqs aren’t really of concern? (except for music?) for speech intelligibility - just the HF
I will vouch they they work with a Mac laptop not sharing my iCloud login (no hearing related settings programed in the Mac). This applies to both media and calls (e.g. online meetings).
Does that mean that if someone else uses the Airpods they too will experience the hearing aid settings? That’s the case even if paired to a another Apple device that does not have hearing adjustments enabled?
Maybe correct. My airpods are paired with my phone and a work supplied Mac laptop which has no iCloud access. The work laptop has no knowledge of the and no accessibility settings. All media and calls are corrected. On the Mac laptop it is possible to adjust the hearing aid amplification (two volume sliders appear) but that’s all. I haven’t tried pairing them with another iPhone signed into a different iCloud account, at that point maybe they belong to the other account. I do know that if I delete the audiogram from my health app, with the AirPods connected. it doesn’t stop the AirPods using the last one they were set to use.
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. Anyway, let’s see how it works out as an assist for medium to mild hearing loss.