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Is there a Find lost Kirkland 10 aid app for Android

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Hi, I was wondering if there’s an Android app that lets you locate a missing aid. I’ve misplaced mine a few times and can take a long time searching my house for them. I know some people who have a widex aid that they can do it with their app

I’m surprised that not all manufacturers have the same thing.

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Perhaps a simpler solution is to train yourself to ALWAYS put your hearing aids in one specific place when you’re not wearing them. Several years ago I took out my aids and put them on the dresser before taking a shower. After I got dressed I went to put in my aids, and there was only one on the dresser. I looked all over the floor, in the dresser drawers I’d opened, between the dresser and the wall, nothing. I was convinced it had fallen on the floor and my dog or the foster dog had eaten it. But in a flash of inspiration I pulled out my billfold and discovered the retention wire of the aid was caught in the billfold, and it had been in my back pocket while I was searching. Now the aids go in the dryer every time I take them out.

I just have a hard time believing that if other companies like Widex can have a hearing aid locator in their app then why can’t Kirkland ( Phonak). I’m sure may people would appreciate it.

Any possible hearing aid locating app wouldn’t do any more than a generic bluetooth locator app which you can get on the app store. The app gives you signal strength for the device you’e interested in and it goes up or down as you move closer/further way. It’s a blunt instrument at best. The Oticon app in my Android phone had a hearing aid location feature and it was pretty useless.

The find feature on Apple Airpod Pro 2 works pretty well, even on an older Apple phone. It may make use of hooks specific to Apple. The Kirkland aids wouldn’t have that advantage.

Edit: Your other option is to stream music at full volume to the aids and enlist the help of someone with good hearing to listen out for them. Works best of all if such a person is available.

App, a locator, is very handy. Lost one in medical facility when I removed and installed mask (masks and HA’s are natural enemies). Had gone for walk during interim. Retraced my steps and got positive, but weak, response in men’s room. Turned out the aid was in the trash in a room across the hall from the men’s room. Very sensitive app.
Alas, someone had stepped on it and broken the mold, then threw it in the trash. As I was locating it, they came to empty the trash. Very lucky. Only time I have ever lost/replaced an aid.

That’s exactly the reason to have it. It can’t be that hard to put it in an app. Widex and other companies do.

Maybe Phonak would rather you spend more money in a new one. That’s the only reason I can see that they don’t put it in their app.

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