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Lost my hearing aid used Wunderfind app to find it

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Lost one of my TruHearing 7 (same as Signia IX 5) hearing aids today while trimming trees. The area was heavily wooded with lots of leaves and stuff on the ground and covered at least a 1/2 acre.

My wife and I looked for an hour or two an gave up. I Googled how to find a hearing aid and came across and app called Wunderfind. The app is used to find lost Bluetooth devices and is free to use and is only a couple of dollars to purchase it which gives you the ability to map and other features.

We downloaded the app onto my iPhone and tested the app by locating the hearing aid that I still had and then tried to locate the missing one. We narrowed it down to an area that was showing it was 10 feet away and then zeroed in on it until we got 39 inches away and finally 0 and there it was.

We then started to look for the lost one and got to an area where we were getting readings of it being 10 feet away in about a five foot by 8 foot area and just kept moving the phone around until we zeroed in the the lost hearing aid. Such relief.

Great app highly recommend it.

9/8/25 EDIT - Just an added note. This only works with Bluetooth capable hearings aids. Most is not all them have that capability in the last couple of years.

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Thanks for this information! Seems like that inexpensive app was more than worth the cost. And the prospect of searching 1/2 acre of heavily wooded, leafy ground with a fine-tooth comb would discourage anyone. Bleh.

Edited to add: @s_f_p : I think if I’d had that happen, I’d immediately buy a lanyard-and-clip set and wear them religiously! Once is scary enough.

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That’s a wonderful story with a happy ending!! Great! I noticed today that the Jabra Enhance Pro app has a ‘find my hearing aid’ function within it. I’ve never tried it, but will, so I’d know how when/if I really needed it. I HAVE had success using the “Find My” function for the iPhone/iPad. There’s a ‘find my’ function there, and it has twice allowed me to find my iPhone which I had left on a bench several blocks from my house. When the app led me to it, some friendly people had just picked it up and were studying the noises it was making (courtesy of the ‘find my’ function!) So, a happy ending, and I’m glad you had one too!

Excellent post

Thanks. I’ll get the app now

DaveL

Thanks so much for the tip! Wunderfind was much more precise than the other apps I tried. Yesterday I took off a mask in my car after leaving the doctors office (I have a cold). My hearing aid went flying. I guess I’m out of practice using masks. I searched and searched the car. The other apps made it clear it was in the car but Wunderfind was precise and I realized it was under the carpet under the driver’s seat. It showed 0 metres. Today my husband cut the carpet in that precise location and found it. It must have gone through the small opening where some wires run. So relieved … it isn’t insured for loss and I wasn’t planning to replace it until fall when my insurance coverage kicks in at 5 years. Thanks again for the tip.

Well phooey… just as well my current pair are 12ish years old now! Just recently lost my left one… 50-50 it either fell in the toilet (don’t ask I have no idea…?) or my mother took it and put it somewhere (likely an unexpected place). No sense in asking- she has Alzheimer’s.

Would have been cool to try to find it with an app! Maybe next pair (soon…).

Losing an in the car can be a real problem!! I, too, once had mine fall between the seats and lodge under the carpet. I finally drove to my auto repair place and they dug it out for me.
Always be careful about taking them off in the car….best not to do so, I’ve decided!

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