Made for iPhone vs. ASHA

Well I have the More1 aids and they can be paired with either iPhone or the latest Android phones. Now there s a small number of Android phones that the More1 aids will pair with, but I believe the latest Samsung phones are among the phones.

One new thing about MFi (“made for iPhone”) hearing aids that Apple has announced for iOS 15 is support for NEW bi-directional hearing aids and also the ability to read electronic or scanned audiograms and adjust sound output for devices like AirPods to accommodate hearing needs, at least to some degree. Presumably, the bi-directionality won’t work with currently available HA’s. It will enable a handsfree experience with new MFi HA’s that currently only Phonak and Rexton (I think) provide for calling. Don’t know if bi-directional HA’s will also work with Android when they become available. Presumably iOS 15 (and bi-directional MFi functionality) will be backwards compatible to all iPhones back to the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. See iPhone backwards compatibility for iOS 15 under Availability on the following web page(some iOS 15 features require an A12 chip or higher, though, which started with the iPhone XS): iOS 15 brings powerful new features to stay connected, focus, explore, and more - Apple10

I suspect the Android experience will be different from device to device, depending on the phone manufacturer, since ultimately it will be up to each specific phone company how much of the ASHA standard they want to implement.

With an iPhone I feel like the experience will be much more consistent, where beyond a certain model of iPhone, the standard will be supported in full, or not at all.