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I am new to . Is it normal for them to disconnect from my iPhone when I move to a room different from my phone? I have Philips 9050 Hearing Aids and an updated iPhone 15 Pro Max.

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Yes.
The Phillips use Bluetooth Low Energy when connecting to your iPhone. The connection range is very short unfortunately - this is by design to preserve battery life.

No Bluetooth connections have an unlimited range. It’s a matter of how many metres and how many walls you put between the two devices before you lose the connection. That depends on the phone, the aids, and the specific Bluetooth protocol they use to communicate. I’ve found the range on the 9050 to be pretty good but that’s using with an Android phone. Different from your situation obviously but I doubt that a different hearing aid will give you significantly greater range without changing your phone as well.

I had this discussion with someone on Reddit. My memory is that the range with the 9050 connected to my Pixel is slightly more than the range I got with the Phonak Audeo Sphere I trialed at the start of the year. That’s with leaving the phone in the same spot and moving through the house towards my bedroom. With the 9050s I can make it to my bed and maintain the connection. That didn’t happen with the Phonaks. I’m not getting the Phonaks back so there’s no way to retest.

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@OcramSagev said:

Phonaks have significantly better range due to their use of Bluetooth classic ( or the Signia bct IX).

Bluetooth LE can actually increase the range over Bluetooth Classic. From the Bluetooth Website:

The success of Bluetooth® technology in the wireless communication industry is illustrated by its expansion beyond traditional, simple data transfer and audio applications. Despite the myth that Bluetooth is designed exclusively for short-range communication, the LE Coded PHY approximately quadruples the previous range covered by Bluetooth technology, opening up the potential for new applications.1

Bluetooth Low Energy actually has long range modes which go up to 1km

Actual range depends on the protocols used and implementation phy (receiver), transmission power and environment

Understanding Bluetooth Range | Bluetooth® Technology Website3

learn about bluetooth More than a kilometer. Less than a meter. The effective, reliable range between Bluetooth devices is anywhere from more than a kilometer down to less than a meter.

Now that doesn’t mean Bluetooth devices have that kind of range, but my Bluetooth LE Audio devices (Airpod Pro 2’s, Jabra Enhance 30’s etc) certainly have more range than my older Bluetooth Classic audio devices.

To answer the original question I should add I often leave my phone in different rooms or even inside when I am outside often get the call coming though on my Jabra’s with first an iPhone 11 Pro and now an iPhone 16 Pro.

You are confusing the new Bluetooth, with the older low energy bluetooth created specifically for iPhones. The new LE Audio, though low energy, has much longer range than any of the previous hearing aid forms of Bluetooth (AS

Fwiw, I went for a walk with my 9050 aids yesterday, leaving the phone on the mailbox. I got 75 strides down the street before the stream cut out.

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typically offers a range of approximately 30-50 meters indoors, which is comparable to or slightly better than Classic Bluetooth, but its range can be significantly extended, even to hundreds of meters in ideal, outdoor conditions, when using Bluetooth 5.2 or newer and specific hardware configurations. The actual range depends on factors like the specific device’s power, the surrounding environment, and the use of multiple transmitters.

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