{"id":276,"date":"2024-09-12T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T12:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/downlinematrix.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2025-01-03T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T10:51:57","slug":"using-airpods-pro-2-as-a-hearing-aid-is-better-than-an-over-the-counter-dedicated-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downlinematrix.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/using-airpods-pro-2-as-a-hearing-aid-is-better-than-an-over-the-counter-dedicated-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Using AirPods Pro 2 as a hearing aid is better than an over-the-counter dedicated device"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/09\/Using-AirPods-Pro-2-as-a-hearing-aid-is-better-than-an-OTC-device.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple<\/a> issues the firmware upgrade needed to use <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/airpods-pro-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AirPods Pro 2<\/a> as a hearing aid, it will put the company into <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/09\/11\/airpods-pro-hearing-aid-upgrade-hits-stocks-of-major-brands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">direct competition<\/a> with existing over-the-counter (OTC) products.<\/p>\n<p>Most OTC hearing aids offer Bluetooth headphone functionality, so a single device will serve both functions either way, <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/09\/09\/airpods-pro-2-adds-clinical-grade-hearing-aid-feature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">but AirPods will offer<\/a> two significant advantages \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"airpods-pro-2,apple-health\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"967673\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/09\/12\/airpods-pro-2-hearing-aid-vs-otc-device\/#more-967673\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Apple issues the firmware upgrade needed to use AirPods Pro 2 as a hearing aid, it will put the company into direct competition with existing over-the-counter (OTC) products. Most OTC hearing aids offer Bluetooth headphone functionality, so a single device will serve both functions either way, but AirPods will offer two significant advantages \u2026 more\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downlinematrix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downlinematrix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downlinematrix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downlinematrix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downlinematrix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downlinematrix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/downlinematrix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downlinematrix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downlinematrix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downlinematrix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downlinematrix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}