{"id":40178,"date":"2023-07-26T14:07:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40178"},"modified":"2023-07-26T14:07:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:07:42","slug":"using-airpods-as-a-hearing-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/26\/using-airpods-as-a-hearing-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Using AirPods as a Hearing Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toot.cat\/@garry\/110005074038777944\">Garry Knight<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2023\/07\/24\/airpods-as-hear-aids\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/toot.cat\/@garry\/110005074038777944\"><p>I got a pair of AirPod Pro earbuds and set them up for my personal hearing needs. Later that day I went for a walk in my local woods and literally gasped out loud at hearing the birds I&rsquo;d been missing for some years!<\/p><p>The way you set them up is buried deep in the Settings, so it&rsquo;s not surprising that not many people know about it. Here&rsquo;s where you need to go.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>You run through a couple of hearing tests, one for voice volume levels and one for best music settings. After the tests you should see a volume slider. It&rsquo;s important to move that to wherever you need it. Hearing sounds at all frequencies is great, but I found that I wanted a slight volume boost to enhance conversations. Some people might want to turn it down if it&rsquo;s enhancing the sound too much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/17\/apples-2023-accessibility-feature-preview\/\">Apple&rsquo;s 2023 Accessibility Feature Preview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garry Knight (via John Gruber): I got a pair of AirPod Pro earbuds and set them up for my personal hearing needs. Later that day I went for a walk in my local woods and literally gasped out loud at hearing the birds I&rsquo;d been missing for some years!The way you set them up is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-07-26T18:07:45Z","apple_news_api_id":"1ef17a3f-1505-48be-9fd3-e0f012522f92","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-07-26T18:07:46Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AHvF6PxUFSL6f0-DwElIvkg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[930,1422,31,2185],"class_list":["post-40178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-accessibility","tag-airpods","tag-ios","tag-ios-16"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40179,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40178\/revisions\/40179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}