Hearing Health

A person wearing AirPods Pro 3 with soundwaves around their ear.

Pioneering hearing.

Access a Hearing Test,1 a Hearing Aid feature1 and active Hearing?Protection2 using just AirPods?Pro?3 or AirPods?Pro?2 and an iPhone or iPad. It’s the world’s first end?to?end hearing health experience.

The Hearing?Test and Hearing?Aid features are regulated health features that require approval and will be offered after authorisation is received. Feature availability varies by?region.

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Awareness

Take a Hearing Test. In?your own?home.

Millions of people are unaware that they’re living with hearing loss, and even more don’t get tested. But now it’s faster, easier and more convenient than ever to get scientifically validated results in your own?time.1

How to take a Hearing Test

A more convenient process. Active Noise Cancellation and the in?ear seal on AirPods?Pro simulate the conditions needed to evaluate and provide you with insights into your hearing. Just find a quiet, comfortable place and launch the test from your AirPods settings or the Health app. The system will automatically check the fit of your AirPods?Pro and assess background noise levels before getting started.

Hear the tones, tap the screen. Using pure?tone audiometry built on advanced acoustic science, the test plays a series of tones that you respond to by tapping the screen. Helpful animations, tapback effects and progress indicators guide you through the experience, which takes about five?minutes. More than 150,000 real?world audiograms and millions of simulations helped develop a Hearing Test that’s accurate, fast and?easy.

Immediate results. Seamless support. When you complete the test, you see a personalised profile with easy?to?understand results and insights about your hearing. If you have little to no loss, but could still benefit from hearing certain frequencies more clearly, you’ll be able to adjust your Media Assist settings for enhanced audio on media and calls. And if you have perceived mild to moderate hearing loss, you’ll be prompted to set up the Hearing?Aid?feature.

Private, secure and easy to manage. All your Hearing Test data is privately and securely stored in the Health app on your device. You can retake the test whenever you want, monitor your hearing over time, download your test results and read helpful articles about hearing?health.

Assistance

A clinical?grade Hearing?Aid.

AirPods?Pro?3 and AirPods?Pro?2 provide the world’s first software?enabled Hearing Aid feature1 that is remarkably easy to use throughout the?day. Now with 67 per?cent more battery life in Transparency on a single charge with AirPods?Pro?3.3 Simply switch it on and hear it all clearly.

Learn about setting up the Hearing?Aid?feature

A meaningful difference. After you complete the Hearing Test, if you have mild to moderate hearing loss, your personalised hearing profile will guide you to the Hearing Aid feature. With a quick setup, you’ll start hearing more clearly immediately. You can even customise the settings to your?needs.

The Hearing Aid introduction screen

Up to 10 hours of battery life using the Hearing Aid feature.3

Powered by Apple-designed audio innovations. With advanced computational audio and the powerful H2?chip, the Hearing Aid feature boosts frequencies so sounds are clearer and more vibrant to your ears. And thanks to computational audio, you’ll get real?time adjustments as you go about your?day.

AirPods Pro 3, clear, internal architecture

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Prevention

Hearing Protection for daily?life.

AirPods?Pro?3 and AirPods?Pro?2 provide active Hearing Protection2 across listening modes to help prevent exposure to loud environmental?noise.

1 in 3 people experience exposure to loud noise on a regular?basis.

Take noise down a notch. Hearing Protection translates the sound signatures of what you hear to lower levels in environments as loud as 110?dBA. Machine learning on the H2?chip actively reduces louder, more intermittent noise at 48,000?times per second, and the ear tips provide passive noise?reduction.

dbmeter in orange dbmeter in blue Graph reflecting general loud noise levels being reduced by Hearing Protection with AirPods Pro 3
A DJ performing at a live music concert.

More music to your ears. When you’re enjoying a live concert, the improved high dynamic range multi?band compressor helps protect your hearing while keeping the music sounding natural and?vibrant.4

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More intelligent ways?to?listen.

AirPods?Pro?3 and AirPods?Pro?2 include a range of features that support and enhance your hearing in a variety of environments, settings and?situations.

The world’s best in?ear Active Noise Cancellation with AirPods?Pro?3 removes up to 2x more background noise before it reaches your?ears.5

Adaptive Audio intelligently tailors noise control to changes in your environment throughout the?day.6

Adaptive?EQ tunes the listening experience to your ears in real time based on the fit of your AirPods?Pro?3 or AirPods?Pro?2.

Conversation Boost automatically amplifies the voice of the person you’re talking to while minimising distracting noises around?you.

Background Sounds play ambient?sounds — like the ocean or?rain — that can help minimise distractions.

Headphone Audio Levels let you set a volume limit and track how long and how often you listen to loud?audio.