Hearing Health

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

Pioneering hearing.

Access a Hearing Test1, a Hearing Aid feature1 and Loud Sound Reduction using just AirPods Pro 3 or AirPods Pro 2 and an iPhone or iPad. It's an all-in-one hearing health experience.

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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 on 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, tap?back 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 a 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. Improved voice clarity and automatic Conversation Boost with AirPods Pro 3 make communicating in louder environments easier than ever.4 And thanks to computational audio, you’ll get real-time adjustments as you go about your day.

A close-up look at the architecture of an AirPods Pro 3 pointing to the Noise isolating silicone ear tips.

Prevention

Minimise your exposure to loud noise.

AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods Pro 2 provide Loud Sound Reduction when you’re in Transparency mode.

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

Take noise down a notch. Loud Sound Reduction 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 multiband compressor of Loud?Sound?Reduction minimises your exposure to loud noise while keeping the music sounding natural and?vibrant.

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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 Cancellation2 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.

Personalised Volume learns your listening preferences and adjusts the volume in response to your surroundings.

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.