Today, October 28, 2024, Apple released its iOS 18.1 software, which includes the long-anticipated hearing health features. This release has been a long time coming, as we have closely monitored the progress, announcements, and initial rumors over the past nine...
Yesterday (September 9, 2024), Apple held an online event to make a number of announcements about their next generation of iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods. Having shared that Apple was rumored to be launching a 'Hearing Aid Mode' earlier this year, we watched with...
The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference was last week, and with all the rumors about “Hearing Aid Mode,” I was exceptionally excited to watch and find out more about this groundbreaking potential feature. However, amidst all the excitement about “Apple...
Although nothing is official as of yet (watch this space!), rumors suggest that Apple’s next operating system update, iOS 18, will include a new feature called “Hearing Aid Mode.” Predicted to release in September 2024, Apple’s latest venture into hearing assistive...
With so many people incorrectly believing that the solution to a hearing loss is a set of hearing aids, we regularly receive phone calls from people asking if we can price match Costco. The problem is, it’s not an apples to apples comparison. Whereas Costco sells...
Since my time as an audiologist and training within the hearing industry, “hearing aids” have only ever been known as hearing technology that is provided by an audiologist after an audiological evaluation. However, in recent industry news, proposed regulations around...
Jacobs Audiology has always stayed at the forefront of hearing treatment, and we are excited about this latest development in hearing innovation from GN Hearing. GN has created a new model of rechargeable, prescription hearing aid called Custom made by ReSound. This...
In Biden’s recent executive order, he shared that “hearing aids are so expensive that only 14% of approximately 48 million Americans with hearing loss use them.” As a result, he will “Direct HHS to consider issuing proposed rules within 120 days for allowing hearing...
I have been an audiologist for over 28 years and have seen hearing aid technology change dramatically. Today’s devices are clearer, perform better in noise, and are more discreet than ever. It seems incredible that despite these steps forward, there are still an...
There are so many technological breakthroughs every day that it can be hard to keep up with all of them. A recent development by Android is one that those who are hard of hearing absolutely need to know about because it could be of great use to them, even possibly...