Hearing aid apps

One of the most convenient uses of hearing aid apps is that they allow you to easily adjust settings on your hearing aids. This can be anything from changing the volume or program, to making bass, mid and high tone adjustments. You can also save your preferences or choose from a number of pre-set scenarios (such as Restaurant or Watching TV) to make it easier to move between different environments.

And the best thing about this feature is that you don’t have to fiddle around with the hearing aid itself, making adjustments discreet and easy, especially when you’re out and about.

If you tend to misplace your hearing aids, then this feature will be very helpful for you. Many hearing aid apps have a feature that will show you the last known location of the paired hearing aids when the app was running, so you can retrace your steps back to your hearing aids.

This feature can usually only accurately trace your hearing aids back to a building — so if you know you’ve lost your hearing aids in your house, the app can’t tell you which room they’re in, just that they’re in your house.

Perhaps one of the most modern features of some of these hearing aid apps is that you can connect your hearing aids straight to your streaming device. Connecting directly to your TV, computer or other device will allow you to hear streamed audio more clearly by cutting out any background or interfering noises.

You can feedback to your audiologist about how you’re getting used to the new aids and they can help adjust your hearing aids exactly to your liking. This can be in real time or at your own leisure.

If you’re having an issue with your hearing aid settings (such as the volume is too soft or too loud, muffled sounds or background noise are becoming too distracting), some apps have the ability to allow your audiologist to do it for you. Your audiologist can remotely change the settings of your hearing aids through your mobile phone, meaning you don’t have to go into the store to have small adjustments made to your devices.

In fact, as part of our hearing aid aftercare package, we offer a free remote fine-tuning service where we can remotely change the settings of your hearing aids through your mobile phone. Find out more about hearing aid aftercare here.