The iOS 18.1 release includes the full initial implementation of the hearing aid feature for AirPods Pro 2. I’d like to offer my assessment that this release heralds a potentially game changing development for users of commercial hearing aids wherever it’s available. For me, the benefit depends more on management of the ecosystem than whether or not it’s robust. The questions I’m considering at the moment pertain to how many pairs of the APP2 can be managed for a single user on one iPhone so the charging necessity can be mitigated. The only important detriment to their exclusive use besides the fact that people are likely to assume that the wearer is trying to unhear them than to hear them is the lack of being able to create presets for “tuning” adjustments. I hope this will be addressed in a subsequent update.