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PSA: Your AirPods Pro are Hearing Aids

(and don’t let a 1977 regulation tell you otherwise)

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Deborah Copaken
Sep 21, 2021
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The first thing I should probably state is that, legally, my headline is misleading. Airpods Pro are not officially hearing aids, they are PSAPs: personal sound amplification products.

Technically, however, in every other way (factually, actually, affordably, gloriously) they aid in the act of hearing for those, like me––and perhaps you––with mild to mod…

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