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Kate Kozuch

'I can hear sounds I never knew we're there' — my friend with hearing loss just tried the hearing aid feature on AirPods Pro 2

AirPods Pro 2 hearing aid features.

Twenty seven-year-old Gillian Lavelle never knew what she was missing out on, sound-wise, due to genetic hearing loss.

“I would always take a backseat if I was out with a group of friends in a place like this,” Lavelle said, referring to the bustling Manhattan coffee shop I intentionally chose for our first real-world test of new hearing health features for AirPods Pro 2. “I’d have to wait until we were in a quieter location to actually have, you know, meaningful conversations.”

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