AirPods Hearing Test not showing on iPhone

On the 23rd of December it was reported by Trevor Long for Nine News that the Australian TGA had approved the use of Apple's hearing aid function in their AirPods Pro 2. "An Apple spokesperson told 9News, "Receiving product approval from the TGA on our Hearing Test and Hearing Aid features on AirPods Pro 2 is an important first step toward making these features available in Australia. We are working through the other necessary steps to make these experiences available as soon as possible."I am guessing that an upgrade will be issued when Apple has done whatever they need to do to make this available to users in Australia.

I have the IPod 4 ANC my Google search says the 4th generation with ANC

has the hearing function I’ll research more. They were a gift. Possible

I’ll need to return them.

Your Google search is wrong I'm afraid. The hearing aid feature is only available on the AirPod Pro 2s.

Mine would not even show the hearing aid test option until the pods and the case were at least 80% charged.

in the online user guide it said to make sure they were “ sufficiently charged* “

with the asterisk but I couldn’t find any info or code chart to explain what % the asterisk referred to.

My 13PM is on 18.1 and my AirPods Pro 2 Lightning is on 7B19 and the option is not showing.

The only possible reason that I can think of is that the feature is not yet available in all regions, as stated here on the 7B19 release notes.

The link referenced in bullet item #2 above by Carol B. does not have any instructions on how to update the firmware. It merely lists many firmware revisions and what the major content of the revisions is. The following link addresses how airpods have their firmware updated, but does not have the best step-by-step directions. If you ask Google AI how to do it, good directions are provided. About firmware updates for AirPods - Apple Support

Same. It was promised with the update “this week”. It came today. Updated to iOS18 and still no Hearing Test option.

Oct 25 chat with Apple Support (my AirPods Pro 2 are brand new just for this feature) will only work with iOS18.1. More hype and wait.

My iPhone is updated, but my AirPod two pros still won’t show hearing test

Hard to believe!! Health Canada must be slowing down in approvals.

Exactly. It works beautifully. Thanks for your help.

I’ve met all three, but still don’t have the hearing aid test on 2 seperate AirPod Pro 2’s that I have (lightning and USB-C).

Excellent! That link worked, thank you

I just bought a pair and it didn’t show up i searched and saw that only specific countries have this feature, hope they will add the rest of the countries

Same here. I contacted support and they said it’s not available in Canada yet. Maybe in a few weeks but not sure when.

they can have it available all over the world but not canada. 🤦🏼‍♀️