Apple gets FDA authorization to turn the AirPods Pro into hearing aids

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Just days after Apple announced a new hearing aid feature for the second-generation AirPods Pro, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the software that powers this functionality. In a press release, the FDA describes Apple’s solution as “the first over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aid software device.”
The feature “was evaluated in a clinical study with 118 subjects with perceived mild to moderate hearing loss,” acco