Apple's AirPods 4 are getting an AirPods Pro feature to help you out when the case goes missing. They're small. They're light. And they'll be easy to misplace. But the just-announced AirPods 4 will include a new feature familiar to owners of the AirPods Pro that will help you find your case when it gets lost.

Apple is dropping five new features for AirPods Pro 2 with iOS 18. If you're running the update early, you can try them out right now.

That’s the promise of the company’s newly announced initiative to add true hearing aid functionality to the AirPods Pro — and why, with all due respect to the iPhone 16 and its fancy Camera Control button,

Next, Apple announced a new Hearing Test feature for AirPods Pro 2. This will let users quickly test their hearing using just their AirPods Pro and an iPhone or iPad. The experience “utilizes a standard clinical approach called pure-tone audiometry,” Apple says.

The FDA has approved Apple’s Hearing Aid Feature software that permits AirPods to double as hearing aids for adults with mild to moderate hearing loss.

If you're in the market for hearing aids, Apple's AirPods Pro 2 are now FDA-authorized OTC hearing devices, and they're much less expensive than most other similar OTC devices.

An upcoming Apple software update will allow some AirPods to double as over-the-counter hearing aids. Only 1 in 6 American adults with hearing loss wears hearing aids.

Apple's AirPods Pro 2 have received FDA approval to function as over-the-counter hearing aids. This update will allow users with mild-to-moderate hearing loss to enhance real-time sound without needing traditional hearing aids.

Apple Airpods could soon double up as a "clinical-grade" hearing aid, with up to one billion people around the world benefitting from the "groundbreaking" project