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[Jack @jackcoder0]

A father had been losing his hearing for 5 years.

He couldn't follow conversations in restaurants. He missed words during family dinners. He turned the TV volume to 42 while his wife winced at 20. His audiologist quoted him $4,700 for a pair of hearing aids. Insurance covered $1,500. Out-of-pocket: $3,200. He decided to live with the hearing loss rather than spend $3,200 on devices he associated with elderly people fumbling with batteries.

His daughter a nurse who reads Apple health updates the way most people read headlines bought him AirPods Pro for his birthday.

He thought she was giving him earbuds for music. She was giving him an FDA-cleared, clinical-grade, over-the-counter hearing aid that Apple built into $249 earbuds most people use to listen to podcasts.

She opened the Health app on his iPhone, put the AirPods in his ears, and guided him through the built-in Hearing Test. Five minutes. A clinical audiogram generated from tones played at different frequencies. The results showed mild-to-moderate hearing loss in both ears.

She tapped "Set Up Hearing Aid." The AirPods transformed. His wife's voice across the kitchen became clear for the first time in years. The TV dropped from volume 42 to 22. He sat in a restaurant that Friday and heard every word at his table without asking anyone to repeat themselves.

$249 earbuds doing the job his audiologist quoted $4,700 for. FDA-cleared. Clinically validated. Sitting in the ears of 150 million AirPods Pro owners who have no idea the feature exists.

And the hearing aid was only 1 of 11 AirPods Pro features most owners have never turned on.

Here's every one of them 🧵

[Muscle Forge @LearnLoopz]

this is how you check if you have bad hip mobility

[K Ells she/her🇨🇦 @cassey125]

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[K Ells she/her🇨🇦 @cassey125]

@KodyBloisNS @MarkJCarney Congratulations!

[Janey Godley @JaneyGodley]

Beautiful

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Holy shit. This is the greatest ad I’ve ever seen.

Describe Republicans who want to restrict condoms in ONE word.

[Inferam @InferamAI]

Patchwork art.

[StanceGrounded @_SJPeace_]

They only gave her two minutes to speak so she ate them up in 1 minute 🇵🇸

📍Raliegh North Carolina City Council

[Jesse Bealsburg @bealsburg]

Every time we use this drill+bucket for soil sampling, I wonder why we don’t always use it.

[Ana Almeida @AnaAlmeida1985]

Thinking of everyone.

[Sea Kelly @709Kelly]

‼️IF YOU ARE EVACUATING TANTALLON: Uptown Tails Pet Resort would like to extend an offer of free emergency boarding to any families with dogs with nowhere to go. Please TEXT 902-818-8339 to make arrangements. We are located at 185 Wentworth Drive, off Dunbrack in Halifax

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Pro-cyclist Danny MacAskill cycled across the blade of a wind turbine to raise awareness of renewable energy. The stunt also provided a size comparison between a human and a wind turbine blade.

[video: https://t.co/JnvraP1od7]
https://t.co/JM89fBwmVv

[Nova Scotia Gov. @nsgov]

Grape and other fruit growers whose crops were affected by the extreme cold weather in February will soon receive additional support to help them recover https://t.co/FDowIhoqon

[K Ells she/her🇨🇦 @cassey125]

@nfstrongarm So sorry, 💔

[Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod]

My children are getting older and I realised last night that this might the last year I get Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs requested as a bedtime book. So I thought I'd do a thread in appreciation of its genius.