How to Find a Lost Hearing Aid Through Your Smartphone App

"Transcription: Hi, my name is Dr. Tessitore from Now Hear This Hearing aids and Audiology in Raleigh, North Carolina. I’m going to talk to you about a feature on your hearing aid app that you may have downloaded on your phone. That feature is called “Find My Hearing Aid.” So, today I’m going to explain a little bit about how that works. Whenever you initially download your app, it will ask you “do you want location services turned on?” You should say yes to that, and the reason being is this find my hearing aid locater is the reason why this needs to be turned on. So, whenever you are going about your daily errands, if you lose your hearing aids and are not aware of it, you can go home, get on the app, and say find my hearing aid, and it will tell you the location of where the hearing aids were last paired to the phone.
In order for this to work, again, you have to have location services turned on, but your phone also has to be turned on, as well as Bluetooth. And you cannot have airplane mode turned on at the time. If this is the case, you go home, like I said, it will tell you the last place it lost connection.
I had a patient that actually lost their hearing aids in the grocery store. Somebody found them, turned them in to lost and found, and through the find my hearing aid section of the app, they were able to locate them and went to the grocery store and found their hearing aids! So, this is a very good feature and why I recommend that everybody download the app if they can, specifically for this. If you have any questions about this, feel free to call the office and I can talk you through it and make sure that it’s working appropriately. There’s also 1-800 numbers for all of the manufacturers, and they are more than happy to answer questions regarding your iPhone, or your android, or your app. These number are available for customer service open in the evening and also on the weekends when I may not be in the office. Again, if you have any questions regarding your app, feel free to give me a call and I can help talk you through it. I hope this helps, and I hope you have a great day!"

[@juancderas1654]

Good information, but what hearing aid brand are you talking about ?please specify It gotta be some brand with latest technology .

[@serendipidus8482]

It's any brand as long as its modern ..the app can identify many brands the same as an app for headphones can identify many headphones

[@serendipidus8482]

It tells you it's at home. But it doesn't tell you if it's under the bed or in the kitchen

[@cathypoole8912]

True, but… if you have that on the hearing comp can track you as well, so they can sell that information. Like if you go to a certain craft store then the certain craft store can send you ads in your Google for their store . Also, where is your privacy ? I am not a fan.

[@Asia-sk8lc]

So all i have to do is download now, i lost my aid yesterday and im so mad at myself.

[@CactusThorn]

She needs to have an iPhone for show and tell. 😮

[@Landis_Grant]

Rexton doesn’t have this feature.

[@HectorPeralta-md3oq]

Does the app find a off hearing aid too???

[@Nowhearthisclinic]

Hector, no it does not:(

[@michaelflorida56]

this is not helpful

[@user-pv5pv9zc4r]

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