Published by Jesse Hollington
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As part of its multi-pronged approach to improving the health of its users, Apple has added a score of hearing health features to the Apple Watch and iPhone over the past couple of years, ranging from excessive volume warnings to listening level charts and headphone accommodations. In fact, even the Active Noise Cancellation on AirPods Pro provides a huge benefit to hearing health by letting you keep your volume levels turned down.
It’s a fair approach coming from the company that basically brought portable digital audio players into the mainstream twenty years ago with the original iPod, and Apple isn’t sitting still in its attempts to improve aural health. In late 2019, the company partnered with the University of Michigan School of Public Health to commission a research study to analyze users long-term hearing, particularly in relation to exposure to loud environmental noises, to gain a better understanding of how sound exposure affects both hearing health and stress levels over time.
Now that the study has been ongoing for over a year, Apple has shared new data with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Make Listening Safe initiative, revealing just how serious the risks are to hearing health in the modern era, not only from users’ own headphones, but also just from all of the noise around us....
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