Apple develops the ability to get hearing health data on AirPods, according to Gurman

March 14 (Portaltic/EP) –

Manzana planning to upgrade your wireless headphones AirPods between the next year and the next to turn them into a health-focused tool, with features like the ability to get hearing data.

The technology company led by Tim Cook has been developing functionalities related to hearing health for years. Proof of this is ‘Conversation Boost Live Listen’, which helps users to better hear conversations in noisy places and is already present in AirPods and Beats.

According to recent information that Bloomberg analyst and journalist Mark Gurman has had access to, which he has shared in his weekly newsletter ‘Power On’ and which is reported by media such as macrumors, Apple is considering adding new health-oriented features to its headphones.

The Bloomberg journalist has not detailed what these characteristics will be focused on ear health, although he has qualified that thanks to them this device will be able to “get some sort of auditory data” and that he will introduce them in the next year or so.

Gurman has pointed out that these functionalities have not yet been reviewed by regulatory bodies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which must give their approval to implement them.

With this, it has qualified that these new hearing health capabilities will not necessarily be subject to the launch of its new generation of headphones, but could be deployed in current models with an update of their ‘firmware’.

It should be remembered that this statement coincides with what was advanced Ming Chi Kuo almost two years ago, when he commented that the headphones could add sensors for the measurement of physiological parameters, such as heart rate, body temperature or sweat.