AirPods causing tinnitus?

It's not about loud hearing.

AirPods just hanging in ears without any music being played can also cause these problems.

Well, while the covid vaccine might have caused this, covid actually causes far worse effects, for example, dying.

That is very interesting about the current CV-19. How long would the Tinnitus last if it was from CV-19 though? I would think after your recover that the tinnitus would go away.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35480535/

It’s believed the frequency output is too high.

Tinnitus is a symptom of an underlying condition, such as age-related hearing loss, ear injury or a circulatory system disorder.

Make an appointment with a Ear, Nose and Throat ( ENT/Otolaryngologist) and have a medical professional diagnose your concerns.

This forum is not a medical facility, and no one on this forum should diagnose a medical condition or make claims about the causes of their own until they have been seen by a professional.

there are two ways about it, show me a peer reviewed medical research paper from a credible physician and you might have an argument, until then you are guessing.

If you want to let Apple know your concern go to apple.com/feedback

Did your doctors tell you Tinnitus has had enough researched clinical research enough to know it has genetic components? Do you know how hereditary conditions are passed down? Is it possible you have been contributing to this condition long before using earpods?

You are coming at this from a "well, it's your fault cause of your genes". And I'm approaching it from "Well, there's no reason for the un-damaged AirPods to emanate a high volume sound before any app is initiated". If there was a chance cause of a predisposition, there is still no reason that Apple shouldn't implements any variety of safeguards to stop the speakers from pushing a sound out prior to any sorta initiation of them to play audio. Volume was not up, no app was initiated, but only the AirPods function to turn on when put in the ear and associate to a device. Now, I'm not about to hijack this feed but I feel your approach to address this is very poor. I get you work for Apple, but your approach isn't quite the best. I know enough that I could mediate in a quiet room w/ out any ringing prior to this. I know that I could sleep w/out the need of a fan, prior to this. And I know I now have a disability that is very tough to handle. And this all started after something that happened per the AirPods.

Be very clear on this. I do NOT work for Apple, nor have I EVER worked fore Apple.

I have however had an opportunity to marry into a family of physicians and medical professionals enough to know that personal diagnostics are about as responsible as having your cars transmission repaired by a mediaeval alchemist.

As I've said, any concern you have with Apple is not going to be addressed here and should go to

apple.com/feedback

more importantly make an appointment with your family physician and have him referral to an Otolaryngologist if you are truly concerned with your health.

This is a volunteer forum. To speak directly with Apple call 1-800-MY-APPLE or go to apple.com/contact for a list of international phone numbers.

I also have tinnitus prior of owning the airpod pros, and yes, when I first tried the pros the tinnitus got worse, but this is not exclusive to the airpods, I get the same problem with my sennheiser gsp500, even tough I notice this with the sennheiser right away.

That said, some in ears and headphones I have actually seem to remediate the problem, like the sony mdr 1A, the razer hammerhead, and some chifi like Tinhifi P1, T4 and Ikko OH10 actually seem to work in a way that the tinnitus seem to be at a moderate level if not better, I can use the sony mdr 1a all day without much issue.

Maybe this have to do with an specific frequency response. If the iphone had some kind of system wide equalizer we could remediate this by identifying the problematic frequency and turn it down a bit.

Edit: I just realized that the iPhone have one equilizer option called "Late Night", this one seems to affect all apps on the iphone, even Tidal. Maybe its worth a try.

Me and my wife are experiencing exact same ****. When I put my first gen airpods in my ears I’ve noticed high pitching noise even when music wasn’t playing.

i used to listen to an interviews before I sleep using my airpods but then I noticed that weird noise in the morning and evening before I go to bed and it was progressing day after day. Now it’s really gives me a huge discomfort especially when iam in quite zone. I went through plenty of doctors doing all kind of tests trying to figure out what was reason. But no solution to be found yet. We don’t use airpods for couple of months now but noise hasn’t gone either. Airpods are 100% damaging your ears and Apple must do something about it

Drizzy992 wrote:

I used all type of earphones, headphones like beats by Dre, mostly using regular wired Apple earphones. And it was all fine till started using airpods.

So, you've been slowly damaging your ears for years (not uncommon) and it's finally noticeable. Correlation does not prove causality.

Given how popular AirPods are, if they were damaging the ears of 100% of the people who used them, it would be big news. It's not.

Sure, some people discover their tinnitus on some point, but most of them that talk about this already have some knowledge about what triggers it and if its worse or better during the time.

Its not just Airpods Pro, other headphones do this, even the source hardware could cause a peak on some high frequency that triggers the problem.

On the case of the Airpod Pro, at least for me, was something that was noticeable, got worse, but this does not mean that the Airpod Pro is bad or is causing everybody to suddenly having tinnitus, it just means that it triggers people that already have it.

As of what could be causing it, I dont know, The Airpod Pro was my first iem to have a oval silicon tip(all others are perfect circles), and even tough it sealed very well, and was also very comfortable, it could be pressuring the the ear in the wrong way maybe. The sound was also ok, not the best, but also not harsh. So all of this is trial by error for people that have tinnitus.

peleh wrote:

Sure, some people discover their tinnitus on some point, but most of them that talk about this already have some knowledge about what triggers it and if its worse or better during the time.

The person to whom I was replying said they did not have tinnitus before using AirPods and that they had used other in-ear headphones in the past. They specifically claimed that the AirPods had caused their tinnitus. While I don't disagree with your post in general, it doesn't quite apply in this case.