Pairing my new hearing aids with my MacBook

Most hearing aids will only pair in the first minute after they are powered up.

typical instructions tell you to turn them off or return to charger, then start pairing on your device, then power up the hearing aids.

What make&model hearing aids?

are these MFI hearing aids?

do you have an iPhone or Android phone?

if you MUST have a Mac connection for your iPhone-connected hearing aids, you could add an additional TV streamer to your Mac, and select that with your iPhone hearing app when needed.

No reported pervasive issues have been reported due to MacOS 26.

I don't have an Apple-TV, but I am a little surprised you can pair your hearing Aids with your Apple-TV without un-pairing from your phone.

If both are active, how do your hearing Aids decide which sounds to send you?

"The old way" to add a second device was to send TV or computer Audio through a TV Streamer device, which showed up in your hearing Aids App as a separate program (like Regular, hear-in-noise, Outdoors, Music) and you could select the streamer sound separately.

My daily Mac is very old, and its Bluetooth will never be able to pair with my Hearing Aids. Most Mac users face Un-Pairing their iPhone to get sound from their Mac.

For TV use, I ran an optical cable from the TV set to a Resound TV Streamer-2 device, and when it is receiving sound, it lights up and makes an additional program become available in my hearing aids app, Resound Smart 3D.

(about actual size)

What is the name of your special streamer, and is it hardware, or software, or both?

I currently have Resound Linx Quadro. They may be the first Resound with Lithium batteries and advanced audio processor. The device fits behind my ear but is called 'Receiver in Ear' which has a tiny wire to the electronic 'Receiver' that I always just want to call a Speaker.

This seems to be to distinguish from 'Behind the Ear' which implies a sound tube and no active device in the ear, rather that a sound wire.

I have just arranged to switch up to the newest Resound model, Vivia, But those have not arrived yet. Vivia model has a filter over the microphone inlet, which should help keep it from clogging with woodworking dust. It is also said to have an advanced AI assisted "Hear in Noise" function.

AI assists says:

Jabra hearing aids are made by Jabra, which is a brand owned by GN Group, a Danish company known for its expertise in audio solutions. GN Group has over 150 years of experience in the hearing aid industry.

...and GN owns Resound.

Resound brand only seem to be dispensed by high-touch (and high-priced) direct audiologists. My family needs that high-touch for their very unusual hearing loss.

The hearing aids business WAS changing rapidly, and lower cost and over the counter hearing aids were forcing some strong distribution changes.

Then Apple introduced their AirPods hearing aid feature, and now everything is up in the air.

this is the setup when the GN Resound TV streamer 2 pictured above is connected to my hearing aids.

Note that the hearing aid App, GN Resound Smart-3D) considers the phone as connected (over Bluetooth) to the Hearing Aids, but when I switch programs to use the TV streamer, the Streamer in an Alternate connection DIRECT to the hearing Aids, NOT through the phone.

Normally, this is not possible (because one connection at a a time), but when you tell the App that's what you want connected, it can tell the hearing Aids to substitute TV streamer connection and sound for iPhone audio connection and sound.

if you have an Apple Watch, it is shown as a peripheral of the iPhone, with no direct connection to the hearing aids at all.

<< My Jabra TV steamer looks similar to that, but it's all wireless. >>

Wait, then that sounds like you need to pair your Mac with that Jabra TV streamer, not directly with your iPhone.