No Le Audio support for hearing aids on the new iPhone 17 Pro?

Those are very nice MFI hearing aids.

Which model exactly:

currently for sale as new in US are:

700, 300, 50R?

You should be running the Jabra Enhance Pro app by GN Hearing

https://apps.apple.com › us › app › jabra-enhance-pro › id1539643358

You pair the hearing aids with your iPhone for BOTH control and sounds.

Sounds streamed off the internet directly to your iPhone should bypass the iPhone microphone and the digital Stream will be played directly into your ears after being adjusted by your hearing profile.

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If streaming from a different device, or trying to use your iPhone microphone, please post back to discuss this some more.

I wear very similar GN Resound Vivia hearing aids and use a nearly identical App with my older iPhone 11 Pro Max.

My experience is that these hearing aids and the features you are complaining about work well, and I have no serious problems with them. If you can be a little more forthcoming, maybe we can find out why yours are not working to your satisfaction.

¿Are you in fact running the Jabra Enhance Pro iPhone app on your iPhone 17?

...and your model Jabra Pro 30 is the Micro Receiver-In-Ear model that is rechargeable, like mine? Or the one that takes size 13 batteries? or something else?

This is the connection setup I (used to) see with my older GN ReSound LiNX Quattro hearing aids.

Note that BOTH Control of the hearing Aids AND Sounds sourced by the iPhone such as call audio, and Streaming audio are sent over a Bluetooth LE connection directly to my hearing aids.

All audio sourced from the iPhone is subjected to your hearing 'personalization' (that Graphic equalizer) in the Hearing Aids, then presented directly into your ears.

I stream a local radio station's web stream (using their App) directly. It is mostly talking with some music. I have not observed distortion or drop outs under MOST conditions, but there are a few cases that do not work well.

When making coffee with the microwave oven heating the water, there is a lot of interference. This abates immediately when the microwave shuts off. This is not surprising, since Bluetooth shares the 2.4 GHz band with Wi-Fi, and microwave ovens are know noise-maker in that band.

When I place the phone in my SHIRT pocket, I get good strong interference-free reception of the Audio stream. In my back trousers pocket, the Bluetooth radio waves do not go through my body very well, and sometimes one or the other hearing Aid drops out when walking outdoors. When I experience this, I just move the iPhone to my shirt pocket and all is well.

I have not experienced distortion or tinny sounds, but maybe we can help each other think about why that might be happening.

<< the sound is still very tinny like an old am radio. >>

I get none of that. The sound I get is perfect, in spoken voice and Audio, including music.

I sometimes listen to NPR, whose broadcasters are not selected for their melodic voices. The reproduction is so good I sometimes have to turn the volume down or reduce the treble sounds because their voices can be jarring.

There have been no pervasive reports on this specific issue seen here, so I simply can not support your suggestion that it is not working by design. Something else may be wrong, but you have not provided enough information to even think of what it might be.

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You seem fixated on the concept that the iPhone and your hearing aids are not working, by design.

I am trying to tell you I have NONE of your problems -- NONE! It works today, and works well.

MFI Hearing Aids ADDS to how well it all works together, and takes away NOTHING.

If you remain convinced there is a problem, you should contact both the Hearing Aid Vendor and Apple Accessibility Support:

Accessibility Support - Official Apple Support

I was thinking about what you said, especially the word "tinny".

I remember telling my audiologist my first hearing aids sounded "tinny". She checked everything was operating correctly, then glanced back at my hearing profile. Then she said, "Of course what you are hearing sounds 'tinny'. These hearing aids are so good, they are sending you high frequency sounds you have not heard in DECADES. If your hearing aids were not so good at sending you all those treble sounds, it would sound "regular". And "regular" for you hasn't had any high frequency it is for a long time."

My newest hearing Aids produce WAY more high frequency sounds than my good older set. Do you know how Loud an electric toothbrush can be? Or a faucet aerator? Man, those things are Loud! And full of high frequency sounds that could easily be called "tinny".

if treble sounds are too strong, you can reduce them by touching the button labeled "sound enhancer at the bottom of any screen. Sound Enhancer looks like this:

just drag the Treble part of the curve downward to Cut, up to Boost

LE Audio works. Perhaps your iPhone is not working properly.

What EXACTLY are you trying to do with LE Audio?.

Please provided details of what you are trying to connect with what.

what do you try?

what do you expect to happen?

what happens instead?

how does this fall short of your expectations?

If, after a few weeks, you continue to find those high frequency sounds too jarring, I suggest you ask your Provider (or Virtual Provider) to turn down the highest frequency sounds a little.

I considered doing that with my new Hearing Aids, but at this writing, I think I am happier hearing those sounds, even if the seem a little off to my ear after so long away.

This blog says that MFI hearing aids already use Bluetooth LE.

https://lexiehearing.com/us/library/all-about-apple-iphone-hearing-aid-compatibility

If you are asking when the iPhone will be able to receive Auracast, that is not an issue. Your MFi hearing aids pick up AuraCast DIRECTLY, and do not need the iPhone to accomplish that. The iPhone allows you to specify which Auracast Stream to connect to when multiple streams are present.

referring back to the iPhone screenshot I posted earlier, my older hearing aids can be paired with an alternate sound source. In this case, it is an older TV Streamer-2 at the top of the screenshot labeled TV/Multi-Mult.

NB>> this connection is to the hearing Aids DIRECTLY, Not to the iPhone.

On the newer ones that supports AuraCast directly, the hearing Aids (not the iPhone) connect in a similar way, but no explicit pairing is required.

what make & Model are your hearing Aids?

MFI or not?

is there an App for that?