I have used iPhones and iPads for many years. I am a disable veteran and rely on Oticon MFi hearing aids to function. Since the early releases of iOS 11 beta, which I tested, these hearing aids have not worked correctly. It is probably related to Bluetooth and how it is implemented.
iPhone 8, iOS 11.1
Hi SpunkyinAZ. The problems that I'm having with my Resound Line 9 MFi hearing aids are similar to yours. With iOS 11 on an iPhone 8, they are very slow to make a connection either on a call or when streaming a talking book. The connection is then extremely erratic, switching from aid to aid and sometimes failing totally and reverting to the phone's speaker. I have worked round the problem by buying a device that Resound call a clip; I think they are generically called streamers. This small device has to be worn and its job is to sit in the communication between the iPhone and the hearing aids. The iPhone is paired with the clip by standard b bluetooth and the clip is paired with the hearing aids using the low energy bluetooth the MFi hearing aids use. This means that the low energy bluetooth connection is between two devices made by Resound and removes Apple support from the picture. The iPhone communicates with the clip as if it were a standard bluetooth headset. The clip cost me around £200. I'm now pretty confident that the problem is with Apple withdrawing support for older versions of the MFi hearing aid standard, so it may be the those of use who have older models (mine are just three years old) may never have Apple fix this. I'm trying to confirm this but I did learn it from an authoritative source. Sadly, it's common practice for the IT industry to stop providing support for older standards. Think of all those different floppy disks that our older computers used. I think we'll discover that hearing aids are no different. They may all look the same, but internally they will be using different standards to communicate with phones as the technology evolves and it's very unlikely that Apple or other manufacturers will support older devices forever. We may just be unfortunate in having purchased or acquired devices that were among the last to use an older standard. The good news is that streamers aren't terribly expensive and they seem to work.
I have an SE and wear Resound Linx HAs. Since installing 11.4.1 today, incoming calls ring the first two times at the phone then stream to the HAs on the third ring. After that I can hear the caller via my HAs. An improvement over 11.4 but not as good as before 11.0.
Hi. You mentioned you bought a device for a few hundred bucks but did not tell us the name of the device and where it can be purchased. Please pass along this info.
Thanks in advanced.
Charlie
Well it’s February 25th 2018 with IOS 11.2.6 installed and my Oticon’s are still very flakey with my iPhome 10. Apple and Oticon need to step up. This is really a problem,
No problem, ReSound LS961-DRW
I have the same problem with Oticon Opn. The music will come through, but the crakling is really bad at times. The phone calls will not go through at all to my aids. It *****!!
As I said I WILL NOT beta test Apple11.4.1 it is obvious someone at Apple is deaf get a pair of Beltone's and go Beta yourself in a corner somwhere we are sick of excuses.
Well duh what have we been talking about for 5 pages. Apple screwed the pooch on ios11 for a lot of Mifi users.
did you update to 11.4? Still Working? My Beltone 17's no longer connect to my iPhone SE and it is maddening.
BTW I have Beltone Trust 17 same as Resound
Linx 3d
Mike, does your Apple Watch function as a microphone to your HA through Apple Live Listen?
Quit hijacking this thread I do not want useless notifications that do not address Ios 11.4 not working with our aids properly. Live listen mic etc. are not part of this thread
Aplogies....and kcb1325 might get more reponses to his question in a separate thread.
Still waiting for some feed back if some one have usedthe released (not beta) version of 11.4.1?
Not encouraging from what I have read all it does is prevent hacking the phone. No mention of improved Mifi function.
ChrisJ4203, thanks very much for getting back on this. My Linx hearing aids were bought about three years ago, which is why I was particularly disappointed that iOS 11 no longer streamed reliably to them.
It's interesting to learn that your hearing aids may also be the original Linx model. I suppose that there may have been some changes during the lifetime of the Linx model. I'd be very grateful if you could let me know the model number that is reported at Settings/General?Accessibility/MFI hearing devices. My LiNX 3d hearing aids show up as LT961-DRW, for example. My original Linx 9 hearing aids show as LiNX 961. It would be interesting new information if your hearing aids appear to be the same as my Linx hearing aids since that would suggest that I need to revise my analysis!
Thanks again, Brian
iOS 11 does not work correctly with MFi hearing aids and Apple MUST fix this ASAP, right?
