@1Bluejay Sorry, but my post were bit misleading. The Phonak aids have a classic bluetooth and also LE Bluetooth , if you check in the bluetooth settings you will find three entries for the aids
- one Audio Connection (for streaming to the master hearing aid) no App needed
- two LE-connections (Low Energy Bluetooth for changing settings in left/right aid via MyPhonak App)
The single Bluetooth connection via “Audio Connection” to the Phone is always on, after the aids were initially paired. The pairing process need to be done once and then it is finaly paired and aids are permanently paired. This is the classic bluetooth and is for audio streaming, this also include phone calls. You are right that one is able to instant make or receive streamed phone calls without doing a thing. You just to make sure that bluetooth in the phone is enabled. Thats it.
The MyPhonak App is NOT needed for streaming.
The thing with the MyPhonak app is that the App uses the two LE-bluetooth connections for editing settings in the hearing aids. With the older versions of the app the LE-connections to left/right were always droped after you leave the app, or the app were put in the back, or the phone going to sleep.
Prior the newest update of the MyPhonak app the LE connection always needed a view seconds to establish the connection to the hearing aids, and whenever you opened the app there were a notice “connecting” and you had to wait a bit before you could edit settings in the aids.
With the new update of MyPhonak App you have the option, to enable “always connected”, and with that option ON the App is always connected to the hearing aids, so you don’t need to wait for connect when you open the App.