There is no option for phonak myapp in airplane mode. The first time you use the myapp it requires the location and that’s why it needs the Internet the first time you use the myapp. Most of the time watching TV, l set my phone on airplane mode because l usually don’t answer calls.
I don’t have a problem with the myphonak app on the road.
When l am watching TV or after changing program, l usually turn off my phone BT to help prolong the phone battery life.
I don’t get it! What business is it of theirs to ever need a location even ONCE? It seems that once I give a location, I’d need internet so the app can track where I am. GONG!
I’m just tired of giving everyone the keys to the kingdom so they can track and market me.
Their reason why it needs location and Internet is for to locate where your hearing aids are if you can’t find them. Some hearing aids and app can find where your missing aids are. They aren’t tracking you for marketing purposes.
If you own a newer car, the car manufacturer gets your data and sell them to marketing companies without your knowledge.
But LOL! If a person lost their aids, how does Phonak tell them the GPS coordinates - which may be 10 feet away from where the person stands? Do they send an email? Hope they don’t call on the phone, or I, for one, wouldn’t be able to hear them having lost my aids.
My Phonak aids doesn’t have the find my aids option so l have no clue why Phonak needs location access in my phone. Most of the time myphonakapp doesn’t need internet.
I always turn this off. No sharing data.
You just nailed it! Big Bro is out there keeping tabs on us. Even Sonova’s “cover”: saying they want to use this data for SECURE processing and improve functions doesn’t jibe with LOCATION needed to do so.
I have a better suggestion for Sonova to improve the functions and features: make it super easy to understand what’s being said in NOISY places. Look no further than that. Make that happen and your job’s DONE (says soprano preaching to the choir).
I know for wifi the country is needed for fixing exact bandwidth availability. I don’t know if something like that is needed for BT.
WH
I’m no techie, but I’m guessing NOT, cuz that’s why we have so many flavors of BT and why it keeps morphing into new directions. The LE Audio Auracast + BT connectivity is HORRIFIC to contemplate. It’s going to open a whole new era of technology that will reach out to ANYONE nearby to HEAR pointless, useless advertising garbage and public announcement nagging - whether we like it or not.
Just like our cell phones send alerts when you walk by Starbucks or Wiener King or WalMart or 99-cent Store, or … ad nauseum ads! Our ears will be assailed with aural messaging all throughout the day. I can even see this Auracast as taking precedence over one’s own BT PHONE CALL, interrupting critical calls with advertising/messaging garbage.
Is anyone advocating for the reality of US who wear aids and need BT connectivity with our personal cell phones? Didn’t think so. 
Getting back to the topic at hand here, I have some questions about myPhonak app that hopefully someone can answer:
OK. I guess that covers all my paranoia about myPhonak app. I’ve gotten used to myRoger (and it’s pretty tame - not even a volume slider on it!). But reading the folks have to put aids in “airplane mode” when using myPhonak is a BIG turnoff.
I dunno. There is a ton of interest on the part of HA wearers. There is at least one thread, maybe two that have gone over a thousand posts with latest news and conjecture about LE Audio and auracast. I don’t think “they” will be able to grab your HAs and pipe in crap without your permission. You will probably find it a pain in the butt to actually set up and use, at least the for generation or so. You will likely need an agent on your phone to find and assign a content stream.
WH
BLESS you for those answers. I now have an action item for my audi … I should at least TRY the myPhonak app, which can always be uninstalled if it’s a turkey. VERY glad to know I don’t have to have the app open when I’m using my phone for streaming.
The Phonaks don’t have LE audio yet. I expect the next gen Audeo to come out late this summer and maybe they will have it.
As for the pesky app, I wish it was a hair more stable. My cable internet went out this morning. I had an important call from a lawyer coming in. Would the HAs keep the phone call stream up? no. Dumped in the dirt. No option to send the call back to the HAs. Would the app find the HAs either? Nope. And I wonder if it was an issue with the wifi out. The phone saw all three connections in BT in settings, but nothing was working, of course. Ugh. I had LTE to make the call, but “wifi” was down. I managed to get the HAs in audio call program with the buttons and finish up that way, but what a PITA.
WH
ACK. That would be my nightmare! Important call - REFUSES to stream with BT.
So you don’t have a monthly cell phone plan like T-Mobile, Verizon, et al? Cuz that’s the safest workaround if internet & wifi are DOWN.
You need some kind of communication bandwidth to call on before you can even think about BT streaming the call.
My phone has minimal signal strength at the house. I live in the boonies. Not sure why the app & the HAs were screwed up.
Made addressing an issue I feel find distasteful even worse.
WH
Ah, GOT IT! Yeah … boonies are an even BIGGER reason to rely on battery-operated aids. Not that that would fix your wifi/internet issues. I FEEL FOR YA! Been in some boonies. Walked in your shoes.
