@KiwiJohn: FWIW, I have a set of EarGears in camo. The only time they are inconspicuous is when I’m wearing camo paint! (And I only wear that for groceries … 
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I DO : I put my hearing aids IN :
- I put a wig on,
a beanie cap -with -2 buttons on over that ,
next I put my covid MASK on ,
& THEN put a sun- HAT over all THAT -
for the last 3years .
IT keeps my hearing aids from falling OUT
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Dear Kev. Holy Smokes! I can’t imagine a nicer more well-liked person here than you. You are the very last person who owes anyone an apology.
Take care 
Jeff
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That is not the right analogy.
Imagine if every time you entered a meeting and watched TV with others, on screen would pop up Essilor Bi-Focals - 20/400 Right Eye Vision Device
They are making bluetooth capable prescription eyewear
So the question which I thought this was already resolved amicably by all involved was could the user change it, the answer is yes.
In a strange way, it almost appears as if some are making light because some wish to rename their $3,000 hearing aids? With that type of shaming coming from others with the same disability… no wonder some might be wish to maintain their hearing disability as long as possible.
Is it socially acceptable to buy Phonak’s Lyrics?
They are 100% Invisible.
Per Phonak Literature
- 100% Invisible - Placed in your ear canal, Lyric remains completely out of sight - invisible to the world.
But again renaming a Bluetooth device is not making your HA invisible It is an extension of one personal privacy.
I’ve had Phonak with Compilots for about 10 yeas. Politically correct? Not where i work.
With a microphone on too, I was asked if I ws videotaping meetings.
My boss was angry and extremely critical when I said to him in meeting on occasions that I couldn’t hear or understand what was said.
DaveL
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Yeah @DaveL, I know at certain companies, discrimination against the deaf/HOH workers is commonplace, and if you work for such a company, you might want to hide the fact that you have a hearing loss! I have been very fortunate not to experience this, we have laws in the UK to proactively discourage unscrupulous employers, my employer is a government run council workforce, (our area demographics, the size of Belgium) we have several thousand employees, and any form of discrimination is actively rooted out, we have a grievance procedure that must be adhered too, investigated & answered within 28 days! I can only say my employer has been wonderfully supportive of my hearing loss! I personally was on first name terms, with all department heads, I was a well known, and hopefully respected Union Representative, 10 hours per week were allotted into my working week for union duties alone, and sometimes much more if I was particularly busy, as I also doubled up with the “Joint Union’s negotiation team”…… Suffice to say, I took no sh1t from any management whatsoever, and I had many shouting matches with departmental heads, so much so, I had to occasionally email an apology for perhaps going OTT in an official meeting! My duty as I saw it, was to get the best deal possible for our workforce, and management were always trying to cut corners, to the detriment of the workforce…. Not on my watch, I was a stickler for employment law, and previously signed agreement’s…. Either join the Union (if you have one?) or raise an action/litigation against the offending employer on the grounds of disability discrimination…. Good Luck, cheers Kev
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30+ years ago my organization had a very poor way of handling people with disability in general. They might be tolerated. But there would be jokes. Cold reception. etc. I think it is quite different now among the majority. Some folks my age (old) and a few scattered along the way will still harbor ill will. And the abusers of the system still generate a fair amount of distrust that anyone claiming a disability isn’t going there or going to go there. I know of a case where someone “fell over backwards,” injuring their back, supposedly. Out on workman’s comp for YEARS. Forced to come back to work, the first week back fell over backwards in the same type of “accident” and was never seen again. They claimed the chair malfunctioned and dumped them over backwards. I’m not small, but they’ve never done that to me. Any way, that kind of thing generates mistrust.
I hope that we make progress in this. But alas. People are people.
WH
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2 sides to this. While employers and co-workers should make necessary accommodations we should be doing everything possible to hear in challenging situations. I attend a lot of meetings, if I didn’t use the Roger devices I would miss a lot.
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Not sure if this is the correct firum to answer this but:-
My wife and I both have Phonak aids so we wish to show a different name in Bluetooth so we know we are connected to the right device; I know but we are elderly!
Can I remane my Bluetooth Phonak L70-R to show a different name when pairing our Bluetooth devices?
Any help appreciated.
They come out as R-Phonak Hearing Aid in Bluetooth setting on Phone.
Changing the name can be done via the software.
The Bluetooth software can change the name after connection but if both our hearing aids broadcast the same name whist connecting we could connect the wrong ones?
Can I change the Bluetooth broadcast search name on the aids?
Did you read the second post in this thread from an expert?
You cannot change it but your hearing professional can.
Should have said Hearing Aid Software……
Thank you. Will ask my clinition to change it.
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Laughing at this. My 8 yo son last week genuinely thought I was having a full conversation with myself when I was on the phone!! (Mind, he regularly DOES have full-blown conversations with thin air, so it’s not unreasonable!)
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Where is the LOL button? 
I find this puzzling. Would it bother your if a pair of Sony headphones appeared in your Bluetooth devices under the name “Sony…”? The purpose here is to correctly identify the device you are pairing with (and to clearly differentiate it from what could be numerous other devices nearby), rather than marketing.
Here I am not referring at all to the issue of obscuring a device’s status as a hearing aid.
That is a very interesting point! In fact, isn’t it the case that even in a public place if someone is connecting to a device ALL available devices would show up on the list?!?
I’ve got my two pairs of Phonak aids named “Silver Lumity” and “Champagne Lumity” due to their different colors, but I can imagine someone in Starbucks finding them on their list of available devices and wondering who to ROB for silver and bubbly!
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LOL! Adorable! So many people walk around with earbuds talking into thin air I no longer even NOTICE things like that. But what gets some attention is when my cell phone rings in public with the “Mission Impossible” theme song blaring. Then I touch my ear and talk into thin air. Those folks are gonna scatter PDQ thinking I’m on the IMF team.
As if! 
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Weirdly, the stoopid BT app on my phone has an edit pencil icon that lets me change the name of my Lumity Life aid so it displays as the new name in my list of paired devices. But moments later, it reverts right back to its OLD name like a MULE. Or it simply won’t “find” it at all if want to re-pair it to my phone.
So to your point of having the audi do it in the Target sw, that’s what I’m going to have done this week.
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