After realizing my old iPad that is several years old is truly obsolete, I have a brand new 2024 iPad Air with M2 processor enroute to me.
With its M2 processor, will it be able to output the sound from online YouTube videos directly to my Jabra 20 HAs, so that I can listen to them without my wife needing to also having to listen to them?
Currently, I have been using my MacBook Air with M1 (not M2) processor to watch and listen to online videos, but the M1-equipped MacBook Air does NOT support direct sound output to hearing aids, so I have had to put on a headphone set whenever I want to watch and listen to an online video, so that I don’t disturb my wife who reads and does word puzzles while sitting right beside me. That gets pretty old pretty quickly.
Would really like to know how to do this. I have the Oticon More 1’s and I listen to YouTube with earbuds. Works ok but I feel like an idiot pulling one aid out to replace it with an earbud. I tried to pair my aids to my IPad Air and found it a pain to pair and unpair and re pair when switching between things.
There is a lot of misunderstanding about pairing hearing aids to phones and tablets. I think you may not have understood it yet.
First of all you have to introduce the hearing aids to a phone or tablet for the first time. This is called “pairing”. You don’t need to do that again unless something odd happens.
Secondly whenever you want your previously-introduced hearing aids to connect to your phone or tablet, you have to “connect” them. This is not pairing and happens often.
An obvious analogy is that you need to be introduced to someone or introduce yourself to become friends (paired). But after that you don’t need to be introduced again, you just need to meet them or phone them (connect).
So with Jabras you need to pair once with anything you want to connect to. You can’t connect with another device unless you disconnect with anything you are currently connected to. You can do this by moving out of Bluetooth range of the first device or by turning off Bluetooth on the existing device. Now if you are close to the second device, previously-paired hearing aids will connect to the second device. And so on indefinitely. No new pairing required!
In the Jabra app on IOS, in settings, you can select “Optimise MFI connection”. This means the disconnection/reconnection process is made much easier, but the cost is that the app takes longer to connect with your hearing aids whenever you select it.
This is obviously the same for GN Resound hearing aids which are identical to Jabra (Jabra is just a budget price re-branding of Resound-manufactured aids). But some other brands allow you to connect to more than one device at the same time, but the distinction between pairing and connection is just the same. I don’t know how Oticon handles this distinction, but it will still be there.