Three young tech enthusiasts from India have found a workaround to activate the hearing aid feature on Apple's AirPods Pro 2. The feature is currently unavailable in India. They achieved this by creating a device that tricks the AirPods into believing they are in the US.

Three friends in Bengaluru, India, found a way to activate the hearing aid feature on Apple's new AirPods Pro 2, which is currently unavailable in the

Apple released a hearing aids feature for the AirPods Pro a while ago. I bought a pair for grandma, but then realized that the feature was geoblocked in India So we at @_lagrangepoint decided to unblock it. It ended up involving a leaky microwave and building a Faraday cage: pic.twitter.com/G7E3Bl6f7W — Rithwik Jayasimha (@thel3l) November 12, 2024

Researchers have turned a pair of AirPods Pro into a hearing aid for their grandma through using a microwave oven and Faraday cage.

Three Bengaluru youths ingeniously modify AirPods to enable a hearing aid feature for their grandmothers, overcoming regulatory challenges in India. Their innovative journey highlights technology's potential to address real-world issues for the elderly.

In a heart warming development, three young tech enthusiasts from Bengaluru have found a way to enable the hearing aid feature in Apple’s AirPods Pro 2, a function blocked in India due to regulatory restrictions.