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Hearing aids
Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 11 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Assistive hearing devices are hard to use and don't just workUnreviewed
20132026- Assistive hearing devices are hard to use and don't just work2025-11-24
- Dreads touchscreen and app controls replacing physical buttons on hearing aids2024-05-29
- Tiny volume buttons on the hearing aid are hard to find and press2020-09-24
Hearing aid companion apps have poor UX and tuning setup causes problemsUnreviewed
20132026- Hearing aid companion apps have poor UX and setup tuning causes problems2024-11-13
- Hearing aids keep auto-adjusting in noisy settings at unwanted times, and user cannot easily change this themselves2019-09-13
- Hearing aid app ignores iOS font size settings and has a background picture that makes controls hard to focus on2019-05-11
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 12 complaints
- Users can't adjust their own settings; the companion app is a stripped-down subset2026-10-01
- Assistive hearing devices are hard to use and don't just work2025-11-24
- Hearing aid companion apps have poor UX and setup tuning causes problems2024-11-13
- Dreads touchscreen and app controls replacing physical buttons on hearing aids2024-05-29
- App connection takes forever and frequently fails, clashing with Android pairing2024-05-29
- Accessories are annoying and make comparing prices painful2022-08-18
- Tiny volume buttons on the hearing aid are hard to find and press2020-09-24
- Phone app feels slow and cumbersome; switching Bluetooth devices is a pain2020-09-24
- Can't enable a feature from the on-board controls or remote, only through the phone app2020-07-11
- Hearing aids keep auto-adjusting in noisy settings at unwanted times, and user cannot easily change this themselves2019-09-13
- Hearing aid app ignores iOS font size settings and has a background picture that makes controls hard to focus on2019-05-11
- Phone calls are very hard because the hearing aid picks up ambient noise and speaker sound2014-06-18