Oticon, ReSound, Siemens, Sonic, and Widex hearing aids all connect directly to an app on your phone via bluetooth. You can control things like volume, programs, tone, and directional microphone. You can stream phone calls and music straight from the phone to the hearing aids. Oticon, Sonic, and ReSound apps can find your hearing aids by GPS if you lose them. Oticon just streamed the world’s first live rock concert to its hearing aid wearers. These apps work directly with iPhones, but need a streamer that clips on your shirt in order to work with an Android phone.

Bluetooth technology isn’t perfect though, so sometimes it disconnects. For anyone who wears bluetooth connected aids, here’s a cheat sheet on how to reconnect them:

1) open hearing aid battery doors
2) go to “Settings” on the phone
3) go to “general”
4) go to “accessibility”
5) go to “hearing devices”
6) choose “forget device”
7) go back to “general” screen
8) close hearing aid battery doors
9) go to “accessibility”
10) go to “hearing devices”
11) tap on your name displayed
12) once it displays you name and “L” and “R”, choose it.

ReSound also has a customer connectivity help phone number: 888-735-4327 #1