Android is adding Auracast support, which allows hearing aids to connect to public audio broadcasts

Google introduced on Thursday that Android telephones will quickly help Auracast, a brand new Bluetooth know-how that makes use of a cellphone to allow a direct connection from listening to aids to audio broadcasts in noisy environments.

With Auracast, appropriate listening to aids and earbuds can obtain direct audio streams, comparable to a PA system at a prepare station or an audio broadcast at a live performance. Google notes that listening to support presets will be utilized to those broadcasts, which implies customers can personalize streams to their listening to.

At launch, the function is coming to Samsung Galaxy telephones with One UI 7 and Google Pixel 9 telephones working the newest Android 16 beta. The function works with appropriate LE Audio listening to aids, together with ones from firms like GN Listening to and Starkey.

Google additionally introduced that Pixel 9 gadgets can now connect with broadcasts by QR codes, which removes the necessity for folks to enter their settings when making an attempt to entry a public broadcast.

The newest Android 16 beta additionally brings a brand new accessibility function that may enable customers with low imaginative and prescient to stipulate textual content with a purpose to make it simpler to learn. It additionally features a Native Community Safety (LNP) function that Google says will give “customers extra management over which apps can entry gadgets on their native community.”

Android 16 is anticipated to launch someday in June.