Share a broadcast by QR code. While you're listening, tap Show QR code and hold up your phone: a friend can scan it with HearAura or with their hearing aid's own app, including brands that only join Auracast by QR. Broadcasts you found by searching nearby can now be shared too.

HearAura now speaks French: the whole app, the Apple Watch app, widgets, Lock Screen captions and Siri phrases. Help videos have French and German text under each video. Translated captions: on iOS 18 and later, caption lines in another language can show translated on your iPhone, marked ≈, with the original one tap away. HearAura asks before downloading a language. Choose your microphone: on iOS 26, pick the captions microphone in the app. With AirPods that support it, far-field mode listens to the room. A line shows which mic is actually captioning. Sound markers (off by default): while captions use a microphone, notes like [siren] or [doorbell] appear when a sound is clearly recognized. It is not an alarm or safety system. Channels: save a conversation to Captions with who said what and when. In Take turns, ask for a turn from your Apple Watch. Room messages show in each phone's own language. Catch me up now answers in the language of the conversation. Also fixed: rejoining a channel right after leaving could hang, and the old room code could stay on screen after leaving.

Channels, Take turns: one person talks at a time. Everyone sees who is talking in large type, and a queue shows who is next. Anyone can type instead of talking, and you can set each person's volume. Captions at a glance: the newest words show in the Dynamic Island, on the Lock Screen and on Apple Watch, and captions keep running with the phone locked. You can hide the words in Settings. Catch me up: on iPhones with Apple Intelligence, a short summary of the conversation, made on the device. On iOS 26, captions use Apple's newer on-device speech engine, made for long conversations. Hearing aids that aren't Made for iPhone: HearAura can now find LE Audio hearing aids and earbuds nearby and connect to them itself. iPhone asks you to pair, then you join broadcasts as usual. Find it on the Listen tab. Which hearing aids work? A new page explains the three kinds of Bluetooth hearing devices and how to tell which you have. Hearing programs: with LE Audio hearing aids that support it, switch your aids' programs from the Listen tab. Help videos: six short, silent videos with every word on screen explain Auracast, pairing and joining a broadcast. Find them in Settings. Device check: a new screen tells you in plain language what your hearing aids can actually do, and it works with no broadcast anywhere nearby. Open it from the Listen tab. Volume and mute now keep working when the phone is locked and pocketed. HearAura holds the connection to your hearing aids in the background, so the controls on your Apple Watch stay live during a broadcast. Diagnostics: Settings now shows the crash and performance reports iOS keeps on your iPhone, so you can send them to support if you ever need to. Nothing is sent automatically, ever. Also fixed: joining a channel could stall when a previous channel had just ended, a dismissed demo kept running in the background, and leaving a channel could leave the old room code on screen.

HearAura now speaks German: the whole app, the watch app, and every permission prompt. Captions got a major upgrade: - Captions and the Start button now sit at the top of the tab - The screen stays awake while captions run - Meeting Mode only records once captions are actually running - On non-English iPhones, Whisper uses multilingual models Also fixed: the QR scanner keeps scanning after a non-Auracast code, clearer guidance when Bluetooth is off, more reliable joins from links and Siri, and steadier Apple Watch volume control.