Can Hearing aids that are Bluetooth capable be used on a Windows 11 laptop?

There is nothing to add to this list for Microsoft.

The list exists for Apple because Apple makes the iPhone and the iPhone is governed by the FCC. Then Apple started making the iPads and they share many of the hardware and OS components. Then Apple ditched Intel CPU and put an ARM chip inside their actual macos laptops. So their actual macos laptops share many of the hardware and OS components as the original iPhone (which is governed by the FCC).

Microsoft doesn't make any smartphones. So they never were required to make anything compatible with hearing aids.

Now it is UP TO THE HARDWARE MANUFACTURERS (like Dell) to design their PC's to include a bluetooth 5.3 LE chipset and the appropriate bluetooth 5.3 LE hearing aid compatible bluetooth driver. And it is UP TO THE HEARING AID MANUFACTURERS to adopt bluetooth 5.3 LE into their hearing aids.

And your Windows laptops can be like this laptop, the hardware is Bluetooth 5.2 ready but the laptop only has Bluetooth 5.1 drivers available.

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_X1_Yoga_Gen_7/ThinkPad_X1_Yoga_Gen_7_Spec.pdf

Do you know what is so great about industry standard like Bluetooth? You don't need such list at all.

1. your Apple AirPods have fine print telling you that certain functions only works with this specific iPhone 14 or above with iOS version 16+ --- that means those functions are NOT bluetooth
2. your Sony or Bose wireless headphones have fine print telling you to download the Sony or Bose app on your phones --- that means those functions are NOT bluetooth.
3. and why is Sony or Bose not making those apps for the Windows Store for the windows pc?

Industry standard such as Bluetooth means that if your car has Bluetooth and your phone has Bluetooth, then all you need to do is do a PIN exchange. You don't need to look through a list of a thousand car head units or a thousand wireless headset models and check their os versions. You don't have to download an app for your car and for your phone.

This giant list on Apple's website is the result of a bunch of companies each of them having their own proprietary stuff attempting to interoperate with each other without an industry standard. That's why this giant list exists.

I posted a list of Apple iMacs, MacBooks and iPads that work with hearing aids.

Recommend actually visiting the link because it may be updated by the time you read this.

I would like it if Microsoft had a list of tested compatible hardware because BT LE is definitely not enough.

There are Apple MAC devices that Apple claims pair with hearing aids, some only as one-way speakers, others that can use the microphone.

The below list of hearing aids are known to work with some Apple computers, so they might also work with Windows PCs.

List of Made for iPhone hearing devices

Then scroll way way way down or search in the webpage for

“Supports hearing devices that use bidirectional streaming”

iPhone 11 or later using iOS 15.2 or later

iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) or later using iPadOS 15.2 or later

iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) or later using iPadOS 15.2 or later

iPad Air (4th generation) or later using iPadOS 15.2 or later

iPad mini (6th generation) or later using iPadOS 15.2 or later

MacBook Pro introduced in 2021 or later using macOS Sonoma 14 or later

MacBook Air introduced in 2022 or later using macOS Sonoma 14 or later

iMac introduced in 2023 or later using macOS Sonoma 14 or later

Mac mini introduced in 2023 or later using macOS Sonoma 14 or later

Mac Studio introduced in 2022 or later using macOS Sonoma 14 or later

Mac Pro introduced in 2023 or later using macOS Sonoma 14 or later

Apple Vision Pro using visionOS 1 or later

https://support.apple.com/en-us/106341

my old hearing aids always work with windows 10, my new hp with windows 11 does not pare, i have tried all MS advice and tips, doesn't work. I found i do not have le audio technology on my windows 11 version 23H2 . what can i do?

Go and read your hearing aid manual, it will tell you which bluetooth version (if there is) is in your hearing aid. If they work on your windows 10 without any bridge devices, the hearing aids are most likely Bluetooth 4.0.

This is from some Phonak's hearing aid manual:

It does not make any sense that your older Windows 10 computer would have Bluetooth LE Audio and your newer Windows 11 computer doesn't.

A long summer vacation without me and this thread has gone sideways real fast.

For the thousand time, there is no such thing as Michael Jurist's "proprietary bluetooth" and Rob_85's "normal bluetooth". Bluetooth is Bluetooth. It's all or nothing.

In Bluetooth 3.0 HS (high speed), Bluetooth uses its own antenna for handshake/PIN exchange and uses the wifi antenna (with its own bluetooth protocol) for the high speed data transfer.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/bluetooth-3-0-what-you-need-to-know-and-some-stuff-you-probably-dont/

We DON'T call Bluetooth 3.0 HS as "proprietary wifi" even though it uses the wifi antenna and we DON'T call wifi as "normal wifi". Wifi is Wifi. Just as Bluetooth is Bluetooth.

"Made for iPhone" hearing aids uses the proprietary Apple wireless protocol and "Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids*"* uses Android's proprietary wireless protocol. Each hearing aids manufacturer has their own proprietary wireless protocol that talks to their own ConnectClip type dongle. Many of them use the Bluetooth antenna, but we DON'T call them proprietary Bluetooth. And we DON'T call Bluetooth as "normal Bluetooth".

Hello ! I'm Aymeric, and I'm here to help !

You can use Bluetooth hearing aids on your computer, as long as your PC is Bluetooth (which is the case!)
Just head to Windows Settings > Bluetooth and devices and click on the "Add device" button. Select the "Bluetooth" option and wait for your device to appear.
Make sure your audio device is in pairing mode, so it will appear on your screen.
When you see it, click on it : the pairing will be done.

Feel free to ask if you have any other question !

my old hearing aids always work with windows 10, my new hp with windows 11 does not pare, i have tried all MS advice and tips, doesn't work. I found i do not have le audio technology on my windows 11 version 23H2 . what can i do?