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# AXMFiHearingDevice

A namespace for hearing device accessibility symbols in Swift.

```
struct AXMFiHearingDevice
```

## Topics

### Streaming status

[`static func streamingEar() -> AXMFiHearingDevice.Ear`](/documentation/Accessibility/AXMFiHearingDevice/streamingEar())

Returns which ears enable streaming.

[`struct Ear`](/documentation/Accessibility/AXMFiHearingDevice/Ear)

Constants that represent a hearing device ear.

[`static let streamingEarDidChangeNotification: NSNotification.Name`](/documentation/Accessibility/AXMFiHearingDevice/streamingEarDidChangeNotification)

A notification that the system posts when there’s a change to which ears enable streaming.

### Streaming type

[`static func supportsBidirectionalStreaming() -> Bool`](/documentation/Accessibility/AXMFiHearingDevice/supportsBidirectionalStreaming())

Returns a Boolean value that indicates whether the iOS device supports bidirectional
streaming.

### Paired hearing devices

[`static func pairedDeviceIdentifiers() -> [UUID]`](/documentation/Accessibility/AXMFiHearingDevice/pairedDeviceIdentifiers())

Returns the UUIDs of the hearing device peripherals.

[`static let pairedUUIDsDidChangeNotification: NSNotification.Name`](/documentation/Accessibility/AXMFiHearingDevice/pairedUUIDsDidChangeNotification)

A notification that the system posts when there’s a change to the UUIDs of the hearing
device peripherals.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`BitwiseCopyable`](/documentation/Swift/BitwiseCopyable)

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