How many listeners carry a telecoil, an Auracast-capable device or a smartphone?

Why it matters

In a looped room, listeners with a telecoil need no borrowed receiver, while FM and infrared systems need a receiver for every listener, used with earphones or a neckloop¹. Auracast reaches listeners whose hearing device or earbuds can receive it^2,3, and Wi-Fi streaming reaches those with a smartphone, the venue's app and a way to get the sound into their ears⁴. Everyone else depends on a loan receiver, and loan receivers are used less: in the CCAA survey (1,519 self-selected respondents recruited through hearing-loss websites and groups, two-thirds with severe-to-profound loss, run by a committee of hearing-loss advocates, among them the loop advocates Stephen O. Frazier (its chair), Juliëtte Sterkens and David Myers; funding not stated), 37% to 39% always or usually borrowed the headset or neckloop receivers a venue offered, while 69% of respondents with telecoils always or usually listened through a hearing loop where one was installed^5,6. In Kochkin and colleagues' 2014 survey of 243 loop users, mostly HLAA members, paid for by grants from loop, assistive listening and hearing-device technology companies, 81% preferred a loop to FM or infrared with a neckloop or headset⁷. Because few listeners yet have Auracast hearing devices, advocates expect early Auracast systems to be used like FM or infrared, with loan receivers^8,9.

What the evidence shows

• What the figures count. Most figures below count hearing aid models on offer, what owners say their aids have, or phone ownership in the general population. The author of the ten-year database count notes that availability does not translate directly into sales or use¹⁰, and owners' surveys measure what owners know, with 26% to 63% unsure whether their aids have a telecoil^11,12,13.
• Telecoils in models on offer: falling. Consumer Reports, citing the Consumer's Guide to Hearing Aids, reports that 59% of the prescription models listed in 2026 had a manual telecoil, standard or optional, against 79% of models listed in 2016; makers join the guide voluntarily¹⁴. A loop advocate's count from the same guide found that 291 of 349 models large enough for a telecoil offered one in 2017 and 176 of 235 in 2020 (83% to 75%), or 58% of all 302 listed models once invisible in-canal models are counted, with wide differences between brands¹⁵. An analysis of 806 models released from 2012 to 2021, prepared for the ATIS Hearing Aid Compatibility Task Force from HearingTracker's database, found that telecoil inclusion "has somewhat declined" as Bluetooth grew; of the models released from 2017 to 2021, taken as those on the market in 2021, 54% had a telecoil and 80% had Bluetooth¹⁰. In Germany, a TU Dresden researcher's own 2013 count of the 860 hearing aid models then on the German market found almost two-thirds with a telecoil or able to be fitted with one¹⁶.
• Over-the-counter aids. Over-the-counter hearing aids typically lack telecoils, according to Consumer Reports¹⁴. When it created the category in 2022, the FDA declined a request to require a telecoil or Bluetooth, saying telecoils may suit larger devices but users may prefer smaller ones and that such requirements could raise cost and hinder innovation; it also declined to require telecoil information on the package, because not all over-the-counter aids will have one, while requiring an aid that has one to explain it in its labelling¹⁷.
• Telecoils by owners' own account: a minority. In MarkeTrak, the consumer survey commissioned by the US hearing aid industry association, among owners who got hearing aids within the previous five years, 23% of 782 in MarkeTrak 9 (2015), 20% of 702 in MarkeTrak 10 and 33% of 815 in MarkeTrak 2022 said their aids have a telecoil^18,11, and 24% of 887 in MarkeTrak 2025, fielded in late 2024, when 29% were unsure¹². In the independent consumer organisation Consumer Reports’ 2023 member survey, 10% of respondents with prescription hearing aids said theirs had a telecoil; the cited article gives no sample size for that figure¹⁴. In the UK survey commissioned by the manufacturers' associations, 11% of 718 owners said their aids have a telecoil, 26% said no and 63% did not know¹³; RNID cites a 2022 UK survey in which 15% knew they had one¹⁹.
• Why owners' answers vary. In MarkeTrak 2022, owners fitted in person reported a telecoil less often (29%) than owners fitted remotely (59%); the author says it is unclear whether this reflects the devices on offer or professionals' choices¹⁸. The MarkeTrak 2025 authors report that owners' knowledge of telecoils fell compared with MarkeTrak 2022¹². In Kochkin's survey, only 35% said their hearing care professional had demonstrated the telecoil⁷.
• Higher in a self-selected survey recruited through hearing-loss networks. In the CCAA survey, whose respondents were nearly 80% seniors and 66% with severe-to-profound loss, 52% knew their devices had a telecoil (70% counting telecoil-capable remote microphones as an accessory path to a venue loop, rather than as a venue system), 17% had one but did not use it, and 17% knew nothing about telecoils before the survey⁵.
• Implant processors. The Center for Hearing Access says all cochlear implant and bone conduction devices have telecoils, while its own maker list shows several processors reaching a telecoil only through an accessory or adaptor²⁰. A Swiss list dated 31 August 2026 gives the two bone-conduction implants it lists telecoil access only with an accessory²¹.
• Auracast in hearing devices: offered in many lines, rare in use. Advocates estimated that 99% of users lacked an Auracast-capable hearing instrument in December 2024⁸, 99.9% in January 2025⁹ and 95% on an undated page²², each given as an estimate. On the supply side, the Swiss list shows 20 of 27 hearing aid and implant product lines as Auracast capable and 7 as "ready", including all three cochlear implant processors listed²¹. Manufacturer MED-EL said in April 2025 that its processors cannot receive Auracast directly²³, and an independent University of São Paulo review of 17 documents, supported by a FAPESP grant and a PIBIC scholarship and covering literature through April 2025, notes that Auracast hearing aids were not available in product lines for children at the time of the review²⁴. In an RNID station trial in March 2026, one of ten hearing device users had Auracast in their own device; the others used loaned receivers. The report was funded by the Motability Foundation²⁵.
• How fast the devices in use change. Advocates say hearing instruments are typically kept 4 to 7 years⁹ or 5 to 7 years or more⁸. Swiss guidance says six years or more and expects the move from telecoil to Auracast to take up to ten years²⁶. In the UK the median age of hearing aids at replacement was four years¹³, and RNID notes that NHS hearing aids are usually replaced every three to four years¹⁹.
• Smartphones: most adults, fewer older adults. In the independent Pew Research Center’s 2025 national survey of 5,022 US adults, 91% owned a smartphone, against 78% of those aged 65 and over, and 16% of those 65 and over had a cellphone that is not a smartphone; the survey gives no breakdown by hearing loss²⁷. In industry-commissioned MarkeTrak 10, fielded in 2018, 86% of respondents with hearing loss had a cellphone and 78% of those phones were smartphones; the cited article does not give the number answering the phone questions¹¹. IAHA, an industry association that includes makers and user groups, notes that a significant share of the people concerned do not have a smartphone⁴. In a US government-funded 2013 convenience sample of 180 people with hearing loss, in a survey designed to test demand for an app-based system, 86% of smartphone users said they would use an assistive listening app if one existed²⁸.
• A phone is one link in the chain. For Wi-Fi streaming, listeners also need the venue's app and a way to get the sound into hearing aids: Bluetooth, a neckloop with the telecoil, or headphones⁴. MarkeTrak owners reporting direct streaming from a smartphone rose from 2% in MarkeTrak 9 to 13% in MarkeTrak 10 and 44% in MarkeTrak 2022¹⁸. For Auracast, Google's September 2025 list covered only select Android phones, and both the phone and the headphones must support LE Audio³. Phones whose Bluetooth predates Core 5.2 cannot scan for broadcasts themselves, though a receiver can pass its list to an app on such a phone²⁹.

Where sources disagree

A maker's 2023 guide to the ADA states that about 80% of hearing aids dispensed in the United States have telecoils, citing a local HLAA chapter's web page³⁰. Counts of models give 54% to 59% of the models released or listed^10,14,15, or 75% in 2020 once invisible in-canal models, too small for a telecoil, are left out¹⁵, and owners' answers 10% to 33%^14,18,12. The figures count different things (aids dispensed, models listed, what owners know), and the author of the database count says that availability does not translate directly into sales or use¹⁰.

Sources also differ on the trend. Model shares fell^14,15, while the author of the German count wrote in 2014 that the long-feared decline had not happened¹⁶; EFHOH reports that some makers have removed the telecoil³¹; in 2020, WS Audiology described "a temporary dip" in Rexton models with a telecoil, and Starkey said it remained "strongly committed to providing telecoil solutions"¹⁵. MarkeTrak owners' reports rose from 20% to 33% between MarkeTrak 10 and MarkeTrak 2022, then stood at 24% in MarkeTrak 2025^18,12. Advocates quoted by Consumer Reports attribute the fall in models to smaller aids and to new product lines launching with a small flagship model without a telecoil¹⁴. On whether telecoils should be required, the FDA gave size, cost and innovation as reasons not to require telecoils in over-the-counter aids¹⁷, and EFHOH asks that publicly procured hearing aids and implants be required to have both a telecoil and Auracast³¹.

The advocates' estimates of users without Auracast range from 95% to 99.9%, all from people working with the Center for Hearing Access and each given as an estimate^22,8,9. The same organisation's statement that all implant and bone conduction devices have telecoils sits beside its own list of processors that rely on accessories²⁰.

What would settle it

A count of the devices listeners actually wear, from a representative sample of people with hearing loss: hearing aids and processors with a telecoil program that works with loops, devices that can join Auracast broadcasts now rather than after an update, and phones that can run a venue's app or select a broadcast. The cited sources show what is missing: model counts that do not reflect sales or use¹⁰, owners' surveys in which many do not know their aids' features and which do not ask about Auracast^13,12, Auracast figures that are estimates^8,9, and smartphone figures with no breakdown by hearing loss²⁷.

Planning while it is open

• Provide loan receivers with neckloops or headphones for listeners whose own devices cannot connect, as advocates expect early Auracast systems to need^8,9,2.
• Size receivers to the applicable rules whatever listeners carry: the 2010 ADA Standards set receiver numbers by seating capacity, and only the hearing-aid-compatible share falls away where a loop serves every seat^32,30.
• Where a system relies on listeners' phones, plan for those without one: one Wi-Fi maker recommends venue phones with its app preinstalled, plus neckloops or headphones³³, and RNID describes QR-code, NFC and on-device alternatives to choosing an Auracast stream on a phone¹⁹.
• Keep existing hearing loops tested and maintained while few listeners have Auracast devices, as RNID recommends¹⁹.
• Hearing professionals: tell clients about both telecoil and Bluetooth features and demonstrate both³⁴, and, when clients choose new devices, pass on the advice of Consumer Reports' experts, HLAA and loop advocates to look for both a telecoil and Auracast^14,2,9.
• When quoting a telecoil share, say what it counts (models listed, models released, aids dispensed or owners' answers) and the year, because a share of models is not a share of hearing aids sold or in use^10,14.

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• 10 October 2026Published with 34 sources.
• 13 October 2026Added survey sample sizes and funding, bounded the review date and clarified accessory and maintenance claims.
• 13 October 2026Independent audit removed an unverified commissioning attribution and an unstated phone-question denominator.

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