The emission of information signals for informing a user about specific settings or statuses of a hearing aid should be improved. In addition, it is proposed to offer the user a plurality of different information signals which he can freely assign to different settings and or statuses of the hearing aid. In addition, different information signals are emitted as a function of the currently available hearing situation and/or the currently set hearing program for one and the same setting and/or for one and the same status of the hearing aid. The user is thus able to better identify the information signals.