Apple's HomePods finally get Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio support

(Pocket-lint) - Apple's ain astute speakers, the nifty HomePod Mini and progressively forgotten HomePod, are getting the features that person been flooding successful for its AirPods successful caller months, namely Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio support.

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The latest betas for iOS 15 and HomePod bundle person added toggles for the speakers to alteration and disable the features, demonstrating that they're intelligibly successful the pipeline for a wider release.

For now, though, the toggles aren't adjacent appearing for 100 percent of users who are connected some the beta slices, truthful it's not precisely astir to rotation retired to everyone.

This isn't coming retired of the blue, though. Apple did archer america that it would beryllium bringing lossless audio to the speakers down the line, arsenic you'd anticipation fixed their highly awesome audio performance. What we didn't person was a timeline, and to beryllium just we inactive don't.

Still, the information that the toggles are appearing arsenic portion of the iOS 15 beta makes it look wholly imaginable that the afloat merchandise of the OS volition beryllium the constituent astatine which the features go accessible to everyone with a HomePod of either variety.

Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 13 August 2021.