Spatial Audio for AirPods

This year’s iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 updates will also bring Spatial Audio to the AirPods Pro, allowing users to get an immersive sound experience when watching content that’s encoded in Dolby Digital 5.1/7.1 or Dolby Atmos.

This is actually even more magical than it sounds, since not only did Apple have to deal with the challenges of making spatial audio work on a single pair of earbuds, but it’s also leveraging the accelerometers and gyroscopes in the AirPods, iPhone, and iPad to automatically remap the sound field according to your head motion and device position, so that sounds always appear to be coming from the correct direction regardless of where you turn your head or move your device.

In addition, Apple also promises that iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 will provide much more seamless switching of AirPods between devices, saving users the need to automatically reconnect their AirPods to a different device when moving between their iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Mac.