Apple Could Introduce HiFi Support for Apple Music, New AirPods Soon

Apple Music may quickly get a HiFi music streaming tier that can embrace assist for Dolby Atmos, Dolby Audio, and ‘lossless’ audio, in response to a brand new report. The report says that the brand new replace to Apple Music will debut with iOS 14.6, which is presently beneath beta testing. A separate report claims that Apple Music HiFi assist might be introduced within the “coming weeks”, together with the third-generation AirPods. It is usually being speculated that the brand new bulletins may happen at WWDC 2021, which is scheduled for June.

A report by 9to5Mac claims that Apple is engaged on introducing a HiFi plan for Apple Music that might be launched to subscribers with the discharge of iOS 14.6. The publication says that it has discovered a brand new code added to the Apple Music app within the first construct of iOS 14.6 that particularly mentions “Dolby Atmos,” “Dolby Audio,” and “Lossless”. Up till now, Apple did not characteristic assist for Dolby however solely supported its inner HiFi audio codec ALAC.

HiFi recordsdata have much less audio compression and thereby are able to a greater sound high quality output. Spotify just lately announced that it’s also venturing into high-quality audio streaming with Spotify HiFi. It’s speculated that Spotify will worth the Spotify HiFi plan increased than its current subscriptions.

A music web site Hits Daily Double has cited sources to assert that Apple will introduce the HiFi streaming assist for Apple Music together with third-generation AirPods within the coming weeks. However this contradicts analyst Ming-Chi Kuo’s claim that the brand new AirPods are more likely to launch in Q3 2021.

The report additionally claims that Apple could supply the HiFi audio streaming assist on Apple Music with out rising its subscription value that begins at $9.99 monthly for the person tier within the US and Rs. 99 in India.