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Carrie Marshall

Apple Music's iOS 18 upgrade may include a curious Spatial Audio 'passthrough' feature

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Apple is preparing some significant updates to the Apple Music and QuickTime apps, and one of them is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. The update will apparently deliver much smoother audio transitions, and there's also a new and mysterious feature called "passthrough" that appears to be connected to Dolby Atmos and Spatial Audio.

That's all according to Appleinsider, who has been speaking to "people familiar with Apple's pre-release operating systems". Those people say that while the reports of Apple going big on AI-powered features in iOS 18 are true, Apple is also working on some other and no less important features for its audio apps.

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