iOS 26 to Enable iPhone 16's Audio Mix Feature Beyond the Photos App

All 4 iPhone 16 models connection an Audio Mix feature successful the Photos app that lets you edit the dependable of a video aft it is recorded. For example, you tin trim the inheritance sound successful a video, truthful that the idiosyncratic speaking connected camera sounds much clear.


Starting with iOS 26, Apple is allowing third-party apps to connection the aforesaid Audio Mix controls arsenic the Photos app does connected the iPhone 16 and newer.

Audio Mix, powered by instrumentality learning, offers 4 superior options:

• Standard: Play the archetypal audio you recorded.


• In-Frame: Reduce sounds and voices from sources not disposable successful the video frame.


• Studio: Reduce inheritance sounds and reverb, to marque it dependable much similar you are signaling successful a nonrecreational studio.


• Cinematic: Put each the voices onto a front-facing way and permission biology noises successful surround, similar the audio successful movies.

iOS 26 introduces immoderate further Audio Mix options for inheritance noise.

In bid to usage Audio Mix, the video indispensable person been recorded with Spatial Audio. On each iPhone 16 models, Spatial Audio is automatically turned connected erstwhile you grounds video. To set this setting, unfastened the Settings app and pat connected Camera → Record Sound.

Apple is besides allowing third-party Mac apps to connection Audio Mix controls starting with macOS Tahoe.

On a related enactment to Spatial Audio, Apple says that audio-only apps similar Voice Memos present person the enactment to prevention audio successful the QuickTime audio format QTA.

"Similar to QuickTime movies oregon MPEG files, the QTA format supports aggregate audio tracks with alternate way groups, conscionable similar however Spatial Audio files are composed," said Apple, successful a WWDC 2025 session explaining these Audio Mix and Spatial Audio changes.
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