Audio Mix function no longer just for Apple's own apps
Apple allows you to use different microphone sound models for playback with its Photos app. This will also be available for third-party applications with iOS 26.
Audio mix function on an iPhone 16.
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Apple is bringing a previously only useful feature available for the in-house Photos app on certain iPhone models as an interface for other developers. This is according to a developer presentation from Apple. The function called Audio Mix will be made available as part of iOS 26 from the fall in the form of an interface for third-party apps. Audio Mix is available on the iPhone-16-Modellen and uses so-called computational audio to calculate sounds in space.
Various sound options
Users can edit a video recorded with the camera of these Apple smartphones and then switch between four spatial audio modes. If you select “In-Frame”, the voices of the people who are currently visible are emphasized. “Studio” promises a sound like in a “professional studio with sound insulation”.
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This is “perfect for vlogs and podcasts”, writes Apple – It is as if the microphone is close to the mouth. “Finally, “Cinematic” records all the voices around the person filming and brings them together close to the screen – as if “mixed for the movies”, according to Apple. The effect can be adjusted using a slider to separate the foreground and background. From iOS 26, this can now also be done in other apps, as long as the videos were recorded with the camera app. It is not yet clear which apps will then support Audio Mix.
Spatial audio files as QTA
Apple is also improving other audio functions. In the future, voice memos will be able to save the QuickTime spatial audio format QTA. “The QTA format supports multiple audio tracks with alternative track groups, just like spatial audio files are structured,” writes the company.
iPad owners can also look forward to an important new podcasting feature: Local Capture. This allows individual podcasters to save their respective tracks on the local device to merge them later in high quality. It is currently not possible under iOS and iPadOS to run a second app in the background during a call – for example as part of a podcast – to record local audio data. This practically rules out the use of iPhones and iPads for remote podcasting.
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