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

Apple Music may quickly get a HelloFi music streaming tier that may embody assist for Dolby Atmos, Dolby Audio, and ‘lossless’ audio choices, in accordance with a brand new report. The report says that the brand new replace to Apple Music will debut with iOS 14.6, which is at present beneath beta testing. A separate report claims that Apple Music HelloFi assist shall be introduced on the WWDC 2021, which is anticipated to happen in June, together with the third-generation AirPods.

A report by 9to5Mac claims that Apple is engaged on introducing a HelloFi plan for Apple Music that could possibly 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 function assist for Dolby however solely supported its inner HelloFi audio codec ALAC.

HelloFi information have much less audio compression and thereby are able to a greater sound high quality output. Spotify not too long ago introduced that it’s also venturing into high-quality audio streaming with Spotify HelloFi. It is speculated that Spotify will worth the Spotify HelloFi plan larger than its current subscriptions.

A music web site Hits Daily Double has cited sources to say that Apple will introduce the HelloFi streaming assist for Apple Music together with third-generation AirPods at WWDC 2021, which is scheduled for June. But this contradicts analyst Ming-Chi Kuo’s declare that the brand new AirPods are more likely to launch in Q3 2021.

The report additionally claims that Apple might provide the HelloFi audio streaming assist on Apple Music with out growing its subscription value that begins at $9.99 per thirty days for the person tier within the US and Rs. 99 in India.