• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

iPhoneArena

APPLE IPHONE, MAC, WATCH AND IPAD

  • Home
  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • Mac
  • Apple Watch
  • Bug Fixes
  • How to
  • Tips and Tricks
  • Apps
You are here: Home / Featured / How to use Personalized Spatial Audio for AirPods in iOS 16

How to use Personalized Spatial Audio for AirPods in iOS 16

Last Updated: November 1, 2022 by Dave Johnson

One of the new features AirPods users will be able to take advantage of on iOS 16 is Personalized Spatial Audio. This feature creates an immersive listening experience with Apple Music by precisely tracking your ears’ position and finally improving Dolby Atmos with Spatial Audio technology.

What Is Personalized Spatial Audio?

Apple announced Personalized Spatial Audio feature during the WWDC 2022 keynote. If you’re as confused about what this could have meant as we were, thankfully, we’re in luck. Apple has provided a more detailed description of what it means. Here’s how the company describes this function:

Personalized Spatial Audio enables an even more precise and immersive listening experience. Listeners can use the TrueDepth camera on iPhone to create a personal profile for Spatial Audio that delivers a listening experience tuned just for them.
Personalized Spatial Audio is available for AirPods 3, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max users running iOS 16. It’s required an iPhone with a TrueDepth camera because once you’re setting up this feature, it will need to scan your face and each one of your ears. That said, no iPad has this feature, even the ones with the TrueDepth camera.

So essentially, you can use your iPhone’s built-in TrueDepth camera to scan your ears. Doing so will provide a listening profile that is fine-tuned to the size and shape of your ears.

How To Use Personalized Spatial Audio in iOS 16

  1. With proper AirPods connected, open the iPhone’s Settings;
  2. Click on the AirPods tab on iOS 16 near your Apple ID;
  3. On “Spatial Audio,” tap on “Personalized Spatial Audio;”
  4. Follow the screen steps.
  5. Once you finish setting up Personalized Spatial Audio with any of these AirPods above, all other AirPods you own will be already prepared for this function. Technically, this should improve by a lot your listening experience when using Apple Music.

Early thoughts on Personalized Spatial Audio on iOS 16

With this new feature available, it was very noticeable how having a 3D mapping of your face helps Dolby Atmos with Spatial Audio technology. Although I already enjoyed this function, some songs and albums sounded echoed a bit, as if the lead singer was singing lower than the rest of the band.

Now, with Personalized Spatial Audio, everything finally sounds in place. For those who have the original HomePod, the listening experience sounds similar, as if the song was finally in its full capacities.

While AirPods Max was the only AirPods that didn’t struggle with the “echoed” songs, AirPods 3 and AirPods Pro users, on the other hand, will benefit the most with Personalized Spatial Audio.

See also: Top 100+ New iOS 16 Features and Changes for iPhone

Editors' Recommendations:

  1. How to Customize Lock Screen on iPhone in iOS 16
  2. How to Unsend iMessage on iPhone in iOS 16
  3. How to Make iPhone Keyboard Vibrate in iOS 16
  4. How to identify a fake iPhone 14 Pro or iPhone 14 Pro Max

Reader Interactions

Submit a comment Cancel reply

Primary Sidebar

Trending Now

Review – Mkeke clear case for iPhone 14 pro & 14 Pro Max

11 Things iPhones Can Do That Android Phones Can’t in 2022

11 Amazing iPhone 14 Pro’s Dynamic Island Tips and Tricks

Fake iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max

How to identify a fake iPhone 14 Pro or iPhone 14 Pro Max

The 4 BEST iPhone 13 Pro Camera Tricks you don’t know yet!

Latest Posts

iPhone 14 Pro

5 of The Best iPhone 14 Pro Hidden Features You Should Know.

iPhone 14 Pro

Apple Unveils iPhone 14 Pro With Dynamic Island, Always-On Display, 48MP Camera, and More

iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max are shown in close-up form from the top.

iPhone 14 Pro vs iPhone 13 Pro: What are the differences?

things Android phones can do iPhones can’t

Top 10 things that Android phones can do, iPhones can’t

6 Signs You Need a New iPhone Battery

Footer

Browse by topic

  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • Mac
  • Apple Watch
  • Bug Fixes
  • How to
  • Tips and Tricks
  • Apps

Contact info

  • Contact us
  • About iPhoneArena
  • Editorial Principles
  • Write For Us

Company

  • Terms Of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Guest Post Policy
  • Accessibility Statement
  • Copyright Notice

Search iPhoneArena

FREE EMAIL UPDATES

Sign up and get updated whenever we publish new tutorials on the site

Disclaimer

This website is not owned by, is not licensed by nor is a subsidiary of Apple Inc. Apple and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Inc. Reproduction of materials found on this site, in any form, without explicit permission is prohibited. Please follow this link to read the complete disclaimer.

Copyright © 2022 iPhoneArena.com · All Rights Reserved