Again in Might, Apple introduced that they might be launching lossless audio for Apple Music. Nevertheless, evidently at the moment, none of Apple’s gadgets would really assist lossless playback, though Apple did say that the HomePod would obtain an replace that might finally assist it.

The excellent news for HomePod homeowners is that it seems to be like that replace is type of right here. If you happen to personal an iPhone and have up to date it to iOS 14.6, it is possible for you to to stream lossless audio out of your iPhone to the HomePod. Nevertheless, this isn’t fairly the promised replace we had been hoping for, however that may come later.

As an alternative, this appears to be some form of workaround the place in the event you don’t thoughts streaming by means of your iPhone, this might be a superb various till the replace arrives. For these unfamiliar, the HomePod is just like Sonos’ audio system the place you’ll be able to stream music straight by means of it as a substitute of getting to depend on a paired system like different common Bluetooth audio system.

You will want to stream it over AirPlay and it wants to indicate the icon as “iPhone -> HomePod”, in any other case it’ll simply stream in common high quality. It looks like a whole lot of hoops to leap by means of only for lossless audio, however it’s what you’ll should take care of for now.

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