All 5 iPhone 16 fashions supply an Audio Combine function within the Images app that allows you to edit the sound of a video after it’s recorded. For instance, you possibly can cut back the background noise in a video, in order that the individual talking on digicam sounds extra clear.
Beginning with iOS 26, Apple is permitting third-party apps to supply the identical Audio Combine controls because the Images app does on the iPhone 16 and newer.
Audio Combine, powered by machine studying, affords 4 main choices:
- Commonplace: Play the unique audio you recorded.
- In-Body: Cut back sounds and voices from sources not seen within the video body.
- Studio: Cut back background sounds and reverb, to make it sound extra like you might be recording in knowledgeable studio.
- Cinematic: Put all of the voices onto a front-facing monitor and depart environmental noises in encompass, just like the audio in motion pictures.
iOS 26 introduces some extra Audio Combine choices for background noise.
So as to use Audio Combine, the video will need to have been recorded with Spatial Audio. On all iPhone 16 fashions, Spatial Audio is mechanically turned on once you file video. To regulate this setting, open the Settings app and faucet on Digital camera → Report Sound.
Apple can also be permitting third-party Mac apps to supply Audio Combine controls beginning with macOS Tahoe.
On a associated notice to Spatial Audio, Apple says that audio-only apps like Voice Memos now have the choice to avoid wasting audio within the QuickTime audio format QTA.
“Just like QuickTime motion pictures or MPEG information, the QTA format helps a number of audio tracks with alternate monitor teams, identical to how Spatial Audio information are composed,” stated Apple, in a WWDC 2025 session explaining these Audio Combine and Spatial Audio adjustments.
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