You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!

When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.

📰 Newsroom Update

Billie Eilish is Apple Music’s Artist of the Year for 2024. Learn more >

Looks like no one’s replied in a while. To start the conversation again, simply ask a new question.

Spatial Audio MacBook Pro 2020

I have a 2020 Intel 13" MacBook Pro, AirPods Pro, and a Premier Apple One subscription. The support articles available for Spatial are surprisingly confusing and unhelpful especially for Apple. Can anyone tell me what Spatial Audio capabilities my current hardware has? Spatialize Stereo is not showing up as an option in my control center. thanks much!

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Dec 2, 2021 3:57 PM

Reply
Question marked as Top-ranking reply

Posted on Dec 8, 2021 12:27 PM

Hi ZacisBac,


Your AirPods Pro are capable of both spatial stereo and spatial audio. You should only see the spatial stereo option when listening to content that doesn't support spatial audio (multichannel surround sound content).


We hope this helps.


Take care.

3 replies

Dec 3, 2021 1:02 PM in response to ZacisBac

Hi ZacisBac,


Thank you for participating in the Apple Support Communities. We understand you'd like to know what spatial audio capabilities your devices have, and we'd like to assist. Which articles have you read thus far? Were these the articles you checked out?


Listen with spatial audio for AirPods and Beats


About spatial audio with Dolby Atmos in Apple Music


Listen to spatial audio in Dolby Atmos in Music on Mac


Which version of macOS do you have? You can find the version by going to the Apple menu in the upper left corner of your screen, and choosing About This Mac.


We look forward to learning more about your issue.


Take care.

Spatial Audio MacBook Pro 2020

Welcome to Apple Support Community
A forum where Apple customers help each other with their products. Get started with your Apple Account.