Gagan Gupta, Senior Engineering Program Manager
AirPods have helped us enjoy music like never before, and they've helped us stay connected in so
many different ways, whether to friends and family, to our devices, or to our favorite
entertainment. With iOS 15, we have some great new features coming to AirPods, starting with
Conversation Boost, which is designed to help people with mild hearing challenges stay more
connected in conversations. Through computational audio and beamforming microphones, Conversations
Boost focuses your AirPods Pro on the person talking in front of you, making it easier to hear
and follow along in a face-to-face conversation. And to help you hear the conversation even better,
you can also reduce the amount of ambient noise. Next, when you can't reach for your iPhone,
Announce Messages with Siri helps you stay connected. iOS 15 takes this further with Announce
Notifications. Now Siri can automatically read your important, time-sensitive notifications to
you, like when your dinner has been delivered. And when you set a location for your Reminder,
like the grocery store, Siri will read your shopping list to you right when you need it.
You can easily choose Which Apps to enable and select Do Not Disturb when you don't want
to be interrupted. And if you're using the new Focus feature, your notification preferences
are already taken into account. Next, we have significantly improved how AirPods work in
Find My. With iOS 15, you can locate your AirPods Pro and AirPods Max using the Find My network.
Your AirPods simply send out a secure Bluetooth beacon that can be detected by other Apple devices.
They can relay your AirPods' location to the network and then back to your Find My app.
And if they're nearby, just choose Play Sound. Listen for the chirp, whether they're in
their case or out. And the new proximity view in the Find My app lets you know
when you're getting close. To make it even less likely to lose your AirPods,
you can now receive a Separation Alert to notify you if you leave your AirPods behind.
Finally, last year, we introduced spatial audio with dynamic head tracking for
AirPods Pro and then elevated the experience even further with the high fidelity
audio of AirPods Max. Enabled by computational audio, the three-dimensional
theater-like sound really makes movies come to life. This fall, we're excited to extend
spatial audio to tvOS. So now you can enjoy the full surround experience, turned for the
big screen in your living room, without disturbing the rest of the house. And with dynamic
head tracking, it properly responds as you move about the room. We're also bringing spatial
audio with dynamic head tracking to macOS on our new M1 powered Macs so you can enjoy spatial
on all of your devices. In addition, we recently announced spatial audio for Apple Music with
the incredible multi-dimensional sound experience of Dolby Atmos. And we're excited that
it's available starting today with albums from some of your favorite artists, like Ariana Grande,
The Weeknd, J Balvin, and Kacey Musgraves. With the benefits of Conversation Boost, the convenience
of Find My, and the enhanced experience with spatial audio, there are some great new features
coming to the AirPods family. Now back to you, Craig.