Apple TV 4K gets long-awaited support for Dolby Atmos surround sound in tvOS 12 beta release, and developers testing the feature will have extremely limited selection of content to choose from... which adds sound channels above the viewer, Apple is making the feature available to developers with Apple TV 4K in tvOS 12 beta release. As announced, members of the general public will gain access to Atmos and slew of other new features when the operating system arrives this September.. there were no easily apparent changes in the audio settings. Apple TV 4K recognized the hardware enabled setting for Atmos sound... Unfortunately, browsing through list of released movies in iTunes revealed no films with Atmos support, meaning Apple has yet to update its library. Heading into Netflix app, we went through list of films known to support Atmos on Xbox One X, and again no Atmos support appeared. As final test, we opened Apple Music and, surprisingly, Apple TV 4K audio through all speakers, including Atmos units mounted to the ceiling.. At WWDC, off the ability to view the location of each Aerial Screensavers as it played onscreen, unfortunately that feature still does not work in beta 2. Lastly, we experienced few issues in the beta that would cause our Apple TV to exit out of applications when pressing Menu button.
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