AirPods Ultra · Software

The cameras will work out which screen you are watching

Code in macOS Tahoe 26.7 has the camera AirPods locate the physical display in front of you and compare it against what their motion sensors estimate, so spatial audio narrows to the screen you are actually looking at rather than to whichever device is nearest. Where a Face ID device is also present, the code prefers the AirPods cameras over it.

1 min readFirst reported Aug 31, 2026Updated Sep 21, 2026

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Aug 31, 2026The Mac ObserverLaptops, televisions, tablets and a paired iPhone all count as the screen
Aug 31, 2026MacRumorsThe code has the AirPods weigh the screen's direction against the direction their own motion sensors estimate.
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