Once you’ve got that open, click on the AirPlay icon to choose your speaker output, and if your devices are all updated with the latest version, you’ll see circles next to the devices that can be selected. Just pull up Control Center on your iPhone and long-press on the Music control to open it up. Playing music across multiple devices, even if they are in multiple rooms, could not be easier. How to Play Music Across Multiple Compatible Devices It’s worth noting that iPhones and iPads can be used as the controller device, not as the speakers. You can check out the full list of speakers that have announced support on Apple’s site, but you’ll have to check with the manufacturer to make sure. This includes Beats, Beoplay, BeoSound, BeoVision, Bose, Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Marantz, Naim, Polk, and some Sonos speakers. Any third-party speaker that has listed support for it.HomePod – running at least HomePod version 11.4 (Here’s how to check and update it).Apple TV – running at least tvOS version 11.4 (Here’s how to check and update it).iPhones and iPads on iOS 11.4 (Here’s how to check and update it).If you want to stream to multiple devices, here are the devices that actually support AirPlay 2: This all sounds great, but unless you have compatible hardware, it’s not going to help you much. So if you have a HomePod in your kitchen and Apple TVs hooked up in the living room and bedroom, you can play music across all of these rooms at once with just a tap. As long as everything is hooked to the same Wi-Fi network and supports AirPlay 2, you can stream across the devices. So if you wanted to have music everywhere in your house streaming from your iPhone, it was really difficult.ĪirPlay 2 adds the ability to stream music from your iPhone to multiple speakers or devices across any number of rooms in your house. The problem, for so long, is that you could only stream music to a single device at a time, which was a huge limitation, especially considering that Sonos has had multi-room audio for years, and Alexa added it to their smart speakers recently. This also works for playing music, you can send music from your iPhone to your TV, HomePod, or AirPlay-compatible speaker. So if you’re watching a video on your iPhone and you want to play it on your TV, you can use AirPlay to play it on the bigger screen, assuming that you’ve got an Apple TV hooked up. So What’s AirPlay and Why’s Version 2 Better?īuilt into your iPhone, iPad, or Mac is the ability to play audio (or video) from the device in your hand to another device that supports it.
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