If you utilize AirPods Pro or AirPods Max, your cellular Netflix-watching is about to get a bit extra immersive. Yesterday, Netflix confirmed that it has begun rolling out spatial audio help on iPhone and iPad on iOS 14 after the characteristic was spotted by a Reddit person.

Netflix joins streaming competitors like HBO Max, Disney+, and Peacock in enabling this characteristic, whereas different in style apps like Amazon Prime Video and YouTube nonetheless don’t have this performance. Still, Netflix said the rollout gained’t be rapid — customers who’ve the replace ought to have the ability to toggle it on or off within the Control Center.

Recently, Apple has been emphasizing its spatial audio options. The firm first introduced that it will deliver spatial audio to AirPods Pro through the WWDC convention in 2020 — throughout this 12 months’s convention, Apple added that Apple Music subscribers would gain access to spatial audio and lossless audio streaming at no additional cost. This even helps dynamic head tracking, which adjusts the sound once you transfer your head.  The Android version of the Apple Music app additionally helps spatial and lossless audio. In February, Spotify stated it will rollout a high-end subscription service, Spotify HiFi, which might allow lossless audio, although there’s been no information since.

Last month, Netflix revealed that it begin trying towards cellular gaming along with its authentic films and tv sequence. The firm has already experimented with interactive leisure with initiatives like Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and its Stranger Things games.

“We view gaming as another new content category for us, similar to our expansion into original films, animation and unscripted TV,” the corporate stated in its quarterly earnings report.

Spatial audio is in style amongst online game gamers — so whereas this replace will improve the streaming video expertise on iPhone and iPad, maybe we’ll see this characteristic at play in eventual Netflix cellular video games, too.