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What's up guys, Stephen Cults of Mac here and in this video we're going to take a look
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at the latest developer release of iOS 11.4 Beta 1 to run through what's new and what
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to expect. Let's get started. iOS 11.4 Beta 1 brings back a slew of features that we've seen in previous betas which were
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later removed. The big one is AirPlay 2 support which allows for multi-room playback and eventually pairing
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up two homepods for stereo audio. The only device that fully supports AirPlay 2 at the moment is the Apple TV 4K and the
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standard 4 with the latest tvOS beta. Once set up you can pair up multiple AirPlay 2 enabled devices for multi-room playback
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and control them through the control centre. I've only got two Apple TVs that support AirPlay 2 so I've only been able to test
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out multi-room on those two but so far it works great. You can see which devices are supported within control centre by tapping on the AirPlay icon
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and the ones with a circle next to them are supported. Tap on the circle for each device you want to play and then the music will play in sync
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throughout your home. Here you can also independently control the volume levels for each device or turn them
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up together with the slider beneath. While AirPlay 2 is only supported by the Apple TV, there are signs that we won't have to
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wait too long for it to come to the homepod. Within the home app, the stereo pairing option is now returned so this is a good sign that
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we're not far away. Apple is teasing us by showing us this option but it won't work until the iOS 11.4 beta
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is available for the homepod. Speaking of the home app though, any Apple TVs on the same network will now show up in
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the home app again as it was removed in a previous beta
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Messages on iCloud is also back. It allows you to sync message app data through iCloud so deleting messages on one device
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will delete them on another iOS and Mac eligible device. Well that's it for this video but if you would like to try iOS 11.4 for yourself, I'll
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make sure to leave a link in the description down below to the public beta. Also if you enjoyed this video as always go ahead and hit that like button, subscribe
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if you haven't already and I'll catch you in the next one
