Dolby Atmos delivers the highest-quality audio your device can support, so your music always sounds its best whether over headphones or through speakers.

Turn on Dolby Atmos

1. Go to Settings > Music > Dolby Atmos.
2. Choose Automatic or Always On. Automatic: Plays Dolby Atmos whenever iPhone is connected to compatible headphones such as AirPods (3rd generation), AirPods Pro, or AirPods Max, or to speakers or receivers compatible with Dolby Atmos.

Turn Dolby Atmos on or off

1. Open the Apple Music app.
2. Tap the More button .
3. Tap Settings.
4. Tap Dolby Atmos to turn it on or off.

As with movies and TV shows, you can listen to Dolby Atmos music in spatial audio with dynamic head tracking with the supporting AirPods and Beats models with a compatible iPhone or iPad.

With Dolby Atmos, you experience an auditory atmosphere, as the name implies, and are encompassed by scenic sounds by your equipment bouncing sounds off your ceiling. The end result: an environment that more accurately represents how we experience sound.

Dolby Atmos averages around 6,000 kbps when a 48kHz sampling rate is used. But Atmos can be encoded losslessly at up to 24-bit/192kHz, which results in bit rates that can soar as high as 18,000 kbps.

Dolby Atmos is sound reimagined While Dolby Atmos at a cinema is still the best way to fully experience this multidimensional soundscape - it's not the only way. You can now experience sound that fills your space at home, and on the go, thanks to the range of devices enabled with Dolby Atmos.

On your Apple TV 4K, go to Settings > Video and Audio and select Audio Format. Under Immersive Audio, check that Dolby Atmos is on. If you don't see Immersive Audio and Dolby Atmos as an option, you might need to change how your home entertainment system is set up.

With Dolby Atmos Music, however, this is also the case although it shouldn't be. The sound gets is filtered to add the threedimensional effect, making the singer sound further away than he or she actually is. That's exactly what you can read in many comments: The vocals sound somehow muffled and far away.

Dolby Atmos and Dolby 7.1 are both surround sound technologies. The main differences are that Dolby Atmos offers a more immersive and three-dimensional sound experience, while Dolby 7.1 has a more traditional surround sound setup.

Dolby Atmos allows a sound engineer to place audio objects wherever he wants, even in a traditional 7.1 setup. Since Atmos provides far more flexibility than 7.1, I would say, that in a speaker setup that supports both Atmos and 7.1, Dolby Atmos would sound at least as good as 7.1 and has the potential to sound better.

Will a 2.1 Dolby Atmos soundbar be better than a Dolby Digital 5.1 home cinema? No it will not. Even the better ones, while providing a convincing sense of ambience and maybe even a decent sense of spaciousness fail at providing discrete surround channel sound.