High-quality audio codecs on iPhone

Hello, 



I am certainly not the first one to ask about this, but is there a day where iPhones, or Apple products will allow to choose audio codecs, and will include new ones? 

For the moment, the highest quality codec for Bluetooth supported on iPhone is AAC, Advanced Audio Coding, has a bitrate that can only go up to 320kbps (which is decent), while new audio codecs exists, and are supported by many Android devices, as LDAC (Sony’s proprietary audio codec) that can go up to 990kbps (so 3 times AAC!, you can really hear the difference!), aptX-HD (Qualcomm), etc…

As an iPhone user, used to the Apple ecosystem, it would be great to see new audio codecs, to improve the audio quality on iPhones!


I recently bought a pair of Sony’s headphones, and quickly figured out there was no way to get LDAC on my phone, since it was not included in iPhones, while the encoder of LDAC is open-source!

I am certainly not the only one noticing this, and it would be great for everyone if we could have access to better sound quality!


Maybe this isn’t possible, i don’t know about the technical part of the thing, but it would be great if something was done!


Sorry if i bothered you, but i think it could be easy to fix this audio codec ‘problem’, and a lot of iPhone users would thank you, for getting a better sound in new updates.

Sorry for my potential english mistakes, too!


Thank you for your time and consideration,


Cordially, 


Louis, a french iPhone user!

iPhone 8, iOS 15

Publiée le 4 janv. 2022 à 08h36

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Le 4 janv. 2022 à 08h48 en réponse à _l_o_u_i_s

Please note, this is the French language community for questions and replies in French. For additional assistance in English please post in the English language community. You will get a more speedy response, in English, from a larger community that's active 24/7. --> https://discussions.apple.com


I know I just said that, but since I have posted answers in French on the English language community...


As part of Apple's security system under iOS you can do very, very little modification compared to computers (and even doing that on a computer has been reduced a lot in the past couple of years). You can send feedback to Apple but since what they have been letting you do in terms of customization is heading in the opposite direction I doubt you'll be seeing that ability introduced. The alternative is to use an app that has better codec support. VLC is free, but then because of sandboxing you'll have to store the files in VLC's user area on your iPhone. You can't play files available to the Music app with VLC because there's no access allowed to files in other areas.

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