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tvOS 26 Turns Your iPhone Into a Karaoke Mic for Apple Music Sing

In tvOS 26, Apple Music Sing now lets users turn their iPhone into a wireless microphone for Apple TV karaoke sessions, with voices amplified through the television's audio system.

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The feature supports multiple participants, allowing friends to join using their own iPhones to queue songs or send emoji reactions that appear onscreen. Real-time lyrics display on the Apple TV alongside visual effects that respond to the music.

The broad new language support in Apple's platforms extends to new Lyrics Translation and Pronunciation features in Sing. Translation covers select songs between English-Chinese (simplified), English-Japanese, Korean-Chinese (simplified), Korean-English, Korean-Japanese, and Spanish-English language pairs.

Meanwhile, pronunciation assistance spans multiple scripts including Cantonese to Jyutping, Chinese variants to Pinyin, Hindi to Romanized Hindi, Japanese to Romanized Japanese, and Korean to both Katakana and Romanized Korean formats. Punjabi songs gain Romanized Punjabi pronunciation support.

The updated Sing experience requires iPhone 11 or later models paired with a third-generation Apple TV 4K. tvOS 26 is available now in developer beta, with a public beta coming next month.

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Top Rated Comments

bradman83 Avatar
11 months ago
My significant other has already informed me we will be hosting karaoke parties once this feature is available (and all of our friends are terrible singers). Words cannot describe the deep, seething anger I feel at Apple right now.
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
ZombiePete Avatar
11 months ago

Um… I’m genuinely excited for this. Do I need counseling?
Do you need counseling for having a sense of fun and excitement over something that you would enjoy? No, my friend; be confident in yourself and what you like…being excited over little things means you’re not jaded.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
CalMin Avatar
11 months ago
Um… I’m genuinely excited for this. Do I need counseling?
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
11 months ago
Now, a real karaoke version of any song would be fantastic.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
11 months ago
Hopefully with funny vocal filters and maybe even autotune eventually
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
ForkHandles Avatar
11 months ago
This is great but I’d rather go to a Vogon poetry recital than Karaoke
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)