Remember SharePlay? It’s Apple’s way of making FaceTime fun, allowing users to listen to music or watch TV together with their friends.
Now, SharePlay was supposed to arrive with iOS 15, but Apple delayed the launch to “later this fall,” as it did with several other features, including Find My support for AirPods Pro and Max. However, the latest iOS beta is here, and it comes with SharePlay, indicating that the feature should be enabled fairly soon.
According to MacRumors, Apple pulled SharePlay from iOS 15 in order to work on some bugs, but it has made a reappearance in all relevant betas — iOS 15.1 beta, iPadOS 15.1 beta, and tvOS 15.1 beta.
You can find out more about SharePlay over on Apple’s “SharePlay for Developers” page. In an update dated August 17, Apple still claims the feature is coming “later this fall.”
MacRumors also lists a couple of other new features that came with Apple’s new betas. These include Covid-19 vaccination records in Apple’s Wallet, as well as lossless audio support for HomePod and HomePod mini, which came with HomePod 15.1 beta.
There’s no word on when, exactly, the iOS 15.1 beta will turn into the final product, and some features might get removed by then (in fact, SharePlay was live in iOS 15 beta 2, only to be removed in iOS 15’s final release). But the fact that the feature is there means it shouldn’t be too long until it’s finally widely available.
