Launches, firmware that switches Auracast on, venues that have installed it, and what the platforms are doing. Every story links its sources.
Any café, church hall or clinic can now set up an open Auracast broadcast from a ReSound TV-Streamer+ or Multi-Mic+, no hearing aid required. Available in Australia and New Zealand from launch.
The National Theatre's Dorfman, eight Delfont Mackintosh West End houses, the Almeida and Liverpool's Everyman are on it. The playbook is the first vendor-neutral install guide a venue can hand to its AV contractor.
The app finds nearby broadcasts and hands them to hearing aids, which is the one job iOS refuses to do. It does not help ordinary earbuds.
Melbourne Airport T4, a bus stop at Highpoint and the Dickson interchange in Canberra. The research consortium recommends a staged rollout alongside loops, and names the County Court of Victoria and Brisbane's ferries as already using it.
Firmware 10.12.12 adds broadcast support on Android and Windows. It is Bose's first Auracast product; the earbuds are not included yet and Bose says more will follow.
Audiologist Cliff Olson flagged the gap: myPhonak shows a list of broadcasts on Android but not on iOS. Meanwhile the 2024 Infinio, sold as Auracast-ready, has a firmware promise with no date.
Bluetooth 6.0, a new chip, and a box that says 'Auracast ready'. The Momentum True Wireless 4 got broadcast support by firmware in 2024. Sennheiser has no date for the 5.
Three years after the standard shipped, Apple is the only major platform without it. What is confirmed, what is not, and what an iPhone owner can do in the meantime.
Voice Broadcast, in Android 17 QPR2 Beta 4, sends what the phone hears to any nearby Auracast receiver from a Quick Settings tile. Samsung shipped the same idea in One UI 8.5 in March.
The Concert Hall, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Centre for Creativity and Utzon Room join the three rooms that went live in March 2025. It is the largest Auracast installation in a cultural building anywhere.