I feel like AV1 support on iPhone 15 Pro hasn't been talked about much.
So i tried to figure out if it actually is supported yet.
According to this test website, Safari on my iPhone 15 Pro indeed supports AV1.
While Safari on my M1 Mac doesn't.
But it doesn't seem like it is very useful yet. Not sure if other Apps can use this function yet, for example. I'm sure services like Netflix would be very happy to use it.
Tried to watch a Youtube video on Safari with AV1, but the stats say that it is using a different codec.. so i guess youtube does not offer it to the iPhone 15 Pro yet, because so far no iPhone supported it.
So AV1 support as of yet, seems not very useful.
I guess it doesn't help that Apple didn't add software decoding to devices without the AV1 hardware decoder (yet).
Safari 17 release notes:
"Added support for AV1 codec support to the MediaCapabilities API for devices with hardware support. (97803066)"
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So i tried to figure out if it actually is supported yet.
According to this test website, Safari on my iPhone 15 Pro indeed supports AV1.
While Safari on my M1 Mac doesn't.
But it doesn't seem like it is very useful yet. Not sure if other Apps can use this function yet, for example. I'm sure services like Netflix would be very happy to use it.
Tried to watch a Youtube video on Safari with AV1, but the stats say that it is using a different codec.. so i guess youtube does not offer it to the iPhone 15 Pro yet, because so far no iPhone supported it.
So AV1 support as of yet, seems not very useful.
I guess it doesn't help that Apple didn't add software decoding to devices without the AV1 hardware decoder (yet).
Safari 17 release notes:
"Added support for AV1 codec support to the MediaCapabilities API for devices with hardware support. (97803066)"

Safari 17 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation
Released September 18, 2023 — Version 17 (19616.1.27)