Apple’s new tvOS 26 is here, and the one feature I can’t wait to try has nothing to do with TV. At WWDC 2025, Apple introduced “Sing-along” sessions, which sounds like a traumatic summer camp experience but is actually a cool new karaoke feature that I can’t wait to test out for myself.

According to Apple, the feature allows you to turn your iPhone into a “handheld microphone” that can be used on Apple TV to amplify your voice for karaoke and “belt out [your] favorite songs.” Sing-along sessions also allow other singers to “queue up songs or react with onscreen emoji,” so you can make karaoke a more communal experience, though there’s nothing to stop your selfish friends from queuing up several songs in a row. You know who you are. Like any karaoke app, Sing-along uses real-time lyrics and visual effects to “light up the screen” and can even use a translation feature that will help port over a song in a different language to something you can read, understand, and sing.

As excited as I am to try Sing-along, I’m also skeptical that an iPhone mic is the ideal hardware for karaoke—there’s a chance it might sound pretty bad if you have an older device (like I do). Then again, plenty of people use fairly cheap Bluetooth mics at home and don’t bat an eyelash, so their experience may really be on par here. The good news is, if karaoke isn’t doing it for you, Apple introduced other new tvOS features, like one that grants more control over when the option to choose a profile comes up. That should be great for anyone who’s in a multi-person household. Apple says, “…users will now have the choice to automatically display profiles when Apple TV wakes, allowing them to quickly get back to their recommendations and Watchlist in the TV app and playlists in Apple Music.”

There are also some tweaks to FaceTime, which include “Contact Posters” on Apple TV that show a contact’s custom photo and name when you start a FaceTime call and an expansion of Live Captions that includes French, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Spanish. FaceTime audio and call notifications will now show up onscreen based on whichever profile is being used at the time.

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