LG will make AirPlay 2 and HomeKit available on its 2019 TVs from Thursday

LG will be making AirPlay 2 and HomeKit available on its TVs starting Thursday this year. This specifically concerns the OLED models, the NanoCell LCD TVs and UHD LCD TVs from the UM7X series with the ThinQ AI label.

LG reports that it makes the features available to Apple users via a firmware update for the TV models in question. It was already clear that LG would come with an update for AirPlay 2 and HomeKit in the middle of this year, but no official date was known before. The manufacturer says that AirPlay 2 and HomeKit will be available to users of OLED TVs and NanoCell LCD TVs in 140 countries this week; the update will continue for a few more weeks, so owners of uhd-lcd TVs will probably have to wait a little longer.

Apple announced the arrival of support for AirPlay 2 and HomeKit during the last CES fair. For example, AirPlay 2 allows users to stream videos, photos, and music from their Apple devices or the Apple TV app to their TV. A direct integration of Apple’s new TV app is currently only reserved for owners of Samsung TVs. HomeKit allows users to control their LG TV with the Home app or via voice assistant Siri.

Users with iPhones, iPads or Macs and supported TV models from LG do not need to do anything other than make the update, although LG recently announced that users also need iOS version 12.4 in any case to use AirPlay 2.