- Windows 11 could get a new ‘Shared Sound’ option
- The feature that is spotted in testing allows you to touch sound to multiple speakers
- However, it is not clear how it works yet, as it is just hidden in testing in an early form and does not live in Preview Builds yet
If you’ve ever wanted to play music (or anything else) from your Windows 11 PC through more than one speaker, it looks like your multi-output dreams may come true.
At least based on the results of a well-known leak on X, Phantomofearth, which has performed the usual combing through hidden bits of Windows 11, and found the relevant feature, then activated it with a configuration tool (in a preview-building).
Windows 11 gets a “shared sound” quick setting to let you easily play audio through multiple output devices! (Hidden in the latest dev/beta cus) pic.twitter.com/aalaj68oszJuly 19, 2025
As you can see in the above post, the feature is fired up via a ‘Shared Audio’ option in Windows 11’s quick settings, and it is apparently in the current DEV and BETA PREVIEWBUILDS of the operating system.
Click on it and you are presented with a panel that allows you to select multiple output devices to receive audio from the PC. Select the speakers you would like to use and Windows 11 touches audio through them all.
Analysis: Sounds like a plan
What we are not shown in this leak is whether the connection can be made wirelessly (via Bluetooth) or should be fitted (with a cable), or actually about two Bluetooth speakers can both be connected to simultaneous playback.
We guess the capacity is not functional in any way – if it was, the leak would probably have shared further details of how it works. Remember that this is not live in testing – shared sound remains work in the background of Windows 11 for now – and it may never ever be realized. However, it makes sense that Microsoft wants to give this functionality, given that it is long too late.
In fact, it’s a bit of a headscratcher, which is why Microsoft did not activate this in a version of Windows many moons ago. Although it may be something of a niche function, it is undoubtedly for some people – you only have to look at forum posts online query on how to do this in Windows. The answer to this question was to install a third -party app in the past, but to have the ability resident in Windows 11 – and easily accessible via quick settings – is clearly a useful addition to us.
Assuming that Microsoft is of course pushing forward with the stock sound capacity, and I bet that this should go live in test buildings within long.
