diff --git a/src/room/utils.test.ts b/src/room/utils.test.ts
index ebddf911d9..695f94fafb 100644
--- a/src/room/utils.test.ts
+++ b/src/room/utils.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
 import { splitUtf8, toWebsocketUrl } from './utils';
+import { isSafariSpeakerSelectionSupported, supportsSetSinkId } from './utils';
+
 
 describe('toWebsocketUrl', () => {
   it('leaves wss urls alone', () => {
@@ -60,3 +62,74 @@ describe('splitUtf8', () => {
     expect(splitUtf8('', 5)).toEqual([]);
   });
 });
+
+describe('isSafariSpeakerSelectionSupported', () => {
+  it('returns true for Safari >= 26', () => {
+    expect(isSafariSpeakerSelectionSupported({
+      name: 'Safari',
+      version: '26.0',
+      os: 'macOS',
+      osVersion: '26.0',
+    })).toBe(true);
+    expect(isSafariSpeakerSelectionSupported({
+      name: 'Safari',
+      version: '27.1',
+      os: 'macOS',
+      osVersion: '27.1',
+    })).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('returns true for iOS Safari >= 26', () => {
+    expect(isSafariSpeakerSelectionSupported({
+      name: 'Safari',
+      version: '26.0',
+      os: 'iOS',
+      osVersion: '26.0',
+    })).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('returns false for Safari < 26', () => {
+    expect(isSafariSpeakerSelectionSupported({
+      name: 'Safari',
+      version: '25.9',
+      os: 'macOS',
+      osVersion: '25.9',
+    })).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('returns false for non-Safari browsers', () => {
+    expect(isSafariSpeakerSelectionSupported({
+      name: 'Chrome',
+      version: '120.0',
+      os: 'macOS',
+      osVersion: '14.0',
+    })).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('supportsSetSinkId', () => {
+  it('returns true if setSinkId is present', () => {
+    Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'userAgent', {
+      value: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:142.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/142.0',
+      configurable: true,
+    });
+    const fakeAudio = { setSinkId: () => {} } as any as HTMLMediaElement;
+    expect(supportsSetSinkId(fakeAudio)).toBe(true);
+  });
+  it('returns true if setSinkId is present', () => {
+    Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'userAgent', {
+      value: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.0 Safari/605.1.15',
+      configurable: true,
+    });
+    const fakeAudio = { setSinkId: () => {} } as any as HTMLMediaElement;
+    expect(supportsSetSinkId(fakeAudio)).toBe(true);
+  });
+  it('returns false if setSinkId not supported', () => {
+    Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'userAgent', {
+      value: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.6 Safari/605.1.15',
+      configurable: true,
+    });
+    const fakeAudio = { setSinkId: () => {} } as any as HTMLMediaElement;
+    expect(supportsSetSinkId(fakeAudio)).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
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diff --git a/src/room/utils.ts b/src/room/utils.ts
index d9ff0c574e..e7aaaa011f 100644
--- a/src/room/utils.ts
+++ b/src/room/utils.ts
@@ -142,8 +142,8 @@ export function isSVCCodec(codec?: string): boolean {
 }
 
 export function supportsSetSinkId(elm?: HTMLMediaElement): boolean {
-  if (!document || isSafariBased()) {
-    return false;
+  if (!document || (!isSafariSpeakerSelectionSupported() && isSafariBased())) {
+    return false
   }
   if (!elm) {
     elm = document.createElement('audio');
@@ -196,6 +196,19 @@ export function isSafariSvcApi(browser?: BrowserDetails): boolean {
   );
 }
 
+export function isSafariSpeakerSelectionSupported(browser?: BrowserDetails): boolean {
+  if (!browser) {
+    browser = getBrowser();
+  }
+  // Safari (macOS or iOS) since version 26
+  // https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes/safari-26-release-notes#WebRTC
+  return (
+    (browser?.name === 'Safari' && compareVersions(browser.version, '26') >= 0) ||
+    (browser?.os === 'iOS' && !!browser?.osVersion && compareVersions(browser.osVersion, '26') >= 0) ||
+    (browser?.os === 'macOS' && !!browser?.osVersion && compareVersions(browser.osVersion, '26') >= 0)
+  );
+}
+
 export function isMobile(): boolean {
   if (!isWeb()) return false;