Apple introduces the new HomePod with breakthrough sound and intelligence - Apple

Delivering unthinkable audio quality, enhanced Siri capabilities, and a harmless and unafraid astute location experience

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple contiguous announced HomePod (2nd generation), a almighty astute talker that delivers next-level acoustics successful a gorgeous, iconic design. Packed with Apple innovations and Siri intelligence, HomePod offers precocious computational audio for a groundbreaking listening experience, including enactment for immersive Spatial Audio tracks. With convenient caller ways to negociate mundane tasks and power the astute home, users tin present make astute location automations utilizing Siri, get notified erstwhile a fume oregon c monoxide alarm is detected successful their home, and cheque somesthesia and humidity successful a country — each hands-free.

The caller HomePod is disposable to bid online and successful the Apple Store app starting today, with availability opening Friday, February 3.

“Leveraging our audio expertise and innovations, the caller HomePod delivers rich, heavy bass, earthy mid-range, and clear, elaborate highs,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s elder vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “With the popularity of HomePod mini, we’ve seen increasing involvement successful adjacent much almighty acoustics achievable successful a larger HomePod. We’re thrilled to bring the adjacent procreation of HomePod to customers astir the world.”

Refined Design

With a seamless, acoustically transparent mesh cloth and a backlit interaction aboveground that illuminates from borderline to edge, the caller HomePod boasts a beauteous plan that complements immoderate space. HomePod is disposable successful achromatic and midnight, a caller colour made with 100 percent recycled mesh fabric, with a color-matched woven powerfulness cable.

Acoustic Powerhouse

HomePod delivers unthinkable audio quality, with rich, heavy bass and stunning precocious frequencies. A custom-engineered high-excursion woofer, almighty centrifugal that drives the diaphragm a singular 20mm, built-in bass-EQ mic, and beamforming array of 5 tweeters astir the basal each enactment unneurotic to execute a almighty acoustic experience. The S7 spot is combined with bundle and system-sensing exertion to connection adjacent much precocious computational audio that maximizes the afloat imaginable of its acoustic strategy for a groundbreaking listening experience.

With country sensing technology, HomePod recognizes dependable reflections from adjacent surfaces to find if it is against a partition oregon freestanding, and past adapts dependable successful existent time. Precise directional power of its beamforming array of 5 tweeters separates and beams nonstop and ambient audio, immersing listeners successful crystal-clear vocals and affluent instrumentation.

Users tin perceive to a catalog of implicit 100 cardinal songs with Apple Music,¹ bask Spatial Audio with a azygous HomePod oregon arsenic a stereo pair, oregon make a captivating location theatre acquisition with Apple TV 4K. With Siri, users tin entree a scope of euphony knowledge, and hunt by artist, song, lyrics, decade, genre, mood, oregon activity.

Elevated Experience with Multiple HomePod Speakers

Two oregon much HomePod oregon HomePod mini speakers unlock a assortment of almighty features. Using multiroom audio with AirPlay,² users tin simply accidental “Hey Siri,” oregon interaction and clasp the apical of HomePod to play the aforesaid opus connected aggregate HomePod speakers, play antithetic songs connected antithetic HomePod speakers, oregon adjacent usage them arsenic an intercom to broadcast messages to different rooms. 

Users tin besides make a stereo brace with 2 HomePod speakers successful the aforesaid space.³ In summation to separating the near and close channels, a stereo brace plays each transmission successful cleanable harmony, creating a wider, much immersive soundstage than accepted stereo speakers for a genuinely standout listening experience.

Seamless Integration with the Apple Ecosystem

Leveraging Ultra Wideband technology, users tin manus disconnected immoderate they’re playing connected iPhone — similar a favourite song, podcast, oregon adjacent a telephone telephone — straight to a HomePod.⁴ To easy power what’s playing oregon person personalized opus and podcast recommendations, anyone successful the location tin bring an iPhone adjacent to HomePod and suggestions volition aboveground automatically. HomePod tin besides admit up to six voices, truthful each subordinate of the location tin perceive their idiosyncratic playlists, inquire for reminders, and acceptable calendar events.

HomePod easy pairs with Apple TV 4K for a almighty location theatre experience, and eARC (Enhanced Audio Return Channel)⁵ enactment connected Apple TV 4K enables customers to marque HomePod the audio strategy for each devices connected to the TV. Plus, with Siri connected HomePod, users tin power what’s playing connected their Apple TV hands-free.

Find My connected HomePod makes it imaginable for users to find their Apple devices, similar an iPhone, by playing a dependable connected the misplaced device. Using Siri, users tin besides inquire for the determination of friends oregon loved ones who stock their determination via the app.

A Smart Home Essential

With Sound Recognition,⁶ HomePod tin perceive for fume and c monoxide alarms, and nonstop a notification straight to the user’s iPhone if a dependable is identified. The caller built-in somesthesia and humidity sensor tin measurement indoor environments, truthful users tin make automations that adjacent the blinds oregon crook connected the instrumentality automatically erstwhile a definite somesthesia is reached successful a room.

By activating Siri, customers tin power a azygous instrumentality oregon make scenes similar “Good Morning” that enactment aggregate astute location accessories to enactment astatine the aforesaid time, oregon acceptable up recurring automations hands-free similar “Hey Siri, unfastened the blinds each time astatine sunrise.”⁷ A caller confirmation code indicates erstwhile a Siri petition is made to power an accessory that whitethorn not visibly amusement a change, similar a heater, oregon for accessories located successful a antithetic room. Ambient sounds — similar ocean, forest, and rainfall — person besides been remastered and are much integrated into the experience, enabling customers to adhd caller sounds to scenes, automations, and alarms.

Users tin besides intuitively navigate, view, and signifier accessories with the redesigned Home app, which offers caller categories for climate, lights, and security, enables casual setup and power of the astute home, and includes a caller multicamera view.

Matter Support

Matter launched past fall, enabling astute location products to enactment crossed ecosystems portion maintaining the highest levels of security. Apple is simply a subordinate of the Connectivity Standards Alliance, which maintains the Matter standard, on with different manufacture leaders. HomePod connects to and controls Matter-enabled accessories, and serves arsenic an indispensable location hub, giving users entree erstwhile distant from home.

Customer Data Is Private Property

Protecting lawsuit privateness is 1 of Apple’s halfway values. All astute location communications are ever end-to-end encrypted truthful they can’t beryllium work by Apple, including camera recordings with HomeKit Secure Video. When Siri is used, the audio of the petition is not stored by default. These features springiness users bid of caput that their privateness is protected astatine home.

HomePod and the Environment 

HomePod is designed to minimize its biology impact, and includes 100 percent recycled golden — a archetypal for HomePod — successful the plating of aggregate printed circuit boards and 100 percent recycled uncommon world elements successful the talker magnet. HomePod meets Apple’s precocious standards for vigor efficiency, and is mercury-, BFR-, PVC-, and beryllium-free. Redesigned packaging eliminates the outer integrative wrap, and 96 percent of the packaging is fiber-based, bringing Apple person to its extremity of wholly removing integrative from each packaging by 2025.

Today, Apple is c neutral for planetary firm operations, and by 2030, plans to beryllium 100 percent c neutral crossed the full manufacturing proviso concatenation and each merchandise beingness cycles. This means that each Apple instrumentality sold, from constituent manufacturing, assembly, transport, lawsuit use, charging, each the mode done recycling and worldly recovery, volition person net-zero clime impact.

Pricing and Availability

1. Apple Music requires a subscription.
2. Multiroom audio requires aggregate HomePod speakers oregon AirPlay-compatible speakers with the latest AirPlay software.
3. Creating a HomePod stereo brace requires 2 of the aforesaid exemplary HomePod speakers, specified arsenic 2 HomePod mini, 2 HomePod (2nd generation), oregon 2 HomePod (1st generation).
4. iOS 16.3 is required connected iPhone for Handoff.
5. Home theatre with eARC enactment requires Apple TV 4K (2nd generation) oregon later, moving the latest tvOS software.
6. Sound Recognition volition beryllium disposable successful a bundle update aboriginal this spring. Sound Recognition whitethorn observe fume and c monoxide alarm sounds and nonstop users notifications erstwhile recognized. Sound Recognition should not beryllium relied upon successful circumstances wherever users whitethorn beryllium harmed oregon injured, oregon successful high-risk oregon exigency situations. Sound Recognition requires the updated Home architecture, which volition beryllium disposable arsenic a abstracted update successful the Home app. It requires each Apple devices that entree the location to beryllium utilizing the latest software.
7. Smart location accessories are sold separately.