Apple introduces the brand new HomePod with unparalleled sound and intelligence

January 18, 2023

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Apple introduces the brand new HomePod with unparalleled sound and intelligence

Delivering unbelievable sound high quality, enhanced Siri capabilities, and a secure and safe good house expertise

Cupertino, California Apple introduced in the present day HomePod (2nd Gen), a strong good speaker that delivers next-level acoustics in an iconic design. Full of Apple improvements and the intelligence of Siri, HomePod delivers superior algorithmic audio for a groundbreaking listening expertise, together with assist for immersive spatial soundtracks. With handy new methods to handle day by day duties and management a wise house, customers can now create good house automations with Siri, get a notification when a smoke or carbon monoxide alarm is detected of their house, and examine the temperature and humidity in a room—all hands-free.

The brand new HomePod is accessible to order on-line and within the Apple Retailer app beginning in the present day, and availability will start Friday, February 3.

“Leveraging our audio experience and innovation, the brand new HomePod delivers wealthy, deep bass, pure midrange and clear, detailed highs,” mentioned Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice chairman of Worldwide Advertising and marketing. “With the recognition of the HomePod mini, we’ve seen a rising curiosity within the extra highly effective audio that may be achieved in a bigger HomePod. We’re excited to introduce the subsequent era HomePod to clients all over the world.”

Refined design

With a seamless, acoustically clear mesh texture and a backlit contact floor that glows from edge to edge, the brand new HomePod has an exquisite design that enhances any area. The HomePod is accessible in White and Midnight, a brand new shade constituted of 100% recycled mesh material, with a color-matched woven energy cable.

Acoustic Energy Home

HomePod delivers unbelievable sound high quality, with wealthy, deep bass and beautiful excessive frequencies. A custom-designed high-speed tweeter, a strong driver that pushes the diaphragm to 20mm, a built-in bass-EQ microphone, and an array of 5 tweeters across the base all work collectively to ship a strong audio expertise. The S7 chip is mixed with software program and system sensor know-how to ship a extra superior computational sound that maximizes the total potential of its audio system for a class-leading listening expertise.

With room sensing know-how, the HomePod learns sound reflections from close by surfaces to find out if it’s in opposition to a wall or freestanding, then adapts the sound in actual time. Exact directional management on the five-speaker array separates and transmits direct and encompass sound, immersing listeners in crystal-clear sound and wealthy instrumentation.

Customers can hearken to a catalog of greater than 100 million songs with Apple Music,¹ Get pleasure from spatial audio with a single HomePod or as a stereo pair, or create a charming house theater expertise with Apple TV 4K. With Siri, customers can entry a spread of musical information and search by artist, track, lyrics, decade, style, temper, or exercise.

Elevated expertise with a number of HomePod audio system

Two or extra HomePod or HomePod Mini audio system unlock quite a lot of highly effective options. utilizing multiroom audio with AirPlay,² Customers can merely say “Hey Siri,” contact and maintain the highest of the HomePod to play the identical track on a number of HomePod audio system, play completely different songs on completely different HomePod audio system, and even use it as an intercom to broadcast messages to different rooms.

Customers may also create a stereo pair with two HomePod audio system in the identical area.³ Along with separating the left and proper channels, the stereo pair performs every channel in excellent concord, making a wider and extra immersive sound vary than conventional stereo audio system for a very premium listening expertise.

Seamless integration with the Apple ecosystem

Leveraging ultra-wideband know-how, customers can hand no matter they’re enjoying on their iPhone — like a favourite track, podcast, or perhaps a telephone name — straight to their HomePod.⁴ To simply management what’s enjoying or obtain customized suggestions for songs and podcasts, anybody in the home can deliver their iPhone close to the HomePod and ideas will seem mechanically. The HomePod may also acknowledge as much as six voices, so everybody in the home can pay attention to non-public playlists, name reminders, and set calendar occasions.

HomePod simply pairs with Apple TV 4K for a strong house theater expertise, eARC (Enhanced Audio Return Channel)⁵ Help on Apple TV 4K permits clients to make HomePod the sound system for all gadgets related to the TV. Plus, with Siri on HomePod, customers can management what’s enjoying on Apple TV hands-free.

Discover My on HomePod permits customers to find their Apple gadgets, akin to an iPhone, by enjoying a sound on a misplaced machine. With Siri, customers may also request the situation of mates or family members who share their location via the app.

Sensible house fundamentals

with voice recognition,⁶ The HomePod can pay attention for smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, and ship a notification on to the consumer’s iPhone if a sound is acknowledged. A brand new built-in temperature and humidity sensor can measure indoor environments, so customers can create automations that mechanically shut curtains or activate a fan when a sure room temperature is reached.

By activating Siri, clients can management a single machine, create scenes like “Good Morning” that set off a number of good house equipment on the similar time, or arrange hands-free, recurring automations like “Hey Siri, open the curtains daily at dawn.”⁷ A brand new affirmation tone signifies once you’ve requested Siri to manage an adjunct which may not be displaying an apparent change, like a heater or equipment in a special room. Ambient sounds—such because the ocean, forest, and rain—have additionally been re-mastered and additional built-in into the expertise, permitting clients so as to add new sounds to scenes, automations, and alarms.

Customers may also simply navigate, view, and set up equipment with the redesigned House app, which supplies new classes for local weather, lights, and safety, simplifies good house setup and management, and features a new view for a number of cameras.

Help difficulty

Matter launched final fall, enabling good house merchandise to work throughout ecosystems whereas sustaining the best ranges of safety. Apple is a member of the Connectivity Requirements Alliance, which maintains the Matter commonplace, together with different business leaders. HomePod connects to and controls Matter-enabled equipment, and acts as a main house hub, giving customers entry after they’re away from house.

Buyer information is proprietary

Defending buyer privateness is certainly one of Apple’s core values. All good house communications are all the time end-to-end encrypted so Apple can’t learn them, together with digital camera recordings with HomeKit Safe Video. When utilizing Siri, the voice of the request shouldn’t be saved by default. These options give customers peace of thoughts that their privateness is protected at house.

HomePod and the surroundings

Designed to scale back its influence on the surroundings, HomePod consists of one hundred pc recycled gold—a primary for a HomePod—within the coating of its a number of printed circuit boards and one hundred pc recycled uncommon earth components within the speaker magnet. HomePod meets Apple’s excessive requirements for vitality effectivity and is freed from mercury, brominated flame retardant (BFR), PVC, and beryllium. The redesigned packaging eliminates the outer plastic wrap and 96 p.c of the packaging is fiber-based, bringing Apple nearer to its objective of fully eliminating plastic from all packaging by 2025.

At the moment, Apple is carbon impartial for world company operations, and by 2030, it plans to be 100% carbon impartial throughout your entire manufacturing provide chain and all product lifecycles. Which means each Apple machine bought, from element manufacturing, meeting, transportation, buyer use, and transport, all the way in which to recycling and materials restoration, could have zero local weather influence.

Pricing and availability

• HomePod (2nd era) is accessible to order $299 (United States) from apple.com/retailer And within the Apple Retailer app in AustraliaAnd CanadaAnd ChinaAnd FranceAnd GermanyAnd ItalyAnd JapanAnd Spainthe Ukthe weand 11 extra nations and areas beginning in the present day, and availability will begin on Friday, February 3.
• HomePod (2nd era) is appropriate with iPhone SE (2nd era) and later, or iPhone 8 and later with iOS 16.3 or later; or iPad Professional, iPad (fifth era) and later, iPad Air (third era) and later, or iPad mini (fifth era) and later with iPadOS 16.3.
• Clients in the US get 3 p.c again in money daily after they purchase instantly from Apple with their Apple Card.

About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At the moment, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple’s 5 software program platforms—iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS—ship seamless experiences throughout all of their Apple gadgets and empower folks to supply superior providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 workers are devoted to creating the perfect merchandise on Earth, and to leaving the world in a greater state than we discovered it.

1. Apple Music requires a subscription.
2. Multiroom audio requires a number of HomePod audio system or AirPlay-compatible audio system with the newest AirPlay software program.
3. Making a HomePod stereo pair requires two of the identical mannequin of HomePod audio system, akin to two HomePod mini, two HomePods (2nd era), or two HomePods (1st era).
4. iOS 16.3 is required on iPhone for Handoff.
5. House theater with eARC assist requires an Apple TV 4K (2nd era) or later, operating the newest tvOS software program.
6. Voice recognition shall be obtainable in a software program replace later this spring. The voice recognition function could detect sounds of smoke and carbon monoxide alarms and ship notifications to customers when they’re acknowledged. Voice recognition shouldn’t be relied upon in circumstances the place customers could also be harmed or injured, or in extraordinarily harmful or emergency conditions. Voice recognition requires the up to date House structure, which shall be obtainable as a separate replace within the House app. Requires all Apple gadgets that arrive on the house to make use of the newest software program.
7. Sensible house equipment bought individually.

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