January 18, 2023
PRESS RELEASE
Apple introduces the brand new HomePod with breakthrough sound and intelligence
Delivering unimaginable audio high quality, enhanced Siri capabilities, and a protected and safe good residence expertise
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at present introduced HomePod (2nd technology), a robust good speaker that delivers next-level acoustics in a beautiful, iconic design. Filled with Apple improvements and Siri intelligence, HomePod gives superior computational audio for a groundbreaking listening expertise, together with help for immersive Spatial Audio tracks. With handy new methods to handle on a regular basis duties and management the good residence, customers can now create good residence automations utilizing Siri, get notified when a smoke or carbon monoxide alarm is detected of their residence, and examine temperature and humidity in a room — all hands-free.
The brand new HomePod is on the market to order on-line and within the Apple Retailer app beginning at present, with availability starting Friday, February 3.
“Leveraging our audio experience and improvements, the brand new HomePod delivers wealthy, deep bass, pure mid-range, and clear, detailed highs,” mentioned Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice chairman of Worldwide Advertising. “With the recognition of HomePod mini, we’ve seen rising curiosity in much more highly effective acoustics achievable in a bigger HomePod. We’re thrilled to carry the following technology of HomePod to clients world wide.”
Refined Design
With a seamless, acoustically clear mesh material and a backlit contact floor that illuminates from edge to edge, the brand new HomePod boasts a gorgeous design that enhances any area. HomePod is on the market in white and midnight, a brand new coloration made with one hundred pc recycled mesh material, with a color-matched woven energy cable.
Acoustic Powerhouse
HomePod delivers unimaginable audio high quality, with wealthy, deep bass and beautiful excessive frequencies. A custom-engineered high-excursion woofer, highly effective motor that drives the diaphragm a outstanding 20mm, built-in bass-EQ mic, and beamforming array of 5 tweeters across the base all work collectively to attain a robust acoustic expertise. The S7 chip is mixed with software program and system-sensing expertise to supply much more superior computational audio that maximizes the complete potential of its acoustic system for a groundbreaking listening expertise.
With room sensing expertise, HomePod acknowledges sound reflections from close by surfaces to find out whether it is in opposition to a wall or freestanding, after which adapts sound in actual time. Exact directional management of its beamforming array of 5 tweeters separates and beams direct and ambient audio, immersing listeners in crystal-clear vocals and wealthy instrumentation.
Customers can take heed to a catalog of over 100 million songs with Apple Music,1 take pleasure in Spatial Audio with a single HomePod or as a stereo pair, or create a fascinating residence theater expertise with Apple TV 4K. With Siri, customers can entry a spread of music information, and search by artist, music, 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 a wide range of highly effective options. Utilizing multiroom audio with AirPlay,2 customers can merely say “Hey Siri,” or contact and maintain the highest of HomePod to play the identical music on a number of HomePod audio system, play completely different songs on completely different HomePod audio system, and even use them as an intercom to broadcast messages to different rooms.
Customers can even create a stereo pair with two HomePod audio system in the identical area.3 Along with separating the left and proper channels, a stereo pair performs every channel in good concord, making a wider, extra immersive soundstage than conventional stereo audio system for a very standout listening expertise.
Seamless Integration with the Apple Ecosystem
Leveraging Extremely Wideband expertise, customers can hand off no matter they’re taking part in on iPhone — like a favourite music, podcast, or perhaps a telephone name — on to a HomePod.4 To simply management what’s taking part in or obtain personalised music and podcast suggestions, anybody within the residence can carry an iPhone near HomePod and options will floor routinely. HomePod can even acknowledge as much as six voices, so every member of the house can hear their private playlists, ask for reminders, and set calendar occasions.
HomePod simply pairs with Apple TV 4K for a robust residence theater expertise, and eARC (Enhanced Audio Return Channel)5 help on Apple TV 4K permits clients to make HomePod the audio system for all units related to the TV. Plus, with Siri on HomePod, customers can management what’s taking part in on their Apple TV hands-free.
Discover My on HomePod makes it doable for customers to find their Apple units, like an iPhone, by taking part in a sound on the misplaced machine. Utilizing Siri, customers can even ask for the placement of pals or family members who share their location by way of the app.
A Sensible House Important
With Sound Recognition,6 HomePod can pay attention for smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, and ship a notification on to the consumer’s iPhone if a sound is recognized. The brand new built-in temperature and humidity sensor can measure indoor environments, so customers can create automations that shut the blinds or activate the fan routinely when a sure temperature is reached in a room.
By activating Siri, clients can management a single machine or create scenes like “Good Morning” that put a number of good residence equipment to work on the identical time, or arrange recurring automations hands-free like “Hey Siri, open the blinds every single day at dawn.”7 A brand new affirmation tone signifies when a Siri request is made to manage an adjunct that won’t visibly present a change, like a heater, or for equipment positioned in a special room. Ambient sounds — like ocean, forest, and rain — have additionally been remastered and are extra built-in into the expertise, enabling clients so as to add new sounds to scenes, automations, and alarms.
Customers can even intuitively navigate, view, and manage equipment with the redesigned House app, which gives new classes for local weather, lights, and safety, permits simple setup and management of the good residence, and features a new multicamera view.
Matter Assist
Matter launched final fall, enabling good residence merchandise to work throughout ecosystems whereas sustaining the very best ranges of safety. Apple is a member of the Connectivity Requirements Alliance, which maintains the Matter commonplace, together with different trade leaders. HomePod connects to and controls Matter-enabled equipment, and serves as an important residence hub, giving customers entry when away from residence.
Buyer Information Is Non-public Property
Defending buyer privateness is considered one of Apple’s core values. All good residence communications are all the time end-to-end encrypted to allow them to’t be learn by Apple, together with digicam recordings with HomeKit Safe Video. When Siri is used, the audio of the request is just not saved by default. These options give customers peace of thoughts that their privateness is protected at residence.
HomePod and the Surroundings
HomePod is designed to attenuate its environmental influence, and consists of one hundred pc recycled gold — a primary for HomePod — within the plating of a number of printed circuit boards and one hundred pc recycled uncommon earth parts within the speaker magnet. HomePod meets Apple’s excessive requirements for power effectivity, and is mercury-, BFR-, PVC-, and beryllium-free. Redesigned packaging eliminates the outer plastic wrap, and 96 % of the packaging is fiber-based, bringing Apple nearer to its purpose of utterly eradicating plastic from all packaging by 2025.
Right now, Apple is carbon impartial for world company operations, and by 2030, plans to be one hundred pc carbon impartial throughout your entire manufacturing provide chain and all product life cycles. Which means that each Apple machine bought, from element manufacturing, meeting, transport, buyer use, charging, all over recycling and materials restoration, could have net-zero local weather influence.
Pricing and Availability
- HomePod (2nd technology) is on the market to order for $299 (US) from apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Retailer app in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, the UK, the US, and 11 different nations and areas beginning at present, with availability starting Friday, February 3.
- HomePod (2nd technology) is appropriate with iPhone SE (2nd technology) and later, or iPhone 8 and later operating iOS 16.3 or later; or iPad Professional, iPad (fifth technology) and later, iPad Air (third technology) and later, or iPad mini (fifth technology) and later operating iPadOS 16.3.
- Clients within the US get 3 % Each day Money again after they purchase straight from Apple with Apple Card.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Right now, 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 — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower folks with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 workers are devoted to creating one of the best merchandise on earth, and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Apple Music requires a subscription.
- Multiroom audio requires a number of HomePod audio system or AirPlay-compatible audio system with the newest AirPlay software program.
- Making a HomePod stereo pair requires two of the identical mannequin HomePod audio system, similar to two HomePod mini, two HomePod (2nd technology), or two HomePod (1st technology).
- iOS 16.3 is required on iPhone for Handoff.
- House theater with eARC help requires Apple TV 4K (2nd technology) or later, operating the newest tvOS software program.
- Sound Recognition shall be obtainable in a software program replace later this spring. Sound Recognition might detect smoke and carbon monoxide alarm sounds and ship customers notifications when acknowledged. Sound Recognition shouldn’t be relied upon in circumstances the place customers could also be harmed or injured, or in high-risk or emergency conditions. Sound Recognition requires the up to date House structure, which shall be obtainable as a separate replace within the House app. It requires all Apple units that entry the house to be utilizing the newest software program.
- Sensible residence equipment are bought individually.
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