January 18, 2023
PRESS RELEASE
Apple introduces the brand new HomePod with breakthrough sound and intelligence
Delivering unbelievable audio high quality, enhanced Siri capabilities, and a secure and safe sensible house expertise
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple in the present day introduced HomePod (2nd era), a strong sensible speaker that delivers next-level acoustics in a beautiful, iconic design. Full of Apple improvements and Siri intelligence, HomePod presents superior computational audio for a groundbreaking listening expertise, together with assist for immersive Spatial Audio tracks. With handy new methods to handle on a regular basis duties and management the sensible house, customers can now create sensible house automations utilizing Siri, get notified when a smoke or carbon monoxide alarm is detected of their house, and test temperature and humidity in a room — all hands-free.
The brand new HomePod is obtainable to order on-line and within the Apple Retailer app beginning in the present day, 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 and marketing. “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 convey the following era of HomePod to clients around the globe.”
Refined Design
With a seamless, acoustically clear mesh cloth and a backlit contact floor that illuminates from edge to edge, the brand new HomePod boasts a fantastic design that enhances any area. HomePod is obtainable in white and midnight, a brand new shade made with 100% recycled mesh cloth, with a color-matched woven energy cable.
Acoustic Powerhouse
HomePod delivers unbelievable 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 exceptional 20mm, built-in bass-EQ mic, and beamforming array of 5 tweeters across the base all work collectively to attain a strong acoustic expertise. The S7 chip is mixed with software program and system-sensing expertise to supply much more superior computational audio that maximizes the total 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 towards 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 hearken to a catalog of over 100 million songs with Apple Music,1 get pleasure from Spatial Audio with a single HomePod or as a stereo pair, or create a fascinating house theater expertise with Apple TV 4K. With Siri, customers can entry a spread of music 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 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 track on a number of HomePod audio system, play totally different songs on totally different HomePod audio system, and even use them as an intercom to broadcast messages to different rooms.
Customers may 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 really standout listening expertise.
Seamless Integration with the Apple Ecosystem
Leveraging Extremely Wideband expertise, customers can hand off no matter they’re enjoying on iPhone — like a favourite track, podcast, or perhaps a cellphone name — on to a HomePod.4 To simply management what’s enjoying or obtain personalised track and podcast suggestions, anybody within the house can convey an iPhone near HomePod and options will floor mechanically. HomePod may 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 strong house theater expertise, and eARC (Enhanced Audio Return Channel)5 assist on Apple TV 4K allows clients to make HomePod the audio system for all gadgets related to the TV. Plus, with Siri on HomePod, customers can management what’s enjoying on their Apple TV hands-free.
Discover My on HomePod makes it potential for customers to find their Apple gadgets, like an iPhone, by enjoying a sound on the misplaced system. Utilizing Siri, customers may ask for the situation of buddies or family members who share their location through the app.
A Sensible Dwelling Important
With Sound Recognition,6 HomePod can hear 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 mechanically when a sure temperature is reached in a room.
By activating Siri, clients can management a single system or create scenes like “Good Morning” that put a number of sensible house 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 situated in a unique 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 may intuitively navigate, view, and arrange equipment with the redesigned Dwelling app, which presents new classes for local weather, lights, and safety, allows simple setup and management of the sensible house, and features a new multicamera view.
Matter Help
Matter launched final fall, enabling sensible 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 trade leaders. HomePod connects to and controls Matter-enabled equipment, and serves as an important house hub, giving customers entry when away from house.
Buyer Information Is Non-public Property
Defending buyer privateness is considered one of Apple’s core values. All sensible house communications are at all times end-to-end encrypted to allow them to’t be learn by Apple, together with digital camera recordings with HomeKit Safe Video. When Siri is used, the audio of the request will not be saved by default. These options give customers peace of thoughts that their privateness is protected at house.
HomePod and the Setting
HomePod is designed to attenuate its environmental impression, and contains 100% recycled gold — a primary for HomePod — within the plating of a number of printed circuit boards and 100% recycled uncommon earth parts within the speaker magnet. HomePod meets Apple’s excessive requirements for vitality 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 aim of utterly eradicating plastic from all packaging by 2025.
Immediately, Apple is carbon impartial for international company operations, and by 2030, plans to be 100% carbon impartial throughout the complete manufacturing provide chain and all product life cycles. Which means each Apple system offered, from element manufacturing, meeting, transport, buyer use, charging, all over recycling and materials restoration, may have net-zero local weather impression.
Pricing and Availability
- HomePod (2nd era) is obtainable to order for $299 (US) from apple.com/store 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 in the present day, with availability starting Friday, February 3.
- HomePod (2nd era) is appropriate with iPhone SE (2nd era) and later, or iPhone 8 and later working 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 working iPadOS 16.3.
- Clients within the US get 3 % Each day Money again once they purchase straight from Apple with Apple Card.
- New subscribers can get Apple Music free for six months with the acquisition of any HomePod.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Immediately, 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 gadgets and empower folks with breakthrough providers 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 most recent AirPlay software program.
- Making a HomePod stereo pair requires two of the identical mannequin HomePod audio system, equivalent to two HomePod mini, two HomePod (2nd era), or two HomePod (1st era).
- iOS 16.3 is required on iPhone for Handoff.
- Dwelling theater with eARC assist requires Apple TV 4K (2nd era) or later, working the most recent tvOS software program.
- Sound Recognition can be accessible in a software program replace later this spring. Sound Recognition could 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 Dwelling structure, which can be accessible as a separate replace within the Dwelling app. It requires all Apple gadgets that entry the house to be utilizing the most recent software program.
- Sensible house equipment are offered individually.
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