The long bruit Apple HomePad – a HomePod with a screen – may have just been revealed by none other than Apple itself .
After diving into the iOS 18.4 beta liberation , it ’s been noticed by the team over atMacworldthat many changes are pointing towards entirely new computer hardware for Apple , soon .
The melodic theme behind the HomePad is to offer all the audio powers of theHomePod , including Siri voice controls , only with all the advantages of an iPad . This is very much a overbold home gadget that will be design to stay in one place and support your twenty-four hour period to twenty-four hours activity . From agree who ’s at the room access to guiding you through a formula .
All that voice intimate ? Yup , it ’s very similar to what Amazon already offers with itsEcho Showdevices . But this would n’t be the first time Amazon moderate Apple to replicate – the HomePod itself was hot on the heels of the Echo speaker in all their winner .
So how does iOS 18.4 beta point towards a HomePad?
There is a new food surgical incision that ’s been added , under the Apple News+ subscription section . This lets you view recipe and cooking focus in a striking large font with Brobdingnagian buttons that sense more like something you ’d see on a paries put on gimmick to be viewed from afar .
All that could simply be a room to offer direction clearly from afar on an iPad . But it ’s in conjunction with other clues that make it seem more like a step towards the HomePad .
In tvOS , there is now some ChatKit model supernumerary which are used to handle iMessage features – something neither Apple telly nor HomePods offer . It would make sense that texting controls could be used on the HomePad platform .
The plus of the CookingKit fabric allows for Spotlight formula searches by fixings – propose Apple is make an total scheme here intended for growth , update and future use at scale . Perhaps as a keen launching exercise when showing uses cases on the new HomePad – a gadget ideally suit to kitchen use .
Lastly , there is a new Home family , which could point even more directly to a HomePad press release come in the future .
When will the HomePad be released?
HomePad wo n’t arrive without Siri , as that will be a large part of how people interact with the twist – especially with mucky hands while cooking . Since that major update has been pushed back to “ the coming yr ” it ’s likely the HomePad will be too .
This may be give away at Apple ’s WWDC in June , or at the later iPhone 17 launching in September .
