Apple didn’t say a lot concerning the HomePod at its Worldwide Developers Conference 2018, nevertheless it appears new options are coming on this fall. In accordance with a brand new report, Apple has seeded ‘HomePod OS 12’ to some workers as an alternative of releasing a developer or public beta. The newest HomePod OS 12 non-public beta replace reportedly brings a number of options to the sensible speaker which will roll out with the iOS 12 later this 12 months. If the report seems to be true HomePod customers could make calls and reply them, ask Siri to Discover My iPhone, and set a number of timers on the system.
As per a report in French web site iGeneration, Apple has launched HomePod OS 12.0 non-public beta and it might be launched publicly alongside iOS 12 within the fall of 2018. The beta replace reportedly brings telephone name options that allow customers to make and reply calls from the HomePod, a Discover My iPhone Siri command, and help for a number of timers.
As of now, Apple HomePod customers who want to use the inbuilt speakerphone characteristic must make or obtain a name on their iPhone after which change the audio output to the HomePod when the decision will get related. In the meantime, with the beta replace, the HomePod seems to have entry to the person’s name logs that helps customers provoke calls immediately through the speaker. At present, it’s unclear if FaceTime Audio can be supported as properly.
The HomePod OS 12 non-public beta comes with help for Discover My iPhone so you possibly can ask Siri to find your iPhone and make it play a sound. The Dwelling app now features a ‘repair Wi-Fi’ button (actual translation unclear) that enables HomePod customers to modify the speaker to a different wi-fi community so long as a paired iPhone is aware of the password. Till now, it was essential to reset the HomePod to do that. The non-public beta replace reportedly additionally brings a number of timers to the Apple HomePod. Customers can now run multiple timer concurrently, which is principally operating multiple timer at a time.
The final software program replace for the Apple HomePod had arrived with iOS 11.4, nevertheless it was restricted to stability and high quality enhancements solely. Notably, Apple has not formally reveal any of the reported options nor has it talked about any timeline. Whereas a number of of those options could arrive this 12 months, a few of them could get delayed to future releases. We’ll know extra about what’s coming for HomePod over the subsequent few months, forward of the discharge of iOS 12, together with watchOS 5, tvOS 12, and macOS Mojave.
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