Apple HomeView: Apple today posted four new videos on its YouTube channel highlighting the newly announced HomeView smart home hub, the fourth-generation Apple TV 4K, and the HomePod mini 2. The clips demonstrate device features and user scenarios and accompany recent product announcements and pre-order availability.
Apple HomeView videos
The longest video, Welcome Apple HomeView: Designed for life at home, follows a family through a busy morning and shows Siri helping retrieve a French toast recipe sent in Messages, locate misplaced keys, check evening plans, and a FaceTime call with grandparents. A second, shorter HomeView video provides an overview of the device’s features, including personalized experiences for up to six users, FaceTime calls, Spatial Audio, smart home controls, the 7-inch Liquid Retina display, and a customizable collection of display faces.
HomePod mini 2 highlights
The HomePod mini 2 video focuses on the speaker’s sound and compact design, showing finishes in green, pink, blue, midnight, and white. It also promotes multiroom audio and Siri AI, which Apple says will arrive on HomePod mini 2 in a future software update.
Apple TV 4K features
The Apple TV 4K video highlights Dolby Vision and HDR10+ playback, hands-free Siri control using built-in microphones, and the ability to play a sound to locate the updated Siri Remote. Apple also promotes a new four-speaker surround sound setup that supports HomePod mini 2 and second-generation HomePod speakers in matching front and rear pairs.
Apple Home Collection and availability
Today’s announcements also included the Apple Home Collection, a lineup of cameras, a door lock, thermostats, and sensors developed with LG and Schneider. The HomeView, the new Apple TV 4K, and the HomePod mini 2 are available to pre-order today. The HomePod mini 2 launches on October 30, while the HomeView and the new Apple TV 4K launch on November 13.
