Audio Technology

4-inch high-excursion woofer

Array of five horn-loaded tweeters, each tweeter with its own neodymium magnet

Internal low-frequency calibration microphone for automatic bass correction

Advanced computational audio with system sensing for real-time tuning

Room sensing

Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos for music and video

Four-microphone design for far-field Siri

Multiroom audio with AirPlay

Stereo pair capable

 

Audio Sources

Apple Music5

iTunes music purchases

iCloud Music Library with an Apple Music or iTunes Match subscription

Third-party music services6

Apple Music Radio or episodes on demand

Radio stations from TuneIn, iHeartRadio, and Audacy

Apple Podcasts

News briefings

Remastered ambient sounds

AirPlay to share other content to HomePod from iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, or Mac

 

Touch Controls

 

Tap : Play/Pause

Double-tap : Skip

Triple-tap : Skip back

Touch and hold : Siri

Tap or hold + or – : Volume up/down

 

Sensors

Sound Recognition

Temperature and humidity

Accelerometer

 

Wireless

802.11n Wi-Fi

Peer-to-peer discovery for easy guest access

Bluetooth 5.0

Thread10

Ultra Wideband chip for device proximity

 

System Requirements

HomePod with the latest version of software

iPhone SE (2nd generation or later) or iPhone 8 or later with the latest version of iOS; or iPad Pro, iPad (5th generation or later), iPad Air (3rd generation or later), or iPad mini (5th generation or later) with the latest version of iPadOS

802.11 Wi-Fi internet access

 

Compatibility

iPhone:

iPhone 14 Pro Max

iPhone 14 Pro

iPhone 14 Plus

iPhone 14

iPhone 13 Pro Max

iPhone 13 Pro

iPhone 13

iPhone 13 mini

iPhone 12 Pro Max

iPhone 12 Pro

iPhone 12

iPhone 12 mini

iPhone 11 Pro Max

iPhone 11 Pro

iPhone 11

iPhone XS Max

iPhone XS

iPhone XR

iPhone X

iPhone 8 Plus

iPhone 8

iPhone SE (3rd generation)

iPhone SE (2nd generation)

 

iPad:

12.9-inch iPad Pro

11-inch iPad Pro

10.5-inch iPad Pro

9.7-inch iPad Pro

iPad (10th generation)

iPad (9th generation)

iPad (8th generation)

iPad (7th generation)

iPad (6th generation)

iPad (5th generation)

iPad Air (5th generation)

iPad Air (4th generation)

iPad Air (3rd generation)

iPad mini (6th generation)

iPad mini (5th generation)