The HomePod mini and HomeKit Are Getting These 7 Exciting New Features

During last year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple rolled together the Apple TV, tvOS, and the HomePod into a single “Home” category, and this year’s WWDC makes it clear that defining these products as a group is part of Apple’s new strategy. While we didn’t see the rumoured “homeOS” announcement, Apple’s Yah Cason, Senior Engineer for HomeKit, did take the virtual stage to announce several other pretty significant changes coming to Apple’s home ecosystem — changes that could, in fact, be the first step toward a more unified homeOS.

At this point, however, Apple still refers to the Apple TV operating system as tvOS, and continues to coyly avoid any real mention of the operating system that runs on its HomePod speakers. That doesn’t mean that it’s not doing some pretty big things with the HomePod mini, however, and Cason had some pretty exciting things to share. Read on for 7 new things coming to the HomePod mini and Apple’s Home ecosystem.