Playing Around with the HomePod - My Thoughts, Suggestions, and Podcasts
Notes on the HomePod from an Accessibility and User Perspective This post will be added to as I play more with the HomePod which I’ve now had since Feb 9 2018 when it became available. Thoughts and Suggestions Great to see a sound played on HomePod when speaker first turned on. After setting up the HomePod with the pop-up dialog, there is then no indication to then go to the Home app, Rooms, HomePod to complete configuration of the HomePod. At least , nothing was spoken by VoiceOver on my iPhone 8 plus. Initially my iPhone was about 30CMS away from HomePod (pop-up not triggered), wasn’t until I put iPhone on HomePod that pop-up came up to start setting up the speaker. I was quite surprised when HomePod announced “VoiceOver on”. I really should stop being surprised by Apple’s inbuilt accessibility after all this time, and the fact that if your iPhone is running Voiceover, the HomePod will turn it on automatically: very very nice. Two accessibility modes available for the...