HomePod updated to enable multi-user voice recognition in India and Italy
Apple has updated the HomePod to enable multi-user voice recognition for users in India and Italy, making it possible for up to six users in a home with Siri configured in either Italian or English spoken in India to access their Apple Music playlists, send and read messages, make phone calls and more.
With multi-user voice recognition enabled, a shared HomePod will recognize the individual voices of up to six users, being able to access each user’s individual Apple Music account, calendar, lists, and reminders.
For households with more than six people, Siri on HomePod can still play music, set timers and alarms, and provide weather and news information, restricting access to private content including Messages, phone calls or calendar appointments.
Today’s new HomePod update is releasing alongside iOS 15.3 and iPadOS 15.3, which fixes a recently discovered Safari bug that could leak a users’ browsing history and Google ID to websites that use the IndexedDB JavaScript API to see the URLs recently visited by a user. Apple is also today releasing watchOS 8.4 to address an Apple Watch charging bug.