This is how HomePod intercom works
Today we are going to teach you how to use the HomePod intercom. A great way to communicate with the members of the house, and that can be really useful for us.
I'm sure if you have a HomePod, you'll have that feeling that it could be so much more useful. And it is that this smart speaker is far behind the ones we see on the market, although it is the leader in sound. We have a sound that is the best we can see in a speaker of this type.
But little by little, Apple is adding more new features to this device, which although they are not crazy, they can be useful for us. So we are going to discuss one of those novelties that we see in the HomePod, which is the intercom.
How to use HomePod intercom
The first thing we have to do is install the latest version. Once we have everything installed and working, the process is very simple.
We enter the <> app, in which the HomePod that we have or those that we have will appear. In case of having several, we must select the speaker in which we want the message that we are going to send to sound. If we look at the top right, an icon appears very similar to the <> app
Click on the symbol to speak
Click on the icon and record the message we want to send. When we have it, we click on the 'pause' button and the message will be sent to the selected speaker. This would be to use the intercom from the iPhone.
To use it directly from the HomePod or to reply to a message that has been sent to us, without using the iPhone, we must use the following voice command:
- "Hey Siri, intercom" (announce the message we want to send)
- "Hey Siri, ask everyone" (we record the message)
If we want to reply to a message, the process is very similar and we should use the following voice command:
- "Hey Siri, answer"
- "Hey Siri, reply (HomePod location)" and then the message.
These are the ways that we have both to send a message via intercom through the HomePod, both from the iPhone or iPad, and from the Apple Watch that we can also do it. And also, we have explained how to do it also from the same speaker.
