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Hold onto your old HomePod – an upgrade is on the way

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ZDNET’s key takeaways

  • Apple’s new HomePod Mini 2 debuted with several new features.
  • Many advanced features will be available on the 2023 HomePod (2nd Gen).
  • Less advanced features will be coming to the 2020 HomePod Mini (1st Gen).

Apple announced the new HomePod Mini 2 last week, with several standout capabilities: It enables a four-speaker home theater configuration when paired with the fourth-gen Apple TV 4K, allows up to two speakers to be the default audio output for compatible Macs, has a dynamic RGB light display, and can lock the speaker’s touch control panel.

Also: Can you use an old iPad as a HomeView? Yes – but you’ll miss 4 key features

Which older HomePods are getting new features?

As reported by MacRumors, HomePod 27.2 software is available to developers and public beta testers, and may launch next week. According to the same reporting, the following speakers are...

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