Amaya Toman This year marks two years since Apple officially unveiled its HomePod mini. In that time, the tiny round smart speaker from Apple has been able to inhabit a number of homes and offices. If you are one of the owners of this great helper, you will certainly be interested in our five tips and tricks for better use of it.
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If you're a new HomePod mini owner, you might be wondering how to actually control it. In addition to the Siri voice assistant, you can use different types of touch to control your HomePod mini. If you cover the HomePod with your palm, the Siri assistant will be activated. One tap to pause or resume playback of content, double tap to move to the next track while playing music. Triple tap to go back to the previous track.
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Choice of music
On your HomePod, you can not only play specific songs, albums, playlists, or even songs from specific artists. If you have an Apple Music subscription, you can also have your HomePod play music based on a certain mood, type, activity, or genre. As far as activities are concerned, the HomePod can handle, for example, cooking, meditating, breaking up, studying or waking up. At your command, HomePod can also play, for example, soothing music, encouraging (upbeat) songs, or even harmless music that is suitable for the youngest listeners (safe for kids).
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Control using iPhone
You can also control your HomePod mini using your iPhone. One option is to activate the Control Center, where you click on the wireless connection icon in the upper right corner of the playback panel. Then tap on the name of your HomePod and you can start controlling playback. You can also control playback on HomePod from your iPhone through the Apple Music app.
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Voice control
As we mentioned in the previous paragraph, you can also control your HomePod mini with your voice. With the help of commands like "turn the volume up / down", or "turn the volume up / down by XX percent", you can control the volume through Siri, the commands "play" and "stop" can be used to pause or start playback. You can also use instructions like "next / previous song" to skip between songs, or "skip forward XX seconds" to skip during playback.
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You surely know that Siri can understand you quite well even if you speak to her in a whisper. On HomePod, you also have the ability to adjust Siri's volume to match the volume level of your own voice. To customize Siri's voice, launch the native Home app on your iPhone. Long press the HomePod icon and scroll all the way down on the device tab, where you tap the settings icon in the lower right corner. Tap Accessibility and enable Automatically change Siri volume.
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