{"id":53509,"date":"2026-10-13T15:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=53509"},"modified":"2026-10-13T15:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:04:13","slug":"homepod-mini-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/13\/homepod-mini-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HomePod mini 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2026\/10\/apple-announces-the-next-generation-of-homepod-mini\/\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xLL4UnrLNWs\">video<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/10\/13\/apple-homepod-mini-2\/\">MacRumors<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/news\/apple-reveals-homepod-mini-2-with-new-colors-richer-sound-and-siri-ai\/\">MacStories<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2026\/10\/new-homepod-mini-2-offers-siri-ai-but-not-yet\/\">Six Colors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2026\/10\/apple-announces-the-next-generation-of-homepod-mini\/\">\n<p>Apple today announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/homepod-mini\/\">HomePod mini 2<\/a>, featuring Siri AI, gorgeous new colors, and enhanced audio experiences. Siri AI, coming to HomePod mini 2 in a future software update, is a profoundly more capable and conversational assistant with personal context understanding, broad world knowledge that powers tasks like richer music discovery, and the ability to tap into even more apps &mdash; bringing a whole new level of capability to HomePod mini.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>With Sound Glow, the top of HomePod mini transforms into a visual canvas that glows and pulses in sync with the music, reacting in real time to bass and treble.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Sound Recognition gives HomePod mini users peace of mind by listening for a smoke or carbon monoxide alarm and, if one is detected, sending a notification immediately to the user&rsquo;s iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The price has increased from $99 to $149. Our HomePod is placed high enough that the top isn&rsquo;t visible, anyway. I assume it still can&rsquo;t <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/31\/homepod-late-adopter\/\">play all my purchased music<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/13\/homeview\/\">HomeView<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/23\/siri-ai-ships-but-still-beta\/\">Siri AI Ships (But Still Beta)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/15\/midnight-homepod-mini\/\">Midnight HomePod mini<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/18\/homepod-2nd-generation\/\">HomePod (2nd Generation)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/13\/homepod-mini\/\">HomePod mini<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple (video, MacRumors, MacStories, Six Colors): Apple today announced HomePod mini 2, featuring Siri AI, gorgeous new colors, and enhanced audio experiences. Siri AI, coming to HomePod mini 2 in a future software update, is a profoundly more capable and conversational assistant with personal context understanding, broad world knowledge that powers tasks like richer music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-10-13T19:03:48Z","apple_news_api_id":"26797775-fa8e-4b91-bab9-f0735baa71ed","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-10-13T19:04:16Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AJnl3dfqOS5G6ufBzW6px7Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2307,2536,2970,1326,1584,247],"class_list":["post-53509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-hardware-announcement","tag-audioos","tag-audioos-27","tag-homekit","tag-homepod","tag-siri"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53515,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53509\/revisions\/53515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}