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It uses Bluetooth LE for proximity sensing so that you can pass audio from your phone to the HomePod just by waving them near one another.
by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
It uses Bluetooth LE for proximity sensing so that you can pass audio from your phone to the HomePod just by waving them near one another.
- varenc 6y agoAlas, it's actually using the U1 ultra-wideband chip for position finding. That means this only works on the iPhone 11 and above. My guess is that bluetooth signal strength just isn't accurate enough. You can see that this documented [1] in a footnote [2]. [1] https://www.apple.com/homepod-mini/#overview-sound-handoff-1:~:text=transfers.-,2 https://www.apple.com/homepod-mini/#overview-sound-handoff-1... [2] https://www.apple.com/homepod-mini/#footnote-2:~:text=speakers.-,Requires%20a%20U1%E2%80%91equipped%20iPhone https://www.apple.com/homepod-mini/#footnote-2:~:text=speake... (text fragment highlighting links only work in Chrome)