With Sound Recognition, HomePod tin observe the dependable of a fume oregon c monoxide alarm successful your home, and alert you by sending a notification to your iPhone, iPad oregon Apple Watch.
It's a neat summation if you don't ain a astute detector, though Apple warns that the diagnostic should not beryllium relied upon "in circumstances wherever users whitethorn beryllium harmed oregon injured," oregon successful "high-risk oregon exigency situations."
The Sound Recognition diagnostic is accessible successful the Home app. If your Home strategy is connected to a astute camera, it volition besides show unrecorded video of your home, truthful you tin spot what's happening successful existent time.
Here's however to alteration the feature. Note that Sound Recognition connected HomePods requires Apple's updated Home app architecture that was introduced successful 2022 arsenic portion of iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4.
- In the Home app, pat the ellipsis button (three dots) successful the top-right country of the screen.
- Tap Home Settings.
- Tap Safety & Security âžť Sound Recognition.
- Under "Sounds," marque definite the Smoke & CO Alarm toggle is successful the greenish ON position.
- Toggle connected the switches adjacent to the HomePod devices that you privation to alteration Sound Recognition for.

Sound Recognition was archetypal introduced connected the iPhone successful 2020 and tin observe a wide assortment of sounds connected that device, including a doorbell, moving water, a babe crying, a car horn, a doorway knock, a feline meowing oregon canine barking, and more.
This article, "Make HomePod Alert You to Smoke Alarms" archetypal appeared connected MacRumors.com
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