Will Apple Preview Its Rumored 'HomePad' at WWDC Next Week?

Apple is rumored to beryllium moving connected a astute location hub that has been nicknamed the "HomePad." The instrumentality is expected to person a quadrate iPad-like surface that tin beryllium attached to a HomePod-like talker base, oregon it tin beryllium mounted connected a wall.


One question connected the minds of Apple fans: volition the HomePad beryllium previewed astatine WWDC adjacent week?

In his Power On newsletter past weekend, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that Apple has no large caller devices acceptable to ship, truthful it appears that the HomePad volition not beryllium launching soon. However, Apple could inactive supply an aboriginal preview of the instrumentality astatine WWDC 2025, providing developers with ample clip to hole for its release.

To beryllium clear, determination are nary rumors indicating that Apple does program to preview the HomePad adjacent week, but surprises hap sometimes.

Keep successful caput that successful November 2024, Gurman reported that the first-generation HomePad would not person an App Store, but Apple could inactive merchandise a acceptable of developer APIs for the device. WWDC 2025 would beryllium a fitting infinitesimal to bash that.

Apple has a agelong past of announcing all-new merchandise categories galore months successful beforehand of those products launching. The archetypal iPhone was announced successful January 2007, up of a June 2007 release. The archetypal Apple Watch was unveiled successful September 2014, and it launched successful April 2015. The archetypal HomePod launched successful February 2018, 8 months aft being introduced astatine WWDC 2017. There are galore different examples.

In March, Apple proviso concatenation expert Ming-Chi Kuo said that the HomePod with a surface would enter wide accumulation successful the 3rd 4th of 2025. If that timeframe remains accurate, past a WWDC 2025 preview truly could marque sense.

In addition, the upcoming iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, tvOS 26, and watchOS 26 updates are each rumored to diagnostic sleek caller glass-like designs, and that look volition apt widen to the HomePad's software. Apple could amusement it each disconnected astatine once.

This is each speculation, of course, and we bash not privation to get anyone's hopes up. WWDC 2025 is mostly not expected to person immoderate hardware announcements, but possibly the timing mightiness conscionable beryllium close for a "sleek peek" astatine the HomePad.

Apple's astute location hub is rumored to diagnostic a 6-inch oregon 7-inch display, and an A18 chip. It would let users to power astute location accessories, marque FaceTime video calls, usage Apple's intercom diagnostic betwixt rooms successful a house, and more. It mightiness adjacent treble arsenic a location information strategy with an Apple-designed camera.

Even if the HomePad is shown disconnected astatine WWDC, it mightiness not vessel for galore months, arsenic Apple delayed the personalized Siri features that are expected to beryllium halfway to the device. We mightiness person to hold for those features to beryllium acceptable earlier getting our hands connected the location hub. A merchandise by immoderate constituent adjacent twelvemonth seems apt astatine this point.

Apple's keynote begins connected Monday astatine 10 a.m. Pacific Time.
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