By inertia, when you have to talk to a family member, friend, acquaintance or any other phone number with which you want to communicate, it is normal for you to use your smartphone, but you could also call through HomePod.
Music, home automation control and more
One of the great advantages of smart speakers is, as their name suggests, that they are devices that go beyond the traditional use that involves solely and exclusively reproducing content on it.
It is fair to say that it is still really its main use or, at least, in certain proposals such as Apple‘s HomePod. Both the original model (now officially discontinued) and HomePod Mini have always taken care of the musical section and try to offer a sound quality above its direct competitors.
However, you cannot forget other uses that also give a lot of play when it comes to being used at home or even in the office if that is where you usually use it. Among all those possibilities that go from the interaction of Siri to know specific things that you can ask, control the connected home and even make phone calls .
How to make calls through HomePod
The process necessary to make a phone call through the HomePod is so simple that you just have to do the following, although you should know that you must be an iPhone user to take advantage of the integration between both Apple devices:
- At a distance from which the voice commands are understandable by the speaker say “Hey Siri, make a phone call”
- Normally, Siri responds to this interaction with the question “Who do you want to call?” Say on behalf of your contact and the call will start
This method is not the only one as you can imagine and you also have the possibility to indicate directly who you want to call. That is, you can skip a few steps by just saying from the beginning “Hey Siri, call mom” or whoever you want to do as long as it is the name that you have registered in the contact list of your iPhone.
Once you want to end the call you can say again “Hey Siri, hang up” and the Apple voice assistant built into your devices and the HomePod in particular will hang up.
Of course there is still more, to the HomePod and Siri you can also give the order to call a phone number that you do not have in your agenda . That only implies a change in what you ask and add the corresponding numbering.
If instead you want to call the same number again, say “Hey Siri, call back or dial the last number”. And who says to call also says to answer.
Thanks to Handoff, if you are a user of various Apple devices, you will have noticed that when they contact you that call not only jumps on the iPhone, but also on any possible iPad you have, Mac and the speakers of the brand itself.
If you want to take the call from your HomePod you just have to say “Hey Siri, answer the phone.” Ready, now you will be speaking directly with the person who has contacted you through the speaker in hands-free mode and with a very high audio quality. Because if something good about these Apple devices is the quality of the microphones that they integrate and how they are able to separate the voice from the rest of the sounds.
Bonus bonus: switch a call from iPhone to HomePod
Finally, when they call you on the iPhone you do not have to continue with the call from it at all times. You can activate handsfree, plug in a headset, and even switch the call to the HomePod .
The latter with the HomePod is as simple as bringing your phone close to it, at the top, and waiting for the change to be made automatically.
So now you know, if you had thought or were considering acquiring a HomePod, you already have an extra reason to do so.
