One of the biggest criticisms the HomePod has received, since before its launch, has been the limitation when interacting with the data we have stored on our iPhone, a limitation that Siri had always been to blame for. But it seems that before long, the HomePod will start receiving new features.
As developers analyze the code of the first iOS 11.4 betas, something common every time a new version of any Apple operating system is released, hidden functions begin to appear that do not have to arrive in the next final version, but rather they can do it in the future. One of the most striking is the possibility of manage calendars through HomePod.
This function will be available within the group of requests that iOS asks us to allow the HomePod to send messages through our iPhone, as we can see in the image above. Where previously only messages, reminders and tasks appeared, now our calendar icon also appears, thus expanding the number of options offered by the HomePod.
We do not know if this function will come from the hand of iOS 11.4 Or it will happen as with the AriPlay function and the possibility of being able to synchronize messages through iClooud, functions that were available during two betas of iOS 11.3 to finally disappear in the last ones and not appear in the final version that reached the general public does something more than two weeks.
Amazon's smart speakers are about to arrive in Spain, and they will probably do so with all the available functions and without any limitation, quite the opposite that Apple has offered us with the launch of the HomePod, a launch limited in time, geographically and with many of its functions disabled.