These tricks turn Apple’s HomePod Mini into the ultimate office assistant

When Apple released the HomePod in 2018, the focus was squarely on music , making it the kind of smart speaker you’d put in a living room or common area. The new HomePod Mini , by contrast, seems perfect for office use. Its compact design can fit more neatly on a desk, and while it can’t match the larger $300 HomePod on sound quality, it’s also much less expensive, at $100, making it easier to justify in smaller spaces such as home offices. Besides, Apple’s Siri voice assistant has become more versatile over the past couple of years, turning it into an excellent office companion. If you’ve got a HomePod Mini (or full-sized HomePod) at your desk, here are all the ways you can put it to work: Make appointments Instead of clicking around in your calendar app, use Siri to quickly create events by voice. That way you can stay focused on whatever else you’re doing. To set up events on your HomePod or HomePod Mini, first make sure you’ve enabled Personal Requests for your HomePod, using these instructions , if you didn’t enable it during setup. Then, head to Settings > Calendar > Default Calendar on your iPhone and choose your work calendar (or whichever other calendar you’d like Siri to update in response to voice commands)

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These tricks turn Apple’s HomePod Mini into the ultimate office assistant