The year 2025 will be very interesting for Apple fans. Indeed, the firm will continue to improve Apple Intelligence, which will make recent iPhones even more useful. According to rumors, the firm also plans to launch a new iPhone SE which should offer a modern design and which would be compatible with Apple Intelligence. Then, in September, there will be the iPhone 17 series. According to many sources, Apple will replace the iPhone 17 Plus with theiPhone 17 Air, a model with a revolutionary design that will be extremely thin.
But homebodies could also fall for another new Apple product, which has been mentioned by the media for a while: the famous “HomePad”. Indeed, in 2025, Apple would continue to focus on the connected home by launching the HomePod mini 2, but also a whole new product category. Nicknamed “HomePad” by the media, this new product would be a connected screen for the home, similar to Amazon's Echo Show and Google's Nest Hub screens. The main function of this product would be to serve as a control center for devices connected to HomeKit, Apple's home automation platform. But, as you will see in this article, the future “HomePad” should have other arguments that should convince customers.
A digital photo frame
Thanks to its screen, Apple's connected screen should also serve as a digital photo frame. And that could be one of the firm's main selling points. In fact, the screen could automatically synchronize with the user's Apple account to display their photos. There are already some very interesting products in this niche, but the advantage of the Apple screen will be that it will not be necessary to manually transfer the photos to display.
In any case, this is a popular product category. Proof of this is that at the time of writing this article, the application from Aura Frames, a manufacturer of digital photo frames, is in the Top 20 of the most popular applications in the App Store.
Apple Intelligence in the living room
Another advantage of Apple's future connected screen: it could be compatible with Apple Intelligence features. According to a publication by Mark Gurman, journalist at Bloomberg, Apple would design the hardware of the future “HomePad” to support “App Intents” from Apple Intelligence. This is a future feature of Apple's AI that will allow you to control applications and complete tasks using the Assistant.
A price that could be reasonable
Another argument: Apple could offer the future HomePad at a reasonable price. In fact, this would be the basic version of Apple's connected screen. But, later, the firm could offer a more expensive product, which could be equipped with robotic support.
Of course, for the moment, this information should be considered with caution, since it does not come from an official source. However, it would make sense for Apple to try to bring innovative products to the connected home device market. Indeed, if Apple is one of the leaders in sectors such as smartphones, connected watches or wireless headphones, it still has difficulty facing competition from Google and Amazon in the field of devices for connected home.
