iOS 18.4 hints at a tentpole feature of Apple’s new ‘HomePad’

iOS 18.4 is now available in beta, and one of its main additions came as a total surprise: a new Food hub and cooking experience for Apple News. However, there’s a new Home product launching soon—I call it ‘HomePad’—that the cooking feature seems perfectly built for. New cooking feature in iOS 18.4 offers guided recipe experience iOS 18.4 was originally expected to be a big update for Siri improvements. While those so far are absent from the first beta and may get pushed to iOS 18.5, the addition of new food features is an unexpected highlight. Exclusive to Apple News+ subscribers, the News app in iOS 18.4 provides access to a dedicated Food section containing recipes, info on restaurants, a cooking feature, and more. The recipe feature and cooking mode, in particular, seem designed for Apple’s forthcoming HomePad product. Here’s how Apple describes them in its press release: With the new Food feature, users will be able to…browse, search, and filter tens of thousands of recipes i ... Read full article.