The new Apple TV 4K has built-in microphones so you can talk to Siri AI
The Verge Jennifer Pattison Tuohy ● Covered by 4 sources
Apple’s new TV box adds mics for hands-free Siri and Find My in the remote. It also jumps to $299, and the older top model is getting cut.
Based on reporting by The Verge, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy — read the original for the full story.
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Apple has refreshed the Apple TV 4K, and the box looks basically the same. The changes are under the hood, but two of them stand out immediately: far-field microphones for talking to Siri without picking up the remote, and Find My built into the remote itself.
This fourth-generation model was announced at Apple’s Welcome Home event in New York City, and Apple says it’s the first Apple TV 4K to support the Siri AI voice assistant. That’s the kind of feature that sounds small until you realize how often people end up hunting around the couch for a tiny remote.
Apple is also pushing the new Apple TV 4K harder into home theater territory. It can pair with up to four second-gen HomePods or HomePod Mini 2s for surround sound, which makes the little streaming box feel a lot more like the center of a living room setup than a box for apps.
Then there’s the price: $299. That’s more than twice what the previous Apple TV 4K debuted at, and $50 above Apple’s current top-of-the-line model, which is being discontinued. So yes, the hardware got smarter — and Apple also made sure nobody missed the bill.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
Apple keeps treating the living room like a luxury annex, and somehow people still clap. $299 for a streaming box is a bold way to say the remote had better not vanish into the cushions. The real story here is how normal it is now for AI features to arrive attached to a price hike.
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