Future HomeKit could track you through your house and predict your needs

A future version of HomeKit may keep track of where the people in the house are, and learn user habits to figure out when to automatically take actions, without you having to ask Siri.The temperature and humidity sensors in the new HomePod, and now enabled in the HomePod mini, are designed to be used as part of automated systems. Right now, you can create a Shortcut that says if the indoor temperature falls below a certain point, you want your heater turned on.That does require a heater you can control remotely, or perhaps just a smart outlet, plus the HomePod. But it also requires you to set up that Shortcut, and 'Using In-home Location Awareness,' a newly-granted patent, suggests that Apple wants to move away from that. Read more...