private and secure protects your right to privacy designed to keep your personal information safe and be a trusted assistant in your family's everyday life hey siri hey siri hey siri homepod mini only listens for "hey siri" — so you can speak freely knowing nothing you say is sent out of your home until you activate apple id home talk live with homekit secure video support homepod mini can analyze the feeds of your presence of people and recognizing familiar done right on device before it's sent end-to-end encrypted to icloud - so your recordings can only be seen by you and the homepod mini works with your iphone for requests like hearing your messages or without revealing that information to apple