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Apple headphone intercom feature likely to follow Apple Watch and HomePod

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<p>We always caution that you can never tell which Apple <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/patents/" target="_blank" aria-label="undefined (opens in a new tab)" rel="noreferrer noopener">patents[/url] will actually make it into products, but a patent for an Apple headphone intercom feature has to be a good bet. </p>
<p>Apple first debuted an intercom feature — albeit <a aria-label="undefined (opens in a new tab)" href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/19/walkie-talkie-apple-watch-watchos-5-beta-2-video/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">branded as walkie-talkie[/url] — on the Apple Watch. A couple of years later, it brought <a aria-label="undefined (opens in a new tab)" href="https://9to5mac.com/2020/10/21/how-homepod-intercom-works-on-apple-watch/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a more advanced version[/url] of <a aria-label="undefined (opens in a new tab)" href="https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/05/ios-14-2-release-new-features/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the same idea to HomePod[/url]. And now an Apple patent application describes how the company might bring another more advanced form of intercom functionality to headphones… </p>
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