In this brief tutorial, we tell you about the new Sound Glow feature added to HomePod and HomePod mini running software version 27.2.

Have you used the Visualizer in the Apple Music app on Mac, or Sync Lights with Music in a Tesla Model Y Premium? Both turn sound into light, with colors and glowing patterns that move with the music on your Mac screen or across the Tesla car’s interior accent light strip.

Along the same lines, HomePod software version 27.2 adds a new party trick that lets you watch your music come to life by turning the top circular display into glowing/pulsing lights that dance to the album art color (usually) and the rhythm of your currently playing music, podcast, video, built-in ambient sounds , and more. It usually shows two or three of the album cover’s dominant colors, with the white glow ball moving slightly to give it a bouncy motion.

Apple calls this feature Sound Glow , and it adds nothing functionally but is certainly cool aesthetically, a party trick , if you will.…