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Apple unveiled the Apple Home Collection, a line of smart home accessories co-designed with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric, alongside new hardware including a HomeView smart display, updated Apple TV and HomePod mini. The collection includes indoor and outdoor cameras, a video doorbell, a door lock and thermostats, with LG supplying most devices and Schneider Electric contributing a thermostat.
Apple has introduced the HomeView, its first smart home display, featuring a 7-inch Liquid Retina touchscreen, a 12MP camera, and built-in Siri. The device is available in both wall-mounted and tabletop versions and includes a Home Widget that mirrors the Apple Home app, letting users control thermostats, locks, cameras and scenes directly from the screen.
Apple showed off six new smart home devices made with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric after its 'Welcome Home' event, including a $349 LG smart lock with Apple Home Key and UWB unlocking, a $249 LG video doorbell with dual 2.5K cameras, LG indoor and outdoor security cameras priced $199-$399, and two $199 Matter-compatible thermostats. The devices are designed to work with Apple's new Siri-powered HomeView smart display, as well as iPhones.
Apple has launched the HomeView, a $299 smart display combining a screen with a speaker base for video calls, photo displays, and Siri voice assistance. The device also functions as a Matter controller and Thread Border Router for Apple Home devices, launching alongside new cameras, thermostats, and a door lock in eight countries, with preorders open now and shipping starting November 13th.
Apple unveiled the Apple Home Collection, a line of smart home products co-developed with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric, including security cameras, a video doorbell, a smart lock, and two thermostats. The announcement came at Apple's Welcome Home event in New York, alongside new Apple TV 4K and HomePod Mini 2 hardware, marking Apple's first self-branded devices for its Apple Home platform after years of relying on third-party manufacturers.
Apple is hosting a dedicated 'Welcome Home experience' event in New York City on October 13th, its first ever focused solely on smart home products. Reports from Bloomberg and MacRumors suggest the company will unveil a new smart home display, possibly called HomeView, alongside a refreshed HomePod Mini and updated Apple TV. The display would mark Apple's first dedicated Apple Home hardware since launching HomeKit in 2014.
With iOS 27, Apple is bringing Apple Intelligence to HomeKit, introducing AI-generated video summaries that combine footage from multiple security cameras into readable event descriptions using Face Recognition and natural-language search. The feature requires a 2nd-generation HomePod, HomePod Mini, or Apple TV 4K, plus an Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone such as the iPhone 15 Pro or newer, and relies on Apple's cloud storage plans, which can run up to $60 a month depending on camera count.
A leaker known as 'pdfu,' who has previously shared accurate Apple and LG smart-home leaks, posted new details suggesting an NFC-based 'Proximity Control' feature for upcoming LG Apple Home accessories. The feature reportedly shows device controls in the iPhone's Dynamic Island when the phone is held near a compatible device, using the Matter protocol but tailored to Apple Home. This follows an earlier leak describing a 'tap to setup without power' pairing feature from the same source.
In this week's Happy Hour episode, hosts Benjamin Mayo and Chance Miller discuss Apple's upcoming product announcements, including a reported partnership with LG on smart home accessories and upcoming changes to macOS Full Disk Access permissions. They also touch on OLED MacBook Pro details, though the episode was recorded before Apple's official 'Welcome home' event announcement.
Apple's iOS 27 update adds major upgrades to the Home app, led by improvements to HomeKit Secure Video. Compatible cameras can now stream and record in 4K, up from the previous 1080p cap, while Apple Intelligence adds AI-generated video descriptions, clip search, and highlighted 'noteworthy clips.' The update also introduces real-time notifications that consolidate related alerts into a single updating message instead of several separate ones.
Leaker @ringo_tech posted images and specs for LG-branded devices reportedly co-developed with Apple: a wired video doorbell, floodlight camera, and indoor/outdoor plug-in cameras. The leak follows Mark Gurman's report that Apple and LG are jointly building a line of Home accessories including a smart lock, thermostat, and temperature sensor ahead of a product unveiling next week.
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is building small cylindrical home sensors that use AI facial recognition to detect people and activity without saving video footage. The devices would pair with Apple's upcoming AI home hub launching Oct. 13, delivering text alerts like "someone is outside the back door" instead of stored clips. Apple has not responded to requests for comment.