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Apple’s New Smart-Home Display

5 hours ago Mukesh

Apple announces HomeView with a 7-inch touchscreen and Siri with Apple Intelligence

HomeView (Desktop) | GSMarena

Apple announced a new smart-home display and hub, called HomeView, which is going to serve as a hub for smart home devices that can be controlled by the device. The gadget will be Apple's first standalone smart home display, sell for $299 and be available on November 13th, 2026.

Hardware and design

Homeview (Wall Mounted) | GSMarena

HomeView is equipped with camera, speaker and microphone capabilities and has a 7” Liquid Retina touch screen. Available in 2 different sizes: Desktop (Round Mounting Speaker Stand) and Wall Mounted (Permanent Mounting). It is designed to be used in a communal area, like the living room, kitchen or entryways and should run on electricity. It incorporates a screen that shows dates, climate, pictures, timers and also smart home controls.

The standard HomeView is available in four colours: Silver, Starlight, Rose Pink, and Space Grey, each with a matching cable. The wall-mounted version is offered in a more limited choice of Silver and Space Grey.

Apple HomeView, four devices in a row, side exterior, in silver color, starlight color (pale gold), rose pink color, and space gray colors showing perforated speaker grilles

HomeView (desktop) | Apple

Apple HomeView, wall mounted, two devices, side exterior in silver color and space gray color, showing thin design with perforated speaker grille at the base

Home View (wall mounted) | Apple

Smart-home functions

HomeView is a Matter controller, a smart-home hub and a Thread border router. This enables it to connect with other Home and Matter devices like lights, locks, thermostats, cameras and doorbells with the Apple Home and Matter system. Control with a touchscreen and voice control. It will show up to 9 live feeds from a camera, which comes in handy if you have a security camera with multiple cameras or a doorbell camera with multiple cameras.

Personalisation and Siri

May accommodate up to 6 members of the household. Apple claims it is able to identify users and customise the Apps display for them based on their calendar, reminders, text messages, photos and notifications. HomeView, Apple's new voice assistant, has features such as Siri AI. Beginning with messages, email, calendar and control of smart home devices, Siri will begin to relate to its surroundings, Apple says, due to data it can access being communicated via a companion iPhone or iPad.

Apps and communication

HomeView has home control and FaceTime video calling, music, podcasts, recipes, Safari Browser, Calendar and Photos apps. The built-in camera enables the participants to keep themselves in the call's frame when communicating with Centre Stage.