Apple debuts more screens for home: HomeView, AppleTV

Apple Inc. debuted numerous products for the home, adding more screens for displaying photos in the home. Top among the debuts is Apple HomeView, a $299 device for centralized access to a household’s digital content. With a 7-inch Liquid Retina display, HomeView brings entertainment, connection, and smart home management together in one place, from playing music and making FaceTime calls to home monitoring and hands-free automations with voice control. HomeView recognizes users by their faces, adapting so they can access their personal content in Messages, FaceTime, Calendar, Reminders, and Find My. HomeView features Siri AI, an entirely new version of Siri that’s profoundly more capable and conversations. Designed to fit in any space, HomeView can be placed on a tabletop or wall-mounted to fit in spaces like the entryway or hallway.

“Apple HomeView is designed to be shared by everyone in the home yet feel completely personal to each user,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “It recognizes your face to shift from a household screen to your own experience, fills the room with incredible sound, keeps you connected to the people who matter most with FaceTime, and makes it easy to control your smart home. And it’s powered by Apple Intelligence with Siri AI at its core, drawing on personal context from your iPhone to help you find what you need and get more done, all while keeping everyone’s information private and secure.”

HomeView features an aluminum design with a 7-inch Liquid Retina display connected to a domed speaker base by a stainless steel hinge that provides a smooth tilt for comfortable viewing on tabletops of any height. HomeView comes in four colors — silver, starlight, rose pink, and space gray — each finished with a matching cable. It features adaptive display technologies, including True Tone, that react to changing light throughout the day. Automatic brightness adjusts from 500 nits — bright enough to stay vivid and easy to see even in a sunlit room — down to just 0.3 nits, making it ideal for the nightstand. The HomeView interface intelligently adjusts based on the user’s distance, showing simpler information that’s viewable from across the room and richer detail as they step closer.

A separate wall-mounted HomeView model — available in space gray and silver — offers the same 7-inch Liquid Retina display and can be attached to a wall using three purpose-built mounts from Schneider Home, with options for self-installation or professional installation.

HomeView recognizes up to six people and delivers a personalized experience for each one. Each user gets their own personalized Home Screen with apps and widgets. Personal content stays private from others, while shared photo albums and music can be easily enjoyed by everyone in a household, including guests.

Apple announced the next generation of Apple TV 4K, featuring Siri AI, an entirely new version of Siri powered by the next generation of Apple Intelligence. With built-in far-field microphones, Apple TV 4K also lets users talk to Siri completely hands-free.

The new Apple TV 4K delivers even faster performance and, when paired with four HomePod mini 2 or HomePod (2nd generation) speakers, unlocks the most immersive home theater surround sound setup Apple has ever offered. As a home hub, Apple TV 4K also makes managing the smart home easier than ever, with Apple Intelligence-generated camera activity descriptions and summarized notifications in the Home app, and control of accessories and scenes.

Apple TV 4K (4th generation) is available for $299 (U.S.) or $49.83 (U.S.) per month for six months.

Apple also debuted the $149 HomePod mini 2, featuring Siri AI, new colors, and enhanced audio experiences, and Apple Home Collection, a lineup of smart home accessories — including indoor and outdoor cameras, thermostats, temperature sensors, and a video doorbell and door lock — designed in collaboration with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric.

The lineup includes the following devices:

• LG’s Video Doorbell offers dual cameras that capture separate views of visitors and packages.

• LG’s Floodlight Cam delivers powerful perimeter monitoring with adaptive dual floodlights.

• LG’s Outdoor Cam also offers low-light color night vision and can be easily angled.

• LG’s Indoor Cam takes a distinctive approach to privacy in the Home app by automatically tilting upward and downward to adjust the view when users check in on the home.

Each camera works with iCloud+, giving users access to 10 days’ worth of event video history. On eligible iCloud+ plans, Apple Intelligence adds automatic video descriptions that summarize what’s happening in a clip, along with the ability to search footage using natural, descriptive language. Built-in storage keeps cameras recording even when Wi-Fi goes down, and improvements to the way footage is captured and stored ensure detected moments aren’t missed during a network outage. Users can view live footage and camera activity at any time right from the Home app on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV 4K, or HomeView — with quick live snapshots that give an at-a-glance view without needing to open a full livestream.