Apple launches $299 HomeView smart display built around Siri AI
Apple unveiled HomeView, a smart home display powered by its revamped Siri AI assistant, on October 13, 2026. It ships November 13 but will not be sold in the EU for now.
Apple introduced HomeView, its first smart home display, at a "Welcome Home" event in New York City on October 13, 2026. The voice-driven device is designed around Siri AI, the company's overhauled assistant, and costs $299 in the United States. Preorders opened the same day, with shipments due to begin on November 13.
HomeView combines a square seven-inch Liquid Retina touchscreen with a speaker base, and a wall-mounted option is also offered. Running on the A18 chip, it controls connected lights, locks, thermostats and cameras, handles FaceTime calls, streams music and video, and turns into a digital photo frame when idle. Its camera can recognise up to six people and tailor the screen to each, showing personal notifications, calendars and widgets.
A Gemini-based Siri
Siri AI, powered by Apple Intelligence and built on technology from Google Gemini, is the centrepiece of the launch. Apple describes it as more capable and conversational than the original Siri, drawing on personal apps such as Messages and Calendar to give more relevant answers. Through a linked iPhone, it can also describe footage from security cameras.
Alongside HomeView, Apple announced the $149 HomePod Mini 2, arriving October 30 with Siri AI features to follow in a later software update, and a new Apple TV 4K with far-field microphones for hands-free voice control. It also revealed the Apple Home Collection, co-developed with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric. Prices include $199 for an indoor camera, from $299 for an outdoor camera, $249 for a video doorbell, $349 for a smart lock and $199 per thermostat; Apple has said only that the range is coming soon.
Europe left out for now
HomeView will initially go on sale in the US, UK, India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa. Apple said the device will not be offered in the European Union for the time being while it works out how to make Siri AI comply with the bloc's competition rules, adding that it is working constructively with EU officials.
The launch is one of the first under John Ternus, the former hardware engineering chief who succeeded Tim Cook as chief executive on September 1. Apple has struggled in the smart home since releasing its Home app in 2016 and HomePod in 2018, trailing Amazon and Google. Analysts view the new lineup as a way to bind customers more tightly to Apple's ecosystem as AI companies such as OpenAI pursue hardware of their own.