Apple HomeView, an all-new smart home hub, is officially unveiled, delivering a family-shared, ultra-personalized experience.

Apple today officially launched Apple HomeView, an all-new smart home hub. Powered by powerful Siri AI and Apple Intelligence, HomeView combines entertainment, communication, and smart home management, with top-tier privacy protection at its core, making it an indispensable smart hub for modern homes.

Apple HomeView, an all-new family smart hub, is officially announced, delivering a shared experience for the whole family and ultimate personalization.

Apple HomeView offers two models that combine elegant aesthetics with smart technology:

• Desktop Model (Base Version)
  It features a refined aluminum enclosure and stainless steel hinge, paired with a curved speaker base that allows smooth tilt-angle adjustment. Available in four colors—Silver, Starlight, Rose Pink, and Space Gray—and includes a color-matched cable.
  

• Wall-mounted type
  Available in Space Gray and Silver, with a dedicated Schneider Home mounting bracket, it easily blends into spaces such as entryways and hallways, and supports DIY installation or professional in-home installation.
  

Featuring a 7-inch Liquid Retina display with True Tone and adaptive sensing technology, it supports automatic brightness adjustment, from 500 nits in very bright environments to 0.3 nits for nighttime bedside tables, delivering the most comfortable viewing experience. The distance-sensing interface shows a concise overview from a distance and automatically transitions to rich detail as the user moves closer.

Deep Personalization and the Siri AI Intelligence Core

Facial recognition, an exclusive experience.

• Support for up to 6 users: automatically switches to a personalized Home View via facial recognition, making it easy to access personal Messages, Calendar, Reminders, FaceTime, and the Find My app.
• Balancing sharing and privacy: personal private data is strictly confidential, but shared albums and music can be enjoyed by the whole family and guests at any time.
  

Siri AI and Apple Intelligence Upgrade

• More natural conversations and screen awareness: with an extensive knowledge base and strong contextual understanding, it delivers smarter voice experiences and music discovery.
  

• Cross-device contextual integration: When paired with an iPhone or iPad that supports Apple Intelligence, Siri can retrieve information across apps and automatically switch to other devices (Mac, Apple Watch, etc.) to continue a previous conversation.
  

• Personalized Home screen styles: supports portrait depth photos, live wallpapers, dynamic frames shared with family and friends, and cute interactive Snoopy animations.
  

Immersive Audio-Visual Entertainment and Seamless Family Communication

• Advanced Computational Audio:
  • Desktop type
    Built-in dual full-range drivers (with spatial audio support), a downward-firing woofer, and dual force-canceling passive radiators deliver immersive bass performance.
  • Wall-mounted type
    A dual-driver acoustic system tuned specifically for wall reflections.

• Seamless Streaming and Handoff: Full support for Apple Music, Apple TV, Podcasts, and third-party media platforms. Simply bring your iPhone close to HomeView to continue playing music via Handoff.
• Family Communication and Life Assistant:
  • FaceTime and Center Stage
    It also ensures the subject always stays centered in the frame while moving.
  • Walkie-talkie function
    Broadcast voice messages to a specific room or the whole home, and sync them to family members’ Apple devices.
  • Kitchen Wonder Assistant
    Convert online recipes into step-by-step instructions, with hands-free timers and ingredient tracking.

Ultimate Smart Home Control Dashboard

• Intuitive control: Easily control lights, thermostats, door locks, and blinds via touch or voice through the Home Modular dashboard.
• Comprehensive security monitoring: The Home Camera panel supports simultaneous on-screen streaming of up to 9 live video feeds.
• iCloud+ Smart Recognition: Supports HomeKit Secure Video, offering end-to-end encrypted recognition of people, pets, packages, and vehicles, and can recognize smoke or carbon monoxide alarm sounds.
• Ecosystem Compatibility: Supports Works with Apple Home and the Matter protocol, and is compatible with the new Apple Home Collection (launched in collaboration with LG and Schneider Electric).

Apple HomeView is powered by the A18 chip, and both video and microphone data are processed in an isolated operating environment. All sensitive personal data, such as messages and calendar, is displayed only after successful facial recognition and when a paired iPhone/iPad is present and unlocked. Siri requests are processed on-device or via Private Cloud Compute, and data is never stored or leaked.

Customers in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, the UK, and the US can pre-order Apple HomeView (Silver, Starlight, Rose Pink, and Space Gray) through official channels starting today for $299; Apple HomeView (Wall Mount) is available in Space Gray and Silver, also priced at $299.

Source: KOCPC Chinese