Apple introduces $299 HomeView hub, bringing Siri AI to a shared household screen

Apple introduced HomeView on October 13, 2026, giving its conversational assistant a shared screen for the household. The 7-inch smart-home hub starts at $299, with preorders open and availability beginning November 13. Apple says it recognizes individual users, displays their information and lets them control connected home devices through Siri AI.

The tabletop model connects its display to a domed speaker base through a tilting hinge. Apple also introduced a separate wall-mounted version, with mounts from Schneider Home. Both versions offer the same screen size and core features, giving the device a place on a kitchen counter, nightstand or hallway wall.

The interface changes with viewing distance: simpler information appears across the room, while more detail becomes visible as someone approaches. Automatic brightness also adjusts to changing light. The tabletop model comes in silver, starlight, rose pink and space gray; the wall-mounted version comes in silver and space gray.

One screen, six personal experiences

Once set up, HomeView can recognize up to six people by their faces. Each gets a personalized Home Screen with their own apps and widgets. Apple says personal content stays private from other users, while shared photo albums and music remain available for the household and guests.

The screen brings together familiar tasks: checking Calendar and Reminders, reading or answering Messages, displaying photos and making FaceTime calls. Center Stage keeps call participants framed as they move around. Intercom can send a spoken message to another room or throughout the house, reaching HomeView and HomePod speakers as well as personal Apple devices.

Siri conversations are not confined to the hub. Apple says history syncs privately through iCloud, allowing users to continue in the Siri app on an iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch or Apple Vision Pro. Voice settings chosen on a paired compatible device, including expressiveness and pace, also carry over to HomeView.

From household requests to home controls

For everyday use, Apple describes Siri helping with more than questions. In the kitchen, HomeView can turn web recipes into step-by-step instructions, offer hands-free timer control and help track ingredients. Find My can show the locations of people who have shared them, or help locate a misplaced iPhone, AirPods case or item with an AirTag.

Home controls work through touch or voice. Users can view cameras, adjust lights and thermostats, lock doors or close blinds. HomeView supports Works with Apple Home and Matter accessories, alongside a new collection of cameras, thermostats and a lock developed with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric.

Three monitoring features

• The Home Camera face can livestream up to nine camera feeds at once.
• With compatible cameras and a supported iCloud+ subscription, Apple says encrypted recognition identifies people, familiar faces, pets, packages and vehicles.
• HomeView can detect the sound of smoke or carbon monoxide alarms and alert users on an iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch.

Keeping the shared device private

Apple’s privacy design places camera and microphone processing in protected areas of the A18 chip called Secure Exclaves. These isolated environments operate separately from the rest of the system. Apple says data processed and analyzed there cannot be accessed by HomeView software, apps, the user or Apple itself.