Apple has opened preorders for HomeView, its first smart display, at $299. The 7-inch device combines a touchscreen, speaker, FaceTime camera, smart-home dashboard and the beta version of Siri AI in a product designed for kitchens, bedrooms and entryways. It ships November 13 in the United States and a small group of other markets.
The launch gives Apple a direct answer to Amazon’s Echo Show and Google’s Nest Hub after years of approaching the connected home through the Home app, Apple TV and HomePod. HomeView’s strongest feature is also its biggest qualification: it is built to recognize different members of an Apple household and draw on their existing devices, services and home accessories. Buyers who want the full experience will need more than the $299 display.
Apple HomeView price, release date and models
Apple is selling two HomeView models for the same $299 starting price. The tabletop version has a 7-inch Liquid Retina display on a domed speaker base, joined by a stainless-steel hinge that lets the screen tilt. It comes in silver, starlight, rose pink and space gray. A wall-mounted version uses the same size display but is limited to silver and space gray.
Preorders opened October 13 in the U.S., Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and the UK. Singapore preorders begin October 15, while South African sales will run through authorized resellers. Both versions are scheduled to arrive November 13. Apple’s launch announcement says HomeView will not be sold in the European Union at launch because Siri AI is not available in iOS there; the company gave no timetable for resolving that restriction.
The wall-mounted model’s price does not include the mount. Schneider Home’s USB-C wall connector starts at $59.95 and its wired AC mount at $79.95. A $129.95 Power over Ethernet mount, which can carry power over a network cable, is due in early 2027. That makes the least expensive wall installation $358.95 before any professional work.
What HomeView can do on its own
HomeView runs on an A18 chip and can recognize as many as six household members by face. Each person can have a separate Home Screen, apps and widgets. The display changes the amount of information it shows based on how far away someone is, and its automatic brightness ranges from 500 nits in a bright room to 0.3 nits for a nightstand.
The tabletop model has two full-range drivers in the display, a down-firing woofer and two passive radiators in its base. The wall model uses two drivers with audio tuned for its mounting position. HomeView can play Apple Music, podcasts and video, join an AirPlay multiroom setup, handle FaceTime calls with Center Stage, display photos, run timers and turn web recipes into step-by-step instructions.
Siri AI supplies general knowledge, conversational follow-ups and music discovery even when a user does not own a recent Apple Intelligence device. Apple describes Siri AI as a beta in HomeView software 27.2, however, and says some server-backed Apple Intelligence features have daily limits. The company also notes that expanded access to those features will carry a fee in the future, without publishing the price or the exact limits.
The best Siri features require a compatible iPhone or iPad
HomeView setup and multiuser support require a compatible iPhone or iPad running current software. More importantly, Siri AI needs an Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone or iPad to use personal context. That is the connection that lets the display find information in a user’s Messages and Calendar, act across apps, or answer a request based on something a friend recommended.
Apple also applies tighter device requirements to its customizable, more expressive Siri voices. Those require an iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, or an iPad with an M4 chip or newer and at least 12GB of unified memory. The feature is English-only.
That division matters for shoppers. HomeView can function as a shared speaker, display and Matter controller without the newest phone, but its most distinctive pitch—recognizing a person and privately connecting the household screen to that person’s digital life—depends on another eligible Apple device being present.
HomeView is a serious camera dashboard, with an iCloud+ catch
For a home already built around Apple Home, the camera view may be more useful than the AI assistant. HomeView can display as many as nine live camera feeds at once and control HomeKit or Matter accessories for lights, locks, thermostats and blinds. It can also listen for smoke and carbon-monoxide alarm sounds and send an alert to an iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch.
Recorded-camera intelligence has an additional cost. Recognition of people, pets, packages and vehicles uses HomeKit Secure Video and a supported iCloud+ plan. Automatic descriptions and natural-language search of recorded clips also require an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone or iPad during setup. Apple says the number of cameras eligible for some intelligence features depends on the subscriber’s iCloud+ tier.
The privacy design is unusually specific for a shared display. Apple says the A18 includes isolated “Secure Exclaves” for camera and microphone processing. Messages and Calendar content appears only after HomeView recognizes the enrolled person and confirms that their paired device is present and was recently unlocked. Siri requests can run on the device or through Private Cloud Compute, while HomeKit Secure Video recordings remain end-to-end encrypted.
Apple’s new accessories make the total system much more expensive
HomeView launches alongside the Apple Home Collection, a line of products designed with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric. It includes cameras, a video doorbell, a deadbolt, thermostats and room sensors. The devices are managed in Apple Home without a separate manufacturer account, but they are not included with HomeView.
The first accessories arrive in December, with others following in early 2027. U.S. starting prices include $199.95 for LG’s indoor camera, $249.95 for its wired video doorbell, $299.95 for its outdoor camera, $399.95 for the floodlight camera and $349.95 for the smart deadbolt. LG and Schneider smart thermostats each start at $199.95.
Existing HomeKit and Matter devices remain compatible, so buying Apple’s accessory line is not mandatory. That is important because a HomeView plus one doorbell already totals $548.95 before iCloud+, and a wall installation adds at least another $59.95.
Who should preorder Apple HomeView?
HomeView makes the clearest case for households that already share Apple services, use Apple Home automations and want a fixed camera-and-control screen. Its six-person recognition, private access to individual calendars and messages, nine-camera view and FaceTime support give it a more ambitious role than a speaker with a small display.
Everyone else should wait for testing. Siri AI is still labeled beta, several of the most personal functions depend on another current Apple device, camera summaries require iCloud+, and Apple has not yet disclosed the future fee for expanded use of server-backed AI features. HomeView also will not ship for a month, leaving time for independent reviews to test recognition accuracy, microphone performance, sound quality and whether third-party apps behave like full applications or phone-dependent extensions.
The $299 hardware price is straightforward. The real buying decision is whether a household already owns enough of the Apple ecosystem to make HomeView’s best features feel integrated instead of gated.
