10 New Apple Smart Home Gadgets iPhone Users Will Love

Apple is making its biggest moves yet into the smart home gadget market, announcing not only a new smart home hub, the $299 HomeView, but also long-awaited updates to the Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini. In addition to Apple gadgets, the company announced several new accessories in partnership with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric, including smart cameras, thermostats and a door lock. With these accessories, customers in the United States and other regions will be able to get a first experience of how Apple envisions smart homes – an area in which the company arguably lags behind Samsung, Xiaomi and other brands.

According to Apple, these new accessories can be set up with a single click with the iPhone, as everything is managed through the company’s Apple Home app. This means that new users don’t need to create an additional account for everything to work. Apple says the devices use end-to-end encryption and only users and people they want to share information with can access home data. With these new devices, Apple says users will be able to understand what’s happening in their home, manage access, and much more. While the new Apple Home Collection will be available starting in December, Apple’s HomeView device won’t launch until November.

As is typical for Apple, these products feature a clean, minimal aesthetic while using premium materials. They can function as standalone accessories or as part of a larger ecosystem, easily controlled from the Home app, Siri and users’ iPhones. Here are more details on new accessories you could add to your home in the coming months.

The main new Apple smart home gadget is Apple’s HomeView. Long known as the HomePad, this device uses a 7-inch Liquid Retina display with brightness ranging from 0.3 to 500 nits. It is optionally attached to a stainless steel arm in an aluminum base that also houses a speaker. This device comes in four different colors and is designed to manage customers’ smart home systems, listen to music with Apple Music and Spotify, make FaceTime calls, and get information displayed via hands-free requests using the company’s new Siri AI. The company says HomeView can recognize users by their faces and will adapt in real time, whether it’s you, your partner, your children, or anyone else in your Apple account family.

When an Apple Intelligence-enabled device is nearby, HomeView can pull personal content from calendar, messages, and other relevant information in apps. The company touts that this smart home hub can be positioned in the center of the home or wall-mounted in spaces like the entryway or hallway.

HomeView would run on new software called homeOS, which is a mashup of CarPlay, tvOS and watchOS. The HomeView does not have an App Store and it appears that Apple will decide which apps customers can enjoy. New owners will discover familiar experiences with Messages, FaceTime, Calendar, Clock, Photos, Music, Podcasts and other apps. This device is already available for pre-order for $299 in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, India and New Zealand, with more countries to be added later. For now, Apple says HomeView will not be available in the European Union as the company attempts to work with the European Commission on the availability of Siri AI.

While Apple’s HomeView may have been the star of its new smart home lineup, it wasn’t the only one. The company also partnered with LG to make four new cameras designed specifically for the Apple ecosystem. They can be paired with HomeView, HomePod, HomePod mini or Apple TV 4K, as they capture videos at up to 2.5K resolution, recognize people, familiar faces, pets and other objects, in addition to videos stored in supported iCloud+ plans. The first device is LG’s Video Doorbell that features a dual-camera system to capture visitors and packages. The doorbell, which will cost $249.95, has a built-in projector, captures video in 2.5K resolution with the front camera and in Full HD with the bottom camera.

The second camera is LG’s $399.95 Floodlight Cam, which is designed to monitor the exterior of the home because it has two spotlights that turn on whenever it detects motion. The camera also has slow-light color night vision so it can capture information even when it’s not light.

The South Korean company has also been working on two other cameras, one for outdoors and another for indoors. The outdoor option also comes with color low-light night vision, as Apple touts it for being positioned at an angle, so users can get more footage of anyone walking around their home, while the indoor camera can be tilted up and down depending on whether they’re returning home or not. Apple says the camera can also stop surveillance when authorized people enter the home, while unauthorized people would be recorded. The price of these cameras is $299.95 and $199.95 respectively.

LG didn’t just make cameras as part of its partnership with Apple. The company also announced a $349.95 smart deadbolt lock that takes advantage of ultra-wideband wireless chips to detect a user’s proximity to their door and automatically unlock it without touching their device. This technology is part of a larger trend that was introduced with Aqara earlier this year at CES 2026. Apple calls the system a Home Key.

However, users who prefer to tap the iPhone/Apple Watch to open the door or use a built-in PIN pad can also unlock their doors via these options. According to Apple, the new smart lock can detect whether the door has been opened, closed or tampered with. Like other smart locks, homeowners can share guest access using the Home app, meaning the dog walker, a house sitter, or someone visiting the home can get in even if you’re not there and without having to share a physical key.

Users can also control LG’s smart deadbolt lock with the Home app or ask Siri who was the last person to arrive or leave the house, who is there, and more. If someone rings the bell, users can receive a chime on other smart home devices, like HomeView, HomePod, or other Apple devices.

To realize Apple’s dream of a smart home, the company also offers smart thermostats and room sensors from LG Electronics and Schneider Electric. Apple says these products use the intelligence built into the iPhone to adjust thermostats whether someone is home or not, so the place is always at the right temperature without manual programming. Apple is even working to help users save money if they have a compatible utility plan, as the Home app can display information about peak and off-peak rates and device behavior.

Apple says both options from Schneider Electric and LG start at $199.95 and will work with multiple HVAC systems. Additional humidity sensors start at $39.95, but it’s also worth noting that Apple includes temperature and humidity sensors built into its HomeView, HomePod, and HomePod mini speakers. Apple also claims that they are Matter compatible and easy to DIY, meaning installation should be simple and compatible with other devices that support the Matter standard.

Apple has also partnered with home security company ADT to provide third-party installation through its Apple Retail stores in the United States for an additional fee. The company said more information would be available later this fall.