Apple Experience · 2026
Introducing Apple HomeView, HomePod mini 2, the 4th-generation Apple TV 4K, and the Apple Home Collection, in collaboration with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric.
HomeView is Apple's first smart home hub, a 7-inch touchscreen that sits on a table or mounts on a wall. It handles multiroom audio, FaceTime, home cameras and automations, with Siri AI at its core, and launched without an App Store. It costs $299 in four colors.
HomePod mini 2 moved to the S10 chip and added Sound Glow, a top that animates with the music using colors from the album art. Four can pair with the new Apple TV 4K for surround sound. Siri AI arrives in a later update. It costs $149.
The fourth-generation Apple TV 4K moved to the A19 chip, added far-field microphones for hands-free Siri and an AV1 decoder, and shipped with a Siri Remote you can locate with Precision Finding. It costs $299.
The Apple Home Collection is a range of accessories made with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric: indoor, outdoor and floodlight cameras, a video doorbell, thermostats, room sensors and an LG deadbolt that uses Ultra Wideband to unlock as you approach. Prices range from $39.95 to $399.95.
2 min read · Written by Invite Archive
The invitation was short: Welcome home. October 13. Greg Joswiak posted it on X on October 8, and the location was New York rather than Apple Park. As with the March Apple Experience, Apple held a hands-on session for the press instead of a livestreamed keynote, and published the news on its Newsroom the same morning.
The theme was obvious. For several years, reports had described an Apple smart home display, delayed in part by the wait for a smarter Siri. With Siri AI introduced at WWDC26, the home was finally ready.
The headliner was Apple HomeView, Apple's first smart home hub, with a 7-inch display that can sit on a table or mount on a wall. It handles multiroom audio, FaceTime calls, home cameras and automations by voice, with Siri AI at its core. Unusually for an Apple device with a screen, it launched without an App Store. It costs $299 and comes in four colors.
The other announcements:
HomeView was Apple's first new product category since Apple Vision Pro, and most attention went to whether Siri AI could carry a device with no App Store. The prices drew just as much discussion. After Apple raised prices on its home products in June 2026, the new Apple TV cost more than twice what the entry model had cost before that increase, and HomePod mini, $99 at launch in 2020, moved to $149.
Welcome home was Apple's way of saying it was taking the smart home seriously, with its own hardware, its own assistant and partners for the rest of the house. See the full Home timeline.