Apple Unveils HomeView, HomePod mini 2 and Apple TV 4K

Apple used an in-person "Welcome Home" event in Tribeca on October 13, 2026, to announce its first smart-home hub with a screen, Apple HomeView, alongside a second-generation HomePod mini, a fourth-generation Apple TV 4K, and a new third-party accessory lineup called Apple Home Collection. HomeView costs $299, the HomePod mini is $149, and the Apple TV 4K starts at $199, with pre-orders open today and the first units shipping October 30 and November 13.

A Tribeca event, not a Cupertino keynote

Unlike Apple's usual Apple Park livestreams, "Welcome Home" was an in-person media event held in Tribeca, New York, starting at 9 a.m. ET (13:00 UTC) with no public video stream. Apple instead posted its announcements directly to Apple Newsroom as the event got underway, in the same format it has used for smaller product refreshes throughout 2026, such as September's Mac mini and Mac Studio update. The venue and format signal how Apple is positioning this launch: squarely as a smart-home push rather than a flagship iPhone- or Mac-style keynote moment.

Apple HomeView: Apple's first home hub with a screen

The headline product is Apple HomeView, a tabletop and wall-mountable display that Apple is pitching as "the new heart of your home." It runs on the A18 chip, which Apple says includes Secure Exclaves for processing camera and microphone data on-device, and it centers on a 7-inch Liquid Retina display (6.98 inches measured diagonally) with True Tone and a brightness range of 0.3 to 500 nits.

HomeView ships in two physical formats. The tabletop model, which sits on a speaker-style base, comes in Silver, Starlight, Rose Pink, and Space Gray. A wall-mounted version is limited to Silver and Space Gray, requires wired power, and is sold with its mounting hardware as a separate accessory. Both versions carry a 12MP Center Stage camera that keeps people framed during video calls, four beamforming microphones, two full-range drivers built into the display, and a base housing a down-firing woofer with two force-cancelling passive radiators for Spatial Audio and computational audio.

HomeView is built around Siri AI, Apple's upgraded assistant powered by Apple Foundation Models. It can recognize up to six people in a household when their iPhone or iPad is nearby and recently unlocked, surfacing each person's own calendar, photos, and messages on the shared display. The screen can also be set to a handful of dedicated "faces," including Photos, Snoopy, Calendar, Weather, and Flow, plus Home Modular and Home Camera views for monitoring connected accessories. As a smart-home hub, HomeView can stream up to nine camera feeds at once and listen for smoke and carbon monoxide alarm sounds, triggering a phone alert if one goes off while no one is home.

HomeView also handles calling and messaging: it supports FaceTime, Apple's Intercom feature for talking to other rooms or devices in the house, and hands-free calls and messages picked up through its microphone array.

Siri AI on HomeView is arriving in beta with HomeView software 27.2, in English only to start, and Apple says it is subject to usage limits during the beta period. HomeView is not being sold in the European Union, which Apple attributes to Siri AI's current unavailability on iOS and iPadOS in the region.

HomeView price and release date

Apple HomeView is listed at $299 across every color and configuration, including the wall-mounted version (the mount itself is sold separately). Pre-orders opened today, October 13, with Apple's storefront listing availability as "starting 11.13" — November 13, 2026.

HomePod mini gets its first refresh since 2020

Apple also announced the next generation of HomePod mini, its first update to the speaker since it debuted in 2020. The new model is built on the Apple S10 chip for real-time computational audio and adds Siri AI support: with an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone or iPad in the home, it can recognize up to six household voices, draw on personal context, and act across apps; without a paired device, it still gains Siri AI's broader world knowledge, conversational replies, and music-discovery features once enabled.

Apple's Kaiann Drance, vice president of Worldwide Home Product Marketing, said "HomePod mini 2 brings together Siri AI, gorgeous new colors, and incredible audio" in the company's announcement. The speaker is available in pink, green, blue, white, and midnight, and the top surface now includes a feature Apple calls Sound Glow, which pulses with color pulled from whatever album art is playing.

A single HomePod mini delivers 360-degree sound, and multiple units can be paired as a stereo pair or spread through a house in a multiroom setup. Paired with the new Apple TV 4K, four HomePod mini units can form a four-speaker surround system that calibrates itself to each speaker's position in the room. The speaker can also act as the default audio output for a Mac over Wi-Fi 6E or later, and it continues to function as a home hub for voice control of locks, garage doors, blinds, thermostats, and lights, along with Sound Recognition for smoke and CO alarms and Face Recognition through HomeKit Secure Video.

On the environmental side, Apple says the new HomePod mini uses 100 percent recycled rare earth elements in its magnets, recycled copper, gold, and tin solder on its circuit boards, and fully fiber-based packaging.

Pricing is set at $149. Pre-orders began today in the U.S. and more than 23 other countries and regions, with the speaker arriving in stores on Friday, October 30, 2026, running HomePod software 27.2. Siri AI's fuller capabilities on the device will follow in a future software update, initially in English in the U.S., Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, and the U.K. — not, initially, in the EU.

Apple TV 4K moves to the A19 chip

The fourth-generation Apple TV 4K switches to Apple's A19 chip, which Apple says delivers up to 50 percent faster CPU performance and up to twice the GPU performance of the previous model, based on the company's own preproduction testing in September 2026. The new box adds three far-field microphones built directly into its housing, so Siri can be triggered by voice alone, without reaching for the remote.

Picture and sound support now include Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, and HLG, with Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio and an Enhance Dialogue option. According to the published specifications, the new Apple TV 4K also steps up to Wi-Fi 7 with 2x2 MIMO, Bluetooth 6, HDMI 2.1 with eARC and Quick Media Switching, Gigabit Ethernet, and Thread radio support for HomeKit and Matter accessories. It ships with the redesigned Siri Remote (4th generation), which has a touch-enabled clickpad, a dedicated Siri button, a rechargeable battery charged over USB-C, and Find My support with Precision Finding on compatible iPhones.

Siri AI arrives on Apple TV 4K in beta with tvOS 27.2 and requires an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone or iPad in the home; Apple says it will also reach the previous, third-generation Apple TV 4K and later models, not just the new one — though, as with the other new hardware, it is not initially available in the EU.

Apple is selling the new Apple TV 4K in two configurations: a Wi-Fi-only model with 64GB of storage at $199, and a Wi-Fi-plus-Ethernet model with 128GB at $249. Both are listed as "Available starting November thirteenth" on Apple's product page, matching HomeView's ship date.

Apple Home Collection brings in LG and Schneider Electric

Rounding out the announcements, Apple introduced Apple Home Collection, a set of third-party smart-home accessories built in partnership with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric and designed to set up with a single tap on iPhone, with no separate app or account. Everything is managed from Apple's Home app, and Apple says data is end-to-end encrypted.

The lineup splits into three categories. Home Monitoring covers four LG cameras — a Video Doorbell ($249.95) with dual front and bottom cameras, a Floodlight Cam ($399.95), a self-installable Outdoor Cam ($299.95), and an Indoor Cam ($199.95) that tilts away automatically once a household member returns home. All four capture up to 2.5K video, recognize people, familiar faces, pets, vehicles, and packages, and store video history on an eligible iCloud+ plan rather than a separate camera subscription, with Apple Intelligence generating natural-language video descriptions and search.

Home Access is covered by an LG Smart Deadbolt Lock ($349.95) that uses Ultra Wideband to detect an approaching iPhone carrying a home key and unlock automatically, alongside tap-to-unlock, a PIN pad, a backup key slot, tamper sensing, and shareable guest access; it supports Matter and Aliro and can run its core functions locally without an internet connection. Home Climate includes smart thermostats and temperature sensors from both LG and Schneider Electric, with an Adaptive Temperature feature that adjusts settings based on whether anyone is home, plus Clean Energy Guidance in the contiguous U.S. and on-device wiring detection for DIY installs.

Apple quoted Matthew Costello, Apple's vice president of Hardware Engineering, LG Electronics executive vice president Kihyun Jung, and Schneider Electric chief executive Olivier Blum on the partnership, with Blum describing it as "a true collaboration with Apple to give customers a seamless way to help manage their home's energy use." Apple Retail will also offer third-party installation through ADT in the U.S. for an additional fee starting this fall.

Most Apple Home Collection products go on sale in December 2026 through apple.com, the Apple Store app, and Apple Store locations, with select accessories following in early 2027.

Siri AI ties the whole lineup together

Every device announced today leans on the same upgraded assistant. Apple Intelligence underpins Siri AI across HomeView, the new HomePod mini, and the new Apple TV 4K, giving each device personal context, cross-app actions, and conversational responses when paired with a recent iPhone or iPad — all while Apple maintains that requests are processed either on-device or in Private Cloud Compute rather than on third-party servers. The on-device half of that equation depends heavily on the dedicated neural processing engine built into Apple's A-series silicon, which is what lets HomeView's A18 chip and the Apple TV 4K's A19 chip handle camera, microphone, and Siri AI workloads locally rather than shipping everything to the cloud.

Pricing, chips, and ship dates at a glance

What's next

With pre-orders already open for HomeView, HomePod mini, and Apple TV 4K, the near-term dates to watch are October 30, when the HomePod mini ships, and November 13, when both HomeView and the new Apple TV 4K reach customers. Apple Home Collection's cameras, lock, and thermostats follow in December 2026, with the remaining accessories pushed into early 2027. Siri AI's fuller feature set remains in beta on all three new devices through at least software version 27.2 / tvOS 27.2, and Apple has not given a timetable for bringing Siri AI, HomeView, or the new Apple TV 4K to the European Union. Whether HomeView succeeds as a screen-based hub — a category Apple has never previously shipped — will likely hinge on how much of Siri AI's promised capability actually arrives once the beta label comes off.

Written byMara Lindqvist

Mara Lindqvist edits the hardware desk. She covers graphics cards, processors, memory and storage, the foundries and chip designers behind them, and what the numbers on a spec sheet mean for people choosing a PC. Specifications in her stories come from manufacturer spec pages and datasheets.

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