10 Cool New Apple Smart Home Gadgets iPhone Users Will Love

Apple is making its biggest moves yet in 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. Alongside Apple's own 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 U.S. and other regions will be able to have a first-party experience of how Apple envisions smart homes–which is an area the company has arguably lagged behind when compared to Samsung, Xiaomi, and other brands.

According to Apple, these new accessories can be set up in just a tap with the iPhone, as everything is managed through the company's Apple Home app. That means new users don't have to set up an extra account to get things working. Apple says the devices use end-to-end encryption, and only users and people they want to share information with can access the home data. With these new devices, Apple says users will be able to understand what's happening in their homes, manage access, and more. While the new Apple Home Collection will be available starting 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 work as standalone accessories or part of a broader ecosystem, easily controlled from the Home app, Siri, and people's iPhones. Here are more details about the new accessories you might be adding to your home in the next couple of months.

The main new Apple smart home gadget is Apple's HomeView. Long-rumored as the HomePad, this device uses a 7-inch Liquid Retina display with brightness ranging from 0.3 to 500 nits. It's 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 made to manage customers' smart home systems, play music with Apple Music and Spotify, make FaceTime calls, and get information displayed through 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 kids, or anyone else who's part of your Apple Account family.

When an Apple Intelligence-capable device is nearby, HomeView can draw personal content from the Calendar, Messages, and other relevant information across apps. The company touts this smart home hub can be positioned at the center of the home or wall-mounted in spaces like the entryway or hallway.

HomeView reportedly runs on a new software called homeOS, which is a mashup of CarPlay, tvOS, and watchOS. The HomeView doesn't have an App Store, and it appears Apple will decide which applications customers can enjoy. New owners will find familiar experiences with Messages, FaceTime, Calendar, Clock, Photos, Music, Podcasts, and other apps. This device is already available to pre-order for $299 in the U.S., the UK, Australia, Canada, India, and New Zealand, with more countries being added at a later time. At this moment, Apple says HomeView won't be available in the European Union as the company tries to work with the European Commission over Siri AI availability.

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

The second camera is LG's $399.95 Floodlight Cam, which is made to monitor outside the home, as it features dual floodlights that turn on whenever it senses motion. The camera also features slow-light color night vision so it can capture information even when it's not bright.

The South Korean company also worked on two other cameras, one for outdoor use and another for the indoors. The outdoor option also comes with low-light color night vision offered, as Apple touts it to be positioned on an angle, so users can get more images from anyone walking around their homes, while the indoor camera can be tilted upward and downward depending whether they get at home or not. Apple says the camera can also stop monitoring when authorized people enter the home, while non-authorized people would be recorded. The price for these cameras are $299.95 and $199.95, respectively.

LG didn't just make cameras in its partnership with Apple. The company also announced a $349.95 Smart Deadbolt Lock which takes advantage of ultra-wide band wireless chips to detect how close a users is to their door, and automatically unlock without touching their device. This technology is part of a larger trend that has been introduced with Aqara early this year at CES 2026. Apple calls the system a home key.

Still, users who prefer to tap the iPhone/Apple Watch to open the door or use an integrated PIN pad can unlock their doors through these options as well. According to Apple, the new smart lock can sense if the door has been opened, closed, or tampered with. Like other smart locks, home owners can share guest access using the Home app, meaning that the dog walker, a house sitter, or someone visiting the house can come in even if you're not around 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 at or leave the house, who's there, and more. If someone rings the bell, users can get a chime across other smart home devices, like the HomeView, HomePod, or other Apple devices.

To fulfill Apple's dream of a smart home, the company is also offering LG Electronics and Schneider Electric smart thermostats and home room sensors. Apple says that these products use the iPhone's on-device intelligence to adjust the thermostats whether or not someone is at home, so the place is always at the right temperature without a manual schedule. Apple is even focused on helping users save money if they have a compatible utility plan as the Home app can show insights about peak and off-peak rate information and how the devices behave.

Apple says that both options from Schneider Electric and LG start at $199.95, and will work with several HVAC systems. Additional humidity sensors start at $39.95, but it's also worth noting Apple includes built-in termperature and humitiy sensors in its HomeView, HomePod and HomePod mini speakers. Apple also says they're Matter-compatible and DIY-friendly, meaning that installation should be straightforward and compatible with other devices supporting the Matter standard.

Apple also partnered with home security company ADT to provide third-party installation through its U.S. Apple Retail stores for an additional charge. The company said more information will be made available later this fall.