Apple HomeView Is Official: Price, Release Date, Specs and Why It Skips the EU

Apple has officially unveiled HomeView, its long-rumored smart home display, at its “Welcome Home” event on October 13. Known in the rumor mill for months as the “HomePad”, HomeView pairs a 7-inch Liquid Retina display with a speaker base and puts Siri AI, Apple’s rebuilt voice assistant, at the center of the experience. It costs $299 in the U.S., preorders are already live, and availability begins November 13.

Apple HomeView Price, Release Date and Availability

Both the countertop model and the new wall-mounted version cost $299. Preorders opened October 13 in the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, India and New Zealand, with Singapore following on October 15 and South Africa getting the device through Apple Authorized Resellers. All of these regions see availability beginning Friday, November 13.

The big catch for European readers: HomeView is not being sold in the European Union. Apple says this is because Siri AI is currently unavailable in iOS in the EU, and that it is working with the EU to find a path forward. There is no EU release date yet.

Design: A Countertop Display and a Wall-Mounted Option

The countertop HomeView uses an aluminum design, with the 7-inch display connected to a domed speaker base by a stainless steel hinge that tilts for comfortable viewing. It comes in silver, starlight, rose pink and space gray, each with a color-matched USB-C cable. Automatic brightness ranges from 500 nits down to just 0.3 nits, so it should work in a sunlit kitchen as well as on a nightstand.

The wall-mounted model, offered in space gray and silver, keeps the same screen and feature set and attaches using one of three Schneider Home mounts: the Power Mount USB-C Wall Connector ($59.95) and the Power Mount AC Wired ($79.95), both orderable now, and the Power Mount PoE Wired ($129.95), which arrives in early 2027.

The wall-mounted Apple HomeView, via Apple.

Siri AI and Face Recognition for Up to Six Users

HomeView recognizes up to six people by their faces, and each person gets their own Home Screen with apps and widgets. Personal content from Messages, Calendar, Reminders and Find My only surfaces for the recognized user, and only when their paired iPhone or iPad is nearby and was recently unlocked. Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, said the device is designed to be “shared by everyone in the home yet feel completely personal to each user.”

Siri AI handles general questions on its own, so even households without an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone get its broader world knowledge and more natural conversations. Pair HomeView with a compatible iPhone or iPad and Siri AI can also draw on personal context like your calendar and messages. Keep in mind that Siri AI on HomeView launches as a beta and in English only, with Canadian French support promised later through a free software update.

Entertainment, FaceTime and Smart Home Control

For entertainment, HomeView supports Apple Music with animated album art and lyrics, Apple Podcasts, Apple TV and compatible third-party audio and video apps, though some of those apps need a paired iPhone nearby. Two full-range drivers in the display plus a down-firing woofer and two passive radiators in the base handle the sound. There is also FaceTime with Center Stage, Intercom across the house, and a cooking mode that turns web recipes into step-by-step instructions with hands-free timers.

HomeView’s smart home controls, via Apple.

As a smart home hub, HomeView can livestream up to nine camera feeds at once through its Home Camera face, listens for the sound of smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, and works with Matter accessories as well as Apple Home Collection, a new lineup of cameras, thermostats and a lock designed with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric. Home Collection starts rolling out in December, with select accessories following in early 2027.

What HomeView Means for Gamers

If you were hoping for a new living room gaming screen, temper your expectations. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported ahead of the event that HomeView would run only a limited selection of Apple apps with no App Store, and Apple’s own announcement lists no Apple Arcade or gaming features for the device. For now, HomeView is a smart home and entertainment hub, not a gaming device. Apple’s bigger gaming news this month is happening on iPhone and iPad instead, where No Man’s Sky arrives on October 28. Alongside HomeView, Apple also announced a new Apple TV 4K, available November 13, and the HomePod mini 2, available October 30.

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