Apple smart home display: everything we know

Apple is developing a new home accessory designed to serve as a central hub for smart home management. Apple TV and HomePod are already home hubs, and nearly all Apple devices can control HomeKit settings, but Apple is designing an all-in-one home management product to make control even easier.

This guide summarizes everything we know about the Apple Home display product in development.

Design

The display will look similar to the iPad. In fact, he described it as similar to a low-end ‌iPad‌, suggesting it could be similar to an entry-level 10th-generation ‌iPad‌.

We don’t know specific details about the dimensions, but it will be designed to mount to walls and other objects using magnetic fasteners, so it can be placed in the most central parts of your home. The mountable design will make it more integrated into the house than something like an iPad, and it will give anyone in the home a centralized place to control HomeKit and Matter-connected products.

Currently, both ‌HomeKit‌ and Matter devices need to be controlled from an iPhone, ‌iPad‌ or Mac, and each person in the home needs to be individually invited to set up ‌HomeKit‌ if there are guests in the house or for quick access when an Apple device is not at hand control.

Presumably, two or more Home displays will be able to work with each other in separate rooms, similar to how ‌HomePod‌ and ‌Apple TV‌ work now.

CAPABILITIES

In addition to being able to be used for smart home control purposes, the display can also stream video and make FaceTime calls. It will have a built-in speaker, so it could also be some kind of ‌iPad‌ and ‌HomePod‌ hybrid device, which we've heard rumors about before.

Competition

Apple has designed a smart home management product with an integrated display that will compete with other smart home devices from the likes of Facebook, Amazon and Google. Facebook, for example, made Meta Portal, a device that can control Alexa-based products and allow video calls with friends and family.

Amazon makes the Echo Show, a smart display with speakers and a 10-inch display. Can be used to control smart home products, watch videos, make calls, etc. Google offers the Nest Hub Max for streaming content, listening to music, and controlling products integrated with Google's smart home system.

Nearly all of Apple's major competitors offer home devices designed to serve as hubs for controlling smart home products and making calls, so it's not hard to imagine Apple launching a similar device.

Apple is said to be aiming to launch a smart home display in 2024, but the exact time of 2024 remains to be seen.

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