Apple HomeView Price Is US$299. Siri AI Is Beta, and a Fee Is Coming

Apple’s new smart home hub, Apple HomeView, costs US$299 (CA$429), and pre-orders opened on Oct. 13 for delivery starting Nov. 13. Apple announced it by press release alongside a new Apple TV 4K at US$299 (CA$429), a HomePod mini 2 at US$149 (CA$199) and the Apple Home Collection, a line of LG and Schneider Electric cameras, locks and thermostats arriving in December. There was no keynote livestream; invited press saw the products in New York, Tom’s Guide reported.

The common thread is Siri AI, the rebuilt assistant Apple has been shipping in beta. HomeView and the new Apple TV get it at launch, labelled beta in both cases. HomePod mini 2 gets it “in a future software update,” Apple says. And one footnote, repeated in three of the four releases, matters more than any spec: Apple says server-side Apple Intelligence features have daily usage limits, and “expanded access to such features will be available for a fee in the future.”

Apple HomeView price, release date and specs

HomeView is a 7-inch Liquid Retina screen on a domed speaker base, joined by a stainless steel hinge that tilts. It comes in silver, starlight, rose pink and space grey. A wall-mounted model, in space grey and silver, has the same screen and features and also sells for CA$429 in Canada; it attaches with one of three Schneider Home mounts sold separately, starting at CA$79.95 for a USB-C wall connector and CA$109.95 for an AC wired mount, with a CA$179.95 Power over Ethernet mount due in early 2027. Apple’s Canadian release lists only CA$ prices for the wall model and mounts; 9to5Mac and Tom’s Guide report the US$299 price without breaking out the wall version.

The hardware details from Apple’s release:

• Chip: A18, with what Apple calls Secure Exclaves, separate runtimes that process camera and microphone data away from the rest of the system.
• Screen: 500 nits down to 0.3 nits, with True Tone, and an interface that shows less detail from across the room and more up close.
• People: recognises up to six household members by face, each with their own Home Screen. Personal content from Messages and Calendar only appears when that person is recognised and their paired iPhone or iPad is nearby and recently unlocked.
• Sound: two full-range drivers in the display, plus a down-firing woofer and two passive radiators in the base.
• Home: live view of up to nine camera feeds at once, and alerts when it hears a smoke or carbon monoxide alarm.

“Apple HomeView is designed to be shared by everyone in the home yet feel completely personal to each user,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice-president of worldwide marketing, in Apple’s release.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman had reported the HomeView name and a mid-November ship date before the launch. Earlier estimates of about US$350 were too high: it came in at US$299, Bloomberg reports.

Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2: prices and dates

The new Apple TV 4K moves to the A19 chip, which Apple says is up to 50% faster on the CPU and up to twice as fast on graphics as the previous model, adds a dedicated AV1 decoder, and gains three far-field microphones so you can talk to Siri without the remote. The Siri Remote can now be found with Find My, including Precision Finding with recent iPhones.

It also costs more. MacRumors reports the new model comes in a single 128GB configuration at US$299, up from US$199 and US$249 for the outgoing models after a June price increase. In Canada it is CA$429. It ships Nov. 13, not Oct. 30 as earlier reporting had suggested.

HomePod mini 2 is the one that does arrive on Friday, Oct. 30, in pink, green, blue, white and midnight. It runs Apple’s S10 chip and adds Sound Glow, which turns the top into a light show synced to the music. With the new Apple TV, four HomePod mini 2 speakers (or four second-generation HomePods, in matching front and rear pairs) can now make a surround-sound setup, a first for Apple.

Apple HomeView, Apple TV 4K and Home Collection prices

Here is the full price list, US$ first with Apple’s official Canadian price in brackets. The Home Collection’s U.S. prices come from Apple’s U.S. release as distributed on Business Wire; the Canadian prices are from Apple Canada’s newsroom.

Apple says some Home Collection accessories won’t arrive until early 2027, without saying which. Canadian prices track the exchange rate this time: at about 1.39, US$299 works out to about CA$416, so HomeView carries a premium of roughly CA$13 here, and HomePod mini 2 is slightly cheaper in Canada than a straight conversion.

Siri AI on HomeView: beta, English only, and a fee coming

Read the footnotes before you pre-order. Siri AI on HomeView is “available in beta in HomeView software version 27.2,” Apple says, and on Apple TV it is a beta in tvOS 27.2. On HomePod mini 2 it isn’t there at all on day one. Personal-context features, like asking about a show a friend recommended in Messages, need a paired iPhone or iPad that supports Apple Intelligence.

For Canadian buyers, the language line is the one we flagged in our Oct. 7 preview: Siri AI on HomeView launches in English in Canada, and “Canadian French-language support will be offered later via a free software update,” with no date given. A voice-first device that doesn’t speak French yet will be a hard sell in Quebec.

Then there is the fee. The HomeView, Apple TV and HomePod mini releases all say certain features that rely on Apple’s server-side models “are subject to daily usage limits,” and that expanded access “will be available for a fee in the future.” Apple hasn’t said what will be limited, how much it will cost or when. For how Siri decides what runs on the device and what goes to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, see our explainer on where Siri and Apple Intelligence requests go.

What the Home Collection costs to run

The cameras don’t need their own subscription, but they do need iCloud+. Apple’s footnotes say the 50GB plan supports one camera, the 200GB plan up to five and the 2TB plan unlimited cameras, with 10 days of encrypted event history. The AI video descriptions and natural-language search only work on eligible plans and only for a limited number of cameras.

Some features stop at the U.S. border. Clean Energy Guidance, which shifts heating and cooling to cheaper times, works only in the contiguous U.S., and Apple’s new professional installation service from ADT is U.S.-only. The lock and thermostats are sold in the U.S. and Canada; the cameras and doorbell also come to the U.K. HomeView itself won’t be sold in the European Union, because Siri AI isn’t available there.

A front door kitted out the Apple way, with HomeView, the LG doorbell and the deadbolt, comes to US$898.90 (CA$1,258.90) before tax and before iCloud+. The pre-order buttons for HomeView, Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2 are live now; the doorbell and lock aren’t sold until December. More Apple hardware is still expected this fall, including the touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro, which Apple did not mention on Oct. 13. Browse more in Gadgets.