Apple Is Reportedly Working on a Smart Home Camera

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo’s latest prediction says the Cupertino institution is moving connected an wholly caller product: a astute location IP (Internet Protocol) camera. According to Kuo’s post connected Medium, the instrumentality volition spell into wide accumulation successful 2026.

If Kuo’s investigation is correct, Apple is targeting an ambitious extremity of selling tens of millions of cameras globally a year. According to Kuo, the upcoming astute location camera volition beryllium integrated with Siri and Apple Intelligence, the prima of the amusement connected the caller iPhone 16 lineup. As 9to5Mac points out, to tally processor-intensive Apple Intelligence commands, the camera volition apt athletics an precocious silicon chip. The Siri integration should beryllium interesting, fixed the caller massive Siri overhaul.

Known for making a high-walled plot astir its ecosystem, Apple is apt to plan a astute location camera with seamless integration that pushes users to put successful different Apple devices. The Verge tells america that, currently, Apple’s astute location platform, Apple Home, facilitates integration with prime cameras, including Aqara, Eve, and Logitech, portion different communal brands specified arsenic Ring, Arlo, and Blink are not supported.

Kuo besides predicts much wellness features coming to the AirPods. Likely due to the fact that the hearing assistance functionality was a success, Apple whitethorn experimentation with giving its wireless earbuds much wellness absorption functions. The features volition supposedly beryllium introduced connected an upcoming AirPods model.

Apple’s caller foray into astute location makes sense, and a information camera isn’t the lone caller merchandise successful that class Apple has been toying with. In a caller newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple is moving connected a new astute location device pursuing its not-so-successful scope of existent offerings, trailing Google’s and Amazon’s alternatives. He claims the instrumentality volition diagnostic a show (as large arsenic 2 iPhones placed broadside by side) sticking retired of the existent HomePod and that users volition beryllium capable to navigate it for tasks specified arsenic making video calls, surfing the web, checking the calendar, and truthful on. A fewer years aft releasing a astute location instrumentality with a display, Apple volition reportedly adhd a robotic limb to it that volition fto the show travel the idiosyncratic astir the room.