{"id":627587,"date":"2026-10-11T19:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/627587\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T19:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T19:32:10","slug":"new-apple-smart-home-hub-reportedly-called-homeview-and-will-ship-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/627587\/","title":{"rendered":"New Apple Smart Home Hub Reportedly Called HomeView and Will Ship in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Apple smart home device that the company is expected to announce on Tuesday is called HomeView and will ship to consumers in November, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2026-10-11\/apple-smart-home-launch-oct-13-plans-homeview-has-mid-november-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">report<\/a> Sunday by Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman.<\/p>\n<p>The device, which will feature a display and be powered by an A18 chip, will act as a Siri command center for an Apple-powered smart home, Gurman reported. The HomeView will come in two versions: a countertop model with a metal speaker base\u00a0and a wall-mounted version with a flat, square base.<\/p>\n<p>Apple didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>For more than a year, Apple has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-07-28\/new-apple-tv-4k-box-homepod-mini-and-siri-ai-smart-home-hub-are-coming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">rumored to be readying<\/a> a Siri-focused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/home\/smart-home\/best-smart-displays\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">smart display<\/a> hub for the home, sometimes referred to as a HomePad, though we don\u2019t know for sure that\u2019ll be the name. This display would focus heavily on Siri AI and compete with products like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/home\/smart-home\/this-smart-display-is-the-best-add-on-my-kitchen-has-ever-had\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon\u2019s Echo Show<\/a> and the Google Nest Hub line by acting as a HomeKit hub.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the HomeView, Apple is expected to unveil a new Apple TV set-top box powered by an A19 chip and an updated HomePod mini with an S10 chip that extends voice control, music playback and other functionality throughout the household, Gurman reported.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is expected to unveil the devices at its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/apple-announces-next-welcome-home-special-event-on-oct-13\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">massive \u201cWelcome Home\u201d smart home event<\/a> happening on Tuesday. Invitations went out on Thursday with a distinctive rainbow-colored Apple logo.<\/p>\n<p>HomeView is expected to ship in the middle of November, Gurman wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/home\/smart-home\/everything-we-expect-apple-smart-home-event\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Everything We Expect From Apple\u2019s Surprise Smart Home Event Next Week<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt=\"Steven Musil\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/d7513a63-f8ee-11e2-8c7c-d4ae52e62bcc.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-64 photo\" height=\"64\" width=\"64\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSteven Musil\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNight Editor \/ News\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSteven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He&#8217;s been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late &#8217;70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around the San Francisco Bay Area. Before joining CNET in 2000, Steven spent 10 years at various Bay Area newspapers and had a brief stint at MacWeek.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/profiles\/stevenmusil\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" class=\"articleAuthorBioFooter_link\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSee full bio\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Apple smart home device that the company is expected to announce on Tuesday is called HomeView and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-627587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}