Apple’s HomeView, a 7-inch home display powered by Apple Intelligence with Siri AI, goes on sale Friday, November 13, in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India, the company said in its October announcement. Both the tabletop model — in silver, starlight, rose pink and space gray — and a wall-mounted version in space gray and silver are priced at $299 in the U.S. Pre-orders have been open since Oct. 13 in those countries; Singapore pre-orders opened Oct. 15, and South Africa units were set to arrive Friday through authorized resellers, Apple said.
HomeView recognizes up to six people by face and gives each a personalized Home Screen, with personal content in Messages, FaceTime, Calendar, Reminders and Find My kept private from other users, the company said. It has a Liquid Retina display on a stainless-steel hinge and a domed speaker base, adaptive brightness from 500 nits down to 0.3 nits, and True Tone. Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said it is “designed to be shared by everyone in the home yet feel completely personal to each user.” When paired with an Apple Intelligence-enabled device, it can draw on personal context such as Calendar and Messages, Apple said.
Apple said HomeView will not be sold in the European Union because Siri AI is currently unavailable on iOS there, and that it is “working constructively with the EU in an attempt to find a path forward,” with no timeline given. MacRumors noted that a fourth-generation Apple TV 4K, also $299, is scheduled to launch the same day.