Apple's $299 HomeView Arrives, Recognizing Up to Six People by Face

A 7-inch screen on the kitchen counter can now tell up to six people apart by their faces and show each one their own calendar. Apple HomeView went on sale on November 13 at $299, a month after Apple unveiled it, with the rebuilt Siri AI on board. For households that share one device, it is the first Apple screen built from the start to know whose day it is showing.

One Screen That Knows Six Faces

HomeView recognizes up to six people by face. When it sees you, it shows your content in Messages, FaceTime, Calendar, Reminders and Find My. When someone else in the house walks up, the screen switches to theirs. Setup runs through a compatible iPhone or iPad, and each person pairs their own.

The privacy rule is the clever part. Personal content only appears when HomeView recognizes the face and that person's paired iPhone or iPad is present and was recently unlocked. A face alone does not open anyone's messages.

Everything else is shared, the way a kitchen screen should be: music, FaceTime calls, home monitoring and the controls for lights, locks and thermostats from the Home app. Which leaves the question of who does the talking.

The Siri That Reached iPhones in September Moves to the Counter

HomeView ships with Siri AI, the rebuilt assistant Apple brought to the iPhone in September. Apple describes it as "an entirely new version of Siri that is profoundly more capable and conversational." On HomeView it answers from world knowledge, understands what is on the screen and takes actions across apps.

With a paired iPhone or iPad running Apple Intelligence, it can also draw on personal context such as Calendar and Messages. A question about your schedule gets your schedule, not the household's.

“Intelligence, entertainment, and connection that's personal to every user in your home.”— Tim Cook

Siri AI is still labeled beta in HomeView software 27.2 and speaks English at launch; Canadian French arrives later in a free software update. Some server-side Apple Intelligence features carry daily usage limits, and Apple says expanded access will come for a fee in the future. The bigger limit is geographic, and it decides who can buy one today.

$299, Two Shapes and Seven Countries

Both models cost $299 in the US. The tabletop HomeView comes in silver, starlight, rose pink and space gray. The wall-mounted one, meant for an entryway or a hallway, comes in space gray and silver and needs a mount from Schneider Home: a USB-C version from $59.95, an AC-wired one from $79.95 and, in early 2027, a Power over Ethernet model from $129.95.

It is on sale in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK and the US. It is not sold in the European Union, where Siri AI is not yet available on iOS; Apple says it is working constructively with the EU. According to 9to5Mac, online orders are backordered to the first week of December, while most Apple Stores have units for same-day pickup. A new $299 Apple TV 4K with Siri AI went on sale the same day.

Inside, 9to5Mac reports an A18 chip and a 12-megapixel Center Stage camera for FaceTime. Apple's own spec list stays short, because the pitch is somewhere else: one screen in the kitchen that tells six people apart and keeps each of their days their own.

What people are saying

Tim Cook@tim_cook

“Intelligence, entertainment, and connection that’s personal to every user in your home… Apple HomeView is available today!”

11.9K623Nov 13