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Apple’s smart home camera service is starting to impress me
- Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
- June 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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New features are coming to cameras connected to Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video. | Image: The Verge, Getty Images
Apple's HomeKit Secure Video service is getting in on the Apple Intelligence party to bring more descriptive alerts from your connected cameras and let you search footage using natural language. The Apple Home app is also getting better notifications powered by AI and is finally adding support for energy reporting.
These improvements were announced at WWDC last week and will be publicly available this fall. I've been playing with some of the features in the developer betas for iOS 27 and tvOS 27 for a few days, and based on my first impressions, Apple's HomeKit Secure Video is much improved - enough to put it back in contention for me as a …
Originally published at The Verge