Apple’s smart home camera service is starting to impress me
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 home security system.
I test a lot of home security cameras and have largely stopped using Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video because it was sometimes unreliable (with cameras disconnecting and clips going missing) and sent too many notifications.
While...
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