A week ago this was still a Bloomberg report sourced to people who asked not to be named. It isn't anymore. Apple confirmed the Apple Home Collection on October 13, 2026, alongside HomeView, its new smart home hub. LG builds the security and entry hardware, Schneider Electric builds the energy devices for European markets, and Apple designed and priced all of it. None of it ships this month. Here's the full confirmed lineup, what it costs, how it works with HomeView, and how it compares to what actually leaked beforehand.
Graphic: Actually Useful Tech, built from Apple's official announcement.
What's actually confirmed
The full lineup: a wired video doorbell with a 2.5K top camera and a full HD bottom camera plus a spotlight, priced at $250. A floodlight camera with dual floodlights and color night vision at $400. An outdoor camera with color night vision at $300. An indoor camera that auto-tilts depending on whether anyone's home, at $200. A smart deadbolt lock with UWB auto-unlock, PIN code, physical key, and Matter/Aliro support, at $350. Smart thermostats from both LG and Schneider that adjust by occupancy, at $200 each. Temperature and humidity sensors at $40 each. Everything runs on HomeKit and Thread, pairs with a tap, and is managed through the Home app. Some features need a hub already in place, HomeView, Apple TV, or HomePod, to work.
Full pricing and feature breakdown for every Apple Home Collection device.
Every device, spec, and price above comes directly from Apple's own October 13 announcement. Not leaked, not projected.
Camera storage and the lock's offline behavior
Camera footage stores in iCloud at no extra subscription cost, with ten days of event history kept by default. Higher iCloud+ tiers add Apple Intelligence video descriptions and natural-language search across that footage. Apple says data across the whole lineup is encrypted so that neither Apple, LG, nor Schneider can read it, and NFC pairing requires the latest version of iOS. The doorbell and lock work together: the chime can play over HomeView, HomePod, or HomePod mini, and you can speak to a visitor and unlock the door remotely from any of them. The deadbolt itself keeps working locally, without an internet connection, because of its Matter and Aliro compatibility, so a Wi-Fi outage doesn't lock you out.
Storage terms, encryption claims, and the offline lock behavior are all from Apple's own announcement materials.
When it actually ships
This is the detail most likely to matter if you're planning around it. None of the Apple Home Collection devices ship alongside HomeView on November 13. Most of the lineup is expected in December 2026, with the remaining pieces landing in early 2027. If you need a doorbell or lock replaced this month, this isn't it yet.
The December 2026 and early 2027 windows come from Apple's own announcement, not a leak-based estimate.
What the original reporting got right, and what it didn't
Worth a beat here, because it's a genuinely good gut-check on which Apple reporting holds up. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman called this a "second-party" arrangement back in early October, where LG manufactures the hardware while Apple shapes the design and feature set without its own branding on the products. That held up exactly as described. Gurman also reported the LG-made accessories would lag behind Apple's own hardware and arrive months after any announcement, which also turned out right: HomeView ships in a month, the LG gear doesn't show up until December at the earliest.
"Development of the LG accessories has lagged behind Apple's own devices."
Mark Gurman, Bloomberg, via Macworld, Oct 7 2026What didn't hold up as cleanly: the leaker-sourced specs that circulated beforehand, like the thermostat's "Far Sight Display" branding and a deadbolt keypad that physically rotates to open, don't appear anywhere in Apple's own announcement. That doesn't necessarily mean they were wrong, Apple's materials simply don't go into that level of industrial-design detail yet, but it's a reminder that single-leaker specifics deserve less confidence than a named report sourced to multiple people, which in turn deserves less confidence than an actual company announcement. All three tiers existed in the original reporting on this story, and now we know which one to trust.
This section is a retrospective on sourcing quality, not new unconfirmed information. Everything about the actual product lineup elsewhere in this piece is confirmed.
How this fits with HomeView
The shape of Apple's strategy is clearer now than it was as a rumor: a hub Apple builds itself, HomeView, sitting at the center of a room, paired with accessories someone else manufactures sitting at the doors, windows, and thermostat on the wall around it. That's a real departure from Apple's older approach of leaving third-party hardware entirely to brands like Ecobee, Ring, or August and just certifying it for HomeKit after the fact. Whether that tighter control actually produces more reliable smart home gear than the fragmented status quo is the open question for next year, not this one.
What this means if you're shopping for smart home gear right now
If your existing doorbell, lock, or thermostat needs replacing today, nothing here helps you yet. Earliest availability is December 2026, and some pieces won't land until early 2027. If you're not in a hurry and you're already inside the Apple ecosystem, this is now a real, priced, dated product line worth waiting on rather than a rumor to watch. If you're outside that ecosystem, or need something sooner, the existing HomeKit-certified options from Ecobee, Ring, and August remain the more practical near-term choice. We'll build out real reviews once units actually ship.