Apple’s Secret Smart Home Expansion Emerges With HomePad And Camera Device
For nearly a decade, Apple has been rumored to be quietly preparing a major push into the smart home market. While competitors like Amazon and Google aggressively expanded with Echo and Nest devices, Apple appeared to move cautiously, refining HomeKit, rebuilding its Home app architecture, and integrating deeper Siri controls across iOS and macOS. To many observers, Apple’s smart home ambitions felt stalled—perhaps even abandoned. That perception may now be fundamentally wrong. Leaked internal Apple code tied to pre-release builds of iOS 26 strongly suggests that Apple is preparing to launch its most ambitious smart home hardware lineup to date. … Read more