Apple went big on the home today. In one afternoon it announced a new Apple TV 4K, a second-generation HomePod mini, a brand-new 7-inch smart display called HomeView, and Apple Home Collection, a range of cameras, locks and thermostats built with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric. That’s four launches, and for now only one of them is officially coming to the UAE. Luckily, it’s the one most of us were waiting for: the new Apple TV 4K, priced at AED 1,199 and in stores from November 13.

Apple TV 4K (4th Generation)

On the outside, the new Apple TV 4K is the same small black box you already know. The changes are all inside, and they’re more significant than the unchanged design suggests.

The biggest is the move to Apple’s A19 chip. Apple says that’s up to 50% faster CPU performance and up to twice the graphics performance of the previous model. In practice, menus should feel snappier, animations smoother, and Apple Arcade and App Store games get noticeably more headroom. The A19 also adds a dedicated AV1 decoder, so streaming services can deliver high-quality video while using less bandwidth. That’s a nice bonus in a home where the Wi-Fi is shared by half a dozen phones and a console.

For the first time, the Apple TV can also hear you. Three far-field microphones are built into the box, so you can talk to Siri from across the room without picking up the remote. Apple says echo cancellation isolates your voice even when a film is playing loudly, which is the real test of any voice assistant near a TV.

The Siri Remote looks the same, but it can finally be found. It now works with Find My, and the newest model can play a sound when it disappears into the sofa. If you have a recent iPhone, Precision Finding will lead you straight to it. The remote is also sold separately and works with older Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K models, so even people who skip this upgrade can rescue themselves from the cushion hunt.

Home theatre gets a meaningful upgrade too. The new Apple TV 4K can run a four-speaker surround setup using HomePods, with two in front and two behind. The speakers and the Apple TV work out where each one sits in the room and calibrate timing and levels automatically. You’ll need four HomePod mini 2 or HomePod (2nd generation) speakers, set up in matching front and rear pairs.

The Apple TV is also still a capable home hub, now with Thread and Wi-Fi built in. With a compatible video doorbell, the feed pops up on your TV so you can see who’s at the door, talk to them and even unlock it without pausing your show. It supports automations, guest mode and local processing of HomeKit Secure Video. Camera alerts now include Apple Intelligence-generated descriptions of what happened and summarised notifications, provided you have an eligible iCloud+ plan.

There are smaller touches as well. You can now choose exactly which iCloud photos appear as screen savers, so your whole camera roll isn’t on show when guests come over. A new shuffle mode also rotates through screen saver categories so things don’t get stale. Apple Fitness+, Apple Arcade and FaceTime through Continuity Camera are all still here.

On privacy, the A19 processes microphone audio inside Secure Exclaves, isolated parts of the chip that tvOS, apps and even Apple can’t access. Apple also points to 100% recycled rare earth elements in the magnets, recycled gold plating and tin solder on its circuit boards, and a 100% recycled aluminium enclosure for the Siri Remote.

UAE Availability

The Apple TV 4K is officially coming to the UAE, priced at AED 1,199. Pre-orders are open now through apple.com/ae and the Apple Store app, and it arrives in stores on Friday, November 13. If you’re only after the new Siri Remote with Find My, it’s also sold on its own and works with older Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K models.

There is one catch. Siri AI, Apple’s new and much more conversational Siri, is launching in English only in a limited set of countries, and the UAE isn’t one of them yet. Buyers here will get the new hardware, the hands-free microphones and the better remote on day one. The smarter Siri will have to wait.

Price	AED 1,199
Pre-Orders	Open now at apple.com/ae and the Apple Store app
In Stores	Friday, November 13
Chip	A19 with AV1 decoder
Siri AI in UAE	Not at launch

Also Launched Today (Not Available in Our Region)

HomePod mini 2

The HomePod mini is back with a new chip, new colours and a party trick. It comes in pink, green, blue, white and midnight, and the shades are clearly meant to match the iMac lineup, so a pair on your desk will look deliberate rather than random.

Inside, the new Apple S10 chip runs computational audio that analyses music in real time to tune loudness, dynamic range and acoustics. It still delivers 360-degree sound and works alone, in a stereo pair or as part of a multiroom setup. It’s also one of the building blocks for the new four-speaker Apple TV surround system, and it can now act as the default speaker for any Mac with Wi-Fi 6E or later, whether that’s for movies, games or FaceTime calls.

The headline feature is Sound Glow. The top of the speaker becomes a light panel that pulses in time with the bass and treble, with colours taken from the current song’s album art, so every track glows differently. You can also choose ambient soundscapes like rain, each with its own animations. It’s a small thing, but it’s the kind of feature that makes a speaker feel alive in a room.

On the smart home side, the HomePod mini 2 works as a hub for controlling locks, blinds, lights and thermostats by voice. Sound Recognition listens for smoke and carbon monoxide alarms and alerts your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Paired with the new Apple Home Collection cameras, it can also announce who’s at the door using Face Recognition. It costs $149 in the US and arrives in stores in launch markets on October 30.

Apple HomeView

HomeView is the most ambitious product of the day, and the one many Apple fans have been waiting years for. It’s a smart display with a 7-inch Liquid Retina screen mounted on a stainless steel hinge above a domed aluminium speaker base, so you can tilt it to suit a kitchen counter, a side table or a nightstand. It comes in silver, starlight, rose pink and space grey, each with a colour-matched USB-C cable. The screen supports True Tone, and brightness ranges from 500 nits for a sunny room down to 0.3 nits for bedtime. The interface even adapts to how far away you’re standing, showing simple information from across the room and more detail as you walk closer.

There’s also a wall-mounted model in space grey and silver. It attaches using one of three Schneider Home mounts, with USB-C and AC wired options available now and a Power over Ethernet version arriving in early 2027.

What makes HomeView interesting is that it knows who’s looking at it. It can recognise up to six people by face, and each person gets their own home screen, apps and widgets. Personal content from Messages, Calendar, Reminders and Find My only appears when the right face is recognised and that person’s iPhone is nearby and was recently unlocked. Shared photo albums and music stay open to the whole household. Under the hood is the A18 chip, which keeps camera and microphone data isolated in Secure Exclaves.

The whole experience is built around Siri AI. That means a far more conversational assistant with onscreen awareness and, when paired with your iPhone, personal context from your apps. Conversations started on HomeView carry over to your other Apple devices through the Siri app.

Audio is clearly a priority. The tabletop model has two full-range drivers in the display, plus a down-firing woofer and two force-cancelling passive radiators in the base, along with Spatial Audio, multiroom playback and Handoff, so you can hold your iPhone near it to move a song over. Day to day, it handles FaceTime with Center Stage, Intercom announcements around the house, step-by-step recipes with hands-free timers, Find My and Live Activities. Its customisable faces include a Photos face with Portrait-style depth effects, an interactive Flow face that reacts to movement, and a Snoopy face that changes with the time, weather and holidays.

As a smart home dashboard, it controls lights, locks, blinds and thermostats by touch or voice, can stream up to nine camera feeds at once, and also listens for smoke and carbon monoxide alarms. Both tabletop and wall-mounted versions cost $299 in the US and arrive on November 13 in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and Singapore, with South Africa served through resellers. It won’t be sold in the EU for now.

Apple Home Collection

Apple Home Collection is Apple’s first curated range of smart home accessories, designed with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric. The pitch is simplicity: every product sets up with a single tap on your iPhone, runs entirely inside the Home app with no extra apps or accounts, supports Thread, and keeps your data end-to-end encrypted so that neither Apple nor its partners can see it.

LG is supplying four cameras. The Video Doorbell has two cameras, a 2.5K front camera for faces and a Full HD bottom camera for parcels on the doorstep, plus a built-in spotlight and a chime that plays through HomePod and HomeView. The Floodlight Cam adds dual floodlights that switch on with motion and colour night vision. The Outdoor Cam is an easily angled, self-install option with the same night vision. The most interesting is the Indoor Cam, which physically tilts down to stop watching as soon as the first person gets home. Every camera records at up to 2.5K, recognises people, familiar faces, pets, vehicles and packages, and stores 10 days of history in iCloud+ with no separate camera subscription. Built-in storage keeps them recording even if your Wi-Fi drops.

LG’s Smart Deadbolt Lock uses Ultra Wideband to sense you approaching and unlocks automatically, with no tapping needed. You can also unlock it with your iPhone or Apple Watch, a PIN pad or a hidden backup key. It detects tampering, supports Matter and Aliro, keeps working locally without internet, and lets you share guest access straight from the Home app.

For climate control, both LG and Schneider Electric have made a smart thermostat that works with a wide range of HVAC systems. Adaptive Temperature adjusts automatically depending on whether you’re home, winding down for the night or away. Standalone temperature and humidity sensors, or the ones already built into HomePod and HomeView, let the thermostats read conditions across several rooms.

US pricing starts at $39.95 for the sensors and $199.95 for the Indoor Cam and either thermostat. The Video Doorbell is $249.95, the Outdoor Cam $299.95, the Smart Deadbolt Lock $349.95 and the Floodlight Cam $399.95. The collection rolls out from December, with some items following in early 2027. The cameras will be sold in the US, Canada and the UK, while the lock, thermostats and sensors are limited to the US and Canada.