The Apple Home Collection Unlocks Your Door Before You Even Reach It

Apple has introduced Apple Home Collection, a suite of smart home accessories co-designed with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric that covers cameras, a video doorbell, a smart lock, thermostats and room sensors. Each device sets up through the Home app with no extra app or account, works with Siri and is built to operate either on its own or as part of a coordinated system.

For years, Apple has relied on its Works with Apple Home and Matter certifications to bring third-party hardware into its ecosystem, but this collection marks a deeper level of involvement, with Apple working directly alongside LG Electronics and Schneider Electric on how each product integrates, mounts and looks. The lineup arrives as part of a wider home push unveiled the same day, alongside HomeView, HomePod mini 2 and the new Apple TV 4K, all of which can serve as the hub that ties these accessories together. “Working closely with industry leaders LG Electronics and Schneider Electric, we designed every accessory to work seamlessly with Apple Home, so managing your home is simple, reliable, and private,” said Matthew Costello, Apple’s vice president of Hardware Engineering, in a press release.

Setup follows the HomePod playbook, with each accessory added to Apple Home via an NFC tap from an iPhone and controlled from a single app without a manufacturer login. Every device supports Thread to stay connected if Wi-Fi drops, and the hardware automatically picks up new network credentials when a household changes its router settings. Finishes are kept minimal, with LG pieces offered in Essence Graphite, Essence Silver or Essence White and Schneider Electric’s hardware in white and silver tones.

LG’s four cameras anchor the monitoring side of the lineup, each recording at up to 2.5K and identifying people, familiar faces, pets, vehicles and packages. Footage lives in the owner’s iCloud+ plan rather than a separate camera subscription, with 10 days of event history, and eligible plans add Apple Intelligence clip summaries plus natural-language search across recordings. Onboard storage keeps the cameras capturing through Wi-Fi outages, while live snapshots in the Home app offer a quick glance without opening a full stream.

Each camera brings its own specialty to the lineup. The Video Doorbell runs two lenses, a 2.5K front camera for visitors and a full HD bottom camera for packages, along with a built-in spotlight and a chime that rings through HomeView, HomePod and HomePod mini. The Floodlight Cam pairs adaptive dual floodlights with low-light color night vision, the Outdoor Cam offers the same night vision in an easily angled, self-installed body, and the Indoor Cam physically tilts its lens down to stop monitoring the moment the first household member arrives home.

LG’s Smart Deadbolt Lock leans on Ultra Wideband to sense how close an iPhone or Apple Watch carrying a home key is, unlocking automatically on approach with no tap required. Backup entry options include tap-to-unlock, a built-in PIN pad and a concealed key slot, and the lock can detect whether the door is open, closed or being tampered with, flagging when it sits ajar even while bolted. Guest access can be issued directly from the Home app, and as a Matter-compatible lock with Aliro support, its core functions run locally without an internet connection. Paired with the Video Doorbell, it forms a front-door system that lets users see a visitor, talk to them and let them in from one screen or by asking Siri.

Climate control comes through two Smart Thermostats, one from LG Electronics and one from Schneider Electric, so homeowners can match their existing energy setup. Adaptive Temperature uses on-device intelligence from iPhone to adjust heating and cooling based on whether residents are home, asleep or away, while Clean Energy Guidance in the contiguous U.S. can shift usage to cleaner, cheaper periods for those on a compatible utility plan. Multi-room readings come from new standalone LG and Schneider Electric sensors or the sensors already inside HomeView, HomePod and HomePod mini, and both thermostats support Matter, a broad range of HVAC systems and on-device wire detection for DIY installation.

The payoff is in how the pieces talk to one another, with a single Siri-triggered “Good Morning” scene able to set the thermostat, tilt down an indoor camera and start music on HomePod at once. When the last person leaves, the home can drop into away mode by adjusting the temperature, locking the door and re-arming the cameras, then reverse the process ahead of their return. Footage and Home app data stay end-to-end encrypted and are processed on the owner’s own hub or through Private Cloud Compute, beyond the reach of LG Electronics, Schneider Electric or Apple. For those who would rather not install the hardware themselves, Apple Retail is adding third-party installation from ADT in the US starting this fall.

Apple Home Collection rolls out starting in December via Apple, the Apple Store app and Apple Store locations, with select accessories following in early 2027. The cameras launch in the US, Canada and the UK, while the lock, thermostats and sensors arrive in the US and Canada.