Introduction
Apple Has a Master Plan to Conquer the Smart Home and It All Starts in 2025 Before I Get Into How Apple Plans to Invigorate the Smart Home and What New Products Are Coming.
Apple Smart Home 2025 Hobby
For Years the Smart Home Has Basically Been a Hobby for Apple It’s Been Present but It Hasn’t Had Apple’s Focus Maybe the Market Isn’t Big Enough Yet Maybe It Was Too Difficult Based on the Current Technology Available or Maybe Its Heart Was Too Sizes Too Small No Matter the Reason That’s All Poised to Change in a Big Way.
What Is Matter
So Why Now the Answer Lies in Matter and Before We Get Into Apple’s New Devices and Strategy We First Have to Talk About That Matter Is a New Open Smart Home Standard Developed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance It’s a Member-Led Organization Which Includes Apple Samsung Amazon Google and Hundreds of Others This Standard Essentially Allows for a Device Manufacturer to Create a Product Get Certified with Matter and Work Across All Smart Home Platforms That Includes Google Home Samsung Smart Things and Apple Home Previously Known as Homekit Aside from Interoperability What Makes Matter So Exciting Is Support for New Features and Devices, for Example, Example You May Be Aware That Apple Is Adding Support for Robotic Vacuum Cleaners in 2025 Which Is All Thanks to Matter Recent Versions of Matter Include Support for Large Appliances Like Fridges Stoves Washers and Dryers.
There Are Even EV Chargers and Whole Home Batteries Even Water Heaters Imagine Asking Siri if You Have Enough Hot Water Left to Take a Shower How Long Left Until Your Clothes Are Dry or Setting a Rule to Charge Your EV When Your Electric Rate Is at Its Lowest These Are All Possible with the Newest Version of Matter I Could Go on and on About Matter if You Want Like a Getting Started with Matter for Apple Users Type Video Drop Me a Line Down Below in the Comments and Enough if You Do I’ll Make It to Go with Matter We Also Have Thread This Is a Wireless Connectivity Protocol Like Wi-Fi Bluetooth or Zigg It Creates a Mesh Network Across Your Home That Is Self-Healing Very Low Power and Super Low Latency You May Have Heard Apple Talk About Thread Recently as It’s Added It Into Things Like the iPhone Homod and Apple Tv You May Have Not Heard Though How Apple Has Also Secretly Been Putting It Into Macs and iPads It Just Hasn’t Enabled Those Radios Yet Once Apple Fully Launches Its Smart Home Plans Many Will Have a Good Start to a Robust Thread Network in Their Homes with Just a Software Update It’s Been Building Out This Network with the Anticipation of a Big Push Into the Smart Home Just a Laying the Groundwork for Years Ahead of Time So What Are Apple’s Plans Let’s Talk About Them but Real Quick of All the Things.
ESR
Apple Has Developed There Are Few Things That Have Stood Out as My Favorites Homekit Love the Smart Home Carplay Can’t Live without It and Mag Safe It’s Basically Changed How I Use and Power My iPhone My Sponsor for This Video ESR Has Lots of Cool Devices That You Can Pair with It All Charge Using Ch2 for Up to 15 Watts of Fast Wireless Power While at Home I’ve Been Using ESR 3in1 Desktop Charger It’s Very Compact So It Won’t Take Up Much Space on a Small Nightstand or a Tight Desk the Apple Watch Puck Which Is Removable by the Way with a USBC Connector on the End Supports Fast Charging Which Is Super Helpful Gives My Series 10 80% Charge in Only 30 Minutes the 15w G2 Charger Also Supports Cryoboost Which Is ESR Marketing Name for Active Cooling There’s a Near Silent Fan That Will Keep the Temperatures Down Which Can Then Increase the Charging Speed While Away Try Out the ESR G2 Battery Pack Which Has a 5,000 mAh Battery and an Integrated Kickstand Perfect for Your Top Watching TV on the Go or Making It Through a Long Plane Ride Esrs Get All the Tech You Need to Make It Through the Day.
Apple Smart Home Display
I Think Apple’s Master Plan Will Reveal Itself with the Launch of Apple’s Big New Smart Home Product a Smart Home Display the Most Recent Rumors Point to a 6 to 7 in Display in a Compact Form Factor That Can Be Either Wallmounted or Sit on a Dock the Docking Station May Also Offer Premium Speakers Like the High-End Homod within the Display Is Likely to Be a FaceTime Camera When You Place It on the Base Your Camera Will Be Able to Follow You Around the Room I Know That Seems Kind of Futuristic but Guess What Apple’s Once Again Ahead of It Does Anyone Remember Dot Kit It’s a Framework That Allows You to Use a Stand and the Built-in Camera and It Will Then Follow You Around There’s One from Insta 360 and Another I Reviewed Here on the Channel from Belin My Belief Is Apple Is Going to Use This Dock Kit Framework That Tech as the Basis for Its Smart Home Stand and the Smart Display Bloomberg Has Said That the Apple Camera Will Also Be Able to Identify People in the Home Even if Their Face Isn’t Visible Maybe Like the Back of Their Head It’ll Be Able to Use Its AI Tech to Identify Who That Person Likely Is Apple Does Something a Little Similar with Its Homekit Secure Video Analysis but I Hope This Works Better Than That Does It’s a Little Iffy Either Way Recognize Who People Are Will Be Important Just Like with Homepod It Will Know Who’s Asking the Question to Be Able to Know What Information Is Theirs and Relevant.
Who Should a FaceTime Call Be Coming from Who’s Sending a Message Whose Calendar Should It Check or Who Wants to Add a Show to Their Apple TV Watch List I Think the Last Major Rumor We Have on This Display Is Will Most Certainly Support Apple Intelligence This Makes Sense Because You’ll Be Able to Get Visual Will Answers to Your Questions and There Will Have to Be Some Sort of Support for Apps That Can Tie Into Apple Intelligence via New App Intense and We Even Know That the More Personalized Version of Apple Intelligence Is Set to Debut in 2025 I Super Excited for This Display Apple Has Needed a Physical Control for the Smartphone for a While a Way to See Your Doorbell Being Rung to Easily Control Lights and Accessories or to Monitor Your Camera Feeds Every Other Smart Home Platform Has Them Except Apple So When Will This Fantastical Long Awaited New Device Arrive Well There There’s Some Contention Here After Years of Rumors We Finally Had a Likely Release Date Set for Early 2025 a Spring Event Now Another Rumor Though Has Come Along Saying That Q3 of 2025 Is More Likely Truth Is We Obviously Don’t Know What Apple Is Planning Here Things Like Supply Chain Reports Can Be Accurate but They Often Don’t Tell the Whole Story and of Course Things Could Be Delayed Especially if There’s a Reliance on Apple Intelligence or or Other Things Apple Could Announce and Debut This Product Though in Early 2025 and Then Give De Bers Time to Prep Their Apps Making a Big Show of Software Enhancements at WWDC Before Releasing the Product to the Public They’ve Done This Before Right with Like Apple Watch and Vision Pro That Could Account for the Delayed Manufacturing and Still Have a Lunch Uh Technically Earlier in the Year.
HomePod Mini 2
While This Smart Display Will Be Central to Apple’s Plans It’s Not the Whole Picture Right There Are Four More Smart Home Devices That Apple Is Readying and the Last One Is My Favorite the First of These Will Be an Updated Homepod Mini Right Now There Isn’t a Lot We Know About This Device It’ll Probably Keep That Same Round Form Factor Up the Processor Maybe Improve the Audio by Some Degree Thanks to the You Know Years They’ve Had to Work on Development Another Report Out of Bloomberg Says That This New Homepod Mini Will Be One of the Very First Devices to Use Apple’s In-House Wireless Chip This New Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Chip Could Offer Improved Device Device Connectivity Which Would Be Helpful for Smart Home Applications Where Accessories Need to React Instantly.
HomePod 3
The Second Device Is an Uh Updated Fullsize Homepod Would Technically Be the Third Generation Device So Like Got You Know Discontinued and Reintroduced Again The Homepod Mini Is Slated for 2025 While the Fullsize Homepod Is Less Clear It Hasn’t Particularly Been Mentioned Though We Did See at Least One Component Purportedly Leak the Biggest Change Will Be on This One an Updated Top Display That Is Like Full Color and Touch Sensitive More of a Display Rather Than Just Like That Touch Control Um Definitely More of a Screen Than What What Whatever This Counts as Like It’s Just Kind of Some Colors and Stuff.
Apple TV 4K 4th Gen
The Third Updated Device Will Be a New Apple TV This Has Reportedly Been Ready to Go More or Less for a While Now Even Once Being Described as Imminent I Think Why This May Have Been Delayed Is Its Close Ties to That Smart Display We Talked About See That Smart Display Is Actually Running a Forked Version of Tvos as Its Software It Would Make More Sense to Debut These Close Together as They Share Such Similar Code I Think We’ve Already Seen Some of These Impacts on Tvos Like the Control Center View We Have That New Way to Switch Screen Savers All That Feels Like It Would Be Very Suited for a Smart Display Doesn’t It in Fact Apple May Be Introducing a Whole New Versions of Its Software Called Homeos Which Be Devoted Solely to These Smart Home Devices Maybe That Will Be a WWDC Item.
Apple Smart Home Camera
or Next Year I Told You the Last Device Was My Favorite Faite of All the Rumored Ones and That Device Is an Apple Designed Smart Home Camera This Is a 2026 Endeavor So Don’t Get Too Excited for a Quick Release This Camera Will Likely Support Matter Which Currently Doesn’t Even Support Cameras as the CEO of the CSA Recently Told Me on My Homid Insider Podcast Which Please Go Check Out if You Haven’t Already Cameras Will Be Supported Very Soon the Spec for Matter 1.5 Will Be Announced in the Spring Which Could Include Cameras That Would Give Apple the Rest of the Year to Ready the Camera for a 2026 Launch You Can Expect Features Like Person Recognition Homekit Secure Video Recording at a Higher Resolution Than 1080P and a High High High Degree of Privacy and Security Plus Tiny Integration to Apple’s New Display Let’s Put a Bow on All This Shall We Apple’s About to Drop a New Smart Display with Support for Tons of New Device Types an Entire Smart Home Operating System and Several New Smart Home Access Accessories Homes Will Have Robust Thread Networks to Connect Everything Together Your Doors Will Be Able to Unlock as You Approach and You’ll Have an Apple Intelligence Powered Siri to Help Control and Automate Your Devices I Am Beyond Excited for What Apple Has Planned and I Hope That There Is Even More Cooking.
Airport Router Resurgence
By the Way Can I Just Like Like One More Thing I Didn’t Have This Like Put Into My Script and Stuff but There’s Been No Rumors on This This Is Just Me Wishing and Thinking Out Loud but Now Would Be the Perfect Time for Apple to Bring Back the Airport Router Line I Know I Know I’ve Talked About That on the Channel in the Past and I I Still Really Think Uh It Should Happen and Now Makes More Sense Than Anyway Right Like We’re on This Resurgence of This Smart Home and Many Devices Rely on Wi-Fi to Connect and We Even Just Got the Relaunch of Wi-Fi 7 Which Is a Huge Upgrade and Apple Is Just Now Adding It to Devices Apple Could Easily Add a Router to Its Mix with Its Own In-House Chips Thread and Guess What Matter Was Just Added to Router Support and Guess What Matter Just Added Support for Routers It Could Even Add More iCloud Plus Features Like Whole Home Private Relay or Backup Options Let Alone Protecting Your Data from Companies Making Your Router Let Alone Your ISP.