Cameras get an Apple Intelligence boost in Apple Home

Apple Intelligence is coming to cameras connected to Apple Home. At WWDC, Apple announced that with iOS27, its HomeKit Secure Video service will use Apple Intelligence to analyze footage and generate descriptions summarizing what the camera saw. You can also search footage with natural language to find clips from across connected cameras, such as when a package was delivered.

The Home app will also use Apple Intelligence to connect relevant clips together to give you a picture of what’s happening across your home and surface “noteworthy clips” on the search page to quickly show you videos that might be important.

This AI boost is similar to features that Amazon’s Ring and Google’s Nest have added to their home security cameras over the last year. It’s possible these updates are in preparation for Apple’s rumored upcoming video doorbell and security camera.

Apple also announced that support for up to 4K video resolution is coming to compatible HomeKit Secure Video cameras. This should help with clearer images to feed the AI; prior to this, the service only supported 1080p. An iCloud Plus plan is required for HomeKit Secure Video, and will include the new AI features. Apple didn’t mention if it was bringing Matter support for cameras to its smart home platform.

Finally, a small but welcome update to the Home app is the ability to condense multiple alerts for the same device into a single notification, which will then update as more activity occurs.