Apple Camera due in 2026 -- but Home Hub may get delayed
The expected Apple Home Hub that was believed to be coming in March may now ship later, claims a new report that also backs up rumors that Apple is working on a home camera.

Mockup of a possible Apple Home Hub
Rumors of Apple aiming to expand its home and particularly smart home offerings have chiefly centered on what's been described as a Home Hub. It's expected to have an iPad-like screen and may have the body of a HomePod.
Now according to Bloomberg, the Home Hub will feature a 7-inch screen, and will run on a new operating system codenamed Pebble. Despite being a new operating system, perhaps the previously-rumored homeOS, the Home Hub will reportedly make extensive use of App Intents, that will come with the iPhone's iOS 18.4 and iOS 19.
App Intents is a system here developers can offer features of their apps to iOS and so allow other apps or other devices to benefit from them. It's not known what specific App Intents the Home Hub could use, although it's highly likely that it will include features from within Apple's own Home app.
Nonetheless, the fact that it will rely on App Intents means that it's possible the Home Hub will not now be released before iOS 19. That is due to be announced at WWDC 2025, but it won't be publicly released until around September.
That's in line with the latest expectations about Apple Intelligence's revision of Siri. The new report backs up claims that a revamped Siri with AI features will be released in the spring of 2026.
Then 2026 is also now expected to be when Apple introduces a home security camera -- and a doorbell with a Face ID camera.
Rumor Score: Likely
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perhaps I am a little old to understand…
Given their positioning on privacy and security, I think there would be value in Apple offering their own hardware for the most sensitive categories, particularly microphones, cameras and routers. Even with third-party cameras functioning directly on the Apple Home system, you have to wonder a bit.
First "it's coming soon", then "maybe a delay to the end of this year", then maybe later in 2026, or maybe 2027. Or not at all. It's going to do such and such and look like this and that, then a new "report" claims things are going to take a different path. Maybe by late this year, what's real and what's just wishful thinking will be more evident.
I’m not sure what the point of that would be. Professionals and “serious” amateurs already have high-end “dumb” cameras, meaning they’re selecting a lens specific to the intended shot and shooting in manual mode (photographer chooses ISO, exposure, and f-stop) and saving to RAW files (sensor data is saved uncompressed and unaltered). They then do all of the post processing (digital version of what used to happen in the darkroom) on a computer.
They have made what is clearly a compromise toward that idea with the latest iPhones, but a dedicated 3D camera, with the lenses a more sensible distance apart, would make more sense.