Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that Apple will make “its first foray into the smart home IP camera market” with a new device launching in 2026. It would represent Apple’s first standalone camera since 2003’s iSight camera and its first smart home device.

Effectively, other HSV-compatible cameras have the option of complete privacy, but users need to proactively enable this. An Apple camera offers a complete privacy guarantee right out of the box. (Of course, Apple could also play hardball, and decline to offer HSV support to future competing cameras, but I’d hope it wouldn’t go that far.)

Apple might be pushing further into the world of smart home gadgets. According to reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo in a Medium post, "Apple is making its first foray into the smart home IP camera market.

If Kuo’s analysis is correct, Apple is targeting an ambitious goal of selling tens of millions of cameras globally a year. According to Kuo, the upcoming smart home camera will be integrated with Siri and Apple Intelligence,