Apple is reportedly working on a premium HomeView with a 9-inch display mounted on a motorized arm. The current Apple HomeView costs $299 and ships November 13 with a fixed 7-inch square screen, so the arm model would be a very different device.
Mark Gurman describes the product in his “Power On” newsletter. Apple is internally calling it J595, and Gurman places its release in 2027 or 2028. Apple has not announced it.
The Motorized Arm Is Said to Turn HomeView Toward Whoever Is Talking
The arm rotates a full 360 degrees around its base. Voice recognition drives it, so the display swings around to face the person who is speaking.
That addresses a real limit of the first HomeView. Its 12MP Center Stage camera keeps people framed during FaceTime, but the speaker base and the screen stay in one place, and a 7-inch square panel works best when you are standing in front of it. A display that follows your voice would be easier to read from across a kitchen, whether it is showing a call or the Home Camera face with up to nine feeds.
HomeView already recognizes up to six people by face and gives each person their own Home Screen with apps and widgets. Pair that with an arm that tracks who is talking, and the device could respond to whoever is in the room instead of whoever is closest to it.
The 9-inch display would be two inches larger on the diagonal than the panel on the current model, and that extra room would help a device whose 7-inch screen leaves widescreen video filling only about 56 percent of the panel.
It Would Be a Premium Model Instead of a Direct HomeView Successor
Gurman describes the arm model as a more premium product, not a straight replacement for the 7-inch HomeView. The name is also open. It could be something entirely new, or HomeView with a suffix such as Max or Ultra.
The concept has been circulating for a while. Apple’s tabletop robot, an iPad-like display on a motorized arm, has been rumored since August 2025 with a 2027 target. A June 2026 smart home roadmap flagged that the robot was at risk of slipping into 2028, which matches the 2027 or 2028 window now reported.
(via Bloomberg)
