{"slug": "apple-has-a-huge-product-roadmap-for-the-smart-home-heres-whats-coming", "title": "Apple has a huge product roadmap for the smart home: Here’s what’s coming", "summary": "Apple Inc. is preparing a major overhaul of its smart home product line, including new HomePod and Apple TV models, after delays attributed to Siri's AI upgrade, which is now available. The current HomePod mini and Apple TV are 4-6 years old, and the new Siri AI is expected to unlock a wave of hardware releases.", "body_md": "Apple’s home products (primarily HomePod mini and Apple TV) have been the talk of the town for the [past couple of years](https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/30/apple-is-about-to-launch-home-product-overhaul-ive-wanted-for-years/). The reasoning is quite simple: the current iterations are 4-6 years old.\n\nSiri has [been the holdup](https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/02/apple-reportedly-has-four-new-products-ready-to-launch-pending-one-thing/) for new hardware releases, supposedly – but now that Siri AI is finally here, we should be seeing Apple finally start releasing some new Home products very soon. Here’s what’s in the pipeline.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-has-a-huge-product-roadmap-for-the-smart-home-heres-whats-coming", "canonical_source": "https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/15/apple-home-product-roadmap-tv-homepod-smart-display/", "published_at": "2026-08-15 16:08:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-15 16:12:12.352532+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Apple Inc.", "HomePod mini", "Apple TV", "Siri"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-has-a-huge-product-roadmap-for-the-smart-home-heres-whats-coming", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-has-a-huge-product-roadmap-for-the-smart-home-heres-whats-coming.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-has-a-huge-product-roadmap-for-the-smart-home-heres-whats-coming.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-has-a-huge-product-roadmap-for-the-smart-home-heres-whats-coming.jsonld"}}