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Ambient sensing and cameras to power Apple Home Hub personalization

According to strings accidentally left in a macOS Tahoe update, Apple’s Home Hub will offer user profiles, with identity verification provided by ambient sensing and built-in cameras.

Smart speaker on a white shelf displaying a tablet-like screen with colorful streaming app icons including Apple TV, Netflix, YouTube, and CBS, next to a green potted plant
Apple’s Home Hub will seemingly support user accounts.

With the macOS 26.7 release candidate build, Apple inadvertently revealed details about several of its upcoming products, including a camera-equipped model of AirPods. Also present was code related to the company’s upcoming Home Hub, an AI-focused device with an operating system that’s said to resemble tvOS.

Rumors have suggested the product will ship in two variants, one with a speaker-type base, and another wall-mounted version. This two-model approach was corroborated by macOS Tahoe code, and now even more details about the Home Hub have surfaced.

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