Apple is developing a smart doorbell with Face ID that can unlock third-party smart locks
Apple is developing a smart doorbell that will unlock your door using facial recognition technology called 'Face ID,' Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, an Apple-related reporter, reports.
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Apple is reportedly working on a smart doorbell system that could unlock your door with Face ID
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Apple's smart doorbell will be able to automatically unlock the home when the occupant looks at the camera, just like an iPhone or iPad, and the camera will have a Secure Enclave chip to store and process Face ID information separately from the rest of the system's hardware.
In addition, the smart doorbell will be able to work with existing third-party smart locks that support HomeKit , Apple's smart home protocol, to unlock the door. 'Apple may partner with certain smart lock product developers to offer a complete system to consumers on day one,' Gurman said.
According to Gurman, Apple's smart doorbell is in the early stages of development at the time of writing, and the earliest it will be released is the end of 2025. If Apple's smart doorbell is released, it will compete with existing smart doorbells such as Amazon Ring and Google Nest.
Apple's plans to get serious about the smart home sector have been rumored before, with reports in November 2024 that Apple may release its own AI-enabled smart home camera as soon as 2026.
Gurman also reports that Apple is working on adding a heart rate monitor to its wireless earbuds, the AirPods. In fact, there is a team within Apple experimenting with a variety of features, including temperature sensing, heart rate monitoring, and technology to track a number of physiological measurements, and adding a heart rate monitor to the AirPods is apparently part of that effort.
Gurman reports that the heart rate monitoring feature may be coming to the next generation of AirPods Pro. 'Apple's testing has shown that measuring heart rate with the Apple Watch is more accurate than measuring heart rate with the AirPods, but the results are not that far off.'
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