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Apple Home 新安全摄像头 AI 功能月费最高达 60 美元
随着 iOS 27 和 tvOS 27 公开发布,Apple Home 为 HomeKit Secure Video 引入 Apple Intelligence,提供 AI 视频摘要、视频搜索和多摄像头片段拼接。但该功能需订阅 iCloud Plus:单摄像头需 2TB 套餐 9.99 美元/月,第二摄像头需 6TB 套餐 29.99 美元/月,最多五摄像头需 12TB 套餐 59.99 美元/月。相比 HomeKit Secure Video 原先 1 美元/月的起步价大幅上涨,记者认为功能虽有用但价格过高。
AI推荐理由 The Verge 记者基于 iOS 27/tvOS 27 公开发布及 Apple 支持页面,给出 Apple Home 引入 Apple Intelligence 视频摘要、视频搜索、多摄像头拼接功能的具体订阅价格档位(2TB 9.99 美元/月、6TB 29.99 美元/月、12TB 59.99 美元/月),并对比 HomeKit Secure Video 原有 1 美元/月起步价,信息密度高、事实可核验。局限在于正文为记者个人体验与价格评论,未提供功能实测数据或苹果官方效果说明,属消费级智能家居订阅定价报道,对 AI 产业落地的直接价值有限。
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Apple Home’s new security camera features cost up to $60 a month
Apple Intelligence upgrades to HomeKit Secure Video come with a steep cost.
Apple Intelligence upgrades to HomeKit Secure Video come with a steep cost.
by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Sep 14, 2026, 10:28 PM UTC
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New Apple Intelligence features for HomeKit cameras start at $10 a month and go up to $60. Image: The Verge
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy is a senior reviewer with over twenty years of experience. She covers smart home, IoT, and connected tech, and has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News.
With the public release of iOS 27 and tvOS 27, Apple Home is getting an injection of Apple Intelligence — but you’ll have to pay more for it.
Apple Intelligence for Home brings AI-powered video summaries to HomeKit Secure Video, so you can get short text descriptions of who and what compatible security cameras saw, along with the clip. It also adds a new video search feature and the ability to stitch footage from multiple cameras into one clip, making it easier to keep an eye on what’s happening around your home without scrolling through footage.
AI-generated video summaries provide text descriptions of what a camera sees.
But to get these features, you’ll need to pay $9.99 a month for the 2TB iCloud Plus plan (or $39.95 a month for an Apple One Premier subscription) — and that’s just for one camera. According to an Apple support page, to add Apple Intelligence to a second camera, you’ll have to pay $29.99 a month for the 6TB plan. For up to five cameras, it’s a whopping $59.99 a month for the 12TB plan. No word on whether you can add more than five cameras. (Recordings from HomeKit-connected cameras don’t count toward your storage quota.)
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That’s way too expensive. While the improved video features are useful — I’ve been testing them in beta and have been impressed — they’re not good enough to justify that big a price jump.
HomeKit Secure Video has always been behind a paywall, but it started at a very reasonable $1 a month. That’s for the 50GB iCloud Plus plan, which includes recorded footage from one camera, plus smart alerts and facial recognition. For more cameras, you bump up to 2TB / $9.99 a month (up to five), and 6TB / $29.99 a month or higher for unlimited cameras. But the cost for the Apple Intelligence features is a huge increase.
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1/4Apple Intelligence requires the 2TB $9.99 a month plan, for more cameras you need to upgrade to 6TB or 12TB.
I currently pay $40 a month for Apple One Premier, which includes 2TB of iCloud storage and gets me HomeKit Secure Video support for five cameras. With the new pricing tier, I keep those benefits and now get Apple Intelligence on one camera. But to get it on all five cameras, I’d need to pay an additional $60 a month. That’s $720 a year, for a total of $1,200.
Amazon’s Ring and Google Nest charge around $20 a month for subscription tiers that include similar AI-powered features for their cameras, and both companies offer more features than Apple currently does. An iCloud Plus plan does include storage for photos, files, and device backups, and higher plans may get you higher limits for Siri AI and other Apple Intelligence features, but Apple hasn’t released any details about that.
The good news is that none of this changes what you get with HomeKit Secure Video today, and the new software releases have added under-the-hood upgrades that improve speed and reliability, plus the service now supports 4K video resolution. But while Apple Intelligence feels like a significant improvement for Apple Home, at these prices, the value just isn’t there.
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