One of the things tucked away in the small print of macOS 27 beta 3 is the news that you’ll need a 2TB iCloud+ subscription in order to use the new AI features for home security cameras in the Apple Home app.
While some are suggesting that we shouldn’t be too surprised by this, I do find it a somewhat disappointing move by Apple …
Apple announced significant AI-powered upgrades to the Home app at this year’s WWDC.
Intelligent Home app notifications
One of these was using Apple Intelligence to replace a whole sequence of individual security notifications with a single summary. At present, something as routine as a family member arriving home might generate a notification that they were seen in the driveway, then that the garage door was opened, then that the garage door was closed, then that they were seen at the front door, then that the front door was unlocked, and finally that it was locked.
