Smart home company Aqara has announced no fewer than nine new products at this year’s consumer electronics show. Most, however, won’t be available in the US until later in the year.

The touchscreen panel could arrive as soon as March, Gurman predicts, and if it does, it would represent Apple’s biggest smart home splash since the original HomePod first landed in 2018.

A lock screen’s user interface has been discovered in the tvOS 18 beta 3 code, corroborating rumors of an upcoming touchscreen HomePod. The smart home device is expected to run a tweaked variant ...

The new smart home UI allows for more devices to show on the screen at once. Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge The other exciting upgrade is the new Echo Show UI.

Home Up version 16 is rolling out now to devices running One UI 7, so you’ll need a Galaxy S24 in the beta or a Galaxy S25.I tried sideloading the APK on my Z Fold 4, which runs One UI 6.1.1 ...