CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple on Tuesday introduced HomeView, a 7-inch smart display designed to serve as a shared household screen for music, FaceTime calls, recipes and smart-home controls while recognizing up to six users by face and switching to each person's personal content.

Pre-orders begin immediately in the United States, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The tabletop model is priced at $299 and comes in silver, starlight, rose pink and space gray. A wall-mounted version, also $299 and available in space gray and silver, will ship with the same start date. Both models become available Nov. 13. The product will not be sold in the European Union because Siri AI is not yet available in iOS there.

"Apple HomeView is designed to be shared by everyone in the home yet feel completely personal to each user," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "It recognizes your face to shift from a household screen to your own experience, fills the room with incredible sound, keeps you connected to the people who matter most with FaceTime, and makes it easy to control your smart home. And it's powered by Apple Intelligence with Siri AI at its core, drawing on personal context from........

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