A couple of weeks ago I wrote a whole post complaining that HomeKit Secure Video was still stuck at 1080p in 2026. I never published it. I figured I’d look silly if Apple fixed it the week after I hit send.

Then the keynote happened. The Home app is getting 4K recording on supported cameras. So I’m taking full credit. You’re welcome, everybody.

The 4K is the headline, but there are more Home improvements. Apple Intelligence now writes plain-language summaries of your camera clips, so instead of scrubbing footage you get told what happened. Related clips from different cameras stitch together into one event. And you can search your recordings by what’s in them before you even finish typing.

That last one matters. The reason I’ve stuck with HomeKit Secure Video through the lean years is the privacy model. Footage gets analyzed on a hub in your house, encrypted before it ever touches iCloud, and the metadata describing what’s in your clips never leaves your devices in the clear. Search and summaries that run inside that model, instead of on some company’s server, are the version of these features I want.

Still, 4K is a welcome improvement and answers my biggest complaint.

I’ve recommended the Aqara line to people who want to stay inside Apple Home and still get decent hardware. For now, I’ll take the win. My footage is about to look a lot better, and I didn’t even have to publish the angry post to get it.