Apple Home’s new security camera features cost as much as $60 a month
Apple Home’s new security camera features cost as much as $60 a month
Apple Home 全新安防摄像头功能每月最高收费 60 美元
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. 随着 iOS 27 和 tvOS 27 的公开发布，Apple Home 迎来了 Apple Intelligence 的加持，但你必须为此支付更多费用。
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. Apple Home 的 Apple Intelligence 功能为 HomeKit 安全视频（HomeKit Secure Video）带来了 AI 驱动的视频摘要功能。你可以获得兼容安防摄像头所拍摄内容的简短文字描述，并查看相关片段。此外，它还增加了全新的视频搜索功能，以及将多个摄像头的画面拼接成一个片段的能力，让你无需翻阅冗长的录像，就能更轻松地监控家中发生的一切。
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.) 但要获得这些功能，你需要每月支付 9.99 美元订阅 2TB 的 iCloud Plus 套餐（或每月 39.95 美元订阅 Apple One Premier），而这仅涵盖一台摄像头。根据苹果支持页面的信息，若要为第二台摄像头添加 Apple Intelligence 功能，则需每月支付 29.99 美元订阅 6TB 套餐。若要支持多达五台摄像头，则需每月支付高达 59.99 美元的 12TB 套餐。目前尚不清楚是否可以添加超过五台摄像头。（HomeKit 连接摄像头的录像不占用你的存储空间配额。）
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. 这实在太贵了。虽然改进后的视频功能确实很有用——我在测试版中体验过，印象深刻——但它们还不足以支撑如此巨大的价格涨幅。
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. HomeKit 安全视频一直以来都是付费服务，但起步价非常合理，仅为每月 1 美元。该价格对应 50GB 的 iCloud Plus 套餐，包含一台摄像头的录像存储、智能提醒和面部识别功能。若要支持更多摄像头，则需升级至每月 9.99 美元的 2TB 套餐（最多五台），或每月 29.99 美元及以上的 6TB 套餐以支持无限数量的摄像头。但 Apple Intelligence 功能的费用涨幅实在太大了。
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. 我目前每月支付 40 美元订阅 Apple One Premier，其中包括 2TB 的 iCloud 存储空间，并支持五台摄像头的 HomeKit 安全视频服务。按照新的定价层级，我保留了这些权益，并获得了一台摄像头的 Apple Intelligence 支持。但若要让所有五台摄像头都具备该功能，我每月需要额外支付 60 美元。这意味着每年要多花 720 美元，总计达到 1,200 美元。
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. 亚马逊的 Ring 和谷歌的 Nest 提供类似的 AI 驱动摄像头功能，其订阅费用约为每月 20 美元，且这两家公司目前提供的功能比苹果更丰富。虽然 iCloud Plus 套餐确实包含照片、文件和设备备份的存储空间，且更高等级的套餐可能会为 Siri AI 和其他 Apple Intelligence 功能提供更高的使用限额，但苹果尚未公布相关细节。
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. 好消息是，这一切都不会改变你目前通过 HomeKit 安全视频所获得的服务。新的软件版本在底层进行了升级，提升了速度和可靠性，并且该服务现在支持 4K 视频分辨率。然而，尽管 Apple Intelligence 对 Apple Home 来说是一次重大提升，但以这样的价格来看，其性价比实在不高。