View smart home accessory activity in the Home app
View up to 30 days of recorded activity for smart home accessories, such as door locks, garage doors, alarm systems, contact sensors, smoke detectors, doors and windows, using Activity History in the Home app.
Turn Activity History on and off
How it works
Activity History is turned on automatically when an Apple TV or HomePod in a home with the new home architecture is updated to tvOS 17.
If Activity History is turned on, and you have smart home accessories such as door locks and alarm systems in your home, activities like locking and unlocking your front door are recorded and available for you to view in the Home app.1 Find out how to add smart home accessories in the Home app.
Everyone in the home, including shared home users, can view Activity History.2
Apple cannot read the contents of Activity History because it's end-to-end encrypted. Recorded activity will be permanently deleted after 30 days.
Find out how Apple uses end-to-end encryption to help protect your data.
View Activity History
Open the Home app on your iPhone, iPad or Mac.
Select the Security category.
Select Activity History.
Turn Activity History on and off
Only the home owner or a shared home user with permission to add and edit accessories can turn Activity History on and off. When you turn off Activity History, all previously recorded activity for the home will be permanently deleted.
Open the Home app on your iPhone, iPad or Mac.
Select the More button
, select Home Settings, then select Safety & Security.Choose One Month to turn Activity History on, or choose Off.
Activity History cannot guarantee that events will be captured in all circumstances. Network or power outages may result in lost events. When the connected home hub is not reachable due to power outage, events may not be logged successfully.
Remote access to the home is required to view Activity History while you are outside the home.
