The first Apple Home Key-ready smart lock with UWB is cheaper during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

There are truthful galore great astute locks retired there. But 1 of champion models that iPhone owners should see buying present is Aqara’s U400, which offers hands-free unlocking erstwhile you get adjacent enough. It has Apple’s U1 ultra-wideband spot integrated to authenticate you and unlock the doorway hands-free, truthful each that you person to bash is unfastened the doorway erstwhile you get home. This astute fastener is discounted for the archetypal clip during the Big Spring Sale, costing $229.49 (originally $269.99) astatine Amazon.

Aqara Smart Lock U400

Where to Buy:

• $269.99 astatine Aqara
• $269.99 $229.49 astatine Amazon

As our reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy enactment it successful her hands-on impressions with the U400, hands-free unlocking isn’t caller — but this is the astir reliable implementation she’s tried yet. Apple’s Home Key relies connected a premix of Bluetooth and UWB to link and authenticate, and you don’t request an other app.

In summation to utilizing Home Key, you tin unlock the U400 with a codification connected its touchscreen keypad, done a registered fingerprint, oregon with a regular ol’ key. This is simply a Matter-over-Thread lock, and it works with your prime of astute location ecosystems. You’ll conscionable request a Thread borderline router (recent Apple TV models, the second-gen HomePod, and the HomePod Mini are conscionable a fewer examples of borderline routers astatine varying prices) to fto your devices pass implicit Thread alternatively of purely implicit Wi-Fi, redeeming the doorbell’s artillery on the way.