iOS 26 Is About To Save You Money On Your Energy Bill

Apple hasn’t given the smart home much love on stage at WWDC 2025 this week, but if you dig a little deeper into the dev sessions you’ll find a feature that could actually make a dent in your energy bill.

Dubbed EnergyKit, it’s coming as part of iOS 26, which will arrive later this year. It’s all a bit technical right now, but it points toward eventually turning your Apple Home system into a money-saving energy manager for your house.

I say system, rather than app, because it sounds as if Apple is going to allow app developers to bake this tech into their own apps, even if those device types aren’t currently supported.

EnergyKit is a developer framework lets apps tap into Apple’s Home energy data, and things like your rate plan and a forecast of when the grid is running cleaner or cheaper, which it will use to shift when your devices draw power.

For example, it could allow your EV charger to schedule itself to run when grid rates are low or solar energy is peaking, or have your smart thermostat pre-cool your house before prices spike.

If you’re hooked up to PG&E (the first and only energy provider supported so far), your Apple Home app can already show this kind of info, but EnergyKit will supercharge things and open it up to developers to build smarter automations on top.

Apple says the framework is aimed at residential use, for things like HVAC systems and EV charging.

In a video introducing the new tools, we’re told that EnergyKit can provide personalized guidance for when to use electricity based on environmental impact and cost.

Apple is actually pretty late to the smart energy party, with platforms like SmartThings and Homey pushing energy optimization for a while now; and devices from the likes of Ecobee, Eve and Tado already doing this kind of thing on their own.

But this feels like Apple finally putting down a foundation to make its Home app more than just a pretty interface for turning off your lights.

The Cupertino tech giant doesn’t actually support energy monitoring or EV chargers natively at the moment, but obviously Matter makes this sort of thing easier.

If you’re a dev, you can read more technical info on EnergyKit over on the Apple Developer website.