Amazon announced Alexa Home Map on 28 October 2026, at the same event as the new Echo Dot and Echo Show 16. It replaces the flat 2D Map View that came to the Alexa app in 2023 with an interactive 3D model of the house and the plot around it. Echo speakers, Ring and Blink cameras, Fire TV, lights, locks, thermostats and other connected devices sit on the model where they are in real life, and you can control their basic functions straight from the map.

How you build the map

You start by entering your address. According to The Verge, Amazon then pulls a 3D model of the house and the neighbourhood from Mapbox, so the exterior appears on its own. The interior is your job: you walk from room to room and scan each one with a compatible iPhone. The Verge says that means a model with a lidar or structured-light sensor, and that an average home takes 15-20 minutes. Amazon is testing a scanner that works from ordinary video on iOS and Android, but has not said when it will ship.

Maps made in the old Map View cannot be carried over, so everyone starts from scratch. Once the rooms are in place, you drag devices onto the model from a tray in the app. The map handles several floors and shows furniture.

What the map shows

  • Lights glow on the map in the colour and brightness they are set to.
  • Speakers show music notes while they play.
  • Outside, there is a 360-degree aerial view of the property, and compatible Ring cameras turn detected people and cars into live animations. Familiar Faces can tell you that the person at the door is someone you added.
  • Cameras pop up a small live preview when they detect movement. A tap opens Live View, and a timeline lets you rewind the last 24 hours across all cameras at once.
  • Sky and weather follow the time of day and the forecast.

You can zoom into rooms, switch floors, pick light or dark mode and filter the map by device type, for example only lights or only cameras.

Availability and the small print

Amazon says the preview starts rolling out "later this year", without a date. It will appear in a separate Alexa Home Map app for iOS, in the Alexa and Ring apps, on the larger Echo Show models including the new Echo Show 16, on the Amazon Ember Artline TV with Fire TV and on the new Alexa tablets.

Some features on Echo Show, Fire TV and the tablets require Alexa+, which Amazon includes with Prime. The people and car animations and some other camera features need a Ring Protect Pro or Virtual Security Guard subscription and compatible Ring cameras. Amazon has not said which countries get the preview first.