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The $130 Yale Approach is the company’s first retrofit smart lock. It will start out with Wi-Fi, but a Matter-over-Thread upgrade is promised. The $130 Yale Approach is the company’s first retrofit ...

The new HomeKit-compatible Yale Assure Lock 2 Plus offers support for Apple’s Home Key as well as fingerprint scanning, according to Yale Home. The company also says a new version coming soon will ...

Smart locks are a powerful way to enhance your front door security, and few products are as popular as the Yale Assure Lock 2 and August Wi-Fi Smart Lock. Both are quite expensive (carrying price tags ...

Yale, one of the oldest lock manufacturers in the world, has announced an all-new retrofit smart lock, the Yale Approach Lock with Wi-Fi. Affordably priced at $129.99, the lock is also available ...

For the first time, Google no longer directly sells a smart lock as it has fully stopped selling the Nest x Yale Lock.

The Nest x Yale lock first made its debut in 2018 and, five years later, it’s effectively been ignored for a while in Google’s updated smart home ecosystem. Without a proper sequel on the horizon, ...

The new Matter-over-Thread-powered Yale lock replaces the Nest x Yale Lock and will work with Google Home, as well as Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, and Samsung SmartThings. The new ...

Yale’s latest electronic lock won’t connect to your other smart home gear or to your smartphone, but it’s easy to install and manage. It covers the basics in style. Yale’s parade of high-tech locks ...