iCloud Eufy security camera

I've presumed that you have set up your camera to record to iCloud and that it is attached to HomeKit and in the Home app. If not see below.

If you open the Home app you will see a still image representing the camera. Tap on this to activate the stream from the camera. At the foot of the screen you will see a time line giving the current time and the label Today.

If you touch and hold the time line and push it to the right the playhead goes backwards in time and you can see a recording from the past. When you lift your finger form the iPhone you will also note a calendar pop up and you can go back a week, which I think is the limit of the retention of the recordings. From here you can choose a day and the time line can locate a specific time in that day. Touch on the play icon on the left of the time line to play.

Eufy has a whole page on this camera and how it relates to HomeKit here and how to add it to Home here.

You will need to provide some detail in a question for somebody to provide an informed response. What camera do you have and if it is capable of connecting to the Home app what have you tried to do?

What I do know about Eufy cameras is that some work with the Home app - and iCloud - and others do not. I have the indoor pan and tilt camera which uploads secure video to iCloud, for example. Mostly of our cats 🐱

The size of your iCloud+ plan does not affect the upload of secure camera video. See Store encrypted security camera footage in iCloud with HomeKit Secure Video. With your 2TB plan you can have an unlimited number of cameras.

Sorry for the delay in responding but I think I have an answer for you.

If you look in the Home app settings (Home app > dotted menu at the top right > Home settings) you will see your name in the list of people. Touch on your name to open up a list of settings. Down at the bottom of mine, and I presume yours, I see the label for Cameras. If you touch on this you will see two options appear. One is Stream Only and the other is Stream & View Recordings.

If I am correct your Home app will be set at Stream Only. The effect of this is that when you look at your camera in the Home app you can see the live streaming but nothing else.

Under my name in the Home app settings I can see the streaming video AND a timeline which I can manipulate as I've described above. I compared this against the same camera in the Home app on other family members who I have made the setting as Stream Only and all I can see on their iPhones is the streaming video.

If you change your setting I am confident that you will see the timeline of recordings.