Controlling your smart home from your iPhone and iPad is simple with the Home app. And with iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and macOSÂ Big Sur, you have a clearer way to see and manage your HomeKit accessories.
What used to be written summary section at the top of the Home app is now a visual summary of your connected devices. This allows you to quickly take action or more easily control your accessories. Here’s the scoop on using the visual status section for devices in the Home app.
If you use the Home app to control your smart lights, doorbell, or thermostat, you’ll be glad to know the app wasn’t left out of the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 updates.
To manage your accessories easier, you can control them from the handiest spot on your device – Control Center. And what’s even better is that these controls are just as smart as your devices because you’ll see accessories and scenes based on time of day or usage. Let’s take a look at how to use controls for your Home accessories in Control Center.
We’ve shown you how to create Scenes with the Home app which let you control multiple accessories at once based on your actions like arriving or leaving. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to set up Automations.
With Automations, you can have your accessories respond to each other. For instance, you can have a light turn on when your smart lock unlocks the front door. Or you can have your smart thermostat adjust the temperature at a certain time of day.
Depending on the smart home accessories you use, you should get some great suggestions here for setting up Automations in the Home app.
Check out these quick steps to change the icons for your accessories in the Home app on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Doing so, you can customize your experience or easily differentiate between your various smart devices such as light bulbs, fans, locks, thermostats, etc.
Learn how to rearrange rooms in the Home app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac for ease of use or personal preference.
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Hubs in the Home app are devices that you can use to control your smart home accessories like lights, locks, and thermostats. And you can use a HomePod, Apple TV, or iPad as a home hub. So how do you set these devices up as hubs and how do you make sure they’re connected? This tutorial will show you.
At last year's WWDC, Apple said that it will permit manufacturers to implement HomeKit compatibility in their routers. Today, a source discovered that Linksys will soon release a software update that would bring HomeKit functionality to its tri-band Velop routers.
If you’re just using the Home app for the first time on your iOS device or Mac, we have some great tips and how-tos for using it. One place you should definitely start is by setting up the rooms and zones you’re going to use. Once you do this, you can easily move onto grouping your accessories using those areas.
It only takes a few minutes, depending on how many you plan to set up. But remember, you can add rooms and zones to the Home app anytime and here’s how.
Philips Hue, arguably the most popular smart lighting system for the connected home, suffers from a nasty vulnerability that could permit bad actors to attack your whole home network.
A recent controversy sparked by smart speaker maker Sonos illustrates the dangers of building a smart home. What happens when the technology you build your home on is suddenly obsolete? That's the quandary that many Sonos customers are facing this week after the company announced the end of support for its oldest products, some of which have been in use for more than a decade.