With Matter and Thread, the smart home is experiencing a new start, and an upswing. We take a look back at Apple's history in ...

Homey’s new Matter Bridge app pulls Zigbee, Z Wave, 433 MHz, and IR devices into Apple Home, letting HomeKit control older ...

Ben Khalesi covers the intersection of artificial intelligence and everyday tech at Android Police. With a background in AI and data science, he enjoys making technical topics approachable for those ...

Apple is rumored to launch five new Home products in the year ahead, and ahead of that renewed smart home push, iOS 26.2 has ...

If you've been feeling bored by your smart home and its current routines too, keep reading. These are ways to configure the ...

Controller for HomeKit is an alternative way of controlling and setting up your HomeKit accessories, scenes, and automations from your iPhone. While the app has been around for some time, this month ...

HomeKit and the Home app weren't focused on much during Apple's WWDC keynote, but there are several new features that are coming in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia. With Customize Access, you can ...

HomeUI’s controls are easy to set up. The app features a main window that lists the rooms you have set up in the Home app in a sidebar for navigating room by room. The remainder of the window contains ...

With iOS 18 currently in the third beta and set to become available to everyone this fall, we've had plenty of time to see just what's new with smart home management, including Apple Home and ...

Apple is officially ending support for the prior version of Apple Home this year, and the company has been encouraging users to update to the new HomeKit architecture by that time to avoid ...

Back in iOS 16.2—and then again in iOS 16.4, after some initial teething problems meant it had to be pulled—Apple rolled out a new architecture for its Home app. This was a complete reworking of the ...