You can control Home Assistant directly from your phone by opening the app, navigating to the dashboard you want to use, finding the button you need, and then tapping it. It's not exactly the easiest ...

Apple's update to iOS 17.6 is turning Home Switching on, when it was previously off, for some users. Here's how to turn that Home setting back off. Smart home owners may have discovered a problem with ...

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 ...

The evolution of smart home technology has come with all sorts of steps forward and steps back over the past decade. In the latter category, there’s news like we got today of important smart device ...

Apple released iOS 18.3 beta 1 today for developers, five days after shipping iOS 18.2 to the public. One change in the new update is Home app support coming for a key new device category. New device ...

During the iOS 18 unveiling at WWDC 2024, Apple announced plans to give the Apple Home app support for the core functionality of vacuum cleaners by the end of 2024 -- but those plans were delayed. Now ...

Steve Moser has posted on X about some code he found in the Home app of the iOS 26 beta. The code describes an “Adaptive Temperature” feature for home thermostats, which appears to offer several ...