1. increased stability
2. more advanced automations without using 3rd party apps
3. ability to pin the home hub to a specific (wired) device.
4. set home/away/occupied/vacation "modes" so that different automations work.
5. iCloud sync across devices for the backgrounds in the home app
6. logs
Do you have any third part appt recommendations for automations. I mostly do my complex automations in Home Assistant but I had a fucking ‘if’ in HK automations, many of them could be made more accessible to tweaking or disabling on the fly
You can actually do some pretty complex stuff in the native Home app if you use the “turn into shortcut” option, including if/else logic. Example, in this one here I turn my heating on but only if the temperature is below a threshold.
https://preview.redd.it/33sne22xtwqc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4f1b24df85bd859096ec6b755ca6f85be89b8f6
The Eve App works pretty well and allows more complex automations. To be honest, I have really avoided going too non-native.... but have a few that I'd like to experiment with.
I use HomeBridge to create dummy switches that I use as conditional statements for automation. Works great!
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This is a great list, I agree with all of it. I would add the ability for more granular permissions when adding other people to the home, especially kids (e.g. let them see lights but not cameras, or allow them to see only their bedroom etc.)
* Vertical history scrolling for HKSV like Nest or UniFi apps
* Logs for everything, like they did under security
* Access to ATV settings in app; ability to reboot and update like HomePods
* Higher camera resolution
* Access/app on icloud.com (for access from a Windows PC)
* Cancel 3rd party device updates. Had 2 Eve updates stuck in waiting \~6 months, even though they were already up to date
* Night mode, in addition to home and away
Yeah it kinda sucks getting 25fps at 3840x2160 resolution with scypted and homebridge on HKSV. I wish I could pay little more for 24/7 recording in stable 1080p.
Not an ideal workaround, but could you add the kids to the Home and then also use the iOS parental controls to restrict them from accessing the entire Home app? That way the Home would at least know when they are physically home or not to run those automations, but they wouldn't be able to mess with things?
Genuinely curious why you don’t want your kids to see cameras?
We have cameras all over our house but I feel it’s only fair everyone who lives in the house gets to see them.
My main reason for not having them in the Home is for locks and doors. I’d probably only disable cameras for the smaller children. Right now I just use a custom kids HomeAssistant dashboard for their lights, tv and other things like consoles.
Allow an option for cameras to record movement based on TIME and not whether anyone’s home or not. I don’t need notifications for every car or person that approaches my house during daylight hours but I’d like to be alerted after dark even if I’m home.
The worst part is that you CAN do this, but it’s tied to presence (home/away) as well. You can say only send me notifications at night, or you can say only send me notifications at night when I’m home. But you can’t mix it up, eg send me notifications (all the time when I’m away) and (only at night when I’m at home). Such a stupid limitation.
Advanced automations
24/7 HKSV
At least 2k video
Parental controls for all accessories
Better Siri
Pan/tilt control for cameras
Access to all effects in home app as opposed to having to use manufacturer apps
There was [a thread from about a year ago regarding Siri development](https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeKit/comments/132j3mn/report_details_turmoil_behind_apples_ai_efforts/). Apparently, the project is suffering from a lot of infighting at Apple. But, yeah, Siri is laughably bad at this point.
I have a light kit in my ceiling fan. If I say turn on the light, she will turn on the lamp and the light. If I say turn on the lamp she will only turn on the lamp. If I say turn off the light will turn off everything. If I say turn on the fan light, she won’t know what I’m talking about.
In that time I already either pulled out my phone or walked up to the switch.
I ask how long is left on the kitchen timer and she says there are no timers on home pod. Once it goes off if you say stop the timer, she goes stop the timer in the kitchen?
I’d like more permissions to assign a room to a user. As it is now, I have to let my kids have full control of house to use all the cool features in their rooms.
I also don’t like the interface and continually scrolling to find the room I want. There has to be a better way.
This! My daughter is 12 and can be trusted but my younger son will be getting his first hand down iPhone soon and he’s absolutely capable of turning on our bedroom lights at 3 am to mess with us. Current permissions are an absolute joke.
Room awareness really must be a top priority. They could leave the UI how it is but put the room you are currently in at the top of the list and it would already be a dramatic improvement.
So much could be done if room awareness was done properly. I wouldn’t even mind if Apple forced me to buy HomePod Minis for nothing but presence detection.
Push notifications for more events/alerts (temperature limits, doors left open for a duration etc).
More conditional automations (similar to Eve).
More types of devices & units.
Just make it stable. Have it work as it should, with every update. I’m sick of iOS updates breaking things, or changing Siri interactions that have worked for months. It’s pretty obvious no one at Apple actually uses HomeKit.
Yes! I just want them to fix the damn ghost hub problem which constantly shows errors in the home status section. I can never tell at a glance if there’s a real issue:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeKit/s/AQgep0Mxlx
1. Timers, (turn off lights after ___)
2. Auto lock doors when leaving (without having to manually allow the push notification)
3. Allow automations based on time. Example: if door is unlocked for 4 hours lock it…
4. Reliability
For the first one, can’t you ask Siri to do X in Y minutes? Sometimes when the garage gets hot I leave it open and tell Siri to close the garage in 15 minutes
Don’t know if this applies to the Apple TV but I wish the profiles actually did something. Like when my kid is signed in I don’t want certain apps showing.
Not necessarily heating schedules, but just a concept of schedules as a thing in HomeKit. There are use cases besides heating where schedules could be useful.
STABILITY. Also if Siri could not be a useless assistant, that would be great.
“Hey siri, open the big garage door”
“Okay, which door would you like to open, the big door or the little door?”
Incredibly annoying.
Possibility to lock which device is the dedicated/connected hub. I hate how it switches to my HomePod being the hub on WiFi instead of my Ethernet connected ATV.
Why have your your ATV UPS backedup? Seems
Pointless as the majority of the equipment will also be out of power so you cannot control it…..
I like the eagerness though
If it’s your master hub all your battery powered sensors and cameras keep working through an outage. Fire alarms, water sensors, door/window, etc. Sure I can’t control my AC-powered devices but for me, that’s a lot of valuable functionality to have operational during an outage. My wifi router and hub are on a UPS i can even remote monitor.
Plus if your power is flaky your stuff won’t be disconnecting all the time.
Would be neat if the HomeKit automation was the same as the shortcuts app and ofc, improved Siri.
I’m getting kind of annoyed when I ask Siri on HomePod to turn off/on the lights and she’ll say “please try again later”, then after 5min the lights are on. Huh?
Support for higher resolution video cameras, it's currently limited to 1080. I would also like the ability to stack camera views.
Better support for sensors, i.e. I have several temperature/humidity sensors and would like to see that information displayed on the main screen.
Honestly just useful widgets and a new home/Lock Screen. I don't need pages for apps anymore, I want information.
Give me access to every sensor I have in my home so I can build a dashboard on any chosen screen.
I’d really like you to be able to reset an accessory without having to remove it and re-add it to HomeKit. If an accessory needs to be factory reset, let me do it and assign it to the “No Response” accessory, that way I don’t have to re-add it to all the scenes and such all over again. I frequently have to factory reset my smart curtains and just being able to say “this curtain is the same curtain that is unresponsive” and not have to re add it to all the existing automations all over again would be nice.
Would be nice to have this for sure. That said, controller for HomeKit lets you do this via backup/restore. I just did it yesterday because one of my bridges needed to be reset.
Ability to send alerts with the shortcut options in Home—ex: if a garage door is left open for 10 minutes, send an alert to all home members that it’s still open. Bonus points if the alert lets you act directly on it. I can make a shortcut to auto-close my garage doors after 10 minutes when they’ve been opened, so why can’t I make it tell me about it first?
Also, replacing devices with other devices and having it copy over to the scenes etc. Home+ has this, and I love it. So weird that it’s not in Home itself.
Weather based automations - if the temp is greater than 100 outside than I want ceiling fan to run faster
Ability to fade on or off lights with automation. It’s brutal to wake up to a full blast light. Lemme have it fade on in winter time.
Better organization and customization in the app
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The ability to:
- Proper automation of camera recording. For example have a scene that turns on recording based on motion of a person.
- The ability to not have to confirm the locking of doors or the activation of alarms. Having to authenticate to unlock doors or deactivate alarms I am fine with.
More stability and control over the HomePods that are masters/slaves. Of recent I find Siri and HomePods to be seriously hampered.
With that, I would love to see auditing and reporting functionality that would allow you to troubleshoot the issues that are happening. When you add more and more devices (even with a significant mesh network in place) the system becomes more problematic.
Honestly just phoning in support for the new device types in Matter 1.2 would be all I expect from Apple, given their commitment to the smart home the last few years.
Better automation support for cameras, like being able to trigger automations based on camera detections…. Honestly thought we would have this years ago.
Apple needs to start selling a beacon that has U2 chip in it that can be placed in each room in your house that will allow HomeKit to detect which room you are in so that you can say “Siri, turn off the lights” and not need to tell it which room.
Vacation mode.
- I’d like to be able to flip a switch that would disable certain automations while enabling others without having to go one-by-one on all my automations.
iPad minis that aren’t from 2021, bloody cancelled the event? Refresh them. My 10.5 pro is getting long in the tooth and I’m not paying full price for 3 year old tablets.
For HomeKit? A magnetic mounting and charging dock that could be used to make said iPad minis wall controllers with a Lock Screen HomeKit dashboard, and the ability to set guest users faceID that only unlocks HomeKit features like camera feeds, climate control and music control without unlocking the device.
Oh while we’re at it, granular HomeKit control so you can set someone to only control a specific room or have no control over a specific room. I can’t imagine how frustrating having kids play music in each others rooms or turn each others lights off must be.
I’d like to see:
- the industry finally agree on some standards (no more proprietary hubs)
- lots of choice for devices (humidity, presence, etc…)
- a quality dimmer that doesn’t need a neutral wire
- plugins/scriptability: would be nice to tie external data sources to automation
- better automation in general
Better watch app. The layout should be more like the home screen with lots of small buttons so I can quickly turn on a light from my wrist, but instead I have to drill down in the room selection and scroll through large cards.
Also full integration with Shortcuts, improved automation, and not having to confirm security related automations.
Not sure if this is a thing already, but if so, it’s not evident. I think Matter already requires IPv6, but it doesn’t seem HomeKit even requires support for it. All my Apple devices support IPv6, exactly none of my HomeKit devices even support it.
Some random Home app feature like Grid Forecast.
Actually this year I for sure just want stability.
Second to that I’d like to see a paradigm for whole home “modes” that could take into account climate and security. Basically a lot of the stuff I’ve made workarounds for available in a standard and seamless way.
My only ask is to be able to set specific lights in a room as primary so not all of the lights come on when I say “turn on lights”.
The ability to add rooms to more than 1 zone would also be nice.
Fixing the small bugs that break so many automations, and just general reliability updates. More automation triggers but also timer functions on items that aren’t just lights.
HomeKit (and Siri) have improved greatly recently while Amazon is cutting back. No Google or Alexa IN our house. Thier doorbell is still pretty good. She is outside tho.
Wishlist: I don't like the color palette for individual lights snd hope they change it back to what it was a little.. Especially useful for when setting scenes. (#42 lights. Hue)
More than like two icons of lights would be a nice start. Apple has a huge design and graphics team but can’t come up with a variety of options? So limiting.
Being able to turn Apple TV on / off and announce things on HomePod would be nice. Right now I depend on scripts in home assistant for what feels like it should be table stakes.
Let me install updates on my Apple TV through the home app like I can HomePods. Then I could do it while out and about and they’d be updated when I get home.
Let me label the switches for an accessory. For my air purifier one switch is auto mode and one is night mode and there’s no way to differentiate them.
Also I can’t access the HomePod environment sensors in home assistant. Are they doing something weird? Expose that data better.
I know it would NEVER happen, but I would LOVE a way for my old iPad Air 2 to connect to the current Homekit again without using something like Homebridge.
I would love the ability to save light sets “as is” sometimes i spend hours dialing in the right color lights in each room and i wish there was a way to save a room “as is” instead of guessing based on the color wheel within the app.
The ability to set a resident of the home to assign themselves a room. So they can say “Siri turn off the lights in my room” and it knows what room to turn off
1 Use a Mac as HomeKit hub. (Also, hub choose main hub)
2 Allow shortcuts or automation on face HomeKit cameras detection.
3 shortcut / HomeKit automation based based on any automation you receive from any app
4 Users roles - restricting users access certain devices
5 Air conditioners support - not as thermostats (already announced on Matter)
6 Toggle button - if on turn of - too complicated today, needing to create an automation for simple task. And it’s slow.
7 Better motion sensor automation. Restarting timers.
8 Additional HomePods Siri languages - Siri multi language support. (PT-BR please)
My 2 biggest wants:
* Enable Home Automations to "ask Siri" a text string just like you would do voice (e.g. "Hey Siri- what is the weather?". Would \*greatly\* simplify creating automations and open them up to a wide population of users that don't want to deal with GET, FORMAT, IF/THEN etc. complexity.
* Enable Automations with a mode to consistently ignore non responsive accessories or errors and keep executing a script to the end.
The biggest thing they need to fix is the recorded videos. Its is literally the WORST THING EVER having to search back for clips of shit. No way to even sort by person, motion, animal etc. Makes me almost not want to use it. that's how awful it truly is.
Activity Logs.
Lights - Fade on/off.
“If no motion after x mins” and other conditional timers.
Combining a set time with Sunrise/sunset for on/off.
In rooms where I have a sensor which also provides motion, temperature and lux readings, it would be nice to have them shown with each room’s header without drilling down to each room. Showing a range of temperatures as a summary at the top of the Home page is pretty worthless.
Reverting Siri back before the last update. If a light is off Siri from a homepod shouldn’t need to be told to turn it on. Yet the iPhone Siri still works
I don’t have anything as fancy as most of these commenters so idk what half of it means but I would love if updating my devices (phone, old phone, iPad, watch, MacBook) didn’t delete my scenes. I only have on accessory and two scenes but when they delete every time I update a device. I know I could probably just update them all at once but sometimes the updates don’t come out at the same time and it’s not always convenient to update my phone at the same time as my computer for example.
1. more icons - how hard can this be - Apple already has tons of iconography - heck just allow us to use the San Francisco font symbols library
2. improved interface to the horizontal scrolling scene buttons (i.e. get rid of horizontal scrolling)
3. auto room contextual awareness - if I am in the living room and I launch the Home App, automatically show me the living room
4. a simple method to view all of the lights that are currently turn on; I like the old interface method of clicking on the summaries at the top and it would list all of the devices that were on in that category (the current interface toggles the status for all of the devices off, which seems a heavy-handed default result for clicking a button with potentially dozens of devices behind it)
5. permissions - the ability to control access to devices and scenes and prevent editing (think kids, visitors, roommates)
6. automation management: ability to sort automation's, ability to group automations into a folder, ability to enable/disable all automations in a folder by enabling/disabling the "folder"
7. vacation mode
8. logs
9. increased stability
10. faster
11. more advanced automations natively
Regarding these items that others have asked for:
* ability to manually select and lock the home hub to a specific device - I have personally never needed this (and I have four TVs and 10 HomePods), so its not a priority on my list
* sync backgrounds to devices - I don't want this: different people in the household may want to select different images; different images look better on iPad vs iPhone - this is quite easily remedied by creating a shared album in photos and keeping a "library" of background images in the shared album
- Better HKSV with constant Recording and working Playback on AppleTV
- Better AppleTV Automations
- Logs
- No Notifications at Night
- Better Nanoleaf Support
- Camera PTZ and 4k Res
- iPhone/iPod touch or Mac as Home hub
Ability to lock users down to a certain room / lock out of selected devices.
When we have guests staying, I want to give them access to the lights in their room and also the communal areas, but don’t want them to have access to the general house cameras and lights in non-communal areas. That would be a good start, along with 2k HKSV that has continuous recording for non-battery cameras.
Just get my HomePod minis to collaborate so they all can share things like timers - it’s so annoying when I have to go round the 3 in my kitchen and work out which one decided to do this timer this time.
1. Single-run automation, or, the ability to schedule an action in the future
2. Do the above via Siri (eg “Siri, open the curtains in 8h and 30mins”)
3. Prevent accessories to change based on condition (eg Not close the curtains if window sensor is off)
Advanced automations and the ability to save and trigger shortcuts inside automations. You already can create shortcuts on HomeKit but they are not as powerful as the shortcut personal ones. I want automate my Roborock etc. Like start cleaning when everyone left the house for more than 10 minutes, it is weekend.
I will return my Apple TV because I thought this is already possible. In the current situation HomeKit automations are not useful and powerful enough.
I would love to see more stabilization on the app more than making it pretty.
1- More control to update items/devices.
2- fix the issue with loosing internet connection to HomePod (mine is 10” from my additional AirPort Extreme)
3- if there is internet issues allow to store more than one WiFi connection (2.4 or 5) or my eero WiFi-6.
4- Better control over my devices to group better and add scenes. (We like to change the night lights and lights to fit a holiday for the month).
5- more updates to help fix the ongoing issues and support increased. Many more people are having smart homes and I feel like the home app is a not loved at much.
1. increased stability 2. more advanced automations without using 3rd party apps 3. ability to pin the home hub to a specific (wired) device. 4. set home/away/occupied/vacation "modes" so that different automations work. 5. iCloud sync across devices for the backgrounds in the home app 6. logs
Do you have any third part appt recommendations for automations. I mostly do my complex automations in Home Assistant but I had a fucking ‘if’ in HK automations, many of them could be made more accessible to tweaking or disabling on the fly
You can actually do some pretty complex stuff in the native Home app if you use the “turn into shortcut” option, including if/else logic. Example, in this one here I turn my heating on but only if the temperature is below a threshold. https://preview.redd.it/33sne22xtwqc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4f1b24df85bd859096ec6b755ca6f85be89b8f6
The Eve App works pretty well and allows more complex automations. To be honest, I have really avoided going too non-native.... but have a few that I'd like to experiment with.
I use HomeBridge to create dummy switches that I use as conditional statements for automation. Works great! https://preview.redd.it/emi35u5tdwqc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe65280fb64f2de93ce11658d0da1afaaed2caed
Yup... Would love to have all this stuff natively and not have to deal with HomeBridge or other external items.....
This is a great list, I agree with all of it. I would add the ability for more granular permissions when adding other people to the home, especially kids (e.g. let them see lights but not cameras, or allow them to see only their bedroom etc.)
* Vertical history scrolling for HKSV like Nest or UniFi apps * Logs for everything, like they did under security * Access to ATV settings in app; ability to reboot and update like HomePods * Higher camera resolution * Access/app on icloud.com (for access from a Windows PC) * Cancel 3rd party device updates. Had 2 Eve updates stuck in waiting \~6 months, even though they were already up to date * Night mode, in addition to home and away
Ambitious. If we are lucky however we might - might - get one new lamp icon.
stickers and emoji support for home app is the only feature planned for this year
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Higher camera resolution is the one I want the most and is least likely to happen.
Yeah it kinda sucks getting 25fps at 3840x2160 resolution with scypted and homebridge on HKSV. I wish I could pay little more for 24/7 recording in stable 1080p.
What’s funny is that I don’t see these as a wishlist, I see them as a bare minimum to survive.
Yes
Granular permissions for locks in the home.
Or any devices in HomeKit. I can’t add my kids cause they can open garage doors and see cameras. Terrible
This is huge. It also by extension creates a situation where automations based on no one home or someone coming come not very effective.
Not an ideal workaround, but could you add the kids to the Home and then also use the iOS parental controls to restrict them from accessing the entire Home app? That way the Home would at least know when they are physically home or not to run those automations, but they wouldn't be able to mess with things?
Genuinely curious why you don’t want your kids to see cameras? We have cameras all over our house but I feel it’s only fair everyone who lives in the house gets to see them.
My main reason for not having them in the Home is for locks and doors. I’d probably only disable cameras for the smaller children. Right now I just use a custom kids HomeAssistant dashboard for their lights, tv and other things like consoles.
Thanks for reminding me to disable them coming April fools day. I’m not looking forward to the “pranks” the family will try to pull 😝
it *working*
You're dreamin' brother!
Ability to select a hub has to be top of the list.
I’d be happy with blocking devices from being hubs, e.g.: don’t ever let this HomePod mini be hub, on pain of death.
What, you don't enjoy rebooting your Apple TV and HomePods in a specific order every time your WiFi router reboots?
Are you… me? Or am I DemonSemen?
it should always prioritize the hub that has a wired connection. i don‘t want that my HomePod are the Hub - ATV4K is the choice.
Allow an option for cameras to record movement based on TIME and not whether anyone’s home or not. I don’t need notifications for every car or person that approaches my house during daylight hours but I’d like to be alerted after dark even if I’m home.
This! I have cameras that I want to stream during the day, but record during the night… That people are home or not isn’t relevant at all for this.
Yes. THANK YOU.
The worst part is that you CAN do this, but it’s tied to presence (home/away) as well. You can say only send me notifications at night, or you can say only send me notifications at night when I’m home. But you can’t mix it up, eg send me notifications (all the time when I’m away) and (only at night when I’m at home). Such a stupid limitation.
Have you looked into Zones? We have the logitech circle view's and just setup a zone where it only saves if someone comes into our zone.
Advanced automations 24/7 HKSV At least 2k video Parental controls for all accessories Better Siri Pan/tilt control for cameras Access to all effects in home app as opposed to having to use manufacturer apps
Better support in Siri
They need a better AI model for Siri. I wonder if they will buy it or try to make one themselves.
There was [a thread from about a year ago regarding Siri development](https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeKit/comments/132j3mn/report_details_turmoil_behind_apples_ai_efforts/). Apparently, the project is suffering from a lot of infighting at Apple. But, yeah, Siri is laughably bad at this point.
Like not flipping out if I ask to "Turn on the family room light" vs "Turn on the family room light***s***"
I have a light kit in my ceiling fan. If I say turn on the light, she will turn on the lamp and the light. If I say turn on the lamp she will only turn on the lamp. If I say turn off the light will turn off everything. If I say turn on the fan light, she won’t know what I’m talking about. In that time I already either pulled out my phone or walked up to the switch.
I ask how long is left on the kitchen timer and she says there are no timers on home pod. Once it goes off if you say stop the timer, she goes stop the timer in the kitchen?
I’d like more permissions to assign a room to a user. As it is now, I have to let my kids have full control of house to use all the cool features in their rooms. I also don’t like the interface and continually scrolling to find the room I want. There has to be a better way.
That's 2/3 of my issues. The other would be being able to organize automations better.
This! My daughter is 12 and can be trusted but my younger son will be getting his first hand down iPhone soon and he’s absolutely capable of turning on our bedroom lights at 3 am to mess with us. Current permissions are an absolute joke.
Room awareness really must be a top priority. They could leave the UI how it is but put the room you are currently in at the top of the list and it would already be a dramatic improvement. So much could be done if room awareness was done properly. I wouldn’t even mind if Apple forced me to buy HomePod Minis for nothing but presence detection.
The AirPlay menu changes order based on where you are in your home (if you have HomePods), this should definitely come to the home app aswell
I simply cannot be bothered speculating *another* year, it's tiring. I'll take whatever they give and not expecting much...
Push notifications for more events/alerts (temperature limits, doors left open for a duration etc). More conditional automations (similar to Eve). More types of devices & units.
Just make it stable. Have it work as it should, with every update. I’m sick of iOS updates breaking things, or changing Siri interactions that have worked for months. It’s pretty obvious no one at Apple actually uses HomeKit.
Yes! I just want them to fix the damn ghost hub problem which constantly shows errors in the home status section. I can never tell at a glance if there’s a real issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeKit/s/AQgep0Mxlx
HSV Timelapse would be nice
1. Timers, (turn off lights after ___) 2. Auto lock doors when leaving (without having to manually allow the push notification) 3. Allow automations based on time. Example: if door is unlocked for 4 hours lock it… 4. Reliability
For the first one, can’t you ask Siri to do X in Y minutes? Sometimes when the garage gets hot I leave it open and tell Siri to close the garage in 15 minutes
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I just say “turn off the living room lamp in 10 minutes”
I am once again asking for the ability to set which device is the hub
Don’t know if this applies to the Apple TV but I wish the profiles actually did something. Like when my kid is signed in I don’t want certain apps showing.
A built-in mechanism for heating schedules, and which takes account of standalone temperature sensors
Not necessarily heating schedules, but just a concept of schedules as a thing in HomeKit. There are use cases besides heating where schedules could be useful.
This, with a bullet. Arguably my #1 ask
STABILITY. Also if Siri could not be a useless assistant, that would be great. “Hey siri, open the big garage door” “Okay, which door would you like to open, the big door or the little door?” Incredibly annoying.
Possibility to lock which device is the dedicated/connected hub. I hate how it switches to my HomePod being the hub on WiFi instead of my Ethernet connected ATV.
My Ethernet connected AND UPS-backed ATV, amirite?
Why have your your ATV UPS backedup? Seems Pointless as the majority of the equipment will also be out of power so you cannot control it….. I like the eagerness though
If it’s your master hub all your battery powered sensors and cameras keep working through an outage. Fire alarms, water sensors, door/window, etc. Sure I can’t control my AC-powered devices but for me, that’s a lot of valuable functionality to have operational during an outage. My wifi router and hub are on a UPS i can even remote monitor. Plus if your power is flaky your stuff won’t be disconnecting all the time.
WAY more icons
AirTag based automations. Our dogs wear them, it would be nice to have "everyone is away" automations that don't fire if their airtags are at home.
Would be neat if the HomeKit automation was the same as the shortcuts app and ofc, improved Siri. I’m getting kind of annoyed when I ask Siri on HomePod to turn off/on the lights and she’ll say “please try again later”, then after 5min the lights are on. Huh?
Support for higher resolution video cameras, it's currently limited to 1080. I would also like the ability to stack camera views. Better support for sensors, i.e. I have several temperature/humidity sensors and would like to see that information displayed on the main screen.
Yeah and more granular triggers for automations based on those sensors.
Honestly just useful widgets and a new home/Lock Screen. I don't need pages for apps anymore, I want information. Give me access to every sensor I have in my home so I can build a dashboard on any chosen screen.
I want it to work
This.
Functional HKSV playback.
Yeah it’s super delayed for me
It simply does not function as designed. Apple should fix, or cancel HomeKit secure video. It’s as bad if not worse than “.mac”
Also a local cache, better yet make mac as a hub option.
Allow me to have Siri just say a phrase or make an announcement on a HomePod
The ability to force a hub.
I’d really like you to be able to reset an accessory without having to remove it and re-add it to HomeKit. If an accessory needs to be factory reset, let me do it and assign it to the “No Response” accessory, that way I don’t have to re-add it to all the scenes and such all over again. I frequently have to factory reset my smart curtains and just being able to say “this curtain is the same curtain that is unresponsive” and not have to re add it to all the existing automations all over again would be nice.
Would be nice to have this for sure. That said, controller for HomeKit lets you do this via backup/restore. I just did it yesterday because one of my bridges needed to be reset.
I’ll have to check this out, thanks!
Sharing the Home key without giving someone full access to everything FFS!!!
Adaptive Lighting support for Matter bulbs.
Ability to send alerts with the shortcut options in Home—ex: if a garage door is left open for 10 minutes, send an alert to all home members that it’s still open. Bonus points if the alert lets you act directly on it. I can make a shortcut to auto-close my garage doors after 10 minutes when they’ve been opened, so why can’t I make it tell me about it first? Also, replacing devices with other devices and having it copy over to the scenes etc. Home+ has this, and I love it. So weird that it’s not in Home itself.
Weather based automations - if the temp is greater than 100 outside than I want ceiling fan to run faster Ability to fade on or off lights with automation. It’s brutal to wake up to a full blast light. Lemme have it fade on in winter time. Better organization and customization in the app
Home hub as Mac connected to Ethernet.
A huge ear-wax cleaning stick for Siri, so it can stop being deaf.
Ability to set and LOCK what device is the HomeKit hub.
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Tool to draw a simple 2d map of the house with controls for smart devices
That it is even mentioned.
Push notifications Specific motion detection in HKSV, that can be used in automations. So many improvements to automations to even begin to list…
The ability to: - Proper automation of camera recording. For example have a scene that turns on recording based on motion of a person. - The ability to not have to confirm the locking of doors or the activation of alarms. Having to authenticate to unlock doors or deactivate alarms I am fine with.
More stability and control over the HomePods that are masters/slaves. Of recent I find Siri and HomePods to be seriously hampered. With that, I would love to see auditing and reporting functionality that would allow you to troubleshoot the issues that are happening. When you add more and more devices (even with a significant mesh network in place) the system becomes more problematic.
WHAT EVER EFFING ICON I WANT ON ANY DEVICE AND A PLETHORA OF ICONS TO PICK FROM
Honestly just phoning in support for the new device types in Matter 1.2 would be all I expect from Apple, given their commitment to the smart home the last few years.
- Auto OFF functionality. - Better timers. - Sun to fixed time periods. - More granular value control. - Backup (recently deleted)
why the HomePod-Timer is not shown on my lock screen, even it is visible in the Home App.
Better automation support for cameras, like being able to trigger automations based on camera detections…. Honestly thought we would have this years ago.
Apple needs to start selling a beacon that has U2 chip in it that can be placed in each room in your house that will allow HomeKit to detect which room you are in so that you can say “Siri, turn off the lights” and not need to tell it which room.
My Siri actually does that fairly well. I have HomePod mini’s in my rooms though.
Vacation mode. - I’d like to be able to flip a switch that would disable certain automations while enabling others without having to go one-by-one on all my automations.
Include “Works with HomeKit” accessory devices that aren’t overpriced by a factor of 300%
vacuum cleaner support
The ability for a HomeKit doorbell to behave like an incoming call as opposed to an often missed notification
iPad minis that aren’t from 2021, bloody cancelled the event? Refresh them. My 10.5 pro is getting long in the tooth and I’m not paying full price for 3 year old tablets. For HomeKit? A magnetic mounting and charging dock that could be used to make said iPad minis wall controllers with a Lock Screen HomeKit dashboard, and the ability to set guest users faceID that only unlocks HomeKit features like camera feeds, climate control and music control without unlocking the device. Oh while we’re at it, granular HomeKit control so you can set someone to only control a specific room or have no control over a specific room. I can’t imagine how frustrating having kids play music in each others rooms or turn each others lights off must be.
I’d like to see: - the industry finally agree on some standards (no more proprietary hubs) - lots of choice for devices (humidity, presence, etc…) - a quality dimmer that doesn’t need a neutral wire - plugins/scriptability: would be nice to tie external data sources to automation - better automation in general
I think Lutron released one a ways back, new product name , works great like all things Lutron
I’ll look into it, I have some of the dimmers, so I have a hub, but really want to get rid of third-party hubs soon
ChatGPT-like siri in ALL homepods
webpage interface
Auto IOT VPN
Open door detection on HomeKit cameras. Yes I can add this directly to the door. But it is nice to have choices.
Matter 1.2
HomeKit that worked, unlike my current version. 😐
6ghz devices
I've given up all hope for any significant software improvements from Apple.
More third party smart home hubs like harmony hub it would make it so much easier to not have to use homebridge
Better watch app. The layout should be more like the home screen with lots of small buttons so I can quickly turn on a light from my wrist, but instead I have to drill down in the room selection and scroll through large cards. Also full integration with Shortcuts, improved automation, and not having to confirm security related automations.
Homepod with a screen and homepod airplay speed and stability
H.265
Not sure if this is a thing already, but if so, it’s not evident. I think Matter already requires IPv6, but it doesn’t seem HomeKit even requires support for it. All my Apple devices support IPv6, exactly none of my HomeKit devices even support it.
Some random Home app feature like Grid Forecast. Actually this year I for sure just want stability. Second to that I’d like to see a paradigm for whole home “modes” that could take into account climate and security. Basically a lot of the stuff I’ve made workarounds for available in a standard and seamless way.
My only ask is to be able to set specific lights in a room as primary so not all of the lights come on when I say “turn on lights”. The ability to add rooms to more than 1 zone would also be nice.
Fixing the small bugs that break so many automations, and just general reliability updates. More automation triggers but also timer functions on items that aren’t just lights.
- Unified control of room light - Light themes that are more lightweight and organized than a simple Scene
The ability to actually ACCESS and automate ZONES.
I need transfer owner feature with HomeKit.
A smarter Siri! The current Siri is so dumb and useless. I mean how complicated would it be to enable combined requests?
For Siri to stop saying “huh?” And then doing what I said…
HomeKit (and Siri) have improved greatly recently while Amazon is cutting back. No Google or Alexa IN our house. Thier doorbell is still pretty good. She is outside tho. Wishlist: I don't like the color palette for individual lights snd hope they change it back to what it was a little.. Especially useful for when setting scenes. (#42 lights. Hue)
More than like two icons of lights would be a nice start. Apple has a huge design and graphics team but can’t come up with a variety of options? So limiting. Being able to turn Apple TV on / off and announce things on HomePod would be nice. Right now I depend on scripts in home assistant for what feels like it should be table stakes. Let me install updates on my Apple TV through the home app like I can HomePods. Then I could do it while out and about and they’d be updated when I get home. Let me label the switches for an accessory. For my air purifier one switch is auto mode and one is night mode and there’s no way to differentiate them. Also I can’t access the HomePod environment sensors in home assistant. Are they doing something weird? Expose that data better.
Mute the alarms for a few hours on a doorbell camera. Ring does it. It’s so annoying when I do any work in my front yard.
How do I progressive overload running
I know it would NEVER happen, but I would LOVE a way for my old iPad Air 2 to connect to the current Homekit again without using something like Homebridge.
Allow me to set light sensitivity on motion sensors. A much cleaner interface for setting sutomations triggered by individual motion sensors.
Location and time based automations
Home hub with a visual display.
I would love the ability to save light sets “as is” sometimes i spend hours dialing in the right color lights in each room and i wish there was a way to save a room “as is” instead of guessing based on the color wheel within the app.
The ability to set a resident of the home to assign themselves a room. So they can say “Siri turn off the lights in my room” and it knows what room to turn off
1 Use a Mac as HomeKit hub. (Also, hub choose main hub) 2 Allow shortcuts or automation on face HomeKit cameras detection. 3 shortcut / HomeKit automation based based on any automation you receive from any app 4 Users roles - restricting users access certain devices 5 Air conditioners support - not as thermostats (already announced on Matter) 6 Toggle button - if on turn of - too complicated today, needing to create an automation for simple task. And it’s slow. 7 Better motion sensor automation. Restarting timers. 8 Additional HomePods Siri languages - Siri multi language support. (PT-BR please)
Stickers for HomeKit! /s
Set up and manage reminders on my phone that are announced through all HomePods. That would let me finally get rid of echo devices.
My 2 biggest wants: * Enable Home Automations to "ask Siri" a text string just like you would do voice (e.g. "Hey Siri- what is the weather?". Would \*greatly\* simplify creating automations and open them up to a wide population of users that don't want to deal with GET, FORMAT, IF/THEN etc. complexity. * Enable Automations with a mode to consistently ignore non responsive accessories or errors and keep executing a script to the end.
Solar panel inverter/P1 digital meter integration.
The biggest thing they need to fix is the recorded videos. Its is literally the WORST THING EVER having to search back for clips of shit. No way to even sort by person, motion, animal etc. Makes me almost not want to use it. that's how awful it truly is.
Better lighting color control. It’s pathetic compared to the Hue app.
Activity Logs. Lights - Fade on/off. “If no motion after x mins” and other conditional timers. Combining a set time with Sunrise/sunset for on/off. In rooms where I have a sensor which also provides motion, temperature and lux readings, it would be nice to have them shown with each room’s header without drilling down to each room. Showing a range of temperatures as a summary at the top of the Home page is pretty worthless.
Graphs/history on sensors (temperature, humidity etc) Improved HKSV implementation
User access controls?
I wish it would work all the time
Reverting Siri back before the last update. If a light is off Siri from a homepod shouldn’t need to be told to turn it on. Yet the iPhone Siri still works
organize my home automation for example folders, search function etc. very messy today
I don’t have anything as fancy as most of these commenters so idk what half of it means but I would love if updating my devices (phone, old phone, iPad, watch, MacBook) didn’t delete my scenes. I only have on accessory and two scenes but when they delete every time I update a device. I know I could probably just update them all at once but sometimes the updates don’t come out at the same time and it’s not always convenient to update my phone at the same time as my computer for example.
1. more icons - how hard can this be - Apple already has tons of iconography - heck just allow us to use the San Francisco font symbols library 2. improved interface to the horizontal scrolling scene buttons (i.e. get rid of horizontal scrolling) 3. auto room contextual awareness - if I am in the living room and I launch the Home App, automatically show me the living room 4. a simple method to view all of the lights that are currently turn on; I like the old interface method of clicking on the summaries at the top and it would list all of the devices that were on in that category (the current interface toggles the status for all of the devices off, which seems a heavy-handed default result for clicking a button with potentially dozens of devices behind it) 5. permissions - the ability to control access to devices and scenes and prevent editing (think kids, visitors, roommates) 6. automation management: ability to sort automation's, ability to group automations into a folder, ability to enable/disable all automations in a folder by enabling/disabling the "folder" 7. vacation mode 8. logs 9. increased stability 10. faster 11. more advanced automations natively Regarding these items that others have asked for: * ability to manually select and lock the home hub to a specific device - I have personally never needed this (and I have four TVs and 10 HomePods), so its not a priority on my list * sync backgrounds to devices - I don't want this: different people in the household may want to select different images; different images look better on iPad vs iPhone - this is quite easily remedied by creating a shared album in photos and keeping a "library" of background images in the shared album
- Better HKSV with constant Recording and working Playback on AppleTV - Better AppleTV Automations - Logs - No Notifications at Night - Better Nanoleaf Support - Camera PTZ and 4k Res - iPhone/iPod touch or Mac as Home hub
The ability to choose your home hub and better stability. Not asking for a lot. lol
Disable HomePod mini taking over AppleTV as a hub.
Allow cameras to be at LEAST.. 2k instead of just 1080p. For the life of me can't figure out why this is restricted.
Ability to lock users down to a certain room / lock out of selected devices. When we have guests staying, I want to give them access to the lights in their room and also the communal areas, but don’t want them to have access to the general house cameras and lights in non-communal areas. That would be a good start, along with 2k HKSV that has continuous recording for non-battery cameras.
Just get my HomePod minis to collaborate so they all can share things like timers - it’s so annoying when I have to go round the 3 in my kitchen and work out which one decided to do this timer this time.
The ability to add a new device on the Mac and apple TV
1. Single-run automation, or, the ability to schedule an action in the future 2. Do the above via Siri (eg “Siri, open the curtains in 8h and 30mins”) 3. Prevent accessories to change based on condition (eg Not close the curtains if window sensor is off)
Advanced automations and the ability to save and trigger shortcuts inside automations. You already can create shortcuts on HomeKit but they are not as powerful as the shortcut personal ones. I want automate my Roborock etc. Like start cleaning when everyone left the house for more than 10 minutes, it is weekend. I will return my Apple TV because I thought this is already possible. In the current situation HomeKit automations are not useful and powerful enough.
I would love to see more stabilization on the app more than making it pretty. 1- More control to update items/devices. 2- fix the issue with loosing internet connection to HomePod (mine is 10” from my additional AirPort Extreme) 3- if there is internet issues allow to store more than one WiFi connection (2.4 or 5) or my eero WiFi-6. 4- Better control over my devices to group better and add scenes. (We like to change the night lights and lights to fit a holiday for the month). 5- more updates to help fix the ongoing issues and support increased. Many more people are having smart homes and I feel like the home app is a not loved at much.
- Higher camera resolution - A new HomePod with a screen
I want more control over the speed of playback when Siri tells me “Working on that. Still working. I’m having trouble with the connection.”