A whole subset of HomeKit device categories often goes under notice. When you think about smart home devices, you will generally think about cameras, lights, speakers, or a switch. The real genius of ...

Apple’s new HomeKit bundle, fresh product rankings, and practical setup guides are underscoring a 2026 trend toward integrated yet adaptable smart home systems. While brands highlight privacy and ease ...

It feels like the year has flown by—just yesterday, we were looking forward to 2024, and now, we are gearing up for the holiday season. For many of us, Christmas brings a chance to add extra magic to ...

Photo: Home Widget for HomeKit If you’d like to improve your experience using HomeKit-enabled accessories on iOS, it might be time to try Home Widget for HomeKit. It already provides quick access to ...

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A future version of HomeKit may keep track of where the people in the house are, and learn user habits to figure out when to automatically take actions, without you having to ask Siri. The temperature ...

With billions of apps in the app store, it’s always a delight when more awesome apps turn up. Photo: Ian Fuchs & Rahul Chakraborty (via Unsplash) Every time I think I can’t possibly discover other ...

I’ve manually turned lights off for movie nights for the last time. While I had a HomeKit scene to semi-automate this, I had no idea that I could integrate Plex into my smart home through Home ...

HomeKit integration was a snap from the IKEA app. My only gripe is that in HomeKit it's either leave them as an individual units or group them and never use them as individual units again. May not be ...