The official Philips Hue app is the most comprehensive way to organize, control, and customize your Philips Hue smart lights and accessories.
Organize your smart lights
Group your lights into Rooms or Zones — your entire downstairs floor or all the lights in the living room, for example — that mirror the physical rooms in your home.
Easily control your lights — from anywhere
Use the app to control your lights anywhere you have an internet connection.
Explore the Hue scene gallery
Created by professional lighting designers, the scenes in the scene gallery can help you set the mood for any occasion. You can even create your own scenes based on a photo or your favorite colors.
Set up bright home security
Make your home feel safer, no matter where you are. The Security Center lets you program your Secure cameras, Secure contact sensors, and indoor motion sensors to send you alerts when they detect activity. Trigger light and sound alarms, call the authorities or a trusted contact, and monitor your home in real-time.
Get the best light for any moment of the day
Let your lights change automatically throughout the day with the Natural light scene — so you feel more energized, focused, relaxed, or rested at the right times. Just set the scene to watch your lights change with the sun’s movement, transitioning from cool blue tones in the morning to warmer, relaxing hues for sunset.
Automate your lights
Make your smart lights work around your daily routine. Whether you want your lights to gently wake you up in the morning or greet you when you get home, setting up customizable automations in the Philips Hue app is effortless.
Sync your lights to TV, music, and games
Make your lights flash, dance, dim, brighten, and change color in sync with your screen or sound! With the Philips Hue Play HDMI sync box, the Philips Hue Sync for TV or desktop apps, or Spotify, you can create totally immersive experiences.
Set up voice control
Use Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, or Google Assistant to control your smart lights with voice commands. Turn lights on and off, dim and brighten, or even change colors — completely hands-free.
Use Siri Shortcuts for quick control
Use the Shortcuts app to create shortcuts that you can place into widgets on your Home Screen for even faster control of your lights. Turn lights on or off, adjust their brightness and temperature, or set scenes — all without even opening the app.
Learn more about the official Philips Hue app: www.philips-hue.com/app.
Read the Philips Hue Privacy Notice at www.philips-hue.com/privacy.
Note: Some features in this app require a Philips Hue Bridge.
Love the layout but needs more presets & customization
HariboDelicious
I am obsessed with my Hugh Phillips lights! So much so that I’ve bought nearly $1000 worth and I don’t regret a thing. The app design is slick and modern, with an easy to understand, intuitive layout. Some of the features, such as unstacking gradient, light strips with multiple color options within the color wheel, take some googling to initially uncover. But once you get the hang of it, it’s fun to design your own scenes. There are a few things that I wish Philip would improve upon. The grouping system, especially related to syncing music and other media by creating “entertainment zones“, can be somewhat frustrating and can leave you with several overlapping groups. Moreover– as a previous nano leaf user – I can say that Phillips lacks the lighting customization options that the former’s app permits. Some of the lights seem capable of additional color points yet gradients are always limited to three no matter the size or length. Finally, I wish Phillips would release more presets that you can install on your devices. Addition to the 30 or 40 that are always in the store, it seems they occasionally release seasonal presets. But there is no way to share or view additional presets either Phillips designs or customers. Overall, I would definitely recommend lighting your house with Phillips Hue. The app could just use a bit more fine-tuning to provide the functionality that competitors apps seem to allow.
Love!!!
HealthyEnergetics
We’ve had a house full of hue lights for 10 years. After a while they get into my rhythm. They turn themselves on and off and it’s like having my dad when I was little. Always saying, “who left the light on”. Recently we did some remodeling and the bathrooms got 36 inch round mirror set in a bracket with spools of thread to hold it at the right distance. It looks great. Everyone wants one and we saved so much money doing it ourselves. My son came along and I asked him to set the auto sequence. At first I was annoyed because he could see the light blue walls, so why did he make it pink. Then a few minutes later it went back to blue. He set it up to say good morning. I see you. And I love you. In lights every morning. Thanks for being a part of us Hue. Even if the lights in my son’s bathroom turned off when I was in the middle of my shower. Oh and as our system aged, it was harder to get the right power cords and plugs. If you are going to change the engineering, support it. Don’t make me look on eBay!!! I love my globe on the back porch. I love to teach the kids how to make it any color their finger gets to. I have an ap for a thunder storm and it makes the kitchen cabinets turn on like florescent bulbs how they kind of bounce. These things bring me joy because I am comforted by light. Leave the light on!!
Great overall; has a few issues
Seth Seger
The Hue system is the best I’ve seen for home smart lighting, hands-down! The app is beautiful, and the out-of-the-box scenes are gorgeous, and work pretty seamlessly; the more Hue lights you have, the better it looks, and it scales automagically when I add new lights. The automations are the only disappointment I have with it at all; they’re super basic, and haven’t improved much over the last ~3 years or so since I’ve had Hue lights. A recent update actually seems to have removed some of the previously-available functionality of the automations, and/or made the UI for that part of the app very unintuitive (I’m not sure which yet — still trying to figure it out since the changes). It’s way more difficult (impossible?) to get really granular scene fades/changes than it should be, IMO. To be fair, it looks to me like they’ve been focusing on making automations “just work” out of the box, rather than making users create a bunch of complex automations manually, but for those of us who have really specific ideas about how we want our automations to work, the automations are still woefully lacking, even after all these years of time they’ve had to build those features out. There are other apps that pick up some of the slack, but they’re very unpolished and in some ways worse. So, all that is to say — yay for this app for being the best overall app available for Hue lighting, but why are the automations still so basic, after all this time!?!?
Needs Apple TV hue sync app; fix annoying lighting restore issue
PolloTec
Dear Developer, please add the Hue sync app to Apple TV. Secondly, please fix a very annoying issue: Currently, the only option to restore a light setting after Hue sync sessions or a hard switched power off state is the “last on” setting or “off” or “custom.” However, if the last on was a 100% brightness, and the new scene setting for the room or Home has entered into a new schedule period, or the user has chosen a new scene manually at 10% brightness, the user doesn’t really want the “last on” setting to go to 100% brightness, as the new preference is rather have the lights be restored to the currently set/desired scene either by manual adjustment or schedule. In other words, adding an option for “continue scene schedule” or “honor current scene” would be really nice so that certain lights are controlled by a power switch or a hue sync, once the power is restored or the sync has ended, the lights continue on the scene schedule or current desired scene choice. A perfect example of where this would be useful as a bathroom with a manual switch and the last scene was 100% before nighttime and then you turn on the light and it goes back to 100% instead of a nightlight setting given that the current scene is set to nightlight, but the last scene was still 100% brightness. The logical desired choice here is for the nightlight scene to be picked up immediately after the power on switch and not 100% brightness.
Developer Response
EDIT: Hey there, thanks for reaching out. Did you just lose the widgets, or did you have to set up everything again from scratch (like the rooms / lights / routines)? Can you send us a message on social media so we can look into it? You can find us on Facebook (http://m.me/HuePhilips) or Twitter (@tweethue).Hi there, thanks for the feedback. The Hue App 3.0 is just a first step in addressing feedback that our users have shared with us. Keep sharing your ideas and we’ll keep working on new functionalities, so you can enjoy the best lighting experience. Other features will be announced during 2018 but for the moment we cannot disclose any details.
Various bug fixes and stability improvements
Version 5.73.0
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