NEW: The measured Thread map Every Thread app guesses. This one asks. Smart Home Life now reads the routing tables your Thread devices keep and draws the real thing: which router each device talks through, shown with your device names and real product photos instead of anonymous hex codes. A ranked list of routers with their devices beneath them, plus a zoomable map grouped by network. Free, on iOS 18 and later. NEW: Mesh Health, a verdict instead of a graph The app tracks how often each device loses its place in the mesh and says it plainly: Settled, Restless, or Struggling, with the fix spelled out ("Move it closer to the Kitchen HomePod or add a router between them"). Struggling devices surface right in Home Health as hanging on by a thread, and a daily background check keeps the verdict fresh. Part of Network Intelligence. NEW: Split network detection Many smart home hubs quietly start their own separate Thread network instead of joining the one you already have, and devices on different networks cannot route for each other. The app now names every Thread network it finds and warns you when your home is split. Free. NEW: Every link, with receipts Tap any connection for its measured strength in dBm, its quality rating, and how often the device switched routers, since restart and week over week. Weak links draw dashed red so they stand out. Part of Network Intelligence. IMPROVED: Thread tools Pull down to rescan any time, share the whole map as an image or a PDF, and the map opens fitted to your screen and scrolls like a page. FIXED Guide rewards reliably open your unlocked guides. Distances and prices now follow your region settings, the app is about 20 MB lighter, and dozens of small fixes from a full app audit ride along, including faster, hang-proof mesh scans.

NEW: Philips Hue, connected directly Pair your Hue bridge right in the app for local control of every Hue light, including dynamic effects (candle, fire, sparkle) that HomeKit can't trigger on its own. Changes made from the Hue app, wall dimmers, or automations show up instantly. Hue Sync Box owners get bridge status and HDMI input switching right on the TV tile. NEW: Guest Access, a door code you can actually hand someone Create a time-boxed pass for a guest, cleaner, or renter: a door code plus any lights or scenes you choose, all through a link, no app or Apple ID required on their end. Anyone can open and use a pass you send them for free; sharing your own home is a one-time unlock. NEW: Your Day, an end-of-day recap A short daily summary lands in your Activity feed and as an evening notification: what ran, what cycled, which doors opened, how much energy you used, and your average indoor temperature. NEW: Appliance Live Activity Washer, dryer, and dishwasher cycles now show a live countdown on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, updating as the cycle progresses. NEW: Three more widgets Energy Rates shows your rate-plan countdown at a glance, Quick Actions puts All Lights Off / Lock Up / Home Check on your Home Screen, and Indoor Climate tracks per-room temperature and humidity. NEW: A free speed test Toolbox gained a bandwidth check that tells you plainly whether your connection can handle your cameras and streaming, tailored to your actual home setup. IMPROVED: Console gets tighter Phone and iPad wall modes fit more tiles without scrolling, and the music card shows full playback controls. IMPROVED: Activity tells a clearer story New filters (including Lights), ecosystem logos on every row, and "While you were away" catch-up entries for anything that happened while the app was closed. Fridge door activity now files under Appliances instead of Security. IMPROVED: One setup, every device Connect SmartThings, Philips Hue, your Sync Box, Flo, or your utility on one device and they show up on the rest with no re-pairing. Your preferences come along too: notifications, favorites, Away Mode, filters, and the way you have things arranged. It all rides your own iCloud Keychain, so there is no account to make and nothing is stored on our servers. Screen-specific sizing stays local to each device on purpose. IMPROVED: Pair Vault syncs too Your stored pairing codes now sync across devices with iCloud Sync on, and a fresh install or a second device pulls in what's already there. FIXED: quiet bugs, fixed Widget taps now actually open the right screen, ISP outage alerts fire correctly, scene schedules delete cleanly, CarPlay can open and close your garage, and a background monitoring bug that could leave Home Watch permanently dead after a lapsed trial is resolved. Notification action buttons (including Away Mode's Lock Up) no longer go silent on a cold launch, and a guest pass "revoked" message can no longer show while the code still works. UNDER THE HOOD Device names are anonymized before anything reaches our server unless you've opted into telemetry, HomeKit permission checks no longer stall for 25 seconds on a denial, and background and foreground activity logging no longer double up the same event.

NEW: Apple Music, built in Play your Apple Music library right inside the app, browse your albums and playlists, and tap the now-playing card to jump to the album. It is the one free integration, no purchase needed. NEW: Turn your habits into automations Home Insights spots the routines you repeat and lets you set them up in HomeKit with a tap. Time and scene ideas are created right here in the app, and the rest come with clear step-by-step instructions. NEW: More HomeKit, done natively Tune the warmth of your lights with a color-temperature slider, and read leak sensors and water valves natively, no extra account needed. NEW: On-device intelligence, on your terms A plain-English explainer shows exactly what the on-device model reads from your home's history to write your summaries and tips. It runs entirely on your iPhone, with a one-tap switch to turn it off and a full map of where your data goes. IMPROVED: Notifications open the right screen Tapping an alert now takes you straight to what it is about. A battery or offline alert opens that device, a water alert opens your water screen, an energy alert opens Energy, and the weekly recap opens Home Insights. IMPROVED: Faster and smoother Lighter work on launch and as you move around: quicker Home Hub refreshes, a faster Apple Music library, snappier energy history, and upgrade prices that appear instantly instead of loading. FIXED An active water leak no longer counts as healthy. Same-name lights in different rooms stay separate in Favorites. A native irrigation valve no longer shows a false water alarm. SmartThings activity fills back in correctly when you re-enable a category.

NEW: Control your home from anywhere on your phone Run a scene, toggle a light or plug, turn everything off, and lock up straight from Siri, Spotlight, the Action Button, and Control Center. No need to open the app first. NEW: Away Mode When you leave, the app can lock the doors, close the garage, and run a Leaving scene, then run an Arriving scene when you get back. It asks first, every time. NEW: One tap across ecosystems Cross-ecosystem scenes fire your HomeKit and SmartThings devices together, and SmartThings scenes and routines now run right from the app. NEW: A lot more from SmartThings Live per-device energy, humidity and battery in Home Status, appliance finish times, filter life, robot vacuum state, TV and soundbar now-playing, motion and presence. Plus device and hub health so you catch a flaky device early, oven and cooktop temperatures with a "burner still hot" warning, your Home, Away, or Night mode, and air conditioner status. NEW: Your cameras, smarter, on device HomeKit cameras now tag people, pets, and vehicles. It runs entirely on your iPhone, and no frames ever leave the device. NEW: See what changed, and share it A health-score trend on the Home Hub, an Activity timeline of what happened and why, energy history with cost and top consumers, and a Monthly Home Report you can share. IMPROVED: Appliances read like the SmartThings app Washers and dryers show the real phase (Rinsing, Drying, Spinning) and a finish time that counts down to the minute. IMPROVED: Charging at a glance The charger screen shows amps and kW together, the Live Activity shows plug state and live draw, and each vehicle reflects its own charge. FIXED Long appliance cycles no longer read "2 min left." Home Watch purchases now unlock across your devices. Battery alerts show the right severity. Connected-vehicle data loads faster and more reliably. UNDER THE HOOD A faster, smoother Home Hub, lower background battery use, tighter privacy on what leaves the device, and a full pre-launch audit.

The app that watched your smart home now runs it. NEW: Control everything Tap a light on. Dim it or change its color. Run a whole scene with one tap. Set the thermostat, open the shades. Works across HomeKit and SmartThings. NEW: Locks and garage, behind Face ID Lock up or open the garage from the app. Every lock action asks for Face ID first, so it stays yours. NEW: Your cameras All your HomeKit cameras in one grid. Tap any one to go live. NEW: Your car, too Connect your Tesla for battery, range, and charge, with a live charging activity right on your Lock Screen. Add a Tesla Wall Connector to watch your home charging in real time. NEW: Energy See what the grid costs right now and when power gets cheap, so the big stuff runs at the right time. NEW: Built for iPad A real iPad layout now, not a stretched phone screen. A sidebar keeps your tabs and every room one tap away, so you pick a room and its devices fill the screen. The Home Hub spreads across the whole display instead of a skinny column down the middle. IMPROVED: Faster and lighter Quicker launch, smoother scrolling on the Home Hub, and fewer background calls. Plus a fresh-install privacy fix and a batch of real bug fixes. Still one app for HomeKit, Google Home, and SmartThings. Still no subscription. Built and tested in my own house.

NEW: One home, every ecosystem The Home Hub is now one dashboard for HomeKit, Google Home, and SmartThings together. Every device, grouped by room, with a real product photo, an ecosystem badge, live status, and favorites you can drag to reorder. NEW: Google Home is built in Google Home joins SmartThings as a native integration, running on device through Google's own Home SDK. Connect it and your Google devices show up across the app with their rooms and live online status. NEW: One list, no duplicates A device linked through more than one platform now shows once, under the ecosystem it actually lives on. The duplicates merge on their own. On my own home that collapsed 156 Google devices and 151 HomeKit-bridged ones down to the real uniques. NEW: Organize Devices When the auto-match misses, you decide. Compare a device's likely twins across all three platforms, pick which one it lives under, hide the rest, or restore anything you hid. Settings, Integrations, Organize Devices. NEW: Live metrics and device states The hub reads your HomeKit sensors live: average temperature, humidity, and air quality, plus the state of each device right on its tile (open or closed, locked, light on at 60 percent, thermostat cooling to 72). A weather reading sits up top. IMPROVED: Toolbox tab Network Tools is now Toolbox, with a clean Free and Premium split. The six free diagnostic tools stay front and center. IMPROVED: Honest privacy page New Google Home and SmartThings sections spell out what each one reads and why, with wording that matches exactly what the app does. UNDER THE HOOD One shared cross-ecosystem engine behind the hub and the organizer, faster HomeKit load from cache, and a full copy pass.

NEW: SmartThings, integrated everywhere Your synced SmartThings devices now show up across the app with real product images, the right room, and live online status: a new Integrations tab in the Network scanner, plus Device Stats, the battery view, and Room Planner. Tap any device for full detail. NEW: Protocol Breakdown sees more Added Bluetooth scanning and explicit Matter detection. Devices are now mapped across HomeKit, Thread, Wi-Fi, Matter, and Bluetooth, each with its own badge. NEW: Set your active home hub Touch and hold a hub in Hub Software to mark it active. NEW: Track warranty and lifespan From any SmartThings appliance, jump to the lifespan and warranty tracker with the model, room, and name already filled in. IMPROVED: Home Health Tap any issue, offline device, or recent event to open the exact device it refers to. There is a full event history, the score-ring color is consistent across the app, and it no longer re-scans every time you return to the tab. IMPROVED: Numbers that add up The device total, the breakdown, and the online/offline pill all match now. Devices on multiple protocols (like Matter) are no longer double-counted. IMPROVED: Real product photos Device detail, Room Planner, and lists show real product photos with a clean manufacturer-logo fallback. Washer, dryer, and oven images are fixed, and the correlation engine no longer mismatches hubs, so HomePods, Sonos, and Nest sensors stay separate. IMPROVED: Clearer wording "Network Intelligence" is named consistently, offline alerts say "device" now that SmartThings is included, and several headers read better. FIXED Eve Weather lists the correct battery (CR2450) with the right replacement link. Room Planner no longer shows the wrong logo for Level devices, and per-type filter counts are accurate. Device Layers no longer duplicates SmartThings rows. UNDER THE HOOD Refreshed tab icons, unified status colors into the brand palette, and a top-to-bottom copy cleanup.

NEW: SIX FREE DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS Thread Mesh Visualizer. Protocol Breakdown. Room Coverage Map. Lifespan Tracker. ISP Alerts. Pair Vault. All six are free, no subscription required. A new in-app walkthrough added in this version makes that clear from the start. NEW: iOS 26 LIQUID GLASS The ecosystem status card, Home Watch overview, and quick-action buttons have all been updated with iOS 26's Liquid Glass design. If you're on iOS 26, you'll notice it the moment you open the app. NEW: ISP STATUS MONITORING Home Watch now shows live status for 10 major US internet providers: Xfinity, AT&T, Verizon, Spectrum, Cox, T-Mobile Home Internet, Frontier, Optimum, Google Fiber, and CenturyLink/Quantum Fiber. Status refreshes every 5 minutes. Tap any provider to open their outage page. Turn on per-provider notifications in Settings → Notifications → ISP Alerts. One notification when a provider goes down, one when it recovers. FIXED Home Health was showing two health scores that sometimes contradicted each other. The secondary score is gone. The main score is the one that matters. Tapping a product could cause the detail screen to flash open and immediately close. Fixed. Spectrum and Cox were stuck on "Checking..." in Home Watch. Fixed. Prices shown during onboarding were wrong. Fixed. IMPROVED Scrolling through event history in Home Watch is significantly faster, especially on older devices.

2.3: HOME HUB "Your Home" tab renamed to Home Hub. Multi-home support: if your Apple account has multiple homes, the HomeKit section now separates them with filter chips instead of mixing everything into one list. THREAD VISUALIZER Fixed a multi-home bug: end devices were being pulled from whichever Apple Home the OS returned first, which could be a completely different location. Home picker added — switching is instant, no rescan needed. Eve HKSV cameras, Aqara video doorbells, and Meross garage openers were incorrectly flagged as Thread end devices. Detection was matching on manufacturer name without checking the HomeKit accessory category. Fixed. Thread Map moved to the top of the screen — it was buried below the border router list. Added a note under Thread version numbers: what's shown is what each device advertises over mDNS, not a verified firmware check. MATTER Fixed hex vendor ID parsing — some devices broadcast IDs in 0x117C format and were falling through to "Matter Device." Vendor table: 21 to 34 entries. Device type table: 15 to 22. mDNS instance name used as a last-resort fallback. NETWORK SCAN Rename any device in scan results. Tap a device, go to Label, set a custom name. Persists across sessions. A pencil badge shows on the card when a name has been set. Scan language toned down: "COMPLETE YOUR SETUP" is now "COMPATIBLE PRODUCTS." "BEST VALUE" badge is "BUNDLE." DATA & PRIVACY (new in 2.3) New page in Settings with a full breakdown of what the app reads, why, and what it never touches — no camera access, no location, no automations. Optional opt-in for anonymous device fingerprints: a one-way hash of device type and manufacturer only. Off by default. No hostname, IP, MAC, or room name is ever included. DIAGNOSTICS (new in 2.3) Settings > Generate Diagnostics now includes HomeKit topology, Home Watch state, Pair Vault count, quiet hours config, and more.