The Home app brings your entire smart home together seamlessly, giving you control across all your Apple devices, compatible third-party accessories,1 and, coming later, the Apple Home Collection.2 And with Apple Intelligence,3 managing your smart home is more powerful than ever.
A truly welcoming experience.
Categories like Lights, Security, and Climate are at the top of the Home tab, giving you instant access to accessories and their status.
Automate your smart accessories4 around the time of day, your location, or from sensor data. And create scenes that automate and control multiple accessories at once.
Monitor multiple video feeds at once, quickly find important security footage, and receive immediate activity notifications.
Rooms and Favorite Accessories are grouped in the Home tab, so you can easily view and control your smart devices.
With the Home app you can get more information at a glance, manage your smart home accessories,4 get details on what’s happening even without watching video, and easily search for clips.
Apple Intelligence helps summarize activity from HomeKit Secure Video cameras and allows you to search for specific clips based on key moments.5
You can also automate your home with controls like Adaptive Temperature6 to adjust your home’s climate based on household routines using on-device intelligence from iPhone, or Adaptive Lighting to sync your lights with the sunrise. And hands-free unlock with home key means you can access your home effortlessly.7
All your accessories in one app? Smart.
The Home app brings ease and convenience to your everyday life, working seamlessly with the Apple Home Collection2 — accessories that are simple to set up, easy to use, and designed for a private and secure experience — along with a world of smart home accessories.4 Apple Home Collection is coming later.
The Home app can do even more with the help of Apple HomeView, HomePod, HomePod mini, or Apple TV 4K. Your Apple devices become a smarter home control center that lets you monitor your home while you’re away, automate temperature and lighting, and more. And you can control everything with just your voice. The Home app also supports Matter-enabled accessories, the cross-platform industry standard that lets you connect all your smart home accessories.4
Lock doors at bedtime
Automate the locking of all the doors in
your house.
View live cameras
Get notified when someone is at your door while you’re working at your desk.
Turn on heat before coming home
Remotely warm up your
house before returning
from vacation.
Clean the floors
Start your robot vacuum as you leave for work or ask Siri to clean a specific room.8
Turn lights on at sunset
Set an automation to activate lights at a specific time.
Close your blinds and curtains
Set your blinds to close automatically when leaving your house.
Start your coffee maker
Using a smart plug, ask Siri
for a fresh pot of coffee while you’re out on a morning run.
Ask Siri to shut the garage door
Forget to shut your garage? Close it remotely
with Siri.
Turn lights on downstairs
Use a motion sensor to
turn on lights as you head
to the kitchen.
Start a fan
Automatically turn on
a fan when the temperature rises.
Your data is private property.
Privacy at home is more important than ever. That’s why your Home app data is stored in a way that Apple can’t read it. Your accessories are controlled by your Apple devices, and communication is encrypted end-to-end. So only you and the people you choose can access your data.
