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Home Overview Accessories

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Your home at
your command.

With the Home app, you can easily and securely control your
HomeKit accessories from all your Apple devices. Turn off the
lights, see whoʼs at the front door, turn up the music and so much
more. And with the new HomeKit Secure Video capability, itʼs all
even more secure. The Home app makes all your connected
devices work harder — and smarter — for you.

One app for all your

home accessories.
No matter which compatible accessories you choose, the Home
app makes it easy to set up and control all of them, all from one
place. Over 100 brands worldwide are committed to providing
accessories that are compatible with the HomeKit framework,
and the number available is growing every day. Each of these
accessories is reviewed and approved by Apple to help ensure
your security when you use it.

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Air Conditioners Air Purifiers Bridges Cameras Doorbells Fans

Garage Doors Humidifiers Lights Locks Power Points Receivers

Routers Security Sensors Speakers Sprinklers Switches

Taps Thermostats TVs Windows

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Shop for accessories that work with the Home app !

Get your house in order.

Room by room.
The Home app groups accessories by room, so you can easily
control devices in any part of your house with a tap or a click.
You can even tell Siri things like “Turn off my bedroom lights” or
“Set the scene for dinner”. You can press an icon to perform
more complex tasks like dimming the lights. And you can add
your AirPlay 2–enabled TV to the Home app and control it like
any other accessory — turn it on and off, change the volume and
switch inputs.1 The availability of HomeKit-enabled accessories
may vary in each region, with the number of available
accessories growing every day.

Keep an eye on
your home. And keep
other eyes out.
Footage from home security cameras contains your most
personal and sensitive data. With HomeKit Secure Video, activity
detected by supported cameras is privately analysed by your
home hub using on-device intelligence to determine if people,
pets or cars are present. When important activity is detected,
you and anyone you share your Home app with will receive a rich
notification that lets you view the clip straight from the
Lock screen. Recorded video is available to view for 10 days
from the Home app. Itʼs securely stored for free in supported
iCloud accounts and doesnʼt count towards your storage limit.2
Leading camera manufacturers like Logitech have announced
support for HomeKit Secure Video.

Set several things in motion

with a tap. Or your voice.
Home allows you to set scenes, which enable multiple
accessories to work in combination — all with a single
command. So you can create a scene named “Leaving Home”
that turns off the lights and locks your doors. Or a scene called
“Movie Night” that turns on your AirPlay 2–enabled TV and dims
the lights.

Good Morning
Greet the day with a customised scene that turns
on the lights and opens the blinds.

Siri makes your voice

the on/off switch.
Siri knows which HomeKit-enabled accessories you have
in your home as well as their status.3 So you can ask Siri to
turn an appliance on or off, dim your lights, change the
song, set one of your scenes, or play movies and music on
your AirPlay 2–enabled TV from your iPhone or iPad. With
Apple TV or HomePod, you donʼt even have to be home —
for example, you can ask Siri to set the “Iʼm Home” scene
while youʼre driving. When you arrive, your house will be
unlocked and bright, waiting for you to settle in.

See more examples of commands you can give Siri !

Control your
house from just
about anywhere.
Using the Home app, you can access all of your homeʼs
smart accessories remotely through Apple TV, HomePod
or iPad.4 You can do things like lock your front door, view
live video footage of the doorway or even ask Siri to turn
on the lights — anything you normally do while using the
Home app at home.

Learn more about Apple TV !

Learn more about HomePod !

Put your home on autopilot.

Apple TV, HomePod and iPad also enable your home to
carry out certain tasks automatically. For example, you can
trigger an accessory or scene based on the time of day,
your location, sensor detection and more. Set it up once
and youʼre done.

Location Time Action Occupancy

Set your lights Have your lights Use a motion sensor Trigger a scene
to turn on as dim at 9H00 pm, in the doorway to based on whoʼs
soon as you before you go turn on your kitchen home, like
pull up to to bed. lights when you automatically
the house. walk in. turning the lights off
as you leave if
nobody else is there.

Getting started is easy.

Setting up a HomeKit accessory to work with the Home app is
simple and secure. Just add the accessory in the Home app or
scan the HomeKit setup code found on the accessory itself or in
its instructions — and itʼs instantly paired with your iOS or
iPadOS device. The Home app will also recognise existing
HomeKit accessories that have been set up using other apps.

Learn more about setup !

Resources

Control your Create home Set up your

home with Siri automations with HomePod,
the Home app Apple TV or iPad
as a home hub
Learn more ! Learn more ! Learn more !

Share control Privately monitor Secure your

of your home home activities home network
with HomeKit with
Secure Video HomeKit routers
Learn more ! Learn more ! Learn more !

M. Samsung smart TVs do not support HomeKit and cannot be added to the Home app.

O. Requires a 200GB or 2TB iCloud storage plan and a home hub such as Apple TV, HomePod or iPad.

R. Siri is available on iPhone 4s or later, iPad Pro, iPad (3rd generation or later), iPad Air or later, iPad mini or later, and iPod touch (5th generation or later), and requires
internet access. Siri may not be available in all languages or in all areas, and features may vary by area. Mobile data charges may apply.

Y. For iPad to act as a home hub, it must remain in your home, powered and connected to your home Wi-Fi network.

HomeKit Secure Video requires a HomePod, Apple TV or iPad running as a home hub.

The availability of HomeKit-enabled accessories may vary in each region.

The Home Discover tab will be available with macOS Big Sur later this year.

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