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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23279283\/apple-homekit-home-app-ios16-preview<\/a>
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Apple\u2019s Home app has always felt like an afterthought. Probably because it was. Apple didn\u2019t want to make an app to control its HomeKit home automation software framework; it didn\u2019t release one until two years<\/em> after HomeKit launched. Even when the Home app finally arrived with iOS 10 in 2016, it rarely saw any significant updates, and progress felt painfully slow. But with iOS 16 arriving this fall<\/a>, the app is getting a ground-up redesign. It feels like Apple is finally taking its little smart home project seriously. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been testing the new Home app on an iPhone 13 since the iOS 16 public beta was released<\/a> on July 11th (it\u2019s also coming to the iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch). While on the surface, the redesign is mainly aesthetic (Pretty icons! Redesigned buttons! New wallpaper!), it\u2019s Apple\u2019s aesthetic. Which is to say, it\u2019s a software design that looks good and<\/em> works well; that\u2019s not something I could say about the old Home app.<\/p>\n

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The old Home app (on an iPhone SE) and the new Home app (on an iPhone 13).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

All this effort is clearly motivated by the impending launch of Matter, the new smart home standard<\/a> developed by Apple along with Google<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, Samsung SmartThings<\/a>, and many others. When Matter arrives later this year<\/a>, many more devices will be able to work in HomeKit. Today, there are fewer than 1,000 HomeKit-compatible devices<\/a>. Compare that to the more than 100,000 <\/a>that work with Amazon\u2019s Alexa smart home platform, and you can see Apple has a lot of work to do.<\/p>\n

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