And HomeKit automations-point and click scripts for various home automation routines-will also be editable and accessible from the Mac version of the Home app. On the Mac, click on and click off gestures will be available in the Home app for controlling accessories, and the accessory icons themselves will visually adjust in the same fashion as iOS to indicate device status. Images: Apple.Īpple has confirmed the Siri assistant will be able to control all HomeKit accessories through macOS Mojave, in the same fashion it currently works on iOS 10 and 11-as well as how it will most assuredly work in the forthcoming iOS 12 upgrade also due in Fall 2018. And probably with good, programmatic reason, as the Home app itself has gone virtually unchanged since then, and unfortunately no major enhancements to it were revealed thus far at WWDC.ĭéjà vu? This is how Apple marketed the initial release of the Home app for iOS and watchOS back in 2016. ![]() Indeed, the look to the Apple faithful may be all too familiar, as Apple is using the same Home app “Ellsworth St.” marketing images they used when the app launched on iOS platforms 2 years ago. In what appears to be a fairly major upgrade, the new macOS announced at the 2018 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will bring the familiar look of the Home app to the Mac. ![]() So that gaping hole in the Apple connected home ecosystem is narrowing. Apple tempted Mac users in 2016 with macOS Sierra by giving them access to the Siri voice assistant, but then did not build in the hooks to control HomeKit accessories from the Mac. ![]() ![]() Until now, the Home app was only available on Apple mobile devices running iOS 10 or higher, leaving Mac desktop and laptop aficionados in the lurch. The Apple Home app-the Cupertino company’s elegant interface to Apple HomeKit smart home accessories-is finally coming to the desktop of the Mac with the upcoming Fall 2018 release of macOS Mojave.
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