Indicating iOS 16.2’s Home architecture update caused widespread and systemic issues to users’ HomeKit devices and setup, Apple has marked it as a major issue by adding it to an internal list of issues typically only reserved for widespread and noteworthy problems.
Earlier this month, Apple released iOS 16.2, which included an option for users to update their Home app to a new, more “stable” architecture. Apple previewed the new architecture in June, and it was offered as a user-initiated option for users as an update to the Home app following iOS 16.2’s release.
Despite Apple claiming the update would improve the Home app experience, a significant amount of users reported their HomeKit devices, scenes, and setups were broken after the update. The widespread issues caused by the update forced Apple to ultimately pull the upgrade, saying it would return in the future.
Now, MacRumors has learned Apple has added the Home app update to a database of both hardware and software issues internally, a rare move for a software-related problem.
MacDailyNews Take: Now, to be fair, this is only because iOS 16.2’s new Home architecture upgrade is trash.
Last week, Apple temporarily removed the option to upgrade to the new Home architecture. “The option to upgrade will return soon,” the company says in a support document.
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LOL. Good for you. MDN and honest assessment.!! also, wasn’t this update based on the matter architecture? Google Apple and others were involved. No wonder it’s a piece of shit.
Apple is turning into the new Microsoft, every time they fix one item, it breaks 20 others
Okay now, I know that this update isn’t the best, but calling the new Micro$off is going way too far. The iPhone and the new Macs would have never been made under any era of Micro$haft, not under Gates, Ballmer, or Nadella.
I haven’t noticed any problems since I did the update. I must admit that I don’t experience any noticeable improvements either since the update.
Had a couple of issues but fixed them by deleting them (automation) and re-entering them. After that no issues but like John I have seen no improvements.
What a nightmare it has been. My system slowly melted down and stopped working after I eagerly dove in when 16.2 was officially released. I struggled with some issues and eventually resorted to wiping everything out and starting over. Now the only thing that works in the Home app is my Apple Home Hubs. The integration I took for granted is all a distant memory. No more lighting control. No more security cameras. No more garage door monitoring. These systems still operate through individual apps, but Home definitely doesn’t feel like home.
You would think with no one wanting to come into the Spaceship, but “working” at HOME, they would have been able to test this better. 🙂
Apple Stop hiring Thrid World Coders who don’t even speak English.
With such reports and other personal experiences with Apple software curiosities, “The Apple Car” seems remote and a little concerning.
When SJ returned, he made a concerted effort to separate the wheat from the chaff. He used the idea of a stool and sought to recreate it with three legs…with the reasoning of discarding the unnecessary and deploying the essential/strongest.
It’s hard to imagine what would be discarded–though there are a lot of “features” that are for the dumbed down & lazy, imo.
Refinement in Apple software is a different story. A rigorous refocus would be applauded.
It’s hard to imagine an Apple Car, a life-or-death piece of hardware, having rock-solid performance when basic things like the Home app and AirDrop don’t work consistently at all. Maybe the really important systems will be farmed out to professional engineers and the the music and ambient lighting will be handled by the current crop of clowns?