How to customise the brand new Home app in iOS 16

There’s a serious redesign coming to Apple’s HomeEquipment Home app with iOS 16 this fall. I just lately previewed all the brand new options arriving on the sensible dwelling platform, however I needed to do a fast tutorial on one among my favourite new options: customization.

In the brand new Home app, the choices for customizing how your sensible dwelling gadgets, Rooms, and Favorites seem on the display screen have vastly improved. You can rearrange your Home View to place your most-used Rooms proper up high or designate that your Favorites or Camera feeds be the very first thing you see while you open the app.

You may rearrange the person buttons on your gadgets, equivalent to lights, door locks, and shades — similar to arranging apps on an iPhone’s dwelling display screen. This means your most-used sensible lights or door lock might be in a neater spot on your thumb to faucet shortly and you’ll put two associated objects nearer collectively.

There are new icons to assist determine a lightweight by its kind (desk lamp or overhead mild, for instance) or shortly differentiate different gadgets equivalent to shades and sensible plugs. Scenes — which might set a number of gadgets to alter state suddenly — now have extra icons plus the choice to decide on a colour for every Scene. And lastly, there are new wallpaper selections to present the app some character.

You must be working iOS 16 to make use of the brand new Home app; the app is on the market throughout all Apple gadgets, together with the iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. It will likely be launched this fall, however there’s a public beta you possibly can obtain at this time in the event you can’t wait.

Here’s how you can get began with customizing your Home app in iOS 16 on an iPhone.

Customize the Home View display screen

Home View is the display screen that opens while you first begin the Home app. You may entry it by tapping on the Home icon within the backside menu bar. Home View is the place all of the controllable gadgets in your HomeEquipment dwelling seem, ordered into Rooms and Favorites. There are additionally Scenes and Camera teams right here. You can now rearrange these to higher match how you utilize the gadgets.

Reorder sections in your Home View

• Open the Home app in your iPhone.
• Tap the three dots within the high right-hand nook to open the Menu.
• Select Reorder Sections.
• You’ll see a listing of all of the Rooms and Groups (Cameras / Favorites / Scenes) proven on the Home View.
• Tap and drag the three horizontal strains subsequent to a Room or Group and drag your choice to the place you need on the Home View.
• Hit Done, and your Home View will likely be rearranged.

Edit tiles in your Home View

• Open the Home app in your iPhone.
• Tap the three dots within the high right-hand nook to open the Menu.
• Select Edit Home View. (You may long-press on any button / tile and choose Edit Home View.)
• All the tiles will go into “jiggle mode.”
• Drag any tile the place you need it on the display screen. It has to stay in its designated Room.
• You can rearrange any tile on the Home Screen, together with the brand new Shortcut buttons on the high, the Scene tiles, and the Camera tiles.

You may resize any tile on the Home View if it’s below the Room.

• To do that, faucet on the tile when it’s in jiggle mode.
• A resize arrow will seem within the top-right nook.
• Tap it to make the tile massive and once more to make it small. There are two measurement choices.

Hide a tool from the Home View

If your Home View is cluttered with a lot of gadgets you not often entry within the app, you possibly can disguise them to maintain your Home View a bit tidier.

• Open the Home app in your iPhone.
• Long-press on a tool tile and choose Remove From Home View.
• The tile will disappear from the Home View however will nonetheless seem within the particular person Room View.
• To deliver it again to the Home View, discover it within the Room View, long-press, and choose Add to Home View.

Customize icons within the Home app

Customizing the icons on your gadgets and Scenes could make it simpler to shortly discover what you’re in search of. In the brand new Home app, there are actually 15 choices for lighting icons (in comparison with 10 earlier than), whereas different classes have redesigned icons to assist make it clearer that the icon represents an overhead ceiling fan or a desk fan, for instance.

The greatest change when it comes to icons is in Scenes. There are actually over 100 new icons, in comparison with simply 12 in earlier variations. You can choose a roaring hearth, a birthday cake, a guide, or a ghost emoji to assist encapsulate what your Scene will deliver to your private home. Plus, now you can assign one among 12 colours to your Scene.

Change the icon on your mild or different gadgets

• Open the Home app in your iPhone.
• Long-press the system that you simply need to change the icon for.
• Tap Accessory Details from the pop-up menu.
• Tap the Settings icon within the bottom-right nook (or swipe up from the underside).
• Tap on the present icon.
• A menu of icons will seem.
• Select the brand new one.
• Tap Done.

Change the icon on your Scene

• Open the Home app in your iPhone.
• Long-press the Scene button you need to change.
• Tap on the icon.
• A menu of icons and colours will seem.
• Select the icon and colour you want.
• Tap Done.