In what is excellent information for Apple and Philips Hue customers, the Philips Hue app was just lately up to date so as to add assist for widgets. It means which you can now add the Philips Hue widget to your iPhone’s Home Display, Lock Display or At present View with the intention to management your Hue lights and equipment with out having to open up the Hue app individually, or another app like Apple Home.
Widgets have been round on iPhone since 2020, when Apple launched the assist with iOS 14. It was a very long time coming given Android has lengthy supplied widgets as a function, however whereas it meant native Apple apps had been instantly out there to pin to your Home Display, Lock Display or At present View, third social gathering apps like Philips Hue wanted to implement assist.
Because the years have passed by – remember we are actually 4 years from when widgets had been first launched on iPhone – increasingly more widgets have been launched to the fold. There’s every part from Spotify, Amazon Alexa, Google Home and Nuki on the smart home entrance, together with loads of others like Bolt, MyFitnessPal and CityMapper.
Widgets on iPhone are available three dimension choices: Small, Medium and Giant. The small Philips Hue widget affords two actions or scenes, the medium affords 4 and the big affords eight. You’ll be able to have multiple Philips Hue widget in your display screen – so you possibly can have an entire web page of them should you actually needed to – and every widget could be specified to your complete Philips Hue Bridge, or a particular room.
The actions are a selection of turning the lights on or off, however you may as well select from a variety of scenes. Sadly, based mostly on what we are able to inform, the widgets are restricted the Hue lights and equipment, however don’t presently embody Hue Safe cameras.
So as to entry the Philips Hue widget, you might want to be working Philips Hue model 5.14. To pressure an replace in your Philips Hue app, open it up and head to the Settings tab within the backside proper nook. You’ll then wish to scroll right down to About to see what software program model you might be working. The software program replace choice is simply above the About part. If an replace is out there, you’ll have the ability to pressure it by tapping on Software program Replace and following the directions.