WWDC: Apple HomeKit

Home app for iOS brings quick controls, lock screen shortcuts and remote access via Apple TV, says Jared Newman

One year after launching the HomeKit framework for smart home devices, Apple is releasing a dedicated Home app to control them. The Home app in iOS 10 will provide quick access to all of the user’s smart lights, door locks, thermostats and more. Users will be able to launch custom ‘scenes’ (which group together multiple device actions into concepts such as ‘Good Morning’) with one tap, and view a master list of devices for individual control.

Apple’s official Home app will support remote control smart home devices, provided the user has a third-generation Apple TV or newer. (The Apple