Accessories not responding in Homekit on watch.

I get it...between Siri falling behind her competition and the utter lack of attention for HomeKit by Apple, it’s a real commitment. The only reason I stay is the rest of Apple’s ecosystem.

still the same problem here. On the watch I see the correct state of a lamp for example but when I tap on the lamp it says no answer. Sometimes it works and the next day not.

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No luck even with TvOS 14.3...

I have been having the same issue as well. When I ask the watch to do something it will say the device did not respond but yet the device will actually complete the command that was sent.

I have sw7.3.1 on my apple watch, and homekit doesn’t work anymore.

I tried to unpair the watch, restart to watch and Iphone , after this steps the problem still persist. 🙁

I dropped my apple watch 3 so it is broke. Not buying any new apple watch until this is fixed

I can’t find any settings in my home app on the watch 🤔

Hoxsieq,

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Best regards!

I just found that if I put my iPhone in airplane mode so that my watch is forced to use Wi-Fi, the accessories will respond. But as soon as I take my iPhone out of airplane mode, the accessories in the Home app on my watch go back to "no response". (iPhone SE 2Gen on iOS 14.1 and Watch OS 7.0.2 .

Me too, but I am getting increasingly frustrated with apple. I switched to apple in 2009 because of pure frustration with crappy windows and since then my entire family in the Apple eco system with macs, phones, watches and appletv. But the time of “it just works” is long gone and generally I am starting to feel like back in 2009. My iphone X is a piece of junk with constant problems maintaining wifi. It just drops for no reason while older iphones work fine. The screen is unresponsive. Homekit is glitchy at best. I just spent 1400 on the 12 pro max, but that better deliver or it eill be the last apple product for me. I don’t give a **** about new functionality as long as “ it just doesn’t work”. Technology is supposed to solve problems and make my life easy, not create even more problems. Every os update I hold my breath to see whether everything will still work. That is not the apple I signed up to.

I have had several troubleshooting sessions with Apple Support on this issue, including uploading diagnostics and screenshots for engineering to look at. Today I was told that they believe this is a software bug and they are working to include the solution in an upcoming update. I was not given any timetable for this. So all we can do for now is keep our devices updated to the latest software.

I was seeing the same thing. Watch is on 7.1, Phone is on 14.2. I saw elsewhere in this issue the advice that I should open HomeKit on the watch and select a device that wasn't responding. I noticed that none of the devices were responding. I left the HomeKit app open on my watch while I was trying to figure it all out and noticed that one of the devices was finally "found" and so were all the others after a few minutes. When you open HomeKit on the watch, to the left of the time, there is a small circular animation that, I believe, illustrates that all the devices are being refreshed. It took a few minutes for it to stop. Now when I open HomeKit on the watch the animation runs for about 20 seconds and stops but it appears that all the devices are found.

I look forward to Apple correcting the bug.