homekit disable adaptive lighting

Yes, you can disable it. Select the fixture(s) you want to disable it on, press and hold the button for that fixture. In the window that pops up, below the fader you will see a set of buttons to set the color temperature. The leftmost button should show a brightness icon with a white outline, that is the Adaptive Ambient setting. Select any of the other buttons for color temperature, that will disable the setting.

I hate this feature. I always try things just to see if I like it thinking I can turn it off if I don’t but I can’t. I go in everyday have to select every light because I hate daylight color temp. Apple needs to fix this ASAP! I’m also having issues with my Philips hue lights but I’m not sure if it’s HomeKit or Philips.

This is how I fixed it for my Hue lamps.

1. Go into the Philips Hue app > Settings
2. Scroll down and select HomeKit & Siri
3. Select Advanced
4. Select Reset HomeKit & Siri
5. Click on the reset button at the bottom.

You will need to link the Hue Bridge back to HomeKit & Siri in the Hue app, but it works and my eyes aren’t twitching now.

I feel like a sucker for saying yes to this. What a horrible experience. That color temperature is probably around 5000k which is great for retail but not home.

There is no way to disable it. None. I've unselected the adaptive icon multiple times and certain lights still turn themselves off and on throughout the day. I'm sick of it.

Hey Apple, why don't you listen to your customers when we say: this thing sucks and we want to delete it. I'm this close to just not using HomeKit for anything because of it.

I've been having this same issue and randomly the "some of your lights support adaptive lighting" notification appeared at the top of the Home app on my iPad today. I was able to untick some of my lamps which removed the adaptive lighting from the colour slots on those devices, but foolishly I didn't deselect them all and when I went back to reload the list, the notification vanished.

Apart from the loss of a colour slot, the bigger issue for me is that adaptive lighting overrides any scene I set through the Hue app. On lamps where it is disabled, setting a scene in Hue is reflected on each of the lamps which are included, with correct colour information. Very nice. Where adaptive lighting is enabled this doesn't happen, the colour information is ignored and after 30 seconds HomeKit restores whatever setting it thinks is appropriate. Very bad, particularly when you set a nice low, relaxing level, which is then overridden.

It feels like they just neglected to include the ability to recall the list to enable and disable the feature in the UI elements. I've submitted a bug report which has likely already been filed in the bin.

I would love to disable it!!! I live in Brazil and the lights are too White, it hurts!

if they let us choose how warm we like to begin it would save this feature, but it’s unusable

I want to second this, I rejected it but it was already automatically enabled and I want to turn it off as I have a set of 6 light settings I prefer to use, this new feature doesn’t allow me to use my previous 6 and takes precedence in UI over all the others, which is unnecessary if not sought. They should at least have a way to disable it

Hi agustasj, that allows me to change the color but it does not allow me to disable it. I do not want that setting taking up one of the 6 color slots as I have 6 go-to’s, which have been limited by adaptive lighting, which I want to remove. I want to disable ambient lighting, NOT deselect it.

I don't know if there is an option to remove the adaptive Ambient button, that would be something I would recommend contacting Apple Support for, to find out if it can be done. I do know that if you select any of the other color temperature presets, however, it is disabling Adaptive Ambient for that fixture.

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I agree.