Homekit Automations are broken in iOS 16

So I've had a few missed automations on the latest update (the one that shall not be named for fear of overzealous auto-moderation).

I've reported the issues via the feedback app.

It is better than 16.0 and 16.1 though. It's a lot better.

in this round of HomeKit issues I have already deleted al the automations and tried to put them back.. some work some don't. no automation that has a time on it does not function correctly. all automations with scripting in them does not function at all.

Does one need to sign out from all devices? I have an iMac, MBP, iPhone, two iPads and three ATV all signed in to my iCloud account. The three ATVs are “disabled” for Homekit and for troubleshooting purpose I am only ysing one HP mini. Thanks.

Kind of over it for now. Went through all these different steps (signing out of all devices, factory reset all hubs and reset back up, deleted and recreated home automations, etc. etc. etc.) and had everything working for about a week. Then for no apparent reason all HomeKit automations stopped working again. Not a single thing was changed in the HomeApp on purpose.

Not going to go through these different fixes again, just going to assume they don't work until they start working again.

Ha, kind of off topic, but I have a combination of Ikea blinds with their hub and Bali Autoview blinds for the windows Ikea wont fit. Love my blind set up. Ikea blinds are cheaper, reliable, and native HomeKit. Bali aren’t HomeKit compatible, but are Z Wave. I use an Aeotec Z Stick in Home Assistant to expose the Bali blinds in HomeKit. Bali blinds are very nice, and cheaper than the HomeKit custom blinds from Lutron.

Ha, I actually built a new house a few years ago (luckily before COVID made everything crazy) and took the opportunity to put as many smart devices in as I could think of. If I ever sell this place I’ll have to write a manual for the new owner!

The Ikea blinds are great, more affordable, and very reliable. Cons are they don’t look all that great and have very few sizes available. They are the room darkening roller blinds as at the time those were all that was available.

The Bali Autoview blinds look much better, lots of customization options, but are 2x -3x more expensive than Ikea blinds per window (and still way less than Lutron at the time). I went with one large roller blind for the front door and the rest cellular. Originally I bought the Bali hub, but it was way overpriced and very limited. Ditched that for a Aeotec Z Stick running in Home Assistant. Has been super reliable for over a year.

So I had said that “signing out of iCloud on one device fixed it”. It did till I made a change with notifications in HomeKit. So one post was right, if a change is made it stops working. I did delete one of my timed automations today and will see if works tomorrow. It’s bananas and I’m getting over it.

So I have tried everything posted here with the exception of nuking all and creating a new Home from scratch. Just want to be reminded by someone here who has taken these drastic steps that after said action the new Home setup works flawlessly to include App commands, Hey Siri voice commands, timed automations and remote commands. I really cannot wait for iOS 16.2 so am considering the nuke option for about 40 devices (12 Thread). 🤯😥

My thanks to Glennch, because so far at least, his workaround seems to do the job. Why it should be necessary with software from a tech giant like Apple, is another question entirely but if you have HomeKit automations just not working, give his workaround a try 😜

He guys! Have the same problem like most of you guys. The automations dont work anymore after update iOs16.

How is it possible that there comes such a bad update for Homekit? I mean the Apple TV is my Hub, Homekit is the centre of my house, but none of the automations work good. What to do? Is Apple forcing me to buy another Domotica system? Seems like it.

To solve the problem I will never delete the house. There are tons of automations and smart home hubs etc. Will take my whole day!

Happened to me as well. Automations only working with the Test button. Deleting everything and starting over will be a nightmare.

Nothing to do with betas as I am only on production (!?!) versions.

likely to know if the new update now remembers devices that are in automations after a power failure as currently it drops any knowledge of anything connected to a gateway. Was told by Support that was a “Feature” and as designed. Absolutely nutty “logic”.

Update on 2022.11.22, all automations are still broken. I’ve put only scene to all my time-of-day automations but it did not fix. And of course the come and leave home is totally broken. Apple have failed me on this >:( I’ve been years of apple user and apple home is one of my favorite feature and I really hope it can be stable since I’ve spent so much time and money on it. Btw iPhone ios16 apple home UI was the worst design I’ve ever seen on apple - I hope it moves back to IOS15’s before apple engineers come up with better idea. At least let me one-click close all lights

Same same same same same!!

I just started with HomeKit before updating to iOS 15 with three Nanoleaf A19 bulbs as morning wakeup lights. There’s no gradual increase automation, so I have been forced to create 15 automations with a 1% increase. Stupid, but it worked.

Then I bought an Apple Watch and was forced to update my iPhone (and so my iPad, which is my home hub) to iOS 16. Everything was fine until I dared to edit the automations. Now the only ones that work are the 5 new steps, not the original 10.

What’s the point in buying into Apple products and services when they clearly do not care to make anything work, let alone reliably??

Annual upgrades and new features, but no QA. Pressure to repurchase essentially the same product every year for “new features” but nothing actually IMPROVES. Things just get more unreliable.

House of cards.

Stack of jenga blocks.

Apple made a convert out of me around Snow Leopard on the Mac, and with the iPhone, but they’ve been performing a slow-motion-car-crash, burning everything to the ground, since 2013. There’s no love for the products anymore at Apple, just Wall Street pathology.

The Apple I loved died and was replaced by a zombie.

I don't use betas. Actually, we are ALL using betas, because that's the quality of the "final" release throughout the industry anymore... But I wont use formalized betas, which are likely even worse.

That said, when I updated to 16.1.1 yesterday, I found that my automations MIGHT be working this morning (slept through the first few automations of my light, but then woke up to find the light on, as it should be, at the brightness I had assigned in the automations that weren't previously working).

I'm not offering this as a solution, just to note that it happened. For all I know, it's the reboot, or an iCloud re-login from the update installation, or whatever, not actual bug fixes. My iPad tends to stop synching with iCloud after a while of not being regularly used or rebooted, and that's a long-standing issue.

Apple support is generally friendly, but I really don't feel like repeating all the same typical "solutions" they make users step through before ever talking to their developers. I've called them several times for various issues, and I've ended up showing them bugs they haven't logged and likely wont fix, and it just feels like I'm doing free labor for Apple. No thanks.

If the developers already know about this, as some have indicated, then there's no point in me going through all the general support nonsense just to have them escalate to developers.