Homekit Automations are broken in iOS 16

Never mind Shortcut App! It is on the iPhone and I did use it to do the automation, and it appeared to have fixed my issues. But, it was back to square of one after a while and like everybody else, the automation is totally shot and is all over the place. I had to turn off notifications to avoid frequent false alarms!

Hi everyone.

I don’t know how but my automations based on iPhone location (people arriving and leaving home) are working again.

I did so much investigation with an Apple advisor with HomePod Mini logs, resetting network settings, and updating to iOS 16.0.2 but everything is working like before.

I hope that everyone here are going to solve their issues.

Good luck.

I just bought the homepad mini and then iOS 16 came out. Updated homepad and my phone. I bought the homepad mini to control my Eve gear when I'm not at home and to create some fancy automations. Now they are not working (the remote access does work). Did you guys did not test the homekit automation update before releasing it? The "solution" to reset the home outlined by one user here is not a solution but just a pain. Until Apple has fixed this problem I cannot recommend homekit for home automation purposes.

Hi.

Try to reset your HomePod Mini and be sur it will not appear anymore in your iCloud devices, reset your network settings. Shut down your iPhone, HomePod Mini and power on your iPhone set the network and initial your HomePod mini back. Check your iOS version of your iPhone and you HomePod Mini.

I have an HomePod Mini running my HomeKit setup. After iOS 16 auto update my automations stopped working. After a lot of online searching and trial and error here is what worked for me.

Go to the Home app on the iPhone and go to automations. Click on each automation you have set up and turn off ENABLE. I then waited an hour for icloud to update settings. Then turned back on ENABLE from the Home app. Then I power cycled the HomePod mini. All automations are working again. Good luck to yas.

It appears iOS 16 has broken HomeKIt, specifically Thread devices. I can no longer operate my Eve or NanoLeaf Thread devices and they were all working fine prior to iOS 16 install. In fact, I pulled from storage some old non-thread Eve plugs and motions and they install and work fine. So this is a Thread issue and iOS 16. Apple pls fix!

It appears iOS 16 has broken HomeKIt, specifically Thread devices. I can no longer operate my Eve or NanoLeaf Thread devices and they were all working fine prior to iOS 16 install. In fact, I pulled from storage some old non-thread Eve plugs and motions and they install and work fine. So this is a Thread issue and iOS 16. Apple pls fix!

i had similar issues with my HomeKit automations. I removed few automations under iOS 16 and it persists. Furthermore, some of my time sensitive automations executed randomly. At the end, I went to home app —> home settings —> home hubs & bridges, then look which hub is currently “Connected” and reboot it. In my case, my Apple TV located to my guest room which I didn’t turn on since the day 1 I upgraded it to tv oS 16. After rebooted it, now the “Connected” hub moved to the Apple TV I use every day and seem like all my automations run correctly again, including those deleted automations aren’t running any more. I hope it works for you guys.

I have the same issue with automations not working in HOME APP and I never installed any beta versions of IOS.

I have Phillips, Aquara and other brand accessories but that does not influence the issue.

Time trigger and motion trigger automations never work but location trigger and some other seems to work although sometimes with a delay.

This worked for me. Using my iPhone (iOS 16.0.2) I first took a screen shot of each automation. Then, one by one, I deleted the automation and created a new one using the screen shot as my guide. I tested the new automations by setting a time of day a few minutes ahead and waiting to see what happened. They worked. Then I just set them back to their original time of day settings. All good. FWIW, I have 10 automations and am using an Apple TV 4K as the hub.

I also never installed any Betas, but what is so perplexing is my issue is only with Thread devices. My Eve thread and Nanoleaf thread devices all failed after iOS 16 was installed. And my three HomePod mini hubs have disappeared from the HK App. After reseting/removing all thread devices I added them back, but the Thread Network inside Eve App showed “not responding” or “failed read/write.” Yet I was able to add back several old non-thread devices and they are working fine in HomeKit. I think latest iOS included something for Matter protocol so am wondering if this is causing the ussues. I thought by buying new Thread devices I would get a more stable and faster HK network (I actually did and it was impressive), but Apple has broken something with iOS 16 so hope they get a fix out asap. Summing up, my HK App is working fine (timers/remote action) but only with non-thread devuces and my three HomePods mini hubs gave vanished from the HK App but they do trigger my devuces when asking Hey Siri to trigger a non-thread device. Very frustrating because I gave up very stable/dependable Insteon, ISY-994 (lots $$$ invested) smarthome setup for HK.

Anyway, you were a happy person if the automations ever worked as they should... For my HomeKit it is impossible to turn on the lights at the designed time of day with designed light color and intensity... If I want my automation I need to turn it on manually and iOS 16 has nothing to do with that.

Im having to do the same thing....

in any case I don't think reseting everything is a valid solution... if you have a lot of accessories that basically resets your whole house. There is clearly a bug related to HomeKit in ios16 (perhaps in preparation to matter....)

Last night, my Home app ground to a halt. I could nto do anything. i used my phoen on iOS16 and my iPad which is still on iOS15, and niether would do anything. i reset app, turnewd off device, everything .Zero response on either.

Anyone witness this?

No. I do not want to delete my Home App and then start from scratch adding back 40+ devices. as I noted, only my thread devices have stopped working and my 3 HP mini (thread) have disappeared from home App. I reset Eve and Nanoleaf thread devices but cannot add them back. I hope Apple finds a fix cuz my HK was all working fine until I installed iOS 16. If I reset everything and delete Home App and then start from scratch (a painful process) I am not sure things will work ok.