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HomeKit - Resident Owner question

The HomeKit "Resident Owner" on my app does not look right.

Let me give you an example of what I am seeing ;


** EXAMPLE SETUP

We only have 2 users in our house, B. and J. D.

When we look on our iPhones and iPads - if we go to settings - we see our "apple id, icloud, media" id. This has our name, 2 initials and our apple id ;

DEVICE NAME INITIAL APP-ID

iphone

ipad

iphone

ipad

appletv default and only user


** ISSUE

When I go to "HOMEKIT - HOME - HOME SETTINGS - PEOPLE" under 'Resident (owner)' I am seeing

Doe J. DJ

When I select this person entry to get more information I am seeing

Doe B. DB

This just looks messed up to me.

The 'Resident Owner' is my wife's apple-id (but the initials are reversed).

But when I select this person entry it brings up my apple-id info (but the initials are reversed).


To me it should look like this

"HOMEKIT - HOME - HOME SETTINGS - PEOPLE" under 'Resident (owner)'

Doe B. BD

When I select this person entry to get more information I should see

Doe B. BD



** FIX ATTEMPT 1

I removed my HomeKit setup and thought I would start from scratch.

But before I had done any setup - I went to "Resident Owner' - I saw the same above issue.


Any ideas on how to fix this up?


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Apple TV 4K, tvOS 16

Posted on Dec 3, 2022 2:53 PM

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Posted on Dec 3, 2022 5:02 PM

I got it fixed.

The issue was in my contacts list.


My wife's contact entry had my email address (my appl id) in it.

My contact did not have an email address in it.

So this confused HomeKit.


I updated the contact info - and now HomeKit "Resident Owner" has my name and 2 initials.

When I select that entry - it shows my Appl-Id, Name and 2 initials :-)

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Dec 3, 2022 5:02 PM in response to path1023

I got it fixed.

The issue was in my contacts list.


My wife's contact entry had my email address (my appl id) in it.

My contact did not have an email address in it.

So this confused HomeKit.


I updated the contact info - and now HomeKit "Resident Owner" has my name and 2 initials.

When I select that entry - it shows my Appl-Id, Name and 2 initials :-)

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