Apple Home Invites Not Being Received

I am getting this to work for my wife new iPad and newest software update 16.3.1

After resetting the Home following the steps already mentioned above, i am getting the invitation with unknown sender as showed in the attached screenshot.

Please Apple, we need a fix to this issue…

BTW, I am receiving invitation on OLD iPad Air with iOS 12.5.7.

No, I already tried that a week ago and it did not work. I have tried everything reasonable that I have found on the Apple support communities, the subreddits r/HomePod and r/HomeKit, and still invitations do not work.

Bad news... after some time (30 min++), both my wife and daughter home app is not working again. The shared home disappeared (again), and both cannot receive invitation (from me and other people). And both cannot send invitation from the empty home they have.

I've really no clue...

I give up.

My whole house is using Homekit as a front-end for automations.

The whole system is unstable for two years now and every iOS update I keep my fingers crossed and hope that bugs are fixed... but unfortunately in vain.

An example: I have an automation that when me or my wife arrive home, the gate needs to open. In literally 90% of the cases Homekit is unresponsive and nothing happens. I need to close the whole app and after a restart and after 1-2min Homekit is able to reconnect. Pretty frustrating.

The amount of time I have spent with reviewing my network, buying a different router, etc... the problem is that all my other services work 100% of the time on any type of router, within my network and also from outside my network.

This one now is the drop.. in the never ending struggle to make HomeKit a workable system I moved it from an always plugged in iPad pro to my apple TV. Hoping this could be the magic solution... only to encounter that my wife is now not able to use HomeKit.

I am using Node-Red as the main component in my house (bridged to HomeKit), and I have started to build a GUI using the Node-Red dashboard. Remote access to the dashboard is possible using the "Remote-Red" app.

Opening the gate will be done using IFTTT or Google Home.

Rather than spend my time on trying to fix HomeKit, I will put my energy in building a beautiful tailor made GUI.

I wish you all the best of luck with HomeKit, but after a long struggle I need to say farewell :-)

try the 3rd way(Reset HomeKit via Mobile Config), i solved this problem:https://www.droidwin.com/apple-homekit-invite-not-working-on-ios-16-2-fixed/

first i sent the invite to my wife.

then i installed the profile on my wife’s iPhone (iOS 16.3), and reset homekit.

i reopened the “home” app, the invite showed .

Other people here was able to solve the issue with the HomeKitReset.mobileconfig while for some that didn't work.

In my case, That didn't work for me on 16.x - while it finally worked if on a 15.7.x device (and a lot of other useless attempts...).

That was exaclty my situation.

I solved it by resetting the daughters' and wife's Home profile using the mobileconfig setup on a device still on 15.7.x. None of them were able to receive (and send) any invitation from any other Homes (including mine).

Check few posts above for the details.

My girlfriend has an iPhone 12 mini with newest iOS 16.3 version and a little older MacBook Pro 2015 with macOS 12.6.3 (the newest version of macOS is 13.1, but her device does not support it).

When I'm sending invitation to her, she receives it on the macOS. She see invitation and is able to join home on macOS, but home is not visible on iOS. More: she joins home on macOS and is able to control home, but iOS still see noting.

It seems like a migration or version compatible issue for me...

Spent hours with senior advisor as well. I have no doubt that the advisor exhausted all the available options. I can’t understand why the engineers/super techies don’t seem too interested in solving these types of problems.

I went through the process that you described here... still not able to my Home App to work.. I even did a factory reset on my wife's iPhone and a factory reset/firmware upgrade on my AppleTV, sadly still NOT able to get the Home App Sharing Invites deliver to the user. As the main Owner of the Home App.. I hate to reset my phone and reconfigure it from ground-zero... Very Frustrating indeed , spent too many hours trying out all the suggestion I can find on the forum and web !.. I'm running latest Firmware 16.3 on iPhones and 16.31 on the AppleTV !

It is at least somewhat of a consolation to learn that numerous other people have had similar experiences with the Home Pod Mini and Home app scenario. An over-used word these days is “transparency,” but I guess there is still a place or two where the idea has not caught on.

Same issue with me. My wife does not receive any invites from me. We both have iphone 12s and are on 16.3. Crazy irritating. I must have sent and cancelled 50 invites, preceding each with short prayer and mea culpa for past sins. Nothing works! Apple, what up??

And the best goes on. I am sure that most users realize that tweaking technology is not always easy. However, the invites issue is not and not rare. Why doesn’t Apple own this problem and allocate resources to solve it? Apple users are loyal and deserve a committed effort in return.

Hi same to me 😂 everything has been updated: my iPhone iOS, my Mac Ventura, my HomePod mini to the new Home architecture… it has even get some another update to 16.3.1! Still my Home app on my Mac didn't receive any invitation from iOS… what's going on with these all dozens of invitations I've been already sent? Is there any HomeKit system logs where I can find out what's wrong? All I can see is these pending invitations just hanging there in iOS Home app

Yep, still the same for me.

Plus, Apple Support has stopped responding about my existing support cases related to this issue. They don’t respond to emails anymore, and they stopped responding to the voicemails I have to leave.