HomeKit Home Invitation not delivered

When I invite another member of my family to my HomeKit Home, an invitation is issued but never received by the intended recipient. This has worked in the past, but not at present. The invitation remains in "pending" status indefinitely. The recipient's account is active and functional. For instance, it has access to family calendars and family iCloud, but the problem appears to be user (account) specific somehow. This problem was first seen with both iPhones (issuer and invitee) at IOS version 16.2. We have upgraded both iPhones to the latest IOS release (16.3), to no avail. We have called in to Apple Support, and they tried to help us, but they were not able to.


So it appears we have a family member who cannot receive HomeKit invitations even though that family member interacts perfectly normally with IOS messaging, calendars, iCloud, etc.


Any suggestions?

Posted on Jan 27, 2023 4:31 PM

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Posted on Apr 26, 2023 6:15 AM

Dealt with the exact same issue. My wife and I use 1Password and not Passwords and Keychain. I figured it was a long shot since there is no documentation from Apple to make sure this is enabled for HomeKit to work. Turned keychain on in iCloud settings on both phones and it worked immediately!

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Dec 11, 2023 9:50 AM in response to kaweah

No longer have access:


My wife does with her cell phone thank goodness. Having a disability she moves from the couch to the bed, then back to the couch. When the sun goes down both her and I use to have access using an old ipad, which was bricked. Either one of us, after having installed all these device in our home to make her life more easy, has now come to an end. Now only one device has the ability to connect to the bricked device. At least she can still turn on and off the lights in the room using her cell phone. But I can no longer assist her, and neither can anyone else. Every time Apple offers an update, they make things worst. I am tempted to rip out all my devices, getting rid of cell phone completely. I've had to replace a few wall devices due to updates, and this failure to remain connected to the network when ever its updated has got to stop. But disabling family members like this, I think I'll go back to reading books and playing outside. Thousands of dollars invested in destroying our planet with electronic junk. All due to security updates. Lame excuse. Oh my someone is going to shut off my light from outside of my home, oh no what will I do ! I can understand mistakes of letting this happen, or preventing outsiders with automatic door openers and such. But this most recent updat has been slapped together wrong. iOS 17 did not fix anything either. For us unless they fix the "invites" I'll have to remove the ipad brick fastened to the wall.


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