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All Hue lights moved to one room in HomeKit

I have over 45 hue bulbs, assigned to about 15 different rooms. Today, suddenly and randomly, every hue bulb now appears in only one room in the HomeKit app and have been removed from all my HomeKit routines. The lights are listed in the correct rooms in the Hue app. I have no earthly idea how this would’ve happened. Is there anyway to synchronize the rooms I have set up within the Hue app with HomeKit? So frustrating…

iPhone 5, iOS 10

Posted on Mar 2, 2024 9:49 PM

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Posted on May 22, 2024 10:40 AM

Yes, i can confirm that! Items get moved to the room with the bridge :-/

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Jun 3, 2024 4:25 PM in response to Appleuser3141

Same thing has been happening with all my Hue lights: all move to the room the with bridge. Has happened multiple times since the beginning of the year. I've moved lights back to rooms, I've deleted the home in Homekit and then synced through the Hues app, which I did last time. It held for a several weeks but now last night they all moved back to the room with the bridge. Move everything manually to appropriate room but today everything is back in one room. Extremely annoying and frustrating. Doesn't seem Philips or Apple want to own up to this and help everyone out.

Jun 10, 2024 8:01 PM in response to Appleuser3141

This has happened to me twice in the space of a couple of weeks: all Hue devices suddenly set to the room assigned to the Hue bridge. The first time I reassigned the lights back to the correct rooms - 43 lights and 3 smart plugs, so about a 10 - 15 min monotonous process, I think - not something I care to do every couple of weeks.


some other data points:

  • Eve light switches using Matter are still assigned to the correct rooms in Homekit.
  • Lutron Caseta light switches (I don't think the Lutron bridge uses Matter) are still assigned to the correct rooms in Homekit.
  • Amazon Echo devices did not lose Hue light/switch room assignments .


I think the problem seems to be specifically a Hue-to-Homekit issue, but I'm not sure whether Apple or Signify is is to blame.


Mar 3, 2024 2:55 PM in response to Appleuser3141

I'm struggling with this too. Although its not every item and its becoming less and less but about 10 items total as of now and happening less frequently. My items that move are only items that have a bridge (Hue, Aqara and Eufy) and all the items move to the room with the bridge. Not sure how to fix it. Im going to try restarting all hubs, bridges, as well as my router and modem. I've tried factory resets on my bridge, removing devices and repairing them with both the bridge and the Home app. Nothing has worked. Very frustrating.

May 18, 2024 8:59 PM in response to Appleuser3141

This has been happening to me too I thought it was fixed with the latest update but it happened again. Theres no way to sync the rooms. I’ve tried turning off iCloud sync on all my devices. Correcting the misplaced devices and turning on sync. That did nothing. Have you recently added a new device to your Apple account? I have a feeling my Vision Pro is causing the problem as it only happens after I’ve used the Vision Pro. I’ve even turn off home data on Vision Pro. My next idea is to delete the app for Vision Pro.

May 18, 2024 9:02 PM in response to XacWj

For me items get moved to the room with the bridge. A fix would be to have a bridge in every room and only pair that rooms items to its bridge. Can anyone else confirm the devices are movie to the room with the bridge? If your hue devices are moving are they moving to the room with the hue bridge?

May 27, 2024 11:25 PM in response to Appleuser3141

I have exactly the same issue, it seemed to be triggered due to a reboot of the philips hue hub, I have hubs from aqara, netatmo, somfy and I only have issues with the Philips hue Bridge.

Hue was for me the most reliable hub for the past few years but since the matter update it's been the least reliable. What a shame.


Anyone that has a solution feel free to share.


I do have my suspicion that it may be caused by the Apple sides of things.

All Hue lights moved to one room in HomeKit

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