Sharing HomeKit problem - Apple ID is not registered with iCloud problem

Just found a solution: if I send invites through the appliance vendor app (ihome control in my case) they go through normally (note: these are still sent as iCloud invites). Everything shows up correctly in home app after doing this.

For me it's not working. I have also installed the Elgato eve app and I could send an invitation to my wife. However she did not get any notification.

Other try: we have created a dummy home on my wife's phone and sent invitation to me, which worked. However I also did not get any notification. Both devices are on the latest iOS 11.2.1. So the issue still persists. 😟

I was having similar issues with sharing my "Home". once everyone was upgraded to the latest iOS, then i was able to share my home with others. Now that its shared though, no one can access the home remotely except for me (being the owner). Has anyone had this happen? I made sure all my aTVs are up to date, reset all of them, relogged into my iCloud id, and reset the iphones. No joy.

Same situation, the workaround didn’t work for us either. I was able to invite myself from her phone but never got the invite, meanwhile I can’t invite her at all. I wonder if Apple will create another patch.

Thank you very much for recommending this. I was having the same problem with the "Apple ID is not registered with iCloud" when attempting to share with my wife. Sharing through the Philips Hue app directly got her phone working.

Both phones are iPhone X on the 11.2.1 update.

Hope this helps others out!

Prior to 11.2.1 I couldn't remove and add back. Now after upgrading both my phone and my wife's phone to 11.2.1 I could remove her and add her back easily without getting unrecognized iCloud id problem. It now works.

But I had to remove her first.

Same problem. Tried the iOS update as suggested and received the same error.

Apple, when will this be fixed? Or will have to change to Amazon Echo hubs?

My wife can control the lights and That’s a problem.

I have the same issue and long calls with Apple care didn’t help either. Waited for the latest iOS release, but that didn’t help as well. Found a work around that did the trick for me-

On the guests iPhone (whom you want to share access to your home) create a dummy home and ask him/ her to share access to that dummy home with you. Once you accept the request, try inviting him/ her again from your home app. The dummy home invite seems to refresh some iCloud Registration issue and you wouldn’t receive the ‘not registeted’ error.

Worked for me.

Um weird. I invited my mom using her @icloud.com email (which she uses for nothing) and it worked and registered her with her actual Apple ID email address which is NOT @icloud.com. It’s @aol.com. This is after I tried the fake home trick unsuccessfully.

Ouch.

I tried the “reverse add” by going to my wife’s iPad and inviting me to her home, that did succeed, however, I couldn’t get her to see any of the new Phillips hue stuff.

I unInvited myself then deleted my default home which resulted in some fun research to get everything back.

I still got the error after all that mess, however, I tried my wife’s old me.com account and viola that worked. I believe the alternate email is the trick.

All set now.

This is pure genius (and I hope Apple is deeply embarrassed by this). I credited your post in a French website (http://www.igen.fr/ios/2017/12/que-faire-en-cas-dimpossibilite-de-partager-une-c onnexion-homekit-102371) and will do so next month for iCreate France (www.icreate.fr) thanks again!!

IF YOU USE Phillips HUE, then that is likely the issue.

If you use Philips Hue, then send the invite from within the Hue app.

Me too! And I was choosing them from members of my family list. Complete with the apple id they have had for many years.

until I typed in my son’s name in the to: field and it came up with two email accounts, with one in orange.

The orange one was the @icloud wheras the one we used to use was the @me.com.

and once I selected/updated contacts to @icloud.com it all worked perfectly.

I believe I found a solution. I restored the phone to 11.2.1, deleted the beta profile and everything seems to be working fine. Hope this helps.

I am going to stay off of the beta for a while. This wasnt fun.

Ok need someone else to try this as I just fixed mine. On the guest iPhone and iPad I deleted my Philips hue apps. I then attempted to invite myself from the host iPhone and it worked instantly. Now back up and running. Just about to reinstall the Philips hue app on the first phone and iPad and hopefully I don’t run into any problems