In what is great information for Apple and Philips Hue customers, the Philips Hue app was not too long ago up to date so as to add help for widgets. It means that you could now add the Philips Hue widget to your iPhone’s Dwelling Display screen, Lock Display screen or At present View so as to management your Hue lights and equipment with out having to open up the Hue app individually, or another app like Apple Dwelling.
Widgets have been round on iPhone since 2020, when Apple launched the help with iOS 14. It was a very long time coming given Android has lengthy supplied widgets as a function, however whereas it meant native Apple apps had been instantly obtainable to pin to your Dwelling Display screen, Lock Display screen or At present View, third celebration apps like Philips Hue wanted to implement help.
Because the years have passed by – take into account we are actually 4 years from when widgets had been first launched on iPhone – an increasing number of widgets have been launched to the fold. There’s every little thing from Spotify, Amazon Alexa, Google Dwelling and Nuki on the sensible dwelling entrance, together with loads of others like Bolt, MyFitnessPal and CityMapper.
Widgets on iPhone are available in three dimension choices: Small, Medium and Giant. The small Philips Hue widget presents two actions or scenes, the medium presents 4 and the massive presents eight. You’ll be able to have multiple Philips Hue widget in your display – so you would have a complete web page of them in the event you actually wished to – and every widget might be specified to the whole Philips Hue Bridge, or a particular room.
The actions are a selection of turning the lights on or off, however it’s also possible to select from a variety of scenes. Sadly, primarily based on what we are able to inform, the widgets are restricted the Hue lights and equipment, however don’t at the moment embrace Hue Safe cameras.
In an effort to entry the Philips Hue widget, it is advisable to be operating Philips Hue model 5.14. To power an replace in your Philips Hue app, open it up and head to the Settings tab within the backside proper nook. You’ll then wish to scroll all the way down to About to see what software program model you might be operating. The software program replace possibility is simply above the About part. If an replace is accessible, you’ll be capable of power it by tapping on Software program Replace and following the directions.