Philips Hue

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About this app

The official Philips Hue app is the most comprehensive way to organize, control, and customize your Philips Hue smart lights and accessories.

Organize your smart lights
Group your lights into Rooms or Zones — your entire downstairs floor or all the lights in the living room, for example — that mirror the physical rooms in your home.

Easily control your lights — from anywhere
Use the app to control your lights anywhere you have an internet connection.

Explore the Hue scene gallery
Created by professional lighting designers, the scenes in the scene gallery can help you set the mood for any occasion. You can even create your own scenes based on a photo or your favorite colors.

Set up bright home security
Make your home feel safer, no matter where you are. The Security Center lets you program your Secure cameras, Secure contact sensors, and indoor motion sensors to send you alerts when they detect activity. Trigger light and sound alarms, call the authorities or a trusted contact, and monitor your home in real-time.

Get the best light for any moment of the day
Let your lights change automatically throughout the day with the Natural light scene — so you feel more energized, focused, relaxed, or rested at the right times. Just set the scene to watch your lights change with the sun’s movement, transitioning from cool blue tones in the morning to warmer, relaxing hues for sunset.

Automate your lights
Make your smart lights work around your daily routine. Whether you want your lights to gently wake you up in the morning or greet you when you get home, setting up customizable automations in the Philips Hue app is effortless.

Sync your lights to TV, music, and games
Make your lights flash, dance, dim, brighten, and change color in sync with your screen or sound! With the Philips Hue Play HDMI sync box, the Philips Hue Sync for TV or desktop apps, or Spotify, you can create totally immersive experiences.

Set up voice control
Use Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, or Google Assistant to control your smart lights with voice commands. Turn lights on and off, dim and brighten, or even change colors — completely hands-free.

Create widgets for quick control
Control your smart lights even faster by creating widgets on your home screen. Turn lights on or off, adjust brightness and temperature, or set scenes – all without even opening the app.

Learn more about the official Philips Hue app: www.philips-hue.com/app.

Note: Some features in this app require a Philips Hue Bridge.

Ratings and reviews

It used to be flawless but after the April update, not so much. No matter what I do, all bulbs show unreachable as a status. This means that automation sometimes works, sometimes doesn't either in turning on or off pre-configured routines when they're supposed to. Allegedly, there was an update pushed out recently that was supposed to fix this but mine are still struggling. Samsung SmartThings had a similar problem around the same time, but had a faster turnaround time for the fix.

I've been "using" this app for about 10 years, it has gotten progressively worse. I moved into a new house 2 years ago and outfitted it with over a dozen canless lights, strip lighting, and most recently outdoor lights. I also have a Hue Bridge. The only lights that ever connected were the strip lights, which I was fine with because those were the only ones I really cared to change colors on. I just got a new phone and now logging back into my Hue app, all of my lights are gone.

I appreciate that it just works. it controls my lights, turns things on and off, dims, color changes, and the only time it doesn't work for me is when something is wrong with my Wi-Fi, which isn't the app's fault. I have some saved scenes; evening, nighttime, work, music, workouts, TV: for comedy, for dramas for action movies, and it lets me save them all, and I'm glad I have access to all of that too. Beyond that, I haven't used more specialized tools, so I have no other comments.

What’s new

Various bug fixes and stability improvements