IKEA plans to overhaul its smart home lineup with full Matter support, making its budget-friendly products compatible with ...

Ikea is making big changes to its smart home lineup, introducing 20 new devices supporting Matter-over-Thread that will work ...

HomeKit compatibility used to attract a noticeable price premium when buying smart home products, but the Matter standard is ...

Apple Home users know the pain of finding smart home devices that are compatible- most go through a Matter integration. But ...

HomeKit is Apple's smart home platform, suitable only for those who use iPhones and other Apple devices. Most HomeKit-compatible devices are not made by Apple, but rather by third-party companies ...

While not as widespread as Google Home or Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit remains one of the most popular smart home ecosystems of 2023.The software plays well with iOS devices, and several other ...

We love the Apple TV 4K's (2022) $129 price tag, which is $50 lower than before. This discount makes one of the best HomeKit devices (especially for Apple users) even more accessible.

Google Nest devices are not compatible with HomeKit at this time. Nest is owned by Google, and as such Nest devices work best with Google Home. That said, with coming support for Matter, ...

An update to the Matter standard will make it much easier to set up HomeKit-compatible smart home devices.In particular, it should make tap-to-pair a far more common feature, rather than something ...

As a result, fewer brands have made HomeKit compatible smart devices. That number is gradually increasing, but it's still not quite at the same level as Google or Amazon's platforms.

Previously, Apple would assign some smart home devices to your iPhone Control Center, but users didn't have much control over which devices would show up there. iOS 18 brings a welcome change, now ...