Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
WWDC2021 Wishlist - 10 things I want for HomeKit in iOS 15
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0:00 - Intro
1:01 - #1 Overall Quality
1:46 - #2 Fix Geo-Fencing
2:21 - #3 Improve the Apple Home app
3:19 - #4 Control our Home Hubs
4:49 - #5 Give us the Thread Password
5:34 - #6 Granular Permissions
6:05 - #7 Facial Recognition based triggers
6:36 - #8 Text to Speech
7:35 - #9 Use the U1 chip
8:25 - #10 Clear statement on Matter
It’s that time of year again! WWDC is right around the corner and in this video, I’m going to give you my top 10 Wishlist for improvements in the Apple HomeKit based Smarthome.
1. Quality - HomeKit is awesome. But it needs to be more reliable.
2. location based automations need to be easier and work..
3. Home app needs to be usable to create all automations. It’s awesome that we have access to 3rd party apps to control our HomeKit Homes but it’s ridiculous that Apples native offering doesn’t have the same capabilities.
4. Ability to select Active/Primary Homehub AND disable Homehub on any iOS device that can be a Homehub. That means You HomePods
5. Give me the password to my Thread network. Seriously. Thread is supposed to be an open standard that’s interoperable between multiple vendors to create a single self-healing low power low bandwidth network for all our smarthome devices. But without that password….
6. Granular Permissions - If you live in a multi-person home and you want to share the smarthome, we NEED a way to give permissions to a subset of devices or rooms in that home to the different room mates, family members or guests.
7. Facial recognition based triggers - We’ve got facial recognition in Homekit Secure video, now we need to be able to use that information as a trigger.
8. Text to speech routines - Other smarthome do this. Yes - you can prerecord the messages, add them to your Apple Music account and then play the clip using an Airplay2 automation. But you shouldn’t have to.
9. U1 based automations “when X enters the room. “ or “when X leaves the room”
10. Clear understand of Apples plans for Matter.
11.
Links:
Shane Whatley - Custom Siri Announcements for your Home! youtube.com/watch?v=b2lhGIwrGDg
ModernDayTech - Starling Hub Recognition with Nest - youtube.com/watch?v=2uFGoJCXTQ8
WWDC2021 Wishlist - 10 things I want for HomeKit in iOS 15
Follow me
@homekitgeek on twitter and instagram
www.homekitgeek blog
facebook.com/homekitgeek
Notice: Some Links below may be affiliate links which support the channel at no extra cost to you.
If you're interested in adding some new devices to your smarthome, please consider using my Amazon.com shop
amazon.com/shop/netmanchris
0:00 - Intro
1:01 - #1 Overall Quality
1:46 - #2 Fix Geo-Fencing
2:21 - #3 Improve the Apple Home app
3:19 - #4 Control our Home Hubs
4:49 - #5 Give us the Thread Password
5:34 - #6 Granular Permissions
6:05 - #7 Facial Recognition based triggers
6:36 - #8 Text to Speech
7:35 - #9 Use the U1 chip
8:25 - #10 Clear statement on Matter
It’s that time of year again! WWDC is right around the corner and in this video, I’m going to give you my top 10 Wishlist for improvements in the Apple HomeKit based Smarthome.
1. Quality - HomeKit is awesome. But it needs to be more reliable.
2. location based automations need to be easier and work..
3. Home app needs to be usable to create all automations. It’s awesome that we have access to 3rd party apps to control our HomeKit Homes but it’s ridiculous that Apples native offering doesn’t have the same capabilities.
4. Ability to select Active/Primary Homehub AND disable Homehub on any iOS device that can be a Homehub. That means You HomePods
5. Give me the password to my Thread network. Seriously. Thread is supposed to be an open standard that’s interoperable between multiple vendors to create a single self-healing low power low bandwidth network for all our smarthome devices. But without that password….
6. Granular Permissions - If you live in a multi-person home and you want to share the smarthome, we NEED a way to give permissions to a subset of devices or rooms in that home to the different room mates, family members or guests.
7. Facial recognition based triggers - We’ve got facial recognition in Homekit Secure video, now we need to be able to use that information as a trigger.
8. Text to speech routines - Other smarthome do this. Yes - you can prerecord the messages, add them to your Apple Music account and then play the clip using an Airplay2 automation. But you shouldn’t have to.
9. U1 based automations “when X enters the room. “ or “when X leaves the room”
10. Clear understand of Apples plans for Matter.
11.
Links:
Shane Whatley - Custom Siri Announcements for your Home! youtube.com/watch?v=b2lhGIwrGDg
ModernDayTech - Starling Hub Recognition with Nest - youtube.com/watch?v=2uFGoJCXTQ8
