FabianFor several weeks now, the Matter integration between Philips Hue and Apple Home has been causing major issues. Following updates to the respective Apple platforms—such as the Apple TV or HomePod, which act as Matter border routers—all Hue devices become inaccessible. This primarily affects the Hue Bridge Pro, which simply isn’t designed for a traditional HomeKit connection.
For several days now, Hue Support has been providing the following information: “We want to assure you that our team is actively working on a fix. An updated Hue Bridge Pro firmware is currently planned for April 2026, although the release timing may change.” And in the end, it happened faster than expected, because almost at the same time as I published this article, Philips Hue listed a new firmware version in its release notes.
Firmware version 2071294010 has been rolling out since April 9. The manufacturer states: “An issue has been resolved where the Hue Bridge Pro lost its connection via Matter. If you haven’t been able to control your devices via Matter so far (e.g., with Apple Home or Google), please reconfigure the integration.” It may take a few days for the new version to reach you. And it seems there’s no way around having to reconfigure the Apple Home connection—including sorting all lights, switches, and sensors.
The Apple Home integration of Hue Secure is also being delayed
Regarding Apple Home, I had to make another negative discovery in March: The integration of the wired Hue Secure cameras into Apple Home, which had been promised by the end of March, has been removed from the Hue website again.
As I’ve since learned, the feature hasn’t been completely scrapped. Instead, I received feedback from Philips Hue stating that “the timing has been delayed.” Unfortunately, they wouldn’t tell me exactly what that means or how much longer we’ll have to wait. I’ll keep you updated on this as well as soon as there’s any news.
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I’ve been wondering what in the world has happened to all of my Hue bulbs, switches and sensor within Apple Home. Everything suddenly stopped being reachable about 2-3 days ago and I’m using the original Hue Bridge. The thought of having to set every single Hue bulb back up and then the rooms and scenes therein… just to fix this sudden debacle is going to be quite time consuming.
If it weren’t for HueBlog, I would have been continuing to try and troubleshoot what was happening, as I’ve already restarted my router, power cycled my Apple TV and fiddled with Bluetooth settings (among other things) an Apple Support document listed for general problem solving!
What a mess! Will there really be no other way to avoid having to re-configure ALL of your Hue lights within Apple Home?
Did they happen to give a fucking timeframe on Hue Scurity homekit intergration? I think it would be a nice fucking addition.
I hate to call another developer “incompetent”. But it seems that the folks at Signify failed to do whateny competent developer would do. That would be install Apple, Google and otherr BETA software as soon as it is released. Anyone for about $100 per year can register as n Apple Developer and then get access to “developer beta software releases weeks before the software goes public. The ide is that you catch this kind of stuff BEFORE the public sees it.
One would THINK Signify has a lab where they have just about every Apple, Google and Home Assistant product setup and they install the beta software as soon as it comes out. You would THINK their entire office space is built out with their own products all running on Beta software.
Or, the engineers are competent and want to do all of this, but management is too cheap to let them and say “why spend monney to test, our customers will tell us if our products work or not.”
Thank tou for sharing but I still have the same issue with bridge pro – everything is unavaiable. Anyone has it too?
Not expecting it to work as my Bridge Pro wasn’t connecting to Apple I randomly tried last night expecting the same and was surprised that my setup quickly synced with Apple Home.
It still isn’t connecting to HomeKit. I am not sure who is doing their engineering and testing, but it seems many people are not happy.