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Carrie Marshall

Apple’s iOS 18 smart home upgrade will light up your life – automatically

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Apple's Adaptive Lighting feature, which enables your lights to change colour temperature automatically, is now coming to Matter-enabled smart lights and bulbs. The upgrade will arrive in iOS 18.

One of the most interesting smart home features in Apple's HomeKit platform is Adaptive Lighting, a clever feature that changes the tone of your smart lights from dawn till dusk. It's been there since iOS 14 but it's also quite limited in terms of the lights you can use with it: you can use HomeKit-compliant Nanoleaf lights and Philips Hue lights and only a few other firms' products. However, that's about to change with iOS 18.

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