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Alistair Charlton

The best ways to control your HomeKit smart home: from your TV to your Apple Watch

Apple Home app.

If you’re an Apple fan who wants to start building a smart home, then you’ve come to the right place – and the best news is, you might already own everything you need to get started.

It might surprise you to learn that Apple HomeKit has been around for an entire decade, having landed back in September 2014; surprising, arguably, given that it's not quite as user-friendly or fleshed out as some of its competitors who launched in a similar time frame. The Home app arrived two years later, acting as a platform for Apple users to configure and control smart home devices.

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