- Ikea has launched a version of its Smart Home application for Apple Watch
- The application allows you to control your intelligent lights Ikea from your wrist
- Support for other smart devices can be added on a later date
IKEA has launched a new version of its Smart Home application for Apple Watch. The application has not yet been officially announced, but has appeared in the App Store and allows you to control your intelligent Ikea lights from your wrist.
As Polly Allcock of Notebookck points out, the registration of changes for the IKEA Home Smart application does not mention the new Watchos application, but the screen layers show that it will allow you to activate your intelligent lights, adjust your brightness, choose lighting scenes and choose custom colors of a palette.
Ikea Home Smart for iPad, iPhone and Android also allows you to control other devices, including smart speakers, blinds and air purifiers, but the screenshots of the Watchos version only show options for smart lights. It is possible that more devices are added with a future update.
To use the application, you will need watchos 10.6 or later, in addition to an IKEA center, which allows you to connect your IKEA devices with each other and functions as a bridge of question.
More bright ideas
Do not have Ikea lights? Do not worry, you can use your Apple Watch to operate any bulb and smart lamps that are compatible with Apple Homekit. The exact options available will depend on the lights you have, but you can generally turn on and off them, mitigate them and change their color with a tap and slide. See the Apple guide for complete instructions.
Govee manufactures some of the best smart lights we have tried, and its Govee Home application for Apple Watch allows you to activate and turn off the lights, adjust your brightness and verify the status of other devices such as smart thermostats and thermometers.
There is no longer an official Philips Hue application for Apple Watch (they mean, the company behind Hue, dropped it a few years ago), but can still operate its tone lights from its wrist with Apple Homekit, or one of the many third parties . Applications in the application store, such as Hue for Watch.
How do you prefer to control your intelligent lights and what applications do you recommend? Let us know in the comments.
