HomeKit update of 9/20/23 is a disaster!
Things started to act weird last night and I got a notice on my iPad that HomeKit was being upgraded. This has turned out to be an utter disaster rather than an improvement!
The devices are visible in HomeKit and do occasionally respond, but there is a huge lag and the devices constantly drop into Updating status!
- l’ve rebooted my ISP’s (xfinity) router.
- My Apple TVs all have the latest OS and I have 4 home hubs in play if Include the HomePods. One of the Apple TVs is currently the primary.
- My iPhone and iPad are on iOS 17.
- The smart devices are made by fully vetted vendors that have spent a considerable amount of time in Apple’s own store!
I was going to sign up with iCloud+, but I don’t trust the long term reliability of HomeKit anymore!
Please tell me there’s hope and that this behavior is a known issue that Apple and HomeKit vendors are working on.
At the very least this is a disastrous rollout of whatever they were trying to achieve.