Replace 12/27: Added a press release from Apple concerning the challenge.
When iOS 16.2 arrived final week, it introduced a number of new options, together with Apple Music Sing, iCloud Superior Information Safety, and the Freeform app, in addition to a less-obvious improve to a brand new Dwelling structure that’s “extra dependable and environment friendly.” Nonetheless, a few week later, it seems that Apple has pulled the choice within the Dwelling app to improve.
When opening the Dwelling app in iOS 16.2, customers have been met with a “Dwelling Improve Obtainable” within the Software program Replace tab within the Dwelling Settings. Now that choice is gone. A help doc outlining the brand new function nonetheless says the choice has been “quickly eliminated” and doesn’t have an effect on customers who’ve already up to date to the brand new structure. In a press release, Apple mentioned it’s “conscious of a difficulty which will affect the flexibility for customers to share the Dwelling inside the Dwelling app.”
As famous by MacRumors, a number of customers reported gadgets that have been caught in an “updating” or “configuring” standing, in addition to lacking gadgets. Apple warns that any related gadgets that aren’t utilizing the newest software program “will lose entry to the upgraded dwelling till they’re up to date,” however this seems to be an unrelated challenge. Apple hasn’t detailed what the difficulty is, solely that the choice to improve will return quickly. It’s not clear whether or not it can randomly seem within the app or as a part of the iOS 16.3 replace anticipated to reach early subsequent 12 months.
The brand new Dwelling structure requires a house hub resembling Apple TV (4th technology or later) or HomePod to make use of superior options resembling HomeKit Safe Video and Adaptive Lighting. Anybody who was utilizing an iPad as a house hub underneath the earlier structure might want to swap to a kind of gadgets to proceed utilizing the Dwelling app to regulate their gadgets.
