Name: Philips Hue
Rating: 4 (1759 reviews)

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Philips Hue

Signify Netherlands B.V.

Released: 2016-04-28

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Version 3.43

Free 0%

Version 3.43

Released: 2016-04-28

#100 in Top Free iPad Apps > Lifestyle

#32 in Top Grossing iPad Apps > Lifestyle

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Description

Transform the way you experience light with Philips Hue. The Philips Hue App makes it easy for you to get the most out of your Hue lights and accessories.

CONTROL YOUR LIGHTS WITH EASE

With the Philips Hue App, you can easily organize your individual lights into rooms. Switch rooms on/off or change the color or brightness of all your lights to match your mood or your activity. It's easy to control no matter how many lights you have.

PLAY WITH 16 MILLION COLORS

Transform your lighting into an extraordinary experience with our color palette. Effortlessly choose from 16 million colors or any shade of white light.

THE PERFECT LIGHT FOR ANY MOMENT OF YOUR DAY

Choose from four preset light recipes that support your daily routines: Energize, Concentrate, Read and Relax. Get ready for the day with cool daylight that helps to energize your body and mind. Stay focused with finely tuned bright white light. Or put your feet up and relax with warm white light for the perfect end to the day.

TRANSFORM ROOMS WITH ONE TAP

Enjoy a sunset in Honolulu or a night out in London's Soho district. Simply tap the scene to transform your room. The Philips Hue App features over 30 scenes handpicked by our lighting designers. Let their expertise help you instantly transform your room.

BRING YOUR PICTURES TO LIFE

With our state of the art picture-to-light algorithm you can easily transform your favorite picture into a personal Philips Hue scene. The algorithm extracts the relevant colors and intelligently applies them to your lights. Now you can use your Hue lights to relive your memories using your own pictures.

YOUR LIFE, YOUR LIGHTING ROUTINES

Automate your lights any way you want. Start at a specific time or when the sun goes down, turn on and off or activate a scene. You can even mimic being home by randomizing the routine.

HOME AND AWAY

Set it and forget it. With the App's location awareness feature, your lights will automatically turn on when you arrive at your front door or turn off when you leave home.

WAKE UP AND GO TO SLEEP

Configure your lights to help you fall asleep at night and wake up energized. Create your own personal sleep routines to automatically dim the lights in the evening or gently wake you up in the morning.

VOICE CONTROL: YOU TALK, HUE RESPONDS

Surprise your guests or simply never struggle again while walking into a dark home with your hands full. Whether you want to turn your lights on and off or change the brightness of a room, a lot can be done using your voice. Explore the possibilities of voice control with the voice assistant of your choice.

WIDGETS + APPLE WATCH

For quick and easy control of your lights you can use the widget. Setting it up is quick. Using it is even quicker. You can also use it to trigger your lights instantly from the device you wear all day on your wrist: the Apple Watch.

Discover more on: www.philips-hue.com

What's New in Version 3.43

This update features support for our new Philips Hue Play gradient lightstrip.

Seller

Name

Signify Netherlands B.V.

URL

https://www.philips-hue.com

Information

Developer

Signify Netherlands B.V.

Version

3.43

Size

216.7 MB

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VPP Device Licensing

Yes

Rating

Rated: 4+

Compatibility

iOS 12.0 or later

Devices

iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation), Apple Watch Series 4

Languages

English, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

App Store: Customer Ratings

Ratings & Reviews

4.0 of 5 (1,759 Ratings)

App Store: Customer Reviews

2020-08-28

Current Version (3.41.0) is terrible.

Interactions within the app went from silky smooth to clunky and laggy - trying to turn scenes on and off is difficult to do accurately now even and most of the time you wind up clicking into the scene setup. Very poor update and a month is too long to have suffered with it already guys.

2020-08-10

Away From Home Control REMOVED

“ Away-from-home control and Home & Away will no longer be supported.” - June 22, 2020 update

Philips Hue became useless to me now that I no longer can manually control my lights when I’m not home. What a shame. Should give back the money to all the clients who bought this product specifically to use this feature.

2020-08-06

Problems

The current version of the app is not running routines and losing their name. Also it is turning on some lights at night when there is no routine set up at all for them. I’m very disappointed now.

2020-08-04

Great system, app developing defects and poor performance.

Updated app is slow. This app has suddenly added delays, hiccups and interface pauses that weren’t there before.

I’ve got no real problem with the current limitations - though I agree that multi-bridge would be nice. I have a feeling they’re ignoring that to sell is a more capable bridge.

That said, the app performance has gone down the drain - what happened? It was so smooth and slick before.

Hue also desperately needs a guest mode where certain users can access the lights but not modify the configuration - especially important for homes that take advantage of motion sensors, routines, formulas and more where many lights might not longer have switches.

2020-07-23

Latest app update has issues

Any action I take in the app is followed by a pause/delay before the action executes.

2020-07-18

Homekit sync issues

Every time I open up the hue app it messes up my HomeKit setup. Is there something I’m doing wrong? Now, when I want to change something in HomeKit I make sure to change it in the hue app. Or else all hell breaks loose.

Hue really needs to add an option to prevent this. How about just not effing up my hone kit settings. That be great thanks.

2020-07-15

Fix this app or I won’t buy another bulb!

Try the iConnect app for hue. It’s not free but it works brilliantly. A 2.4 user rating should tell you everything you need to know about this app. I’ve owned hue lights since the first generation. This is the worst software ever written. Hue had better get there act together and create an app that’s actually useable. I can honestly say for the first time I’m sorry I ever bought these very expensive lights if this is the best Phillips could come up with for an app. C’mon guys you can do better than this. Absolutely TERRIBLE.

2020-07-15

Add a custom scene to “Go To Sleep”

“Go To Sleep” should fade to off from current or a chosen scene. Currently it just changed lights to some default scene and then dims, which is quite bright.

2020-07-01

Disappointed

Disappointed in this app. It won’t recognize its own branded Philips Hue devices, even with the device serial number. Connectivity is unstable. It prompts for firmware updates, but gives connection errors.

2020-05-18

Weak link in the smart home ecosystem

Philips recently updated this app so that it overwrites literally destroys the configurations you make in the Home app. It will overwrite rooms and devices without discretion. For example, if I use Apple’s Home app to set up a new room, move a Philips Hue bulb into it, move an August lock into it, move a Mysa thermostat into it and add some automations, then open the Hue app - BOOM, the Hue app will delete that room, delete the automations, and orphan all of those devices, undoing all of my efforts. It’s brutal. It’s really sad because the Hue app used to work really well with Apple’s Home app. I can’t understand why Philips decided to force users to use only its app and to drop support for syncing like other HomeKit apps. I’ve decided to look for alternatives to Hue produces since it represents such a huge risk to my smart home configuration.

2020-05-01

Half the time it will not connect to the bridge

So frustrating that a system that is meant to maximize convenience and automation won’t allow me to have the most basic level of control over my lights half of the time. What is even the point.

2020-04-26

Not Stable apps

I have owned many indoor and outdoor lights and accessories, I have programmed each light for certain routine. Troubles are sometimes certain group of light will work and don’t, making it useless. With over $1k of gears, the apps need a lot of attention and stable!

I would not invest in Philip Hue unless this apps bugs free!

2020-04-09

You broke widget functionality

In the past month or so, the widget functionality has changed. Once you long press the home screen icon to invoke the widget and select a scene, it opens the app. The whole purpose of the widget is that you DON'T end up opening the app (nor do you have to exit it), so if this is a deliberate change, the logic is baffling. Please fix.

2020-04-04

Stops working!!!

Worked for about 2weeks, now it doesn’t let me change the colour! This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever worked with!

2020-03-29

Help

No longer able to use Siri or HomePod with Hue lights. Is there a new update/fix for this.

2020-03-17

Great Light Control but

Love having control over my lights and atmosphere - But! None of my hard worked out scene settings are synced to all of my devices. Everything set up to perfection on my iPhone but when I access Hue from my iPad, my 2nd iPhone, 2nd iPad it’s all lost. It would seem like it should be a given considering everything else syncs across my devices.

2020-03-17

Loses everything if I reset my router

Every setting and widget disappears if I reset my router, I need to reconect the hub and the app decides it is a new hub and I have to redo everything everytime, stay away from this piece of shot light system

2020-03-12

Toujours en panne

Ne vaut pas cher

2020-03-10

Auto update

The automatic update doesn’t work so your lights go one day working perfectly fine to not working at all

2020-02-26

Apple Watch

Complications aren’t showing up.

2020-02-24

Morning routine glitch

I use the morning routine but some days I’ll turn the light back off to sleep more. I notice it always turns back on at the next minute change and I have to turn it off once more.

The 1% light is also still quite bright. It should be extremely low.

2020-02-14

Works fine, needs some redesigning

The app works fine, the only issue: it’s almost impossible to scroll the rooms list without inadvertently dimming some lights.

2020-02-07

They should call it “Philipe’s UPDATE”

Updates every other Time I use it SUPER ANNOYING

CANT USE WHILE UPDATING

LAME

Lol what a piece of crap

2020-01-25

After all this time. Still doesn’t work.

After all this time I still can not use my voice to control scenes. I go to Siri In the settings and it only shows a few scenes. Not the one I just made. Back to the old app I go and it works there. How about adding that scene to my notification centre. Nope. Not there either. After all this time you would think they could at least make this app with the functionality of the previous one. At least they added a “all zones” feature so I can actually make scenes that turn on lights in different areas. But how long did that take? Guess I will be waiting again.

2020-01-24

Multi-Bridge!

I agree with some of the other reviewers when I saw that the only thing I don’t like about Hue is that you have to manually switch bridges if you have lights at the office and your home. The app should auto detect the bridge on the network. I really hope this is in the works!

2020-01-17

App is starting to get clunky

Clunky looking and clunky feeling after last update. One example is moving the controls to turn the motion sensors off/on into the sensor set up. You have to actually go into the sensor, scroll to the very bottom to hit the button and cancel out of the screen. The buttons were right beside the sensors for YEARS! Please put the off/on buttons back beside the sensor in the app. There’s no reason that bottom had to move.

Also, please think of less lame labs. There’s a lot of them now and only two are actually useful. The rest are just validating superfluous unneeded jobs.

Fan of most of your products, but you guys are getting unnecessarily technical at the expense of the ease of use to the consumer.

2020-01-13

Downloading the hue app

Downloading the app i.e itself is terrible! I cant download the app! It keeps searching the “hue bridge” & not found! I just need to download the app for motion sensor!!!

2020-01-10

Super easy to configure

The app works great. Adding lights is a breeze and creating new rooms is a simple as naming the room and selecting the lights you want to be in it.

If you want me to give this baby 5 stars, add the ability to group lights. I would love to have the 5 lights that make up my chandelier appear under one name instead of 5 different lights.

2020-01-08

Good app, recent change is annoying however

Overall I enjoy using this app. Better support for multiple bridges would be my main feature request.

However, a recent update also changed how disabling/enabling of accessories worked which has been a pain. Previously I could toggle motion sensors from the list, but now I have to do so by tapping on each sensor and disabling it, then pressing cancel (the save button doesn’t support disabling) to actually disable it. I’d like to be able to handle this through the list, or even better I’d like a single button to toggle all of my motion sensors. My use case is that I have cleaners come, and I don’t want them having to fuss with the Hue lights so I disable motion sensors and turn all of my lights to max brightness until they are done.

Thank you for the continued updates, but a better way (or at least the old way) of handling my use case would be much appreciated.

2019-12-13

App is not working properly

New iOS update keeps Phillips hue app crashing when on wifi.

2019-12-11

app keep crash in iOS 13.3

2019-12-09

Room for improvement

The app has so much potential, it lacks adjustable settings in some areas.

The wake-up alarms should let you set the brightness you want the light to stop at. For now I believe it just lights up until it’s at 100%, but I wish I could set it to what I want between 1-100%.

Also, having the option of making the lights flash in the wake-up menu, and not only in the timer menu would be great. Why not just have all the options in every menu?

Other than that, I wish it was easier to add Siri commands to the HomeKit app. At the beginning it seemed to work and now it just doesn’t add to HomeKit (can’t see them in this app like I used to). It’s mostly about adding scenes with specific light colour or brightness. I only manage to turn them on or off, or ask Siri to dim to a certain percentage. No way of asking Siri to set up a certain colour tone (with Hue Ambiance lights).

Like I said, room for improvement.

2019-11-20

Good when it work

To much update makes me reboot the connection. Why do I have to keep rebooting when there’s an update??

2019-11-12

Works well now

It took years of updates but this app is pretty solid now. Searching for new lights still doesn't work though, but the serial number method can be used instead. I like that when I make a change to the bulbs or scenes it magically spreads to all my IOS and iPadIOS devices. So if you put a bulb jn a remote location be sure to write down the serial number so you can program it later. (Okay, the GUI is bizarre and obcenely hard to program. Perhaps the guys rhat wrote this app should go to AA for a while and get sober).

2019-11-08

Totally Useless

You wanna know just how useless this app is?... It no longer recognizes the existence of its own Hue Bridge, no matter how much tweaking, hacking, updating or rebooting I try. YET... my iPhone’s HomeKit recognizes it no problem at all. In fact, HomeKit is still able to operate all of the Hue Lights and their Scenes, etc, — just not the actual Hue App. But I am now no longer able to connect any new devices to it whatsoever. The Bridge’s big fat sync button won’t even work anymore. For some reason this has also rendered my Hue Switch to completely alter its presets to something entirely different. But because the Bridge’s top button will no longer function, I am unable to re-configure the Switch. As I said, no amount of troubleshooting has been successful, so I can only conclude that either the Bridge or the Switch, or both, are defective. And this system is only 3 years old. I mean really? Don’t even bother investing any money in the Philips system. Through these last 3 years it has been riddled with countless issues, hiccups, hang ups, freeze ups, and disfunctioning bulbs, etc — I’ve had to throw out 2 of them due to eventual defects. Believe me, you will be sorry in the long run if you invest a single dime in this awfully designed product and infrastructure. One word sums it all up over the long term... It eventually presents itself as... USELESS!

2019-11-06

I can’t operate

I can’t use the app, it says that there’s no connection when I’m connected to three bar wifi like please fix this thanks

2019-11-03

Good Product, Weak App

I’ve been a Hue user since day one. Current system has a dozen bulbs, 3 outdoor wall lamps, 5 motion sensors, 4 plugs, and 6 dimmer switches from Hue. The app has improved a lot over the years and current functionality is quite robust even for advanced functions like sensing and switching. I have a mixed environment, with lots of Wemo switches and plugs and Netatmo cameras, so I prefer to use Home app for scene and schedule management. HomeKit integration is Hue app’s weak point. Don’t ever bother to change a device name in Home app and be prepared if you add a new Hue product to a room in Hue app to have all your non-Hue devices moved to “Default Room”. I generally name my devices “[Room] [Function]” so I know which room to move the devices back to, but Hue app’s HomeKit mess is a pain. Also, the new outdoor sensors don’t currently report temperatures below 0°C.

2019-11-01

Forcing updates is lame.

Seriously, let’s talk functionality.

You can’t expect good responses from the community when you force an update before I used my system at all. I’m lucky to have a remote that doesn’t require the app to turn my light off or on.

I have severe issues with light sensitivity when is a major reason I purchased the Philips hue. It’s a rude experience when I go to turn my lights of with my phone using hey Siri and she says she cannot find the lights. So I enter the app to do it manually, in the app there is no connection saying I must be on the same home network, so I double checked my connection and to no avail I can’t find the issue. The app did say how the bridge needs to do an update... but how would it know that if... you know... there was no internet connection.

This leaves a sour taste in my mouth, I do not understand the need to force an update before I use my lights. Spending time diagnosing this for a simple update? Reasons? Please? When this was working 100% yesterday?

2019-10-29

Good strong lights , App isn’t the best

I got this light strip from hue for Christmas and today I just installed it so I wanted to get different colours so I got this app but since not all of my lights do not use hue lights I couldn’t get it to work because I needed it to connect to a hue bridge which I do not have in my house. It’s quite disappointing.

2019-10-29

A frustrating app.

This app doesn’t work all the time, it shuts down now and then for no apparent reason. Not every happy with it.

2019-10-26

Why does it need an update to work?

Constantly needs updates. And it locks you out of being able to use your products that you paid $$$ for unless you update it. It’s ridiculous. I don’t have wifi at home and use data off my phone. I specifically bought a router so I could use my hue bridge and lights. Now I’m stuck trying to update without internet connectivity.

2019-10-25

Garbage

App is pure garbage ever since the iOS 13 update. Unable to connect most of the time. It has gotten to the point where I regret getting Hue’s in the first place. Avoid.

2019-10-19

Old app kept telling me update because of old Hub.

Be careful of any corporation that switches hardware on its consumer without any subsidy or refund. This software won’t work with my original hub; the existing app for the old hub strips away features. Don’t spend money on the Hue because they will abandon you - and probably go out of business.

2019-10-16

Features are half-backed and not well-tested

Lotta features don’t work or work only sometimes. Home&away for example. It rarely really turns on lights when i get home. The product is great but software really cripples it. Should really slow down with the new features and perfect the existing ones. Please fix home&away.

2019-10-14

Worst part of the ecosystem

This app does a terrible disservice to the entire Philips Hue ecosystem on iOS. It constantly overrides HomeKit under the guise of bringing the apps in “sync”. Instead it overrides rooms you created in Apple's home app, deletes non-hue devices, and generally messes up your settings. I recommend deleting the app after every time you need it to set up a new device, and keep it off your phone and away from your HomeKit system.

2019-10-12

Klunky

The bulbs work as expected but the app is klunky and frustrating. The logic flow is not intuitive at least from my North American perspective. Setting up scenes and rooms is poor and should be rethought. I would suggest the KISS rule. Get the user to plug in and turn on all bulbs. Then apply a room to each bulb using a pick list of defaults. Let the user add to those defaults in setup. Everything for a new user should be on the first page.

2019-10-07

Connection issues

Lightbulbs are great but the app connection is awful I have constant connection issues. For the money I spent on lightbulbs I would expect the app to work flawlessly.

Very disappointed.

2019-09-30

Needs multi bridge update

I love the look and function of this app except the lack of multi bridge support. Having to toggle between them is not support. If other third party apps can do it seamlessly so can Hue. The only reason that I use this instead of the others is that my husband really likes the handy bar interface. I like it too. And as soon as they update the multi bridge function I will spend more on outdoor lights. C’mon Hue take my money.

2019-09-24

Hue bridge

I all ready spent a lot of money for two bulbs and it only tells me now that I need a hub and I wasn’t planing on spending like 80 bucks just so I can use two bulbs

Philips Hue

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Description

What's New in Version 3.43

Seller

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Game Center

VPP Device Licensing

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App Store: Customer Ratings

Ratings & Reviews

Current Version (3.41.0) is terrible.

Away From Home Control REMOVED

Problems

Great system, app developing defects and poor performance.

Latest app update has issues

Homekit sync issues

Fix this app or I won’t buy another bulb!

Add a custom scene to “Go To Sleep”

Disappointed

Weak link in the smart home ecosystem

Half the time it will not connect to the bridge

Not Stable apps

You broke widget functionality

Stops working!!!

Help

Great Light Control but

Loses everything if I reset my router

Toujours en panne

Auto update

Apple Watch

Morning routine glitch

Works fine, needs some redesigning

They should call it “Philipe’s UPDATE”

After all this time. Still doesn’t work.

Multi-Bridge!

App is starting to get clunky

Downloading the hue app

Super easy to configure

Good app, recent change is annoying however

App is not working properly

app keep crash in iOS 13.3

Room for improvement

Good when it work

Works well now

Totally Useless

I can’t operate

Good Product, Weak App

Forcing updates is lame.

Good strong lights , App isn’t the best

A frustrating app.

Why does it need an update to work?

Garbage

Old app kept telling me update because of old Hub.

Features are half-backed and not well-tested

Worst part of the ecosystem

Klunky

Connection issues

Needs multi bridge update

Hue bridge