Philips Hue App Reviews

Extremely Slow, Unresponsive App. Philips keeps managing to repeatedly fix, and then break the Hue app. It has been stable and effective for well over a year (after a super painful stretch), but they’ve managed to once again render the app nearly useless. For the past several weeks, the app has been much slower to load, and now when you want to turn a light off, you quite literally have to touch the on/off button and wait 5-6 seconds before the light responds, if it responds at all (for reference, lights used to turn on/off in about a second). Worse, while you wait to see whether the app will actually communicate with the Hue hub, the app completely freezes. You can’t swipe up/down or touch anything and have the app respond, and after the lights do respond, you have to wait another 5-6 seconds before the app functions again. So if you want to turn off 3 lights, for example, it will take you 30-45 seconds. For as much money as I have tied up in my Hue lights, I’d like for Philips to test their app updates better before they release the update, and when they cause a major bug like this, I’d really like them to fix it much more quickly. In summary, the Hue lights are outstanding. The app is either brilliant, or unusable for months at a time. Right now, it’s broken again.

App getting better; needs bulb replacement wizard. I have had Philips Hue lightbulbs since they first came out, and the app keeps getting better. But it is missing one critical function that costs users a ton of time and effort if they wanna upgrade their bulbs: you can’t seamlessly add a new bulb and have it “replace” an old bulb and all of its scenes and settings. If you have dining room chandelier with an 80 W bulb that is integrated in 10 different scenes, two switches, and 4 automations you have programmed, and you want to upgrade it to 150 W bulb, you will have to manually delete the old lightbulb from every scene (or or you will get a warning that the scene failed every time you implement it) you will need to manually add the new lightbulb to every one of those scenes, switches, & automations, and reprogram the correct color, temperature, and brightness of each bulb as well. It is a big pain in the backside. And, ironically, it discourages people from wanting to upgrade their lightbulbs, which you would think Phillips wouldn’t want. So please, Philips, if anyone on your team reads these reviews, please add some sort of wizard to the Hue app that allows the user to buy a new Hue bulb and be able to have it replace an old one in a seamless way, so that it inherit the old bulbs name and all of the different scenes and switches it was involved in. Make it easier for people to upgrade their bulbs and buy more of your products.

This app used to work. I have been using the hue lights for a couple of years and they worked great! Now they don’t and I have had it. One of the biggest selling points for this product is that they are tightly integrated with HomeKit and should work seamlessly. I spent money on bulbs and a bridge and they worked great for little while. Now I can’t use HomeKit with these anymore and it’s such a hassle to work with them anymore because I have to open a app that takes a full minute to load and connect if I can quickly access it and toggle the switch. I am frustrated as much as I can because I have had this issue for over a year and this is a known issue that Philips is refusing to pay attention to. I don’t trust that if I get a new one that the same issue isn’t going present itself since the issue is clearly a software bug that Philips is biding their time on. I am trying to make as much noise as possible because I like the product and integration but if it’s broken and can be fixed (and believe me I have tried everything I possibly can multiple times to fix it) because the app still sees it and the lights still respond to the app, then it should be a bug that is easily squished. I would recommend going to something else that doesn’t require you to spend 3x as much on their ecosystem of products when the lights and their basic switches work just as well. I got them for the convenience and they are no longer convenient or easier to use. Please fix this!!!!

Everything I Dreamed It Would Be. I am happy to put a $35 bulb in a $10 lamp if I don’t have to walk up to said lamp to turn it on or off. Since the concept of smart lighting creeped into my brain, I have been obsessed. I read somewhere that Hue was the best. Admittedly I didn’t read much further than that and kind of jumped the gun, but I have not been disappointed. The price can be daunting, but thanks to little credit pockets here and there and a couple great sales, we are up to 11 bulbs, spread out over four rooms. Again, the biggest plus for me is controlling lights without having to move. The colors, scenes, third party apps…icing on the cake. I love playing around with color recipes and mood lighting. It’s just fun. I recently used an automation feature to help my teenager wake up in the mornings. The lights gradually come on for 30 minutes, going from barely on to fully bright. We’ve used this twice, and both times, it worked. I feel like I’m just learning the basics. I’m sure there are a ton more fun and useful things these bulbs can do. I highly recommend!

Still No Sensor Options. I wanted so long for V3 to come out. Total disappointment. Basically it is prettier and easier to use. As far as more features, not much. The one I really wanted was Sensor customizations. You cannot pick which lights in a room to have turn on or off. I have multiple Hue lights in my bathroom. I have a Sensor in it. I want my Sensor to detect motion and then if it is night time, turn on only the cabinet lighting very dim. This is just so when you go to the bathroom at night you don’t have blaring lights or have to get your phone out to turn them on. In the Hue App, the only option is to have ALL the bathroom lights come on. You cannot pick just one or two lights. You can do this in HomeKit, but then some of the customizations for the Sensor Hue allows won’t work. (I.e. how strong the motion had to be to work, how long to keep it on, etc....) Hue Hyped this new version for months if not a year. Now it is here and like I said... it basically is the same app just better designed. Very disappointing. Will not be buying more sensors until they fix this. One last thing... same thing is true with Hue Tap and Hue Dimmers. Both only let you pick rooms, not individual lights. Dimmer only has 4 customization areas when there are 5 in HomeKit. It’s like Hue forgot all about their accessories. C’mon... I wasted $250 on 5 Sensors, $100 on 2 taps, and $200 on 5 Dimmers and all of them you can’t do what you claimed you could when I got them.

Phillip Hue Color changing lights. When this came out we bought one to try it out then we really started to like them light bulbs we added some more around the house made a couple of the rooms smart as they connect to your smart phone through WiFi .. I love the different colors great for moods and music or just laying around the house watching movies .. I most definitely recommend this product for other people to try and enjoy Something new .. we have had some issues with the app not working right but we keep looking for updates they still need bug fixes within the app. Other than this it’s been great experience now there are other smart or light color changing bulbs out there by other companies trying to complete against one another but I would still choose this one . we love them makes life easier can turn on and off lights or dim them. Would like to thank Phillips Hue

Now impossible to replicate colors. With the new update, the recently used color palette has been removed, and it is now impossible to copy colors to new lights and new scenes. I don’t understand why this feature would be removed, but doing so has made the app almost entirely useless for setting up new lights, or moving lights to new rooms. Speaking of which, the biggest problem with this app from the very beginning has been the fact that you can’t easily copy scenes to new rooms. Why can’t we create scene templates with our own preferred colors, like the built in Hue scene gallery options (Bright, Dimmed, etc)? Even when we had access to a palette of recently used colors (before it was removed with the new update), it was still an incredibly tedious task to go through and recreate every scene for a new room. But now it’s no longer inconvenient, it’s literally impossible. Please bring back the recently used color palette, and then finally add the ability for users to save their own custom scene gallery. Also, why have we never been able to apply the same color to all lights in a scene?! Why do we have to go through every light individually? 99% of scenes are going to be the same color for all of the lights. The entire purpose of this app is to allow us to customize our lighting, and it has never made any attempt at streamlining that process.

Failed migration to updated app, removed timer features.. The migration process did not complete properly. Several of my schedules were simply deleted. It seems that every time philips hue updates itself I lose some schedules or features. The last time they updated they removed fading time on timers. This time they removed timers completely. Since I use timers repeatedly to turn on or off rooms that I want to change randomly this new update renders the philips hue app useless for my needs. Why would they remove timers? IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT. After reading the most current reviews (after update 4) it's obvious that the programmers are not getting a bonus this time around. Removal of features such as timers, widgets and basic control and adjustment features. App crashes or locks up, unable to connect to bridges, unable to connect to lights, etc,etc,etc. You are alienating customers that invested $.$$$ in your products. We expect smart updates that provide added functionality and that actually work! Instead we are FORCED into garbage updates that don't migrate properly, remove relied on features, are counter intuitive and crash.

Hue was fine till changed app.. What bothers me is. These systems run over WiFi. So when you update the app and this is not the first time this happen. Just so we are on the same page. I have 2 systems in two different homes. Many many miles away from each other. When you update the app. To make the system work. You need to be in the house to push button down to sync them. So you can make light go on and off. Well again. I’m not near the other system. So now the other system stop working from the app. Why. Because I need to push button down to sync it. I just wish they update the app without syncing the lights all the time. The lights and the 2 units are already synced to my phone. Now the other system is worthless after spending money for them. I get time off of work to get to the other house synced. Now It won’t sync. I even reset the system lost all my lights I save for time and colors and did not get it to work. So I disconnected it and put it in closet. I’m so done with these idiots that don’t understand what the units they sell. How they are used and work. It’s sad and I’m done with this company. There are other companies I can use and will use. Good luck to all of you.

Does not work with HomeKit. Update: I found (literally after writing this review) what the issue was. Somehow, a different or Old bridge was still linked into HomeKit. How it reappeared, I don’t know but it happened as soon as I updated to 17.2. Once I removed ALL Hue bridges from my HomeKit (which crashed my HomeKit app), it finally worked after re-linking. I’m sorry for the bad review, Phillips. I believe this is a bug on Apples end than it would be on yours. Updating the rating to reflect that. I hope this review helps someone who may be having issues and may have had an old hue bridge in the past. Phillips Hue integration with HomeKit is entirely broken with the iOS 17.2. I can no longer control my bulbs/bridge with my iPhone 15 Pro Max, HomePod minis, iPad Air, nothing. Everything is set up correctly and it even shows up in HomeKit, but it refuses to respond. HomeKit constantly says “this accessory is not responding”, despite it successfully connecting during the setup process when linking with HomeKit. I’m at a loss. The developers have had access to iOS 17.2 way before it was launched to thoroughly tested it. I have troubleshooted the issue and exhausted all options.

Sooo Disappointing since Newer APP. First off... I absolutely love Philips Hue! But I remain totally SHOCKED that with all those super smart programmers and APP developers at Philips, since the newer 2.0 and now 3.0 version of the APP came out, one can no longer program a single light bulb into multiple rooms!!! Or group rooms into ZONES!!!!!! I am still using the 1st version of the APP with my 47 Philip Hue bulbs and many devices!!! And am frustrated beyond belief that they took the ability to create zones away ever since they updated the APP! How is this an improvement Philips!??? Once people get invested into the Philips Hue ecosystem and spend time programming and creating scenes that work for their house and family it’s soooo counter productive to do updates like this!! Sonos and many other companies do it right! Philips Hue... I’m still waiting for you guys to allow better management of the devices that people invest a lot of money in!! Also.. since I’m in the mood to give suggestions... :). How about show the updated/zoomed camera roll image as the icon when you enlarge and save a picture. Philips please call me... I’d love to share my thoughts on some of the problems with the new 3.0 APP. I still love Philips Hue... just wish I didn’t have to use a third party APP! :(

My Personal Experience with the Philips Hue App. I’ve been using the Philips Hue app for a while now, and I must say, it has truly transformed my space. The variety of lighting settings and colors available is astounding. I love how I can effortlessly adjust the ambiance of my room to match my mood or the occasion. Whether I want a warm, cozy glow or a vibrant burst of color, the app provides so many options to choose from. What I find particularly impressive is how Philips continually updates the app with new features and color settings. It feels like there’s always something new to explore, which keeps the experience exciting and fresh. I really hope they continue to expand their color options and settings, as I absolutely love playing around with them to create the perfect atmosphere. Overall, the Philips Hue app has become an essential part of my daily routine, making it easy to create the perfect ambiance at any time. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys having complete control over their lighting.

Intuitive, stable and pretty darn fun. Super quick and easy to set up (haven’t needed to look anything up yet), and playing around with settings to suit the context/my whim is surprisingly entertaining. The latest update’s new effects and scene gallery categories are a great addition. One minor piece of constructive criticism is that I wish it were possible to toggle the “snap to other light’s current color” feature in the color picker. I see its utility, but would prefer to disable it personally. Something else I’d love to see in the future is the inclusion of a saturation slider in addition to the existing brightness slider. So many of the preset scenes are gorgeous but a little too intense for what I’m looking for day to day. Being able to quickly and easily desaturate each color in the scene in one fell swoop via slider would be awesome But! Bottom line: Very slick app. Incredibly stable. Super intuitive initial setup. Simple to set & forget if that’s your thing, but also fun and easy to tweak settings and explore options whenever you feel like it

Love!!!. We’ve had a house full of hue lights for 10 years. After a while they get into my rhythm. They turn themselves on and off and it’s like having my dad when I was little. Always saying, “who left the light on”. Recently we did some remodeling and the bathrooms got 36 inch round mirror set in a bracket with spools of thread to hold it at the right distance. It looks great. Everyone wants one and we saved so much money doing it ourselves. My son came along and I asked him to set the auto sequence. At first I was annoyed because he could see the light blue walls, so why did he make it pink. Then a few minutes later it went back to blue. He set it up to say good morning. I see you. And I love you. In lights every morning. Thanks for being a part of us Hue. Even if the lights in my son’s bathroom turned off when I was in the middle of my shower. Oh and as our system aged, it was harder to get the right power cords and plugs. If you are going to change the engineering, support it. Don’t make me look on eBay!!! I love my globe on the back porch. I love to teach the kids how to make it any color their finger gets to. I have an ap for a thunder storm and it makes the kitchen cabinets turn on like florescent bulbs how they kind of bounce. These things bring me joy because I am comforted by light. Leave the light on!!

Great overall; has a few issues. The Hue system is the best I’ve seen for home smart lighting, hands-down! The app is beautiful, and the out-of-the-box scenes are gorgeous, and work pretty seamlessly; the more Hue lights you have, the better it looks, and it scales automagically when I add new lights. The automations are the only disappointment I have with it at all; they’re super basic, and haven’t improved much over the last ~3 years or so since I’ve had Hue lights. A recent update actually seems to have removed some of the previously-available functionality of the automations, and/or made the UI for that part of the app very unintuitive (I’m not sure which yet — still trying to figure it out since the changes). It’s way more difficult (impossible?) to get really granular scene fades/changes than it should be, IMO. To be fair, it looks to me like they’ve been focusing on making automations “just work” out of the box, rather than making users create a bunch of complex automations manually, but for those of us who have really specific ideas about how we want our automations to work, the automations are still woefully lacking, even after all these years of time they’ve had to build those features out. There are other apps that pick up some of the slack, but they’re very unpolished and in some ways worse. So, all that is to say — yay for this app for being the best overall app available for Hue lighting, but why are the automations still so basic, after all this time!?!?

Great system BUT has some has ridiculous faults. I absolutely love the huge system. The only thing I do not like about it is how many times I go to buy lightbulbs and it comes with a bridge. I do not need a bridge. Every time I go to buy lightbulbs. This bulbs are expensive enough and I should not have to buy another bridge every time I get more bulbs and expand. There are also some problems that Philips seems to refuse to address like if you turn a routine off then back on a day or two later it may not actually turn on the first time making it unreliable. I have contacted Philips HUE about all of my issues even those not listed in this review and expressed how much I love the system still, their response was to make me part of their beta program to help them evaluate new and current products & I was also told I would get a small discount on items I purchase but I do not get the discount I was told so costco, BJs and Sam’s club are where I have found the best deals. I also feel like they wasted a lot of my time telling me they were going to send me all sorts of products to test around late 2019 but as of February 2023 I still have not gotten any and when I contact Philips they have no idea what I am talking about so they wasted 4+ hours of my time getting me set up for their beta/new product test program for nothing! To make matters worse the problems with the routines still is not fixed!

Poor migration for Bridge v1 and holder lights. It is the most frustrating and second worst application I had to « chance » to encounter ver the past 2 years. As an early adopter, I finally tried to migrate from bridge v1 to v2 and migrate the few strips and bulb remaining to the new hub. The application is just useless and full or bug. It doesn’t provide a seamless transition and it takes 5 plus hours without any success of migration. Hue support is just providing cookie cutter replies and don’t even spend the time to review the information provided. I moved from a system that had some vulnerability issues to some pieces of equipment which are simply not working. Whoever is in charge of the migration, backward compatibility and support are simply incompetent. Update and reply: The Twitter support is pretty incompetent despite the 4 hours and numerous message exchanges. The suggestion provided below make little to no sense and don’t address the big deficiencies of the app. Searching with the serial number did the trick at the end. But how difficult would it be for the app these 3 numbers, communicate to the new app and do the search?!? Just sharing 3 strings of characters and suggest the user to start a search?!? This is POOR development and UX. Incompetence all over.

Your Latest Update Made My Devices Unusable. My building doesn’t allow peer to peer connections, so if I place my actual WiFi won’t let my Hue lights communicate with my phone communicate. Yes, the WiFi situation is ridiculous, but I live in a historic building that only has one option for Internet and I already had Hue lights and bridge from the last place I lived. Regardless, even not being able to connect Hue to Internet was all fine, because Hue didn’t require Internet connection before, so I set up LAN and it worked fine with Hue Tap for controlling my devices. But as of recently, there’s an update for Hue bridges and it says I can’t use the Tap again until I do the update, which I can’t do because my bridge can’t be connected to the Internet in my building, just the LAN that I set up which has no Internet connection. It wasn’t broken, but your update broke it. Did you really have to disable all the features when I was able to use just fine without the update? I’ve spent so much money on Hue products to make this work. Seriously disappointed. Please make it possible to download update onto phone and then get back on my LAN with the bridge to install the update.

Pretty UI, $#|+ UX. I (like many people) have heavily invested in the hue brand. My favorite part of the technology was the old app, which had all the functionality and usability I was looking for in an app to control the lights in my home. And that’s saying something, as I develop software for a living and work daily with app developers, so I’m a critic of UX design. The new app is total garbage. It’s semi-aesthetically pleasing and takes nice screenshots for the App Store. That’s the end of it’s nice features. It goes downhill from there. Vertical + side scrolling is idiocy and only useful in a demo by the product owner to stakeholders. Again, stop making app usability decisions based on what takes nice screenshots. Dimming individual lights is now impossible. You can’t even be consistent on where the x button is on the screen. Or whether it’s and x or a back arrow. And different types of lights in a room causes a different screen to show up with equally horrendous but different UX. All I want to do is see my lights in a list and dim them in the same screen. And for the love of Pete, the side scrolling scenes DO NOT need to be the first thing on the screen. How many times do I need to say it, stop designing for screenshots. Have you used your own app in the real world? I use this app 50 times a frickin day. What if someone moved all of the light switches in your house and now you have to go hunting for them all over the place? This app is worse than that. Try again.

I never write reviews … never… but this is probably the single best thing I’ve done for my home. These lights are not only so simple to set up even my grandmother could do it, but they never fail to amaze me with their responsiveness. I’ve tried other Bluetooth bulbs and nothing compares. Probably because this system uses a bridge that connects directly into your router. But for real, the best! I’ve had a few of my bulbs for going on five years, used every single day, and they are still going strong. Insane! Not to mention their new and updated remote systems and motion detectors. Honestly I could go on and on with how amazing this is and how I am literally purchasing everything they come out with because how can you not ?! I mean really. Just …. The best company on the market. If you don’t have this… I mean… and the app!!! Insane. Super quick connectivity and super simply to navigate. Even a person who is technologically inept like myself can figure it out. Just brilliant design. Again. I can not say more good things… AMAZING

Love Hue. At this point I’m probably a super user. I have 35+ indoor lights, about 25 outdoor lights, 10 remotes, 2 bridges (the first filled up) and 4 motion sensors. I may be missing something here or there as well. I love the indoor for relaxing, especially great bedtime with the kids. I love that I can turn on entire spaces with one push of a button on my remotes. They are also perfect for setting the holiday mood. The outdoor lights are also perfect for making the house look spooky at Halloween and festive for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, St. Pattys, etc etc etc. I have them on a timer so they come on at sunset and turn off at sunrise. Also have motion sensors to trigger other actions at night. I’ve had a few of the outdoor lights go but if you keep the receipt and they go before they’re 3 years old, Philips has been great at replacing them at zero cost to me. My next purchase will probably be the Xmas string lights. Looking forward to wrapping the tree

Still NOT happy with Hue. Update: I have been using Philips Hue lights for about 10 years. After the Apple iOS 18 update, I had to buy a new hub because my old one wouldn’t work. With the new hub, I also had to download new software, which I do not like. One issue I’m experiencing is that I cannot stop my go-to-sleep light from fading. I dislike this fading effect and want to turn it off immediately without any fade. Additionally, I cannot use custom settings because they require a start time. The start time is when I arrive home. That time varies. Unfortunately, the arrive home option isn’t available in the custom setting. Can anyone help me figure out how to stop the lights from fading when I turn them off in go-to-sleep mode? ——— Previous review: My main gripe is I can’t control the lights while away from home. At one point I could although it was only web-based. But now I can’t seem to do that. Or am I doing something wrong. If I had not paid so much for the Philips Hue, I would box it up and throw it in the closet. The Wemo can be controlled away from home why can’t the Philips Hue work as well.

App needs work.. First I’ll start off by saying that Hue is far superior to all other smart bulbs. I have tried many other brands like Govee in the past and none of them compare to the quality of Hue. Even though the price tag of all of Hue’s products is absurdly high, I still will splurge here and there to add to my smart home lighting kit. However over the years I feel like Hue does very little to improve upon features of their app. While it’s still far ahead of every other smart lighting app I’ve used, they don’t seem to care much about upgrading and perfecting it. New features are few and far between and honestly quite underwhelming. I’ve personally thought of so many things I’d love for this app to do and I doubt I’ll ever see features rolled out that achieve them. For example, the dynamic scenes they released a while back only includes, candlelight, fire, and prism (the newest and most boring scene.) I can think of so many different dynamic scenes they could add… lightning, star light, sunlight refracting through water or tree leaves… I mean seriously get creative. The custom scenes don’t even let you add a photo, it just gives you a solid colored dot. It just seems like they make all their money and put forth minimal effort to improve the app. Wish they would try harder and do more because there’s still untapped potential.

Siri and HomeKit are still pretty dismal. Siri integration is still awful. I moved a smart plug from one room to another (I changed the room and the name of it). Siri still believes it's in the original room and the original name. When I tell Siri to turn on/off the original room's lights, it still turns on/off the smart plug. (Edit: I've even deleted it and re-added it. Siri now turns on the living room to a random scene when I ask her to turn this specific "smart" plug on "). Quite sad for such an expensive product but I'm sure Philips is laughing at me. I also find it to be incredibly stupid that you can’t have scenes named the same for different rooms. Hue provides several default scenes (i.e. Relax, Concentrate, etc.) for each room, yet in order to use them with Siri you have to rename them. So I’m somewhat at a loss as to why I can’t just say, “Siri, set Bedroom to Relax,” “Hey Siri, set Living room to Relax.” I feel like this would be so much easier rather than trying to remember what you were forced to rename the relax scene to in each room. Then if you get the wrong scene, Siri responds with “Sorry, I don’t know that one” and you have to open up your phone and load the app anyway.

One fatal flaw. I have used Hue products for many years. They were a pioneering group in the beginning. Hue products are solid and lasting. I like all those things, and I haven’t balked too much at their pricing. That said: There is one problem with the Hue App that we have endured from the start that I have asked Hue to fix and finally grown weary of - weary enough to start looking elsewhere for smart bulbs and such. The Hue app is the only one I have I have ever used that requires the user to verify their account and connect to the app by pressing a button on the hub - not just initially, but everytime the app is updated. That is a real problem when you are a person who must travel a great deal - and a person who depends on online ability to control devices at the remote location. I am left with two choices. Search through the apps set to update on my devices when I am away and make sure Hue is not among them or update (on purpose or by accident) and lose connectivity. Luckily some control remains via third party apps such as Alexa, but they require more intervention to use. There are other ways to accomplish verification. I can only assume Hue can’t figure that out.

Hue please put a stop to scam apps. This is the official Hue app. You do not even need it to run the Hue lights on HomeKit, you can delete it and use the Apple Home App after you get all set up. Please do not download other apps and definitely do not give them money. Hue please make Apple take the fake Hue apps off the App Store. They are buying ads to appear first and then demanding expensive weekly or monthly subscriptions. Reviews on that app say they will never buy Hue lights again. PS This app is fine. Set-up is not the worst but it’s a pain. I like the Hue lightbulbs and light strip colors, especially the compatibility with Apple’s daylight feature, but they could be brighter. They connect OK as long as you have the bridge. (They are now obsolete as they don’t have Thread radios nor are they Matter certified. Will wait for upgrades to buy more.) In my smart home they are second in reliability after Eve — at least once a week half the lights in my fixtures are different colors or don’t turn on — but they stay connected and never need resetting.

App filled with bugs. Put 75 hue lights in my home and after a month wish I’d gone with a different smart bulb. Nothing good to say about the app. It’s far inferior to LIFX and Govee in user friendliness and customization. On top of the fact you need 2 bridges for as many bulbs as one needs for a house which requires 2 different accounts to control. This means you can’t control the entire house with Alexa nor can you control the entire house without switching back and forth. The app itself has bugs galore the most annoying being with scenes. It constantly rearranges my scenes out of order as well as changing the brightness setting inside those scenes. Creating automations is a nightmare compared to LIFX or Govee. You can’t change brightness so instead have to create several scenes and multiple automations to accomplish the same thing both other apps can do at 1 time without creating any additional scenes. Custom scenes also are not available across all rooms so you have to constantly recreate or copy paste into each room over and over again. This becomes a big problem as there are also not any preset solid colors. So in order to make all rooms red with a touch of a button, you have to create a red scene for every room in the house.

You updated five days ago and you still have not fixed the routines?. I went into the App Store and saw that you had an update five days ago and I was excited because that meant that I probably could now use my routines. Wrong! I cannot believe that you guys still haven’t fixed the routines section. In the other routines area, after trying to save something on the third chance, the app freezes. I am simply not able to set up anything in other routines. Come on guys! This is terrible really do like the update, but there are so many mquirky problems with the darn app! You fixed the widget problem very quickly, and I appreciate that. Now you have a problem with routines! I cannot for the life of me set up my routines using the “other routines“ area. In the past I’ve been able to have my lights go on at a certain time and go off at a certain time specifically, every day of the week, and it’s just not working. I press the button to save, and it goes right back to the same screen as if it has not been saved. I press save twice, and it doesn’t work. The third time I press it the system goes into an eternal spinning circle frozen app! And then I have to simply reboot the program! Like I said, I like the styling that you did and some of the features you added, but you have really screwed up a lot of small areas of the usefulness of hue

User Experience Who?. i’ve always loved my hue bulbs and have never had any substantial problems with the app, until now of course. for some reason, someone on the development team decided to ruin the user experience and make the interface unbearable. the new way of scrolling through scenes, not being able to move scenes, the placement of the scenes above the option for the bulb settings, the uncomfortable way of adjusting brightness and hue once picking from the scenes or selecting your bulb, are just a few reasons i feel compelled to write this review. options are not intuitive and don’t seem to follow any sort of logical structure as to why elements are arranged in the way they are. before the redesign, the app was easy to use and every step was easy on the eyes to follow linearly on the screen. now, there’s odd mixes of vertical and horizontal sliding and scrolling that really is not necessary and makes things worse. it breaks the flow of the rest of the app too since the rest of the app besides Home appears to be unaffected. In conclusion, I can’t avoid the terrible UX when i’ve already invested in the hues ecosystem. please make the interface bearable and easy to use again. thank you.

Lights Disconnected. I enjoyed having smart lighting. It was worth the cost until this app updated about a year ago. Since then my lights do not connect. I have no bridge, and I feel like that’s what I need. There’s no clear lay person way as to why it’s not working anymore. I’ve tried so many times that I’m now just stuck with the white light setting. Alexa can’t connect, Siri can’t connect, and my basic Bluetooth can’t connect. I shouldn’t have to make another $50 purchase to reconnect just because the app failed to do its job. I’ve tried troubleshooting in every possible way. There’s nothing working. Not to mention the additional settings for themes and changing lights required a subscription. These lights were over $100 and can only be controlled by an app that doesn’t work. I’ve done everything but clear out my Bluetooth cache and from what hear that doesn’t even work. The warranty on my lights is expired and I don’t know what to do. All that to say, anyone reading reviews before purchasing the actual lights, you should probably spend the extra money for the bridge and fancier lights because the basic lights did NOT bring the quality it costs. I got about 1 year use out of these and will not be repurchasing.

Best lighting for a lifetime!. I have been using hue lights for since they came out it has to be at least 10/10 years ago! They are without a doubt the most reliable easiest and best lighting I’ve ever used! I’ve tried to use other bulbs it’s just not the same. The color is so vibrant and true to its claims to be so vibrant. Also they are the colors that are exactly how you wish for them to be. Please whatever they do over there at Phillips Hue don’t stop because I can’t live without them! I use the colored lights in my home. I have them in six different places for lighting for my home. I will say this there is never a laggy bit, they’re always easy to connect and stay connected and they can’t be beat in any category except for cost. HoweverI bought my last set about 10 years ago so they paid for them self Id say. Don’t hesitate by them they’re worth it last forever they look beautiful and make you feel even better. Lighting is everything and lighting can’t be done right in my opinion not without Philips Hue color lighting Only!

Decision Fatigue. More often than not, I want a dimmer switch more than I want my desk lamp to turn purple. If I leave the room and turn off my lights after setting a custom brightness (e.g. turning down a desk lamp because it’s bright outside) I have no way to easily return to this custom, temporary state. I want to save power, but I also don’t want to spend a minute fidgeting with my lights to get that perfect brightness again. When I return to the room, I can choose a custom preset (good feature), or individually turn on lights. One misclick on the binary slider for a light opens a detailed menu for colors that I rarely use. This menu has many buttons, and is distracting when I just want a simple, large dimmer switch to push most of the time. Also, it is not possible to remove some preset scenes from the menu. I want a clean, simple experience for my light switch. I don’t need my lights to have a green and purple button that I can’t hide. Yes, it’s awesome your lights do that. I’ll use it on Halloween. No, I don’t want that button prominent in the menu the other 364 days of the year. The app has great potential, but is frustrating for one of my common use cases. I still love the lights, but I find the current app interface detrimental to the experience.

Conflicted. Edit: it’s been weeks since my last review, they have currently had 2 updates since the update that broke my app. They have no customer service except for their social media. I’ve commented multiple times on their Instagram and each time they respond asking me to dm them, but then never respond to my DMs. I even commented about them doing this and AGAIN they asked me to dm them, with no response. Seems like they’re only responding to my comments to look good, but aren’t actually willing to help. My lights have been unusable since the beginning of December, it is ridiculous These lights are usually my absolute favorite thing I have in my home, I tell everyone about this. The last update however broke my app, I can’t even open it. I tried to reach out for help but the only info I could find was their social media, which I tried reaching out to with no response. I noticed other people having problems after that update as well. They just updated again (12/15) and I was relieved—just to find out the update didn’t help anything :/ I never write reviews but I genuinely don’t know how to get help otherwise. These are basically the only lights I use in my home

Great lights, room for a lot of improvement on app customization. To start, I really do like the lights. The app is incredibly easy and user friendly so I’d say it’s a pretty reliable app. However hue is not the only smart light app, now that I am playing with other smart light apps hue seems to be getting left in the dust as far as customization goes. The light bulbs run $40 with LED strips being a pretty penny only for basic white and color modes. No color chasing, no rainbow features, not even settings that I can play with to customize an entire room… even getting some thunder effects requires you to purchase an entire new app! The app is good and it works great but ALOT of work needs to be done with more user features because as it stands Phillips… you’re overpriced and can’t even keep up with the same user features as Govee. If you’re thinking about investing in Phillips, I would recommend you don’t. Find more affordable lights with a better user friendly app because you’ll set the color for these and that’s about all you get without the expensive Sync box which is not worth the price…

Much Happier User Experience. Overall I’m much happier with the ease of use and scene selections available in the upgraded Hue app. I’ve been a long time user of Hue products and have always thought their app was kinda crap compared to the others available and their associated scenes. Thanks Phillips Hue Team for your dedication and effort in making sure you offer a user experience that’s uncomfortable to any other product/ service on the market. I also appreciate seeing the outdoor line expand as my lights are definitely my favorite feature in my home and I’m unsure of hat I would do without it in my life. Definitely increases my quality of life by a drastic amount. I’ve been passionate about lighting for years now as this is the second home to have Color Hue bulbs throughout and after working for a new home builder I was able to really pitch your product to quite a few homeowners that are now hopefully lifetime customers as well. I’m in the Seattle area but if their were ever a career opportunity within your organization that involves Sales and Marketing, I’d love to work with your incredible team. Thanks so much! James Schneider - Seattle

Very lacking in options... disappointed. Dear Hue Engineers, The app does well at what is included but I’m really surprised at how few options there are in the app. The “zones” are nice but that’s about the best feature. For a $200 light kit the app is very, very lacking in options overall. Feels like a half finished app that was thrown together at the last minute, not a product that has been around for several ‘generations’ of lights. Love the wake up feature but you should be able to wake up to any color combo you want, not just white. No options to fade between colors. No options to automatically change colors at preset intervals. Other than turning the lights on/ off and choosing the colors you have to rely on 3rd party apps to do anything “fun” with these lights. Very disappointed in this app for how much the lights cost. Hue should be ashamed to have this app in the App Store, same goes for the Apple Watch app. From the watch you can only turn on/ off the lights to 4 very boring pre-set options, zero options to customize what color the watch app will turn on. A lot of the “lab” features should be standard within the app and customizable. The app and lights have so much potential... PLEASE UPDATE IT!!!!

Love the layout but needs more presets & customization. I am obsessed with my Hugh Phillips lights! So much so that I’ve bought nearly $1000 worth and I don’t regret a thing. The app design is slick and modern, with an easy to understand, intuitive layout. Some of the features, such as unstacking gradient, light strips with multiple color options within the color wheel, take some googling to initially uncover. But once you get the hang of it, it’s fun to design your own scenes. There are a few things that I wish Philip would improve upon. The grouping system, especially related to syncing music and other media by creating “entertainment zones“, can be somewhat frustrating and can leave you with several overlapping groups. Moreover– as a previous nano leaf user – I can say that Phillips lacks the lighting customization options that the former’s app permits. Some of the lights seem capable of additional color points yet gradients are always limited to three no matter the size or length. Finally, I wish Phillips would release more presets that you can install on your devices. Addition to the 30 or 40 that are always in the store, it seems they occasionally release seasonal presets. But there is no way to share or view additional presets either Phillips designs or customers. Overall, I would definitely recommend lighting your house with Phillips Hue. The app could just use a bit more fine-tuning to provide the functionality that competitors apps seem to allow.

Finally! Power On Behavior Settings!. I’ve been using Hue in my home for almost two years now. My biggest issue with the system is how the lights would all turn on bright white after a power outage or if lights connected to a light switch would reset to the default white if someone turned it off from the wall switch. Now with this update, my largest gripe has been resolved! I will say that the firmware update required for this feature took longer on some bulbs than others. Most of my bulbs received the update within 30 minutes or so. But I had a handful that took over day, almost two days! They did eventually update and now all bulbs are on the latest firmware. The next thing I am waiting for is the ability to use Hue Entertainment with my AppleTV so that I can sync my lights to what’s on the screen. Hopefully, that comes sooner than later. Other areas of improvement would be to the routines. It would be nice if I could set a routine to turn on at sunset but turn off at a fixed time of day without having to create two separate routines (one for on and the other for off). At the moment, the only other option that it gives you within a single routine is to have the lights turn off at sunrise if they are set to turn on at sunset.

Wait for it, wait for it and BAM, still problematic!. I have been buying Hue lights for several years and never been completely satisfied. There bridge is horrible from the beginning and it drives me & my wife crazy. Hue’s customer service isn’t much better I don’t even bother calling anymore. I must say, I became one of those guys that wish Apple just manufactures everything in-house under Apples brand and kick most 3rd party’s to the curb. I already know I am to invested and firm into Apples eco-system to leave. I have factory reset my bridge so many times over the years trying to get it to connect with Homekit I given up after today. Far as app it’s outdated convolution [UI], having way to many steps. It takes my joy away experiencing Hue’s technology. My reason why I would prefer using Homekit if that worked. So much for that, huh? Problems begin after IOS 12 but we’re now headed towards 13.3 possibly IOS 14 in our near future. I’ll even add that Google Speakers & Alexa has its problems with Hue bridge. All I can consider is another brand and hope Hue Lights still work using another manufacturer or I’ll sale Hue Lights on eBay for cheap taking a loss. It’s frustrating that Hue blames Apple for Hue’s engineers lack of skills to keep up. In my Humble opinion Hue can’t keep up with Apple.

Update removed very important feature. The new update is joke. It removed one of the most important features which is the master color wheel. Before, there was a “master” color wheel for all the scenes combined, and a master color wheel for each individual scene. For example, i used to be able to control ALL the lights inside my house with one color wheel. If i wanted all the lights in my entire house to be “blue”, i would simply drag my finger on the master color wheel to blue and they would all change at the same exact time. Same goes for room scenes. If i had 5 lights in my “bedroom”, there was a master color wheel for the entire bedroom in which i could do the same as i mentioned above. It was very easy…. Now with the new update, they removed the master color wheel, and if i want to make all the lights blue, i have to individually set each light to blue. This makes zero sense as they have regressed the functionality of the app. I have reached out to Philips Hue support about this issue several times and they don’t seem to understand or care. The app developer needs to understand what is going on here and fix this. It is completely unacceptable.

Unbelievably frustrated with app update. I have never reviewed an app before, but this recent app overhaul has basically ruined my experience and clearly has for many others. We have 44 different Hue lights and accessories inside and outside our home which cost almost as much as my first car, and I absolutely loved them until this app change. The original app was intuitive, scenes and automations were easy to set, and I never had a single issue with connectivity or performance. Now, the app is horribly unintuitive, adjusting the color of a whole room or zone at a time is incredibly difficult, scenes do not work well, automations are buggy and often do not work at all, brightness cannot be set with scenes any more, and the app has a hard time connecting about 20% of the time. This app is so bad, I truly wish I could return all of the products I’ve purchased over the last year which total over $4k. I went from telling all my friends and guests about how great Hue products are to telling everyone not buy them. Please give us the option to go back to the last app!! It looks like many loyal customers will be leaving the Hue ecosystem based on the poor user experience.

Nice Try. New 3.0 version ....No instructions make it a challenge. I just can’t figure out how to hold my light color and brightness it wants to just do its own thing. If you go through and set each room with color and brightness then save it when the timer activates the light in the room it is not always the color you selected or brightness. It actually changes brightness levels to all the same also. I am in the original hue system and did clear all old info through the app. If you are on the first version I suggest you hold on just a bit longer as this one has promise but is not there yet. Hey developer, some beta trials with real consumers would probably uncover issues like this. Edit-reset entire system, set up entire system like new. All appears to move along well except I can not save a custom routine. I can create it but then the only choices are save and cancel to exit the set up screen. If I reboot my iPad it set up scene is gone, close the app it is gone, hit cancel and the routine is cancelled. If I attempt to add two on the same screen it will not save and freezes the APP. Final edit. Scenes work perfectly on my iPhone... do not work on iPad Pro .Otherwise we have a nice app here😀

Pretty good start. Just started using the Philips Hue products about a week ago. Overall I am impressed with their products. This app is decent, seems intuitive to use. There are 2 things I would really like to see from this app. 1. Be able to sort rooms. This would be very helpful. I would like my rooms to be listed in Alpha order without having to go in and redo all of them. 2. Be able to add sub-rooms (maybe a different name) to rooms. If I have light bulbs, the play bar, lamps, etc in the same room, I would like an easy to to control them with in that room without having to create separate rooms for each set of lights/devices I want to control in a room. Update #1: I figured out how to sort rooms, that is great, wasn’t very obvious to start, glad it is available. Since using the Philips Hue system for a couple weeks I realize some other things I would like to see. It would so nice to have a pool of available scenes, since there is a limit to the number of scenes and devices that can be on a hub. This really should not be that difficult to implement. Also another easy implementation would be to have a checkbox on your sensors, something along the lines on the Do not disturb that is in the labs. Except it really doesn’t need to be all that complex, simply if you have a scene on do not change it. Those are two very easy fixes that I would love to see.

Love it. These lights are really functional, especially using the hue app, which has allowed me to schedule my day when I work from home. My morning starts with my hue lights gradually turning on like a sunrise and waking me up before my alarm, I then have a timer set to change from early morning getting ready lighting to my work from home setting, which turns my living room into an office, and then at 5:30 the lights at my desk gradually get darker making the focus the seating area for entertainment. I also have special designs and vocal commands for when I’m working out and I need my Living Room to be a gym. Or for when I’m watching a serious movie and i need The lights dim. I’ve also programed the GPS to turn on the lights to a mellow welcoming mood for when I am a certain distance approaching home in the evening from work or plans. I also have installed the portable light switches to make things a little more visitor friendly If I were to make any suggestions, it would be to make setting on the app for when someone visits and wants to be able to control the lights in my apartment beyond what my hue light switches offer.

RFE: Allow Bridge, light updates without Internet access. Overall, I’ve really enjoyed my Phillips Hue lights & light strip over the past few years. Setting up scenes is fun & useful. I have scenes for when I’m reading, scenes for movie watching, & scenes for nightlights when I’m going to sleep. I have a suggestion. If I want to use Hue lights on a network not connected to the Internet, & there’s been an app update, often the entire Hue system is inoperable until applying firmware updates to the bridge &/or lights. Please consider an option to download necessary firmware updates over cellular to the app, then connect to the WiFi network & apply the firmware updates directly from the phone. Right now I have to use a convoluted method to do this. I connect my MacBook Pro to my iPhone over USB. I share my iPhone’s Internet connection over USB to my MacBook Pro. I share the MacBook Pro’s Internet connection over Ethernet to my WiFi base station WAN port. This gives my iPhone Internet connectivity & access to the WiFi network simultaneously so I can install the update. I really shouldn’t have to do all that just to turn my lights on. There’s been lots of updates lately so this is very annoying.

The Hue App works seamlessly all the time!. I’m thrilled with the app and its features. When it comes to lighting your home, this app is a must-have. Over the past seven years of using it with Hue lights, neither has let me down. The best part? It’s completely free! The app offers a wide range of customization options and is incredibly user-friendly. You can easily add new bulbs or light fixtures to your system, schedule your interior and exterior lights to come on and off, or create custom light recipes. Whatever you customize in the app will also appear in the Apple “Home” app, so you can control your home’s automation from anywhere. It works with Alexa and Google Home as well, but I don’t use them, so I can’t speak to how they work, but I imagine they would be similar to my experience with Apple Home. The engineers who designed and maintain this app are doing an amazing job. They are constantly adding new features and creating new light recipes called “Hue Scenes”. The 100+ that they already have are amazing. I highly recommend it to anyone using Hue lights. You won’t be disappointed!

The Matter update broke HomeKit integration. This system worked great for months, but after my Bridge was updated to support Matter, it stopped working in HomeKit altogether. I’ve tried everything I possibly could, including deleting the Hue Bridge from the Home app,deleting and factory resetting the Bridge from the Hue app and rebuilding all of the rooms and light configurations, deleting the Home completely then re-building everything (scenes, automations, re-adding all accessories from all manufacturers), and multiple attempts to connect the Hue Bridge. And I know that this is a Philips Hue problem and not an Apple problem because all other manufacturers were able to be recognized and operational in the Apple Home app. With Hue though, the bridge gets added to Home, and all of the Hue lights immediately show up as “No Response,’ even though I can control all of the lights remotely on the Hue app. I’ve had Hue lights for over a decade, and Philips has continually driven the product line further and further into the ground. The products are severely overpriced and always have been, but I could justify the cost with their ease of use and capabilities. Now, it’s a system that I can’t possibly recommend or continue to invest significant time and resources into. It’s so disheartening.

Works well enough, but still missing features. I'll start by saying I've been using hue lights for 3 years, between 2 homes, and recommend them to anyone who will listen to me about smart lighting. I'm a HomeKit user primarily, which addresses many of the automation feature issues many users have reported with their control of sensors and lights. Now, the older version of the hue app used to let you change which lights are on which hubs which is no longer available. I also use 2 hubs in my house we got with 2 starter kits, and the combination has been nothing but a headache. I cannot set different hue hubs to control different lights and have them all display on one app dashboard. Additionally if I wanted to use one hub on the upper floors and another on the lower, the communication does not exist between the two hubs and makes it impossible to use more than one hub in the same household. HomeKit addresses this issue, but I would like to see it be addressed in the hue app itself. I will still recommend this if you're looking for home lighting solutions but I implore the developer to continue prioritizing customization features before rolling out more lights.

Finally, a Hue App to write about!. I’ve been a sucker for Philips since the invention of the CD. I’ve had every Hue product and every version thereof, aside from the flood lights. While sadly at the cost of my paycheck, it’s been nice to watch Hue evolve over the years, that’s goes for the tie into 3rd party cloud APIs (Echo/Alexa has been a ride) as well, but the Philips App serious was lacking, frustrating to use and just became mundane. I actually got so sick of it I’d write my own software to control the lights (gg on the API Philips). So yeah, if you haven’t downloaded version 3 of this app, it’s pretty kick a**, finally you can move things around, before you had to delete everything and add them back in a specific order, trying to color match was a nightmare, and so many other issues the previous apps had, this resolves! So for now, it’s hats off to Philips, thank you and please keep making improvements on your hardware and software, you’ve certainly won me back with this one. Cheers, ~T

Shortcut for alarms, please!. I’ll start off by saying that I’ve barely touched the Hue app in several years, since I’ve been able to control everything I need with HomeKit. However, I’d recalled that Hue has this nifty way to wake you up where it slowly adjusts lighting over time, instead of a jarring sound or something, and I wanted to try using this. The only way to do this is through the Hue app itself. I got even more excited when I learned that Hue started supporting Shortcuts, hoping that I’d be able to incorporate an action to set this type of alarm in the app in my shortcut for bedtime (I work varied shifts throughout the week, waking up as early as 5 and as late as 8am). There doesn’t appear to be a way to execute this shortcut without just telling Shortcuts to open the app, like I can do with the clock app. I’m not sure if this is a limitation of available actions developers are permitted to donate, or if this is just not something that had been considered, but I would love to see this! The only other downgrade is for how confusing it is to set up new lights and assign them to rooms. I’ve set up this stuff probably 50 times (moving several times as well as adding new accessories over the years) and I never remember that you name the light and then have to back all the way out and add it to a room. It seems kind of clunky.

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Dimmer remotes won’t POWER ON. As of recent update all of my new remotes i noticed would only power OFF the downlights but not POWER ON…. adjusted settings etc… but then it gets weirder, in an attempt to problem solve i inspected some remotes in other rooms which i noticed were behaving correctly power on/off as intended but after “opening” them remote settings, they would then “update” their settings to have the same behaviour of only powering OFF when pressed and nothing else… I have 1 remote left that i haven’t opened it’s “settings” which is still behaving correctly…. this is an extremely bizarre and incredibly frustrating error to have stumbled upon. Only way to get lights back ON is a manual switch off/on of the light switch at the wall. Making these remotes and their install locations absolutely POINTLESS!!!!

Latest update has made the app terrible. Prior to v4, this app was great: it was easy to navigate, everything was where you expected it to be, and it had great performance. Unfortunately the recent major update is atrocious and everything I liked about the app is gone. It’s bad enough that I’m not buying any new lights from Hue anymore. - It now takes *significantly* longer for the app to start-up. It should be as simple and quick as possible to turn your lights off/on, which is not the case anymore. Every time I want to quickly adjust a light I feel a little bit of frustration now that there’s this friction. - The app lags terribly, even on my high end devices. Nothing is smooth and there are noticeable delays whenever you press a button. Sometimes I try to do something in the app and it just doesn’t respond at all! When I get a better frame rate playing 3D games on my phone than turning off the lights you know somethings gone wrong! - Features like the Lab experiments thing have been removed. Who knows why? Why on earth would they remove features that worked great?!?!

Some ideas for the Developers. Hi Hue Team, Some constructive feedback for a wonderful product. 1, please have a way to add a hue labs function on a scene page. Eg in my living room, one of the scenes should be the saved automation which has the living lights. Maybe in the labs page, have a add to a room option. 2, Is automations, you can select a scene. Now read point 1 above. Ie at 6pm, Hub labs setting 1 to start Eg colour loop. 3, with love, the hue labs entire layout is complicated and confusing. Make rating a button at the bottom, not something you have to scroll past. The enabling of the labs should be on the main page, then the edit button should make adjustments. My family needs me to edit labs. It is a mess. (With kindness) 4, ordering scenes on a room. This is hard to get where you want. They shuffle with each other. Would be nice to be able to leave gaps and not have it shuffle around. 5, if I order the scenes on the iPad for a room, they are not in the same Order on my phone. I get that you did this so all Members of the family can order their pages in the order they want, and too their scenes. But can you make a link feature in case you want them the same. My partner gave me her phone and I had to sort the scenes like I did on my phone. She wanted the same. 6, pretty please. Sensors, have staggered steps. Eg - light a and b on, Light a off after 3 mins, Light b off after 6 minutes (for example) I hope Some of the above is helpful.

Philips Hue is Awesome - just one thing. I love everything about Philips Hue. It’s dope. The only thing I have an issue with is the Bluetooth connectivity. It’s never worked for me and I’m not gonna lie, my wifi is terrible so having to get up and go stand up next to my wifi modem is certainly a me problem but it’s meant that the Bluetooth connectivity issue has become more prevalent in my life. Love you Philips Hue. Yours truly, A Guy Who Needs Better Wifi

Bridge is lagging behind. I used to love this app. In many ways I still do, but the shine is wearing off. It seems that every new device is released with very buggy software, and also uses more and more of the bridge’s very limited resources. The aspirations of the system developers is far outweighing the basic design of the hardware. The result is that I now need three bridges to support my system, and because the developers never allowed for this I also have to have three accounts, and because there is no communication between the bridges I have to manually swap between them in the app. Worse still, no communication between bridges means that a switch or sensor cannot activate lights on different bridges. I get constant notifications of new scenes, each of which uses more precious memory, but a memory upgrade or interconnecting bridges seems not to be a priority. I don’t have a particularly large house, yet I still need 3 bridges. As it stands, it looks like the Hue system is realistically limited to a one or possibly two bedroom apartment if 100% of the lights are to be controlled.

I hate big lights, I LOVE hue lighting.. The hue lighting has been such a game changer for me. I DO NOT USE BIG LIGHTS. I hate the standard lighting in homes. Even down lights that you can adjust. Just no for me. I LOVE the hue range and love the app that gives me different lighting options for what ever mood I am in. I also have the app connected to some fairy lights in my games room for easy on and off if I am in bed at the other end of the house and forget to turn them off. 😅 You can use this app for any lighting that you have plugged in throughout the house with the adapters! - although you cannot change between mood lighting in the app with external lighting that is not hue brand, just so this last part is not misleading. Get on it!

Brilliant. Brilliant not only when turned up to 100% but brilliant in flexibility and ease of use. The new improved app makes it a breeze to control things. One of the most appreciated features is the away from home programming when on holidays - anywhere. Internet connectivity and full automation allows different rooms to be switched on and off with variable schedules to make the home appear occupied at night - A great security feature.

Timer. My review is this I have been trying for months and months to have my lites come automatically I follow the app but what ever I do the lites will not on on my preferred time so I have to manually turn lites on the off time works, it is absolutely ridiculous and so frustrating that I cannot have the light come on at my preferred time set I put up with frustration for months actually 1 1/2 years your app to do the settings is so confusing to understand I have another app from a different provider to control lites that is so EASY to use and the lites come on and off at times I set. The hue app and products are absolute the worst I have and the assistance I get by emailing back and forth still does not help I spent a lot of money on your product and all I get is absolute rubbish

Hue lights are amazing!. 5 Star we have been using the bridge and 3 light bulbs for the lamps in our Living Room, Study and Kitchen! The choices and colour are limitless and we loved it! Just before we get home or the convenient of sitting down watching TV and sunset starts to creep in! We can turn the lights on tru our phone app without standing, So handy & Amazing! We will get more!

Really simple to use, great for setup and controls.. The app and whole hue integration system and accessories have been great. Purchased and have setup half the house with the other half to go as well as some more accent lighting in the future. However the accessory limit will likely require a 2nd hub eventually where the app begins to fall short. It would be a perfect 5 if you could control multiple hubs at once without changing. HomeKit integration can get around this but honestly prefer this app over the home app. If being able to control all lights in a multi hub setup could be added it would honestly be as close to perfect as possible.

Amazing. Great app to control the lighting around your house. Have a setup of lights behind the TV, lamps beside the lounges, & a light above the bed. Can choose from many ranges of colour settings, as well as creating your own. Connects through wifi, so just open the app & dim or bright lighting is only a click away. Highly recommend getting this setup for your house, worth the money!

Superior Smart Hub. Does exactly what it says on the pack. Performs better than all other smart lights & their associated apps - make your own mistakes by trying the rest for yourself & see. They’re cheaper, yes, but less functional and far more prone to NOT doing what they say they will. If you want maximum effectiveness, quality, functionality and instructions in English rather than part-Mandarin like all the others - stick with Philips Hue.

Out of home control connection. My out of home control was connecting perfectly until I updated to this app version a few days ago. Strange considering this update was supposed to fix a problem I never had, but instead created that same problem. To fix I had to delete the app completely, reinstall, go to settings in the app and log back into out of home control. Let’s hope it keeps working because it is very inconvenient when away from home and lights can’t be controlled. Hope this might be helpful if anyone else encounters the same issue. My Hue system has always worked beautifully up until now.

Hue app doesn’t properly support Hue Go light. I bought a Hue Bridge, a 2nd gen Hue Go and installed this app. Very disappointed: the most basic feature – a battery indicator for the portable Hue Go – isn’t available: neither in the app nor on the light itself. The built-in light effects (e.g., Cozy Candle, Sunday Coffee, Meditation, Enchanted Forest, and Night Adventure) are not available in the app. And the formulas are hidden under too many layers of interaction (Home > Explore > Labs > Browse > Try > ...), cumbersome to reach, and not intuitive to configure. When I contacted Hue support, they didn’t seem in any hurry to add these basic features for the Hue Go or improve their app. So 1 star from me until this gets a major overhaul.

The app is clunky and doesn’t have enough options. I have to click settings > accessories > (wait for an absurd amount of time) > to then be able to toggle accessories on and off. Can’t these be put under accessories in the home tab of the app under your rooms as accessories? That way we could turn them on and off with ease, or allow Siri to be able to toggle them on and off. Also, where did the long press the app icon shortcut menu go? You used to be able to long press the icon on the Apple Home Screen and a list of lights would pop up which you could toggle on and off. Can’t think of a reason why this function would be removed.

Love the Scenes. I love the app and that I can create scenes from my holiday photos. I have a great scene based on the Melbourne skyline at night. There are two small problems; sometimes when the app opens, lights turn on full at random and, the arriving home feature is unreliable. The lights, indoor and out, are worth the investment, and the customizable switches work perfectly in any setting (no more stubbed toes in the night with a switch I can leave on my bedside table!).

TEST BETTER NEXT TIME. I wish companies would test there products better before release. 1) Try and add new OUTDOOR Motion Sensor. I tested this on an iPhone and iPad (all OS up to date). I only managed to get it added, after the iPhone was left to go into sleep mode and awaken. The app hangs badly and performs poorly, the wait time was need for the app to progress to the next step. 2) I also had trouble adding an INDOOR Motion Sensor. This wasn’t as bad, but persistence in multiple attempts paid off eventually. IMO, the UI is designed ok, and the function use case is fine - IF IT WORKED PROPERLY. This is a failure to test properly issue.

Still not there. The first app you created worked great then this 2nd gen came out and it’s buggy and works when it wants to. Why is the there 2 spots for geo location setting just have it in one spot. So much set up for a silly scene feature but the one thing that won’t work that looked pretty cool is the timers accept when I start it.... nothing happens. Yes I have selected which lights to turn on and selected energise for all and when I click on start I’m just starring at the lights waiting for them to come on. Nothing. At least fix this please. I loved the simplicity of the 1st gen app but had to change because you weren’t supporting it anymore. Make it simple

New update is terrible. The new layout looks much worse and is more confusing than the old version. Why fix it when it isn't broken? But my main issue is the removal of the widgets. I fully controlled my lights using the widgets and now they have all disappeared and I'm forced to use crappy shortcuts now instead! But it's not as simple as creating shortcut versions of my old widgets because somehow the names are still saved so I can't use the same names as my old widgets. WHY WOULD YOU CHANGE THIS? Please bring widgets back as this is a huge step backwards and my only real complaint.

Love it yet buggy. Hue products are great. That said they should have kept the add ons that allowed greater customisation of automations. I now combine it with other apps to allow me to do more complex logic. One note for the developers is the feature “Do not disturb” is buggy and is breaking the sensors. Even if I factory reset after using that feature the sensor never works properly again.

Hue; Light up my life……. Awesomeness by light, easy system to connect, app functionality only compliments the easy of the system. The user interface from choosing the colours, for each light, setting up automation, syncing them with Siri was done without complication. Seeing the user interface on a similar system , triangles! Where one needed to be come a lighting engineer just set a colour. The RGB Mixing panel, the curves graph panel etc, etc. with Hue, and friends; 3 or 4 taps in the app; you got light and or custom light even set a new scene up. The only problem is that now I only light my space with Hue and Friends .

Better than Homekit. Home & Away doesn't work. Nothing changes when I come home or leave. Apart from that, I'm impressed. Hue has come a long way. There's a lot on offer now. The Home & Away timers are a joy to set up, and they trigger based on my location. Hue Sync for immersive gaming works amazingly well -- the PC app works like a charm and I had no idea my Hue lights could update so quickly. Room and Scene setup is very well designed and delightful to use. There's even a setup screen for Siri and Homekit pairing. Everything is graphical and actually fun. This is what Phillips should have done in the beginning.

Not too bad. Maybe I’m just blind but I don’t like the fact they took away the positioning tool, I found their new way of doing it but it’s only side to side on your desk, my lights are behind my monitor but it’s showing the colour of the bottom of my screen, the old way was so much better but after getting a new light strip, (which for some reason always comes up with the default colour when turned on instead of the saved colour like my original bars do) I had to set it up

Quality and performance. I was recommended Phillips Hue by an engineer friend. You know the sort - researches and does things thoroughly. I bought the system from Bunnings. Quite a few elements which makes it expensive but the build quality and end result is first class. I am now starting to build on the system to bring the garden to life at night.

Something in the new update means two bridges aren’t supported. We have a large house which we have installed Phillips hues lights and switches throughout. As the bridges only support 50 devices we have two bridges (one for upstairs, one for downstairs). Something in the latest update means only bridge is active at a time (can’t switch between bridges like you used to). This means you have to remove and physically reactivate the second bridge when you want to use it. This essentially makes one of my bridges unuseable at any given time. Please fix this issue. Thanks

Love my many lights. built up loads of them over the years. So far happy that Philips have not gone down the route of updating continually and obsoleting early versions, nothing annoys me more when you invest in electronics to be forced to upgrade and replace. Truth is you just lose customers. Well done hue for not doing that to us!!! Would like to be able to control or place individual lights in rooms according to location so the dynamic light sequences can be tailored for the room set up. Hence 9 out of 10 score.

App works well overall. Overall the Hue lights and sensors are excellent, and the current version of the app is good. I move back and forth between the Hue app and the Apple Home app. Both have areas of relative strength. Hue more reliably reflects the actual status of lights, though. The app would benefit from having more layers of grouping, to accomodate lights with multiple globes. Globe, light, room and zone are the four layers we have; the app supports three layers. Also, our system has run out of capacity to add scenes etc (hitting a current ecosystem limit - not an app problem of course), so overall the digital infrastructure needs work.

Have to keep reconnecting. Have used for years and it was great but last year ever since some desk jockey made it mandatory to sign up and let it monitor you; every now and again you have to reconnect with Alexa or when they update terms and conditions makes you find your log in details resign in before being able to use….. you can’t use it otherwise…. use another low touch system if you want to maximise the whole reason you are using this sort of interface.

Five stars for music sync. Entered the beta thing for music sync and it works really well. It’s a feature I’ve been waiting for and works without needing the microphone. Fantastic job guys! I might have one complaint about the light % adjustment, when I let go to set at x% brightness it will change by 1-2 values and it’s a tad annoying. First world problems. 😅

Options. So many options available with Hue. Set via a switch or adapt in the app. Excellent system! You can set up a Sonos system, the Hue system can lock on to the sound and give you a coordinated light show. You can have Phillips switching as you walk into the house. Alternatively the lighting system can act as a security system by turning on the lighting while you are out for the night or go on holiday for days or months. The lighting is very reliable, I have added new products over the years. All lights are adaptable to you mode using the Hue app via your iPad or phone, even Google/Nest products can control your lighting at night. Motion sensors are available so you will never bump into walls/doors, the lights will switch on to give a low light navigating at night around the house. Have fun with Hue systems, love it and simple to fit!

Update removed useful features. No idea what they did or why they did it. There is no logic to the update nor can you get the support you need for the app. The best most useful feature was the countdown timer. I go to bed at different times and used to turn on a 30 minute fade out timer to help me fall asleep. Gone. Or I used to set a timer to shut lights off when i left a room to give me some light because I charge my phone in a different room. Gone. Why get rid of a functional integral part of the app? And why is everything “sideways” now? You no longer swipe up from the bottom of the screen to see other light settings, you now swipe to theleft…Why? No other app has this backwards thinking. They ruined a good thing. Have also had more issues with connectivity to my lights now. I change the scheme and the light stays stuck on the previous colour. Or has a serious lag. Never an issue before. Tragic, unfun and unhelpful app now.

So far so good. I only got one bulb to try first. Didn’t like the yellowish lighting but getting used to it. It’s not bright enough. It will be good for the bedroom. It seems to work just fine. As long as hubby doesn’t turn the switch off the scheduling is spot on. I am getting the colorful ones soon and see how that goes. I get quite excited telling people that Siri can turn the light on and off. I can even use my Apple Watch too. Amazing technology. Will update once I get the computed ones.

Brilliant Intuitive Sophistcated. This is an excellent app. It really allows for sophisticated customisation while having a good UX and is both intuitive and user friendly. You can make your home systems as simple or complex as you like. The Hue Bridge helps keep the system steady and reliable - independent of the vagaries of the internet. Please Philips keep it up and don’t suddenly change the app without doing thorough development and user research. I only say that because in May ‘24 my ‘smart’ home sound system brand changed their previously user-friendly app, and the new one is a huge disaster. Philips keep up the good work.

Good app, great tech. Has been a great app for along time and many of the other smart tech providers could learn a thing or two from these guys. Easy to set up your lights even for a novice like me. I now advise the electricians on how to set up the lights on my house and all have been very impressed with how they operate. Would happily recommend to anyone who wants to up great there home.

Very good for family with young children. We have hue lightbulbs installed in both ours and the kids room. Its very convenient and easy to use for the young children. Especially in the cold weather, they don’t need to leave the bed to turn on the light in the middle of night if they need to look for sth or simply just get scared. Highly recommended to the family with young children.

Great product, but please bring widgets back. I’ve been a very happy consumer with my Phillips lighting for a couple of years now. Smart lighting is incredible, and in my experience compared with other brands Phillips allows for the most control in getting the right light temperature for my needs. I’m disappointed that the recent IOS update has removed the Hue widgets. This may be an apple issue rather than a hue one? I much preferred the interface, icons and softer colours of the Hue widgets instead of the large, bright garish icons available with Apple shortcuts. The widget change has also created an accessibility problem for me. It would be great to see the old widgets back - thanks

Really regressive update. Ignoring how buggy this sequence of updates have been this update has been a big disappointment in use and function. Every feature is now a lot slower, editing just about every item is more painful and the kids can no longer even edit light colours because you have to drag a tiny marker. The only positive is it looks a bit nicer but as the status shown is never accurate, what is the point. Our household is living on the one device that hasn't upgraded yet. To be clear for the developers response the app is sluggish ... the lights still perform fine.

Definitely get this app. Definitely get this Philips hue app when buying your Philips hue products as it has all the features you need to automate and setup the full controls. This app works extremely well and keeps your products firmware software regularly updated with improvements and functionality.

The quality of the lights is great, software is junk.. What is the point of hue labs, just allow the functions under automations. How easy would that be? You would find your clients have far more imagination then you give them credit for, it is nice that you hold peoples hands that need it. But you are holding back the majority. I really don’t care how pretty your app looks. It’s useless in its present form. GIVE EASY ACCESS TO TRIGGERS, DURATIONS, FADING, you get the idea. Read what is out there “BASIC” is the best thing said, anyone that serious about home automation recommends third party apps. WHY!! because most people have surpassed just turning there lights off and on. Your software developers need to critically reassess what they’re doing and pull their heads out of the sand, if they cannot hear what the community around them is saying about this app. Great lights let down by the software.

Not bad but not great. It does everything I want it to- turn off, on, change brightness- all from my phone. Don’t bother programming wake up and night times with this app though. Originally bought hue as a light alarm clock, but the app will forget your programs frequently enough that it’s too annoying to reset and reprogram them multiple times a week. There are multiple issues like this that have prevented me from investing further. Apparently these issues go away with hue bridge but it’s a lot of money to invest for something that has been disappointing in their “trial” product

App stopped working. Have had hue lights for years but suddenly the bridge wont talk with the app and the app itself goes into a loop and then errors out. It says something went wrong with an update but will not close and comes up with the same message if you try and kill it and restart. Dont know what they have done but looks like a feral update has trashed things. Some further work shows that the hue bridge will no longer work when connected to my ethernet switch. Have tried a second bridge, multiple cables and ethernet ports but it appears to only work if connected directly to my router rather than via a gigE switch. I can see from some of the internet posts that I am not the only one with this problem. Looks like phillips have broken something..

Like it, but…. I’d make the per light bars on the lights tab thinner to allow more lights onto a single page without having to scroll so far when you have many lights (I have 18). I’m starting to play with more automation and am looking forward to continued innovation in the interactivity between the lights and the app. I like Hue overall but think it could be smarter in some ways too.

Why update?. The app used to work flawlessly, no lag, speedy interface. It was great. Since the update the app is very slow and there is now a noticeable lag between the app and the light. Also a random scheduled lights on appeared when I updated, it took me a few days to work out why the lights were turning on. The layout of the app has also changed, I’m sure I will get used to navigating around the app new layout the slow interface and lag is an issue they need to fix.

Automation struggles. Initial setup is so good Able to setup lights and hub and sensor Work like a charm to remotely activate the lights Apple home kit integration was so easy Problems : 1. Automation on hue app doesn’t work, I.e the lights won’t turn on as scheduled 2. Motion sensor(outdoor) works but the hue bridge sometimes won’t trigger the light 3. Automation is meant to work in the evenings and the motion based lights are meant to work from midnight, apparently it’s not working the lights are off most of the time , even if I turn the lights from the hue app, the lights turn off after a certain time. Frustrated with the automation and I am giving up. I Although I tried with Apple home automation, still the lights turn off after sometime. Very frustrating!!! Tech support pls don’t tell me to check firmware, reset , remove Apple HomeKit blah blah, I’ve tried all the avenues. I believe there is some unnoticed parameter that’s causing this and am not sure.

Works well for the most part. Have used my Hue Lights for the past few years without incident. However lately my old bridge (gen2) started disconnecting from network frequently and after messing around with it and a few resets and IP set up I gave up and got a new one. This led to my 2nd poor experience… there is no easy way to transfer from one bridge to another. Each light needs to be removed and re added however two of the lights won’t reconnect. I’ll probably need to manually add them tomorrow but overall I would say Hue is good most of the time but doesn’t handle exceptions well.

Enjoy the UX, two tweaks needed. The guidance the App gives for initial setup is doable without being overwhelmed. I like the control sliders but transitioning between functionally identical modes that are presentationally different feels wrong. I wanted to send feedback without signing in to Facebook or Twitter and now I can on this invitational prompt. All the X widgets for backing out from a place in the App need to be consistently placed on one side. Sometimes the X is upper left or right, hate that. Once the lights are set, different tree layouts for architectural blueprint room mapping would be neat. The razzle dazzle effect gets old fast in the UX, suggest dialing that down after initial magical encounter. Maybe box and wiring diagram approach is more intuitive than plus or minus tile approach. Thank you Phillips Hue.

New UI overhaul is atrocious.. This app has always done everything I needed it to. Unfortunately after the latest update the new UI is terrible. It now takes several clicks on a light to get to the colour picker and the brightness slider is also completely out of whack with the rest of the UI. If you attempt to use the brightness slider on the first screen it is extremely difficult to slide between the 0-10% range due to the edge being so close to the edge of the screen. It also seems to have a very small trigger area for that slider which makes it hard to grab and move. Overall an update that is worse in every way. The UI in general is so disjointed and buttons and selections are not consistent at all. It’s amazing whoever does their UI got the approved for release. Hue/Philips managers and executive leadership obviously don’t have any globes of their own or they’d never approved this mess surely.

Great app but slight changes need to be perfect. Love the app and all my philips lights. The only constructive criticism I have is the swipe switches to turn lights on and off need to be changed to buttons (or at least have the option to change them). Opening the app quickly to turn a rooms lights off or on gets annoying when a slight miss-press means it just goes into the light setting page. A button would be a much better alternative. Other than that, great products

Anti-user and inconsistent. Couldn’t use light because of bad design.. The most stupid update methosld ever in history of apps. My HUE was old version out of the box and didn’t support dynamic. But update does not download automatically. And you can’t just select “Update”. It only updates by itself and People wait 5-12 hours for to to update! Mine displayed “update available” next day. Until it updated the Light I couldn’t use it. All because of this update “process”. It’s like simulation of bureaucracy within Hue App! Who makes such design decisions?

Yet another evil corporation. App and lights were working fine, now philips says it’s planning to reach into my home with their creepy digital fingers and disable my lights unless I sign up for their bogus account. When I purchased my lights years ago, this was never part of the deal. How can this company get away with digitally locking the lights in my home? It’s not hard to see what’s next - they will charge a subscription for you to use the lights you already own. Philips, I will never sign up for your account or buy anything philips again. Get lost!

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Don’t force me to sign up…. I just want lightbulbs to work.

Why remove the widget??. Why would you remove the widget? iOS shortcuts doesn’t cut it. That was one of the best features of the app.

Lost a customer. Philips decided to be greedy and change their terms of service to require an account to continue using the app so they can harvest their users data and make a quick buck. I need to replace my $300+ worth of bulbs in my house, since they’re starting to die off. I’m going to be moving to any other Zigbee-compatible devices instead. Hope it was worth it.

Feckless numpties. I’d tell you guys to remove the stupid sign-in security nonsense but I know you won’t. The latest update made 75% of my house unresponsive. I’m not going to waste my time with attempts at solutions that I already know won’t work. I’ll just switch to Govee which work better, do more, and cost far less. Furthermore, my Govee lights don’t make me have an account. Bye, Philips.

New update sucks. There is so much lag and waiting time when using the app and waiting for the lights to respond. Also why have the widgets been removed?!? I feel like the app has been downgraded not upgraded.

Where are the widget?. Where is widget support? Why is it taking so long.

Widget gone?. Used to be able to change scenes quickly with the widget but my app updated and now it’s gone? When I checked in app it said I have to use a shortcut which is stupid and annoying because it has even more steps than the original widget.

Why…. Are all the button so small? The back button the close button The worst is the colour picker that take three taps to get to then resets unfortunately and I must tap the tiny little colour button that is Right Beside aka Too Close to the white hue button that is at least a little better separated from the newer button I will never use. These lights are one of my favourite things but the app leaves a lot to be desired.

Latest update broke widgets. Latest iOS version. My existing widget disappeared. If I search for Hue or Philips in the widget search nothing comes up.

New version is the worst version he. New update is the worst. So slow, barely usable on older devices. And where are the widgets; is using Shortcuts considered an upgrade to widgets?….

Requiring an account is awful. I hate the fact that an account is required now. Loved the product but will now be looking for a different ecosystem moving forward. For lights my dudes? Really? What’s next, an account for your toaster?

Poor design, way over-user friendly. No timer? That was the best part of the app and now it’s gone. The new design is for four years old children. Disappointing…

ridiculous demand for online account. I’ve been using Philips hue products for years, but with new demand for no opt-out online account I’m going to get rid of all of them and never buy any Hue device again. The claim that this is done for "security" reasons both disingenuous and ridiculous - local network only hue hub is obviously more secure, than giving control to a remote Internet connected server that’s just a question of time somebody will hack to control your light and access your private data. I have no confidence or trust for ability to provide a real security from a company that uses it as a justification for a marketing trick and breaks perfectly working product with no concern for its customers.

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!

Forcing an account is a show-stopper for many. Forcing account creation is a show-stopper for many who previously bought Hues for the availability as a reliable, local only smart home setup.

STOP FORCING LOGIN. If the forced login is not rolled back I’ll have no other choice but to stop purchasing hue products. “Security” doesn’t warrant this change

Garbage app with tons of bugs. This app has lots of blocker bugs, I couldn’t complete adding lights — app dead with a white screen after.

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.

update broke shortcuts. shortcuts stopped working on wifi since last update

Thousands invested, will be leaving Hue behind. We’ve been Hue users for years. We have thousands invested in the system. Internet-connected hubs and accounts for lightbulbs is a no-go and everyone should be warned that Signify’s “for security” comments should be ridiculed as non-sense. Secure is a light that doesn’t need someone to store your username, password and personally identifiable information. Thankfully for the technically inclined the lights use zigbee and can be controlled via other means (Home Assistant) with a zigbee hub. Don’t let Signify get away with this. Stop buying their products. There are other, less expensive options. Too bad though - the lights have been very reliable for us and we have three bridges and close to sixty bulbs.

New design sucks. All people involved in this change should consider a change in careers.

No widget. Slow official support.. No widget support, is expected to work through home app and hue app. You can't just access hue app through the widgets or Lock Screen shortcuts. Home app always slow to respond or refresh rather than direct control the hue app has, and as I don't have a Apple pod and iPad doesn't act as home control anymore I assume it's slower than normal. Very irritating.

New app is awful. From the awful skeuomorphic buttons to all of the extra presses to adjust anything - the new hue redesign is one of the worst failures I’ve ever seen in a modern app. Did they even test the app? Who thought any of this UI / UX made sense or was a good choice? They’ve somehow made it worse than it was before. Baffling. Hue lightbulbs are great but the app has always been the weak link. And it just got even worse. Shameful.

Great product. Terrible app.. The device itself is great. Bulbs are bright and responsive, color is clear. But the app is absolutely terrible. It constantly wants me to update and now it’s stuck in this loop of connecting and not connecting and it won’t even let me update anymore.

Spare me the cloud account for “security”. After years of use and over a thousand dollars invested, this app gets uninstalled now. Your recent astroturfing comments trying to rehabilitate for the previous (legitimate) reviews complaining about the sudden forced “cloud account” is embarrassing. These are *light bulbs* IN MY HOUSE that I’m trying to turn on and off… I don’t want to join an ecosystem or a family, just let me use them. Utter garbage direction.

Changing TOS after sale to steal your data. They now require an account to turn on your light bulb. Respect people’s privacy.

With every update the usability gets worse. The scenes widgets are gone and instead you need to go through the Shortcuts app to configure them all over again. Gone is easy access to Widgets on my phone by simply swiping to the right. The learning curve is ridiculously high for a simple light switch operation.

Update it back please.. The new update is so much harder to use. Please change it back to the old simple version (June 2021). Where is the colour wheel?

Mellon. Who ever did that latest patch is a Mellon head. Try to turn on bedroom lights and tells me I have multiple lights. 5 years never had that problem. Tell Alexa to turn on all bedroom lights and apparently even thou in deferent groups my porch lights kitchen light and counter lights are in my bedroom. Good job guys.

Terrible. Suddenly decided I need to create an account so it can harvest my data and won’t even connect to my light anymore.

Terrible, wasted so much money. I have had hue lights for over 6 years, nothing but frustration. The newest update has basically made a mess, I can’t access a single light, and support is literally the worst. $1000’s of dollars in lights that don’t work and an app that crashes. Don’t do it!

Requires an unneeded online account.. App works just fine without an online account. An online account will be required in the future where your data can be shared with partners. No thanks. Rating will be adjusted when I can continues using the products I purchased without having my data sold.

Widget update sucks. New update to widget is HORRIBLE. So inconvenient. Old widget was so easy and user friendly. Loved my hue lights before this update. Now I’m thinking of switching.

Scum of the earth. Starting soon you’ll need to be signed in to use this previously offline device. I’ll see you in court!

Hue bridge?!?!?!?!. I bout a philips hue White and colour ambiance E 12 lightbulb. Nowhere on the box or the manual mentions this bridge but when I open the app it request me to hook it up, I called Support the gentleman was very helpful in helping me realize that I was screwed by Phillips. I’m going to get my money back from Home Depot ,hopefully, I don’t have the receipt anymore so... I was laughing to myself driving home thinking about the Phillips CDI and how much of a fail that was and That Phillips has seem to turn themselves around boy was I wrong you would think it would say on the box that I NEED the bridge that retails for 70 CANADIAN DOLLARS, about the same price as the bulb it’s self, what a waste of time!

Great lights. I have them in my house and I love them

What happened to the timer??. Why has the timer setting been removed? That was the one setting I used daily and it makes the use of the lights so much less user friendly. So disappointing.

Widgets replaced with shortcuts ruins the app. Old widgets worked great, one click on, click again to turn off. Replacement with shortcuts that take too long if they work at all. How can such an obvious backtrack in functionality get through on an update.

I don’t agree - how do I proceed?. I don’t agree with the new terms and conditions - yet there is only one button to click on, which says ‘I agree’ (Sept 2023) How do I get to a button which says ‘I disagree’?

Sharing sensitive data. I’m deleting this app because Hue has changed its privacy settings. I can’t stop them from sharing my usage data (and location and other private things) to third parties. I just want to turn my lights on. Terrible choice on Phillips’ part.

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.

Hue is complete JUNK now. Was great, now every single update just bricks my devices, over and over again, and support is 100% USELESS, not only am I not updating anymore, I’ve found a new brand and I’m phasing this hue garbage out. Bye.

New Look and Features Good. Decision Making Still Terrible.. The Hue app has been a confusing mix of integrations and ‘labs’ apps for many years. Every season change if you want to have a custom colour scene it is like wrestling a slippery bear to get the app to do what you want each day. With their latest update they made some great strides with scenes and auto play so doing something as mundane as having your lights display Christmas colours is easy and intuitive. That being said, it only works well inside the app and when you interact directly with the scene. If you copy the scene to HomeKit it does not animate. If you turn on the room in the hue app with the default scene it does not animate. I would give this rating a 3 star in this state but when I pointed the failure out to their customer support they insisted it worked as designed. If that is the case their design is inconsistent and I reduce this to a 1 star review. Bottom line, if you only ever want to use the Hue app you can probably make it work, if you want to integrate hue lights, automations and scenes into a smart home I would look for alternatives.

TOS update. TOS update will require you to login and to have internet connectivity at all times, which will allow Philips to collect data, and prevent you from using hue when there is no internet. I don't need to control my lights outside my home and I don't want to login. I bought these because they didn't require Internet connectivity, but that will soon no longer be the case and that is shameful.

One Star, lack of real widget support. The latest update removed the widget support and forces users to create shortcuts on iOS which is MUCH slower than before where it was near instant response. Absolute trash can of an update and Philips should be ashamed and called out for their laziness of dropping their old widget support. One star for ease of use, and one star for losing customer trust.

Days are limited. Have 20 lights, 5 plugs, this app loves to sign me out and now I can’t even sign in. Keeps loading back to sign in screen after it asks me to pick a country. Extremely frustrating

Really frustrating. New app is slower, has less features and more difficult to navigate. Losing the timer is a huge deal breaker and wish I never invested in such expensive lights knowing I wouldn’t have that feature. If I could go back to the old app I would, no good new features to this one.

UX Bloat Corporate Greed. First I had to uninstall the Bluetooth only Hue app even though I use the simplest Phillips setup ever… Now I need the cloud / WiFi connected app and need to link an account just so I can turn on and off 2 Bluetooth cool/warm lightbulbs from my phone… don’t even have or need a bridge

Awful update. The new update is awful. So disappointed. Bring back timers for the love of god.

GARBAGE. App finds bridge then says not found!. Garbage app. I changed router. Google wouldn't see my bridge anymore. Had to complete delete my hue account cause it wouldn't find it, then delete and reinstall hue app. Start from zero, create account, finds my bridge and I press the button,bridge connected! Next screen bridge not found! This is not the first time this happens. Uou guys need to test in a lab what happens when someone changes router or ISP. Very frustrating for a system I pit thousands of dollars in. I'm a network sysadmin too, cab only image what regular users go through.

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Sets The Perfect Mood. I love my Hue Lights throughout my entire apartment. I have gained a pretty extensive collection over the past few years. My set includes Gradient Strips, a Blume, several Hue Go's, multiple color bulbs, and even a colored recessed light in the bathroom! The lights pair well to the bridge that I have, and I can easily control them through the app. I've tried controlling my lights several times using Alexa, or with Apple's Home App and Siri...but personally, I think using this app is best. It is truly the best way to specifically choose the right color, and brightness level, and it's the overall most effective way to control your lights. It's a great app, and the lights are a good product. The 4 stars being given as opposed to 5, is because of the following... 1). I wish Philips Hue would made some type of under cabinet lights (like to use in a kitchen). 2). They offer an entertainment feature where your lights will change based on the video/audio. But that seems to only be compatible with a PC, and not a Mac (even though for the longest time, it said that the Mac feature would be coming soon, and now that literature has been removed entirely from the app 🤷🏼‍♂️). 3). I wish they had more frequent new scenes to select from. They just recently came out with some fun Halloween-themed scenes for October 2022, which I loved! I just wish they would create more themes like this more often...maybe do a "scenes of the month" type of deal** **For the developer: maybe even add this as a subscription service? I'd pay $1/month to have 5 or so new scenes/themes offered to me..

Excellent concept and function, some connectivity bugs. I’ve used the Hue app and lights and lighting system for quite a while now and it is a very capable and useful system. The only real complaints I have are when it comes to the connectivity issues regarding the hub connecting to the lights connecting to the Wi-Fi connecting to my phone. The only real issue is keeping everything up and running all at once. It would be nice and actually very functional and a huge improvement if the hub for the lights did not require a home router to be connected . Some people don’t have Wi-Fi or Internet and they should be able to use these lights as well . It would be even better if it could be functional without a smart phone. The switches that I own are very limited, but work when a smart phone is not available. The latency in the system is one of the aspects that could use improvement.

Outstanding. This is the current model for all smart light manufacturers’ apps to follow. The interface is beautifully designed and intuitive to use. Lights are easy to add, set up, and modify. Rooms and zones (light groupings) can be spun up and quickly changed at will. The included color scenes are very attractive and can be endlessly duplicated and modified to taste, and new custom scenes can be created on the fly or by uploading a reference photo. The scheduling and automation controls are complete and intuitive. TV color syncing is easy to set up and reliable. The app integrates well with iOS, allowing both customizable Home Screen widgets and a variety of commands for iOS Shortcuts. The app has proven to be very stable; in months of heavy use, it has never crashed or frozen once. Kudos to Philips for giving as much attention to the quality of the Hue app as the Hue smart bulbs themselves.

Crashes over and over: can’t use my lights. I haven’t used my hue lights in sometime and downloaded the app today. I was unable to see my zigbee bridge and had to type in a manual IP address. trying to sync by pressing the button on the hardware crashes the app repeatedly. I can only use my really expensive lights as bright white lights now. Update: I was able to install the now unsupported app and use it to upgrade my firmware on the hub. Subsequently, I then used the new app (which could then see my hub and not continuously seg fault) to upgrade my hub firmware. After these steps I was able to then update the firmware on my six lights - this worked and I was able to finally use my investment. Unfortunately, the update bricked one of my lights so I’m down to five, which is a real pain. Unfortunate since I only got a few hours of life from a $60 bulb. I was posted overeats and my lights were in storage, so no warranty. Can’t be sure it’s the apps fault, but still... hopefully newer generation bulbs are more robust.

Still NOT happy with Hue. Update: I have been using Philips Hue lights for about 10 years. After the Apple iOS 18 update, I had to buy a new hub because my old one wouldn’t work. With the new hub, I also had to download new software, which I do not like. One issue I’m experiencing is that I cannot stop my go-to-sleep light from fading. I dislike this fading effect and want to turn it off immediately without any fade. Additionally, I cannot use custom settings because they require a start time. The start time is when I arrive home. That time varies. Unfortunately, the arrive home option isn’t available in the custom setting. Can anyone help me figure out how to stop the lights from fading when I turn them off in go-to-sleep mode? ——— Previous review: My main gripe is I can’t control the lights while away from home. At one point I could although it was only web-based. But now I can’t seem to do that. Or am I doing something wrong. If I had not paid so much for the Philips Hue, I would box it up and throw it in the closet. The Wemo can be controlled away from home why can’t the Philips Hue work as well.

Scene navigation still horizontal (left to right). Updated: the natural light option has seemingly been removed. Back down to 1 ⭐️ for inconsistency. Updated: Natural light addition is appreciated. Matter support also. Extra star for that. But I rarely use the app to activate scenes because that’s screen scrolls horizontally and the app doesn’t rotate on iPhone. I use Apple’s home app so I can see more information and use the product more intuitively (vertically). Updated: the iPhone gets taller, but Philips makes navigating their scenes horizontal (left to right). So the bottom third of the screen is unused, and empty of information, and I can only see the status of 4 bulbs at once. Unless I scroll out of sight. Literally out of sight. 1 star. At least the apple home app is stacked vertically. It’s so obvious… Old: When i swipe left on my home screen, the UI/UX under my fingers moves in the same direction: left. In this app, when i scroll left, the UX/UI under my fingers moves in the opposite direction: right. Hence, inverted. Thankfully I didn’t update the app on my phone and can still use the better, older version. How does this happen?

Love Hue. At this point I’m probably a super user. I have 35+ indoor lights, about 25 outdoor lights, 10 remotes, 2 bridges (the first filled up) and 4 motion sensors. I may be missing something here or there as well. I love the indoor for relaxing, especially great bedtime with the kids. I love that I can turn on entire spaces with one push of a button on my remotes. They are also perfect for setting the holiday mood. The outdoor lights are also perfect for making the house look spooky at Halloween and festive for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, St. Pattys, etc etc etc. I have them on a timer so they come on at sunset and turn off at sunrise. Also have motion sensors to trigger other actions at night. I’ve had a few of the outdoor lights go but if you keep the receipt and they go before they’re 3 years old, Philips has been great at replacing them at zero cost to me. My next purchase will probably be the Xmas string lights. Looking forward to wrapping the tree

Your Latest Update Made My Devices Unusable. My building doesn’t allow peer to peer connections, so if I place my actual WiFi won’t let my Hue lights communicate with my phone communicate. Yes, the WiFi situation is ridiculous, but I live in a historic building that only has one option for Internet and I already had Hue lights and bridge from the last place I lived. Regardless, even not being able to connect Hue to Internet was all fine, because Hue didn’t require Internet connection before, so I set up LAN and it worked fine with Hue Tap for controlling my devices. But as of recently, there’s an update for Hue bridges and it says I can’t use the Tap again until I do the update, which I can’t do because my bridge can’t be connected to the Internet in my building, just the LAN that I set up which has no Internet connection. It wasn’t broken, but your update broke it. Did you really have to disable all the features when I was able to use just fine without the update? I’ve spent so much money on Hue products to make this work. Seriously disappointed. Please make it possible to download update onto phone and then get back on my LAN with the bridge to install the update.

Vivid. Reliable. Absolutely Worth It.. If you’re serious about smart lighting that seamlessly integrates with HomeKit, Hue is simply the gold standard. I highly recommend it to anyone ready to upgrade their home lighting experience. My entire home runs on Hue, and despite having lights on nearly all day—automated scenes like Bright, Good Morning, Chill, Purple Haze, Sunset, and Nightlight—my electricity bill stays remarkably low thanks to their efficient LED technology. Here’s a glimpse of my setup: • 8 Hue Play Bars behind the TV, perfectly synced with Hue Sync for immersive entertainment • 2 Hue Lightstrips (one for under-bar lighting, one above the kitchen cabinets) • Over 10 Hue Ambiance A19 bulbs throughout the house • The stunning Hue Signe Gradient Floor Lamp • 3 Hue Go portable lights • My latest living room upgrades: • Hue Datura Round Ceiling Light (dual top/bottom illumination) in the family room • Hue Centris Ceiling Light with integrated spotlights in the living room With Hue, more is more. Every new addition feels like leveling up your smart home. My advice? Get the app, start with a Hue starter kit, and build your system piece by piece. You absolutely get what you pay for: vivid, rich colors and flawless performance. Years later, not a single bulb has failed me. Future-proof your lighting—Hue is worth every cent.

Philips is quality in everything!. Philips Hue is large and capable of making so much, yet operates with the innovation and customer service of a young start up. Everything they seem to create has quality and robustness built in, from the strength of their devices and components to the apps and hubs that run them. I only hope that with Apple HomeKit’s new update integration will be become even better and allow for more customization and opportunity for the end user. This is the one area which I am beginning to see Philips disregard. Techie customers in the IOT arena. Want the ability for customization on top of basic simplicity for those people in their families or work that are less techie. The future with HomeKit has great potential for allowing ease of use and advanced customization. I hope Phillips considers this as an important area of focus for future products.

Failed migration to updated app, removed timer features.. The migration process did not complete properly. Several of my schedules were simply deleted. It seems that every time philips hue updates itself I lose some schedules or features. The last time they updated they removed fading time on timers. This time they removed timers completely. Since I use timers repeatedly to turn on or off rooms that I want to change randomly this new update renders the philips hue app useless for my needs. Why would they remove timers? IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT. After reading the most current reviews (after update 4) it's obvious that the programmers are not getting a bonus this time around. Removal of features such as timers, widgets and basic control and adjustment features. App crashes or locks up, unable to connect to bridges, unable to connect to lights, etc,etc,etc. You are alienating customers that invested $.$$$ in your products. We expect smart updates that provide added functionality and that actually work! Instead we are FORCED into garbage updates that don't migrate properly, remove relied on features, are counter intuitive and crash.

This app makes scene setting a breeze. We have loved this app from the moment we installed. Pairing with the lights is simple. Most of them find themselves. We use it with the light control hub and have set up great things. One helps when it’s dark in the morning. It comes on low and gets brighter over the next half hour, making it much easier to awake when it is dark outside. The full range of colors we use to the whites are all governed by one app. We can sync them and truly set a mood. The light strip above our built in is full Spectrum so we adjust the color as needed to fill in some light to avoid eye strain in a darkened room and choose the appropriate colors. The app has many really great pre-built options plus you can make your own. Love this app, love the Philips Hue system. Wish it wasn’t so costly but it is worth it!

Finally, a Hue App to write about!. I’ve been a sucker for Philips since the invention of the CD. I’ve had every Hue product and every version thereof, aside from the flood lights. While sadly at the cost of my paycheck, it’s been nice to watch Hue evolve over the years, that’s goes for the tie into 3rd party cloud APIs (Echo/Alexa has been a ride) as well, but the Philips App serious was lacking, frustrating to use and just became mundane. I actually got so sick of it I’d write my own software to control the lights (gg on the API Philips). So yeah, if you haven’t downloaded version 3 of this app, it’s pretty kick a**, finally you can move things around, before you had to delete everything and add them back in a specific order, trying to color match was a nightmare, and so many other issues the previous apps had, this resolves! So for now, it’s hats off to Philips, thank you and please keep making improvements on your hardware and software, you’ve certainly won me back with this one. Cheers, ~T

Usability and Transition Fail. I can't imagine what it must be like for the managers and executives who approved this app and then see their customers revolt en masse. The initial paradigm for hue was "come create light recipes and share them with other hue users." In this new app the company has completely tossed that idea for really beautiful lipstick on an ugly pig of a user experience and control. This new paradigm is, "you turn things on and off, we'll make that an unimaginative and challenging experience for you." They have taken away recipe creation, automated control of lift/color creation in the worse way possible, made the act of changing lights a multi-click requirement. They have given no path the migrate all the scenes you've created, dumbed this app, limited to an iPhone interface ignoring iPads. It is pretty and big, like much recent over-simplistic interface design (thank you google) and they have also given us minimal usability - at least compared to the previous Hue app. However, at least you can turn light groups off and on room at a time. Just like old fashion light bulbs. They have taken a fun and personal product and made it a just a product. One that is not as easy to control or use. Philips, please, fix this and quickly.

Awful. This app is so bad. So awful compared to the original app I don’t know how anyone could possibly rate it 5 stars if they knew what the original app was like. Literally the only benefit of this app is Siri. Except when I add a scene to Siri it doesn’t show in HomeKit. And if I create the scene in HomeKit manually I can’t save it with the same name. Siri-ously!? Not to mention I had to restore my phone only to find the original app will longer sign in to My Hue, and since none of my scenes will transfer over I’m having to re-create everything manually. Also, why can’t I edit my old timers and routines in the new app? Insane. I’ll have to redo all those as well except I can no longer even see their original settings to go off of. Also, sometimes I want to add an icon for a scene without it overriding the light settings I’ve already set up. Lastly, there are often massive delays between when I tap a scene and the lights react. This does not happen with home kit or the original app. The app also constantly says “connecting” when these delays occur and sometimes connecting fails and nothing happens until I force close and reopen the app. Absolutely Dreadful!

One fatal flaw. I have used Hue products for many years. They were a pioneering group in the beginning. Hue products are solid and lasting. I like all those things, and I haven’t balked too much at their pricing. That said: There is one problem with the Hue App that we have endured from the start that I have asked Hue to fix and finally grown weary of - weary enough to start looking elsewhere for smart bulbs and such. The Hue app is the only one I have I have ever used that requires the user to verify their account and connect to the app by pressing a button on the hub - not just initially, but everytime the app is updated. That is a real problem when you are a person who must travel a great deal - and a person who depends on online ability to control devices at the remote location. I am left with two choices. Search through the apps set to update on my devices when I am away and make sure Hue is not among them or update (on purpose or by accident) and lose connectivity. Luckily some control remains via third party apps such as Alexa, but they require more intervention to use. There are other ways to accomplish verification. I can only assume Hue can’t figure that out.

Works great, and easy to control.. I’ve been with Philips Hue for nearly 8 years, and they’ve never gone wrong on me. Organization is excellent. I can control all lights in one room at a time, or do each bulb/lamp/product at a time. I can go from brightness settings by percentage, warm to cool temperatures, literally any color, and 10 customizable live effects. Philips Hue has a wide range of products going from light bulbs you can fit anywhere in a standard lighting fixture or lamp, or buy their own fixtures with integrated LED lights, light strips, smart switches and buttons, wires and connectors, security cameras, automated lighting systems, and more. The only knock back for me and some people is the pricing, these are not cheap. But given that I have almost every imaginable additional features I can use, I’ll take the trade-off. I got exactly what I wanted, and it totally changed my home. By far, I highly recommend this brand to anyone who is looking for lighting quality.

The corporate bait-and-switch strikes again. I invested years ago in a Hue hub and several Hue lights, and I’ve added to that since. I now have more than a dozen Hue devices in my home. Part of the appeal was that everything could be managed and used locally on my Wi-Fi network. I didn’t need an account or a cloud service or anything. Well, with a recent update my Hue app has started telling me that soon I’ll need a Hue account and to be signed in, to use the devices I’ve already paid for! This is under the fiction of improving security, which is a blatant lie. I’m being told I will soon have to compromise my privacy and security by relying on some distant login service to manage devices inside my home. What happens when my internet goes down (this happens a lot, thanks Spectrum)? Will my Hue hub decide not to let me control my lights anymore, even though I can control them on local Wi-Fi today? DO NOT BUY PHILIPS HUE PRODUCTS, THEY WILL BREAK EXISTING PRODUCTS TO FORCE YOU TO SIGN UP FOR FEATURES YOU DON’T NEED. I had to turn off Hue hub auto-updates and iPhone app auto-updates so I don’t get infected with this new device-breaking version.

Version 3 was great. I have been a long time lover of Phillips Hue, and next year will be ten years since release back in 2012! Fast forward to now, and I am a proud owner of 47 of their amazing lighting devices! However there is something that really bothers me about this née Version 4 Update. Every time you open the app it does this “Connecting to Hue…” loading screen. Their previous versions NEVER did this. It is quite annoying since this is a frequent app used, every time you walk into rooms or want to change scenes. This 5 second delay is a total buzz kill when trying to show someone the “party scene” you put together. Or simply walking I to the bathroom to brush your teeth at night! Please let me know if there is ANY way to revert back to the previous Version 3. Losing the ability to instantly control rooms and scenes strongly outweighs any of the features brought with Version 4. Notes for developer: I don’t believe the previous Version 3 had instant simultaneous connection either. But at least it did not block the app from being used with a “Connecting to Hue…” load screen. If the next update allowed Version 4 to establish connections in the background, that would be an amazing improvement. Also it would be nice to bring back support for the Widgets. The Shortcuts are just okay. The biggest difference between the two, is the Widgets allowed usage when your phone was locked. And the Apple Shortcuts require you to unlock your phone to do simple things, such as turning off your lights. Support for both would be great because there are good scenarios for each of them.

This app is great, it works as it is described.. Overall: The Philips Hue Bridge app is a well-designed and user-friendly app for controlling your Philips Hue lights and ecosystem. It offers a good balance of basic functionality and advanced features, making it suitable for both beginners and experienced smart home users. Pros: Easy to use: The app is intuitive and easy to navigate, even for those new to smart home technology. Wide range of features: You can control individual lights, create custom scenes, set timers and schedules, and use voice control through integrations with smart speakers like Alexa and Google Assistant. Reliable: The connection between the app and the bridge is generally stable and responsive. Good color control: The app offers a wide range of color options, including the ability to set specific color temperatures and create dynamic lighting effects. Room and zone management: Organize your lights by room or zone for easier control. Third-party integration: Works with a variety of other smart home platforms and devices. Cons: Requires a separate bridge: This adds an extra cost to the system. Some advanced features require a subscription: While the basic functionality is free, some advanced features like geofencing and specific automations require a subscription. Occasional bugs and glitches: Like any app, there can be occasional bugs or glitches that require updates. Overall, the Philips Hue Bridge app is a great choice for anyone looking to control their Philips Hue lights and create a customized smart home lighting experience. I like it! 😊

Easy to use once set up. The Hue systems are really easy to use once they’re set up. However, setting them up, especially if you have to set up multiple bridges at different locations, is not as easy as it should be IMO. We have multiple bridges and trying to get some of the set ups done for each bridge at different locations was not as easy nor intuitive as it could’ve been. But once I figured it out, it was fine. The directions were incorrect, and I just had to do it based on my knowledge of how my other bridge was set up. We had to have a second email for this other bridge set at a different location. Once we used the separate email, then everything moved right along to get it the set up. That was the frustrating part nowhere in the instructions. Did it tell you if you have separate locations, you can’t use the same email.

No reason for the awful changes. Update: Yep, still an awful app, and an awful company that *requires* you to update software/firmware or you cant use/manage YOUR lights. If your internet happens to be down well too bad for you to locally use your lights OR do a FORCED update to use your lights. And now more TOS changes or we can’t use your product. That we paid for. This company is simply ridiculous. I can’t wait for these bulbs to stop working so I can get away from this company. If only they’d fully reimburse existing customers. It wasn’t like this when I originally bought these lights, which I now regret. I *absolutely hate* companies that do mandatory updates and prevent you from using the product until you do. With some apps I get there may be a very infrequent critical security update, thats actually for a critical app. But not this one. My schedules have not run, leaving my external lighting off, due to the latest MANDATORY update. Unless I check who knows how long this goes on. Not something I should have to do. Like many others here I dislike the new version immensely. Perhaps your company should reach out to, say, your customers, for what features they want or don’t want. And the GUI seems to have zero thought into what someone who actually uses the software would want it to look like and function. The people who actually pay your salaries should matter more to you. And to clarify that for you I mean your customers. Original review I’m not interested in your bad marketing practices. I’m not interested in your data mining and selling. I’m not interested in constantly having to opt out of things. These are lights. LIGHTS! Stop with all the customer-hostile updates. We PAID you, exorbitantly, for your products. Develop and release software that ONLY supports the functionality of these products. That we paid you for. Really, really hate that this company FORCES updates

Update removed very important feature. The new update is joke. It removed one of the most important features which is the master color wheel. Before, there was a “master” color wheel for all the scenes combined, and a master color wheel for each individual scene. For example, i used to be able to control ALL the lights inside my house with one color wheel. If i wanted all the lights in my entire house to be “blue”, i would simply drag my finger on the master color wheel to blue and they would all change at the same exact time. Same goes for room scenes. If i had 5 lights in my “bedroom”, there was a master color wheel for the entire bedroom in which i could do the same as i mentioned above. It was very easy…. Now with the new update, they removed the master color wheel, and if i want to make all the lights blue, i have to individually set each light to blue. This makes zero sense as they have regressed the functionality of the app. I have reached out to Philips Hue support about this issue several times and they don’t seem to understand or care. The app developer needs to understand what is going on here and fix this. It is completely unacceptable.

Very lacking in options... disappointed. Dear Hue Engineers, The app does well at what is included but I’m really surprised at how few options there are in the app. The “zones” are nice but that’s about the best feature. For a $200 light kit the app is very, very lacking in options overall. Feels like a half finished app that was thrown together at the last minute, not a product that has been around for several ‘generations’ of lights. Love the wake up feature but you should be able to wake up to any color combo you want, not just white. No options to fade between colors. No options to automatically change colors at preset intervals. Other than turning the lights on/ off and choosing the colors you have to rely on 3rd party apps to do anything “fun” with these lights. Very disappointed in this app for how much the lights cost. Hue should be ashamed to have this app in the App Store, same goes for the Apple Watch app. From the watch you can only turn on/ off the lights to 4 very boring pre-set options, zero options to customize what color the watch app will turn on. A lot of the “lab” features should be standard within the app and customizable. The app and lights have so much potential... PLEASE UPDATE IT!!!!

Great for lights, but not flexible outside of lights. So I have just bought into the Philips Hue system, which has been great! It works great with HomeKit and HomePod, so it was an upgrade from my Kasa system. The lights are great! But I also bought the Hue smart plugs, and this app is not so great with them. It treats the smart plugs as lights, not as a separate category. I was gonna set them up for a space heater and a coffee maker but the app just straight up calls them "light". "Light info", "light behavior when power on", and they're all in the "Lights" menu with the lights. You can't even choose an emoji as the symbol, it's all different versions of light fixtures! I thought the bridge could be useful for other Zigbee devices I may get in the future. But after setting it all up, it's basically just using an additional outlet just for lights. So I think Philips Hue could be so much more, but in the end, the whole Light-focused app just makes this ecosystem so limited. Philips should try to make the app more flexible.

Not compatible with Philips dimmer. How do you design an app that controls expensive products that millions and millions of people own, and it can’t get its own company’s products to work together as they were designed? I got bridge, six bulbs, using three in each of two rooms, and thought by getting a version two dimmer switch I would have the ability to turn each room on and off and cycle through the scenes that I created and saved for each room in the app. But no, if you connect the switch, it overwrites the scenes that you created in the app and forces you to use the six scenes that are the default for the switch. You can delete some of them, but either way the settings for the switch will not let you add any scenes that aren’t one of their defaults. That would be bad enough., but it even overwrites the scenes that you save and set aside for that room inside the app!

Every update breaks something. Ok, 3 strikes an your out. I installed a recommended update today and sure enough it broke every light and routine I had configured just like the two updates performed earlier this year. The app can now only turn and lights on or off, my color and brightness level settings only remain in effect for about 5 seconds and then something mysteriously changes all the lights to settings I did not specify. The same thing occurs if I manually adjust the settings, it’s now impossible to control colors or brightness levels on any light. The only solution I have found so far is to perform a factory reset of the hub (square) and re-create every light, room, and routine. I have a iPhone 7 running the latest iOS rev and my network works flawlessly with all my other apps and devices. If a solution exists on the hue website or anywhere else I cannot find it. Unless hue can provide a solution i would not recommend this app or the purchase of any hue equipment unless you are willing to reconfigure your entire system every time the release a buggy update. This is unfortunate as I really like the system when it worked.

Siri and HomeKit are still pretty dismal. Siri integration is still awful. I moved a smart plug from one room to another (I changed the room and the name of it). Siri still believes it's in the original room and the original name. When I tell Siri to turn on/off the original room's lights, it still turns on/off the smart plug. (Edit: I've even deleted it and re-added it. Siri now turns on the living room to a random scene when I ask her to turn this specific "smart" plug on "). Quite sad for such an expensive product but I'm sure Philips is laughing at me. I also find it to be incredibly stupid that you can’t have scenes named the same for different rooms. Hue provides several default scenes (i.e. Relax, Concentrate, etc.) for each room, yet in order to use them with Siri you have to rename them. So I’m somewhat at a loss as to why I can’t just say, “Siri, set Bedroom to Relax,” “Hey Siri, set Living room to Relax.” I feel like this would be so much easier rather than trying to remember what you were forced to rename the relax scene to in each room. Then if you get the wrong scene, Siri responds with “Sorry, I don’t know that one” and you have to open up your phone and load the app anyway.

Phillips hue lights are great and flexible and work mostly. Mostly I am very happy with my Phillips hue lights. They’re very flexible, they work great, they give you a good level of control depending on the bulb. Disadvantages include that if somebody flips the switch off, then lights are useless. Probably my biggest complaint is that whenever there’s a software upgrade the bridge loses communication with the mobile app on my phone. It seems they do these updates on long weekends, and I’m often out of town. Therefore it can be very frustrating to be away and find that none of my Philps Hue lights respond to my commands. That’s the bad news but The good news is that if you have automation turned on, the automation usually keeps working even though you can no longer control the lights while you’re away. Usually this requires you to come push the reset button on the hue bridge, after you come home. Then everything works fine again.

Very annoying UI issues in the new version. I have used Hue now for about two years and just recently updated to the new app. I like some of the the new features, but three are VERY annoying: 1. Why when in a room do you have to scroll left to right to see all the lights and scenes? Why not just list them to fit in the mobile device screen and allow us to scroll up down? It’s a much easier/faster action. Scrolling now means you have to touch one of the small light or scene widgets and not just the screen. Plus, you can grab a widget for a light or scene and move it, but only in the horizontal layout it is in. Why can we not arrange the screen? 2. Why is it not possible to just set a scene on ONE light now? If you turn off all lights but one and then want to set a scene for that one light, you cannot. You get the color selection wheel for color selection and the scenes are gone (for example nightlight). If you go back and set a scene, all the lights in the room turn on. This is confusing and not very user friendly. Scenes should be available for the room AND each light. 3. The brightness selection bar is not very precise. You can get to a brightness, but when you let it go, it often jumps 2 or 3 percent up or down from the setting. The Touch Bar plus a +/- button set would be nice. For those of us that like consistency without having to keep adjusting or using Google/Alexa.

Great if you have less than 50 devices total. I o the other hand have: Bridges 3 Accessories 32 Lights & Plugs 141 I know i’m not your typical end customer, in that I am pushing the limits of the Hue architecture. I’m finding it really difficult to all manage my devices the way I want to be able to and the way Philips markets the products. Here is a rough inventory: Bridges (3), Accessories (32), and Lights & Plugs (141). I recently had to move many lights and accessories among my bridges because of memory issues (inability to program any new routines). Now that I have solved that pain, I have a new one. All voice assistance uses (1) Philips hue account and (1) bridge, means I cannot use Alexa to control devices on my other bridges. So I can only manage them via the app. Also, having to select a bridge before controlling devices is real also a pain. This architectural limitation also limits my availability to have automations that control all devices. I have to create the separate authorizations on each hub to achieve what should be a simple task. If I decide to change an automaton, I have to do it on all three. Can’t claim easy of use. This architectural limitation is only going to get worse as more devices are added. I do have iConnectHue app which helps, but is still not ideal and that doesn’t solve my “voice assistance” (Alexa, Google Home, Etc.) issue. Do you know of a work around and when Philips intends to address this major limitation.

Nice lights. The Hue lights are a bit pricey - could get out-of-hand if you were doing an entire house with a number of recessed ceiling lights or a couple of multi-bulb chandeliers. I have the bulbs on three lamps, 4 recessed lights in the ceiling over a covered patio, and a couple of plant uplights - primarily for their multi-color capabilities. And I very much like them for those places. I believe their biggest shortcoming is the lack of a “conventional” on/off switch. They offer a switch that would serve that purpose but it’s too large to fit in a standard U.S. electrical box so if used to control ceiling lights in a room, it has to be stuck on the wall. If you were doing a house from scratch you might be able to get oversized wall boxes or find a solution that’s better than using double-sided tape. But - all that being said - the lights themselves function well and I’d recommend them with the aforementioned caveats.

Expensive/Time consuming. I bought a $100 Go lamp to use as a morning alarm clock. I tried to schedule a daily sunrise. It isn’t allowed. I have to go in and manually set it every night. I also have to set a sun set to turn it off after a while or it will never turn off unless I go into the app and manually turn it off. So, every night I have to go and turn the two schedules on if I want to use them. If I forget, then it doesn’t do anything. If I want full access to the scheduling features, I must go out and purchase a $70 Bridge, for just one lamp. So, that is about $170 to get the one Go lamp to work as it should. I bought a set of four WiFi smart plugs for $30 and have full functionality and can set multiple separate schedules for each of the devices without issues. They just work once set. How is it that a $30 set of smart plugs are fully featured and can have multiple schedules, while a $100 smart lamp is dumb and requires extra daily steps or an extra purchase to work? Make that make sense. Very disappointed. Do better Hue.

Visual Comfort. Love my Hues! I prefer indirect lighting and appreciate how much different lighting can enhance activities. So whether I am needing full light for a project or to play in my VR, or if I am relaxing and winding down, I can adjust to what suits the moment. A precious bonus is taking the colors from personal pictures. That is nostalgia that makes your heart smile as a memory actually lights up your life. And the fun that can be had around the holidays! Oh, the uses are only limited by your imagination. These are the only bulbs I want indoor and out. Only one thing I would request as I haven’t seen it yet, and that would be vanity lighting or for the bathroom to turn your bath into a spa. Or like those old red bulbs that used to be in all bathrooms (dating myself on that one lol) but those infrared floods in the bathroom were awesome! If you guys could do that? That would be chefs kiss! Thank you for all you do! Your Forever customer, 3Guesses

Mostly cool, some holes. I just got Hue, and for the most part, it’s super cool! The general system is amazing and really fun to play with. The app? A little funky. While some parts are fairly intuitive, I had to do a lot of poking around on my own to figure it out, which isn’t the worst thing, but I also had to do a fair amount of running back and forth from the basement to the first floor and back down because it seemed like the bulbs were syncing to the wrong room. Finally got all the bulbs assigned to the correct space, but my big frustration (and the main star-dropper) is that I cannot for the life of me log into my account through the app. I keep getting error messages—one of which said something about being connect to the wrong app (??), which I installed yesterday and controls everything just fine over WiFi. Here’s the kicker—the screen is displaying a “sign out” button, which leads me to believe I’m technically signed in. But I can’t do anything that requires sign in, because... I’m not... signed in? I’m very confused. Hue gods! Help me please!

•••WORST UPDATE EVER••••. I have had my hue bridge and a ton of Standard A19 WHITE bulbs, a half dozen A19 COLORED bulbs, A handful of the colored CANDLE bulbs, 18’ feet of the colored LED strips and two colored BR30 flood lights for several years now.. Before this new app/update it has always worked very well. That was until this Super annoying new app and the ton of problems that came with it….. Let’s see first the app just disappeared on my Apple Watch 6… Then after trying to find the original hue app in the Apple Watch App Store i found it doesn’t even exist… I found a app called “hue bridge” it may be the same although it has a different thumbnail… Due to the fact it was my only option I installed the app.. But it doesn’t matter because the app won’t even open… I click the app & a stupid *loading… screen appears and that it.. Oh that just the beginning.. The HUE app on my phone was also super annoying.. Several times now Ive had re-verify my account reconnect my hue bridge and enable the out of home control option.. Basically I am very disappointed that I updated the app and wish I could return to the previous version!!

Great lights, room for a lot of improvement on app customization. To start, I really do like the lights. The app is incredibly easy and user friendly so I’d say it’s a pretty reliable app. However hue is not the only smart light app, now that I am playing with other smart light apps hue seems to be getting left in the dust as far as customization goes. The light bulbs run $40 with LED strips being a pretty penny only for basic white and color modes. No color chasing, no rainbow features, not even settings that I can play with to customize an entire room… even getting some thunder effects requires you to purchase an entire new app! The app is good and it works great but ALOT of work needs to be done with more user features because as it stands Phillips… you’re overpriced and can’t even keep up with the same user features as Govee. If you’re thinking about investing in Phillips, I would recommend you don’t. Find more affordable lights with a better user friendly app because you’ll set the color for these and that’s about all you get without the expensive Sync box which is not worth the price…

Reliable, but lagging behind.. I love my Hue lights, but between the astronomical cost of the lights/accessories and the lack of deeper functionality, I’m not surprised that they’re fading from popularity at this point. Other brands offer similar functionality for a fraction of the price. On top of that, these brands offer more diverse options for custom settings and animations. That being said, Phillips Hue lights are seemingly more sturdy and reliable than most other brands, but I’m not convinced that that’s super relevant given that 1 of the 5 lights I bought is already malfunctioning after only 2-3 years of normal use. Overall, I won’t be getting rid of mine anytime soon (especially after what I paid for them), but I do wish the premium price tag felt more justifiable. At the very least, I’d love to see a major overhaul of the app and customization options to catch up to their competitors in 2024. And I don’t know… maybe a price drop? Am I asking too much?

Straight forward app. Not sure what else I would need from the app, as it does everything I’d want it to. The only thing that I’d like more is for it to have more preprogrammed scenes….like, an infinite number to choose from. I realize I can create my own. But the scenes included seem quite limited and for no apparent reason at all. There need to be scenes regularly added, immediately and quickly, until there is such an extensive collection to choose from that it becomes almost impossible to choose one in a given moment. That’s not to say that the ones included aren’t great. They are, truly. And that this is my only complaint says everything about my feelings towards this app. Thanks Phillips, for a tremendous product and for the support in place for your product. I love my lights, and that’s something I’ve never would have said prior to purchasing Hue.

Hue light owner for the past 2 years. I got the Phillip’s hue lightbulb 2 years ago as a gift. So far works great! I love that you can set for light to turn on/off at desired time, great when you’re traveling. Also the wake up feature is amazing. And just adjusting brightness as needed is great. Barely use the many colors, but they’re there when needed it. The only annoying thing is that sometimes when I get home with full hands, can’t just flip a switch, I have to grab my phone to turn on light (I don't have Alexa or google to say it). But is only annoying at that moment, once lights on, I forget about it. Overall very pleased. PS: hating that I can’t post because nickname taken. I have tried so many and everything is taken. Never writing a review here again, lol. But I wrote so much that I will post this one.

Love Huey 😎🐝🌸🐰🙋🏻‍♂️💜. Hue lights work beautifully 😎💜🌸🤗🪴🧋 I have been happily using it for many many years. I also have the hue bridge. I have lights in the living room and bedroom and I use the app, Siri, Alexa and some accessories to control the lights. I also set times when the lights turn on and off. I also have a hue motion sensor at night so when I go to the bathroom my salt rock crystal lamp turns on for 1 minute when triggered which is what I programmed it to do. I also have a Schlage encode plus font door lock (which is fantastical)and I programmed it so when I lock the door the hue lights turn off and when I unlock the door the lights turn on. I set it for certain hours so I’m the morning it turns off and at night it turns on. I also programmed the 4 button wall switch to turn on and off certain lights and activate certain scenes.

Version 4.0.1. Update as of June 18, 2021: Philips Hue is still on version 4.0.1. From reading other reviews, I see I’m not the only one who has been having problems with lights responding. I know Hue is aware that there are a lot of bugs, but there hasn’t been a fix yet. Because I am relatively new to Hue, I was able to return my Hue Bridge and Smart Buttons to the retailers. I’m disappointed, however, that Philips Hue would not allow me to return the Smart Dimmer (remote) I purchased directly from their website, despite being just a few days past the 30-day return window, and despite the fact that their unstable app update is what caused me to move away from the Hue ecosystem in the first place. It’s a shame that they broke what was working. —————— I’m getting really freaking aggravated with Philips Hue. I come home this evening, and my lights that should’ve come on in my room with the automation didn’t. I was home for a good 15-20 minutes, went into my room, no lights. I open the app and it showed the lights as being on. Then, they suddenly turn on. What?! Needless to say, I am STILL having major issues with response time, even after 4.0.1. I never had any problems before the app “upgrade” to 4.0; however, now I’m experiencing a VERY noticeable lag between doing a command on the app and the actual light responding. Again, this is still occurring with 4.0.1. When it happened the first time, I was hoping it was just a fluke, but it’s happening quite often…and I’m just doing simple commands, such as turning a light off or on. I tried dimming ONE bulb this evening and I waited and waited. I really hope Philips is able to fix this very soon. I’ve been over here debating whether I should return my Philips Hue products now because of this. What good is having “remote” control when you could get up and do it faster? This is just absolutely ridiculous at this point.

Phillip Hue Color changing lights. When this came out we bought one to try it out then we really started to like them light bulbs we added some more around the house made a couple of the rooms smart as they connect to your smart phone through WiFi .. I love the different colors great for moods and music or just laying around the house watching movies .. I most definitely recommend this product for other people to try and enjoy Something new .. we have had some issues with the app not working right but we keep looking for updates they still need bug fixes within the app. Other than this it’s been great experience now there are other smart or light color changing bulbs out there by other companies trying to complete against one another but I would still choose this one . we love them makes life easier can turn on and off lights or dim them. Would like to thank Phillips Hue

Frustration!. I love the hue bulbs and they have been really nice in a home with very little overhead lighting. Everything hardware wise usually works fine. I am beyond frustrated with the app. I tried to set up automations for sunset in several rooms and they just do not run. No errors or indication of why, they just simply don’t work. The lights are always “on” from the switches and are able to be turned on and off manually from the app but no matter how many times I have retried the sunset automation it doesn’t work. And I can only try once a day because sunset only happens once a day! So I thought maybe I could connect hue to Apple Home and set up an automation from there but sadly… that doesn’t work either. I get a weird error message when I try without any further prompt for help or guidance. Overall not catastrophic because I can just manually turn the lights on when it starts to get dark (like a normal person), just disappointed that it’s an advertised feature that just doesn’t work at all.

Phillips Hue is SIMPLY THE BEST!!. We purchased our first Hue product back in 2017 and since, we’ve single-handedly outfitted our entire home with them. The app is simple to use, intuitive, and has a myriad of features (especially when connected to the bridge)- out of home control being one that we use regularly. The lights (and products themselves) are bit steep in terms of price but, customer service and support is outstanding, and they last a long time. Many of our lights from 2017, we still have to this day! We moved in 2022 to a townhome with a rooftop and have outfitted it with many of the outdoor products which are stellar. It’s always a treat to have people over to our house and have the Hue lights set the scene in a powerful way. I’d highlight recommend with the caveat on price-point: These aren’t cheap BUT, they are worth the investment.

Need to have a single login for all hue bridges. It is really annoying trying to keep this app working for more than on house. The way Philips has designed the app you have to have a separate account on their server for each Hue Bridge unit. So if you have two or more houses to monitor when youu try to switch from one house to another from a remote location the pp frequently fails because it is trying to use the wrong login id for the bridge you are trying to access. You then must manually log out of the server and login using the id for the bridge you want to talk to and HOPE that the app remembers the connection. There should be one single login id on the server and you should be able to have as many hue bridges reachable thru that id as you need. Somehow the Nest folks got this right on there remote access connections as did many other venders. I really generally like the hue light system; but the ISO app can be very painful to use.

Very awesome light. I enjoy this bulb as I have one in my living room and one in my son’s nursery. I love the fact that you can dim the bulbs through the app or even through Alexa. All very positive things to say and discover with this. You can set up different rooms, dim individual lights (through app) and even set up home-and-away lighting! However user friendly this try’s to be, any smart home will have bugs... I’ve tried out a few of the other smart lights on the market.. and... well, I didn’t feel so smart trying to set them up. The Hue app itself is a bit touchy (at least mine is, and no I don’t update all that often, so that probably my problem) it has a hard time getting out of the “connecting” step. So I’m trouble shooting the old fashion way. Remove and Reinstall. I can’t really give you a list of cons, as I am quite happy with this device and its functions. I have even looked at picking up more lights and bridges to better suit my two rooms. All I can say is try it for yourself, and realize this is still a work in progress in the long run. The developers are doing great things, and are always patching, updating, and improving this product as generations come out. (Thanks guys and gals) So overall 5/5 because there is honestly nothing wrong with the lights and the app is still a loving work in development. 😊

Most Recent Update Made the App Infuriating to Use. I don’t know what happened with this most recent update, but I have had nothing but problems since. Routines aren’t functioning properly (turning the wrong lights at the wrong time), setting specific times for routines is a nightmare because the time keeps snapping back to whatever time it defaults to when you first create one, it takes forever to connect to it, the lights aren’t responding to what I do in the app (I have to do the action over and over before they finally respond). I also can’t add lights to zones anymore. The app will act like it added them, but then they’ll disappear from that zone a minute later. It’s also not been working properly with Alexa since the update. Only a select few lights will respond to Alexa commands, and they keep showing up as unresponsive in the Alexa app. I’ve never had problems with the app until the most recent update (the one that also changed the look of the GUI), which is why I will change my rating once this all gets fixed.

Worth it. My friends asked why I’d spend so much on lightbulbs… well, they aren’t cheap so they had a point. There are a lot of less expensive alternatives on the market - which I own and they serve their purpose. I use the less expensive lights to add light to less important (or less dynamic) areas of the house - like the stairway or my workbench where static behavior is fine. However, I like myself some Michigan State football so I needed some higher quality lighting (yes the light output is better on the philips). Not only that, Philips Hue app has more features than any other brand. Also a lot more responsive and reliable. Not only that, the app made it easy to find the information I needed to tap into the Hue API to add some more fun when we score. Again, they serve their purpose and the app helps really make them shine above the others.

7.5 Stars out of 5. I love everything about this app, it’s interface, ease of use, modern/sleek/easy on the eyes ~ customizable to my 21 Hue Lights and growing collection. The fireplace effect as well as consistent updates to the app, including the recently-added auto-dynamic mode just allows you to tell Siri or Alexa what to change the lights to in which room and brightness level, the app just makes it easy to make it so easy. When I leave the house the lights turn off and when I return home it’s my favorite light color scheme and brightness. The Phillips Hue brand and team come out with newer versions of their selection of styles between bulbs and strips and GO lights with TV accent panels. I started my collection in 2017. My home, anywhere I make it, through the use of this app, is only getting better, with time.