Apple HomeKit: How to add rooms to your home and set up zones

How to add rooms to your home and set up zones in the Home app

after Add your accessories to the Home app using your iPhone, The second most important measure is adding rooms to your home so that you can separate each space from its space. To do that, just follow these steps from your iPhone or iPad:

1. open thehome app And click on the icon (+) Add
2. Click on add room
3. All you have to do is name your room, choose wallpaper and to sign up

Once you do that, you will now be able to assign accessories to specific rooms and control your connected devices from their location. To move through the different rooms, open the Rooms tab and swipe right or left on the screen or trackpad.

How to group rooms into zones

If your house or apartment has different floors, using room grouping by area can help you control rooms on the upper or lower floors, for example. Thanks to this, and especially using voice commands, you can turn off all the lights in an area at the same time, or turn off the playlist.

To arrange rooms in an area, follow the next step:

1. open thehome appand inParts tabClick on a housethen select Parts parameters
2. Click on region. Now select a file Suggested area where Create a new one And give a name to the new area
3. Click on yes

Of course, not everyone needs to organize their connected extensions into zones, because it directly depends on the structure of their house or apartment. However, as your ecosystem of HomeKit products grows, organizing them into bits will make it much easier to automate basic actions like turning off the lights.