With iOS 18, Apple Home will gain the option to choose whether your hardwired Apple TV or your Wi-Fi-based HomePod should be running your smart home.
While Apple barely mentioned its smart home platform during its WWDC 2024 keynote this week, Apple Home users can still rejoice over an update discovered in the first iOS 18 beta: they’re getting the option to choose a “Preferred Home Hub.” This fixes the problem of your smart home “deciding” to run over Wi-Fi through a HomePod when there’s a perfectly good Apple TV using ethernet sitting right there.
If you only have one Home hub, this change won’t affect you, but for people with large Apple Home setups and multiple hubs, the inability to select which one the system is relying on has caused frustration over the years. 'While Apple will tell you it chooses the best hub for the job, Reddit users will tell you this is not the case.' While Apple will tell you it chooses the best hub for the job, Reddit users will tell you this is not the case.
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