Get notifications for your smart home accessories

With the Home app, you can check the status of your HomeKit and Matter accessories and get alerts when they detect something, even when you're away.

Check the status of your home

Turn on accessory notifications

Customize accessory notifications

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Check the status of your home

You can check the status of your HomeKit and Matter accessories in the Home tab of the Home app on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

You can also control which accessories are included in the Home tab's status.

  1. Open the Home app.

  2. Tap or click an accessory, then tap or click the Settings buttonSettings button

  3. Select Status and Notifications.

    Status and Notifications appears below Scenes on the accessory settings screen for a smart home Door sensor
  4. Turn Include in Home Summaries on or off.

    Include in Home Summaries is turned on at the top of Status and Notifications screen

Turn on accessory notifications

You can set up notifications for certain HomeKit and Matter accessories,like locks and sensors, to alert you when an accessory detects something. For example, if you have a sensor on a door, you can get a notification when it opens.

If you want to see notifications for your HomeKit and Matter accessories on more than one device, turn on notifications on each device.

  1. Open the Home app.

  2. Tap or click the More buttonMore button, then select Home Settings. If you have multiple homes, choose a home, then select Home Settings.

  3. Choose a type of accessory, like Doors.

    Accessory notifications are enabled for all door sensors
  4. Select an accessory and turn on Activity Notifications.

Learn more about notifications on your iPhone or iPad.

Customize accessory notifications

You can customize notifications for your HomeKit or Matter accessories to alert you at specific times and based on who's present in your home.

  1. Open the Home app.

  2. Tap or click an accessory, then tap or click the Settings buttonSettings button.

  3. Select Status and Notifications.

    Status and Notifications appears below Scenes on the accessory settings screen for a smart home Door sensor
  4. Turn on Activity Notifications, then choose from these options.

    Time is set to Any and People is set to Off under Receive Activity Notifications When on the Status and Notifications screen
    • Time: Set a time that you want to get alerts for your accessory.

    • People: Get alerts for the accessory when you or someone arrives or leaves your house. If you choose this option, you need to set up a home hub and make sure that everyone who can control your home has My Location set to their primary iPhone or iPad and Share My Location turned on in Settings > [your name] > Find My.

To see notifications that you set up in the Home app on more than one device, you need to set up notifications on each device.

Not all smart home accessories support notifications.

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