HomeKit is giving users more choice about what controls the smart home network in iOS 18, by selecting what device acts as the active Home Hub.

HomeKit’s Home app on iOS

HomeKit’s Home app on iOS
HomeKit prefers to have a Home Hub, a device designated as the main point of contact on the network for all other hardware. A home could have multiple devices that can act as the Home Hub, but you couldn’t previously designate one as the primary device for the task.
In practice, this meant that the assignment rotated, sometimes to a device on the periphery of your network.
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HomeKit now lets you manually set what device is your Home Hub in iOS 18