Home Screen
Place small, medium, large or extra-large panels exactly where your home controls make sense.
HomeKit widgets for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch
Control your HomeKit home without opening the Home app.
Create custom panels for accessories, scenes, sensors, cameras and shortcuts. Keep the actions you use every day on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Apple Watch and, soon, Control Center.
- Home Screen
- Interactive panels
- Lock Screen
- Glanceable widgets
- Apple Watch
- Wrist controls
Everywhere you control your home
One panel system, tuned for each Apple surface.
Home Widget keeps dense controls on the Home Screen, glanceable widgets on the Lock Screen, fast access on Apple Watch and upcoming Controls in Control Center.
Lock Screen
Use circular, inline and rectangular widgets for fast status checks and frequent actions.
Apple Watch
Keep favorite controls on your wrist, including lights, sensors, cameras and scenes.
Control Center Controls
Pin direct HomeWidget actions, open a selected panel item or jump to a HomeKit camera from Control Center.
Apple Watch
HomeKit controls stay useful when your phone is not in your hand.
Home Widget brings your favorite panels, Smart Stack widgets and camera shortcuts to Apple Watch, so the small actions you repeat all day stay close.
- Smart Stack widgets for quick home status.
- Fast access to HomeKit cameras from your wrist.
- Lights, dimmers, scenes and garage actions without opening the Home app.
Built for daily control
Everything important, one tap away.
Home Widget turns your existing Apple Home setup into compact, customizable controls that are fast to scan and easy to trigger.
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Control accessories and scenes
Toggle lights, locks, plugs, garage doors, blinds and scenes from dedicated widget buttons.
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Run Shortcuts
Mix HomeKit actions with Shortcuts to keep automations and custom flows close at hand.
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Read sensors and states
Display temperatures, battery levels, contact sensors and accessory states in your panels.
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Fine-tune lights
Dim lights and adjust colors with controls designed for quick changes from the app.
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Make panels feel native
Customize icons, colors, transparency, blur, image backgrounds and layouts for each panel.
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Share and sync panels
Use iCloud to sync across devices, then share carefully crafted panels with family members.
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Open cameras quickly
Jump from a widget to HomeKit camera previews, including supported audio controls.
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Spot what needs attention
Use counters for open doors, unsecured locks, low batteries or unreachable accessories.
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Choose the right panel size
Build compact controls, dense dashboards or extra-large iPad panels for bigger setups.
See it in motion
Short demos for the places Home Widget lives.
Lightweight previews from the product resources show Home Screen panels, Lock Screen widgets and Apple Watch Smart Stack widgets in real use.
Home Widget overview
A quick product pass across panels, controls and daily HomeKit actions.
Home Screen panels
Dense, tappable panels for scenes, lights, sensors and shortcuts.
Lock Screen widgets
Glanceable controls for the actions and status checks you need fastest.
Apple Watch Smart Stack
Important HomeKit controls and status checks stay available on your wrist.
Current highlights
More places to control, more languages, cleaner HomeKit wording.
Interactive widgets
Perform quick HomeKit actions from your widgets while keeping visual state feedback close by.
Control Center Controls
An upcoming release prepares configurable controls for direct actions, item opening and camera access from Control Center.
Major localization update
Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian Bokmal join the existing languages.
Apple Home vocabulary
HomeKit terms have been reviewed across supported languages to stay closer to Apple's Home app wording.
Press
People noticed what Apple forgot to put on the Home Screen.
"I am not sure why Apple hasn't built-in HomeKit access to the iOS home screen, but Home Widget solves the problem for me."
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"The one thing every Apple HomeKit owner should use - and it's free"
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"It puts smart home accessories right on the iPhone and iPad Home screen."
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"Make your house a little smarter with updated Home Widget for HomeKit"
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"Add a variety of your HomeKit devices into Widgets and have them quickly accessible."
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"Home Widget brings a feature that I hoped would come in iOS."
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