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Update 12/27: Added a connection from Apple astir the issue.
When iOS 16.2 arrived past week, it brought respective caller features, including Apple Music Sing, iCloud Advanced Data Protection, and the Freeform app, arsenic good arsenic a less-obvious upgrade to a caller Home architecture that’s “more reliable and efficient.” However, astir a week later, it appears that Apple has pulled the enactment successful the Home app to upgrade.
When opening the Home app successful iOS 16.2, users were met with a “Home Upgrade Available” successful the Software Update tab successful the Home Settings. Now that enactment is gone. A support document outlining the caller diagnostic inactive says the enactment has been “temporarily removed” and doesn’t impact users who person already updated to the caller architecture. In a statement, Apple said it is “aware of an contented that whitethorn interaction the quality for users to stock the Home wrong the Home app.”
As noted by MacRumors, respective users reported devices that were stuck successful an “updating” oregon “configuring” status, arsenic good arsenic missing devices. Apple warns that immoderate connected devices that aren’t utilizing the latest bundle “will suffer entree to the upgraded location until they’re updated,” but this appears to beryllium an unrelated issue. Apple hasn’t elaborate what the contented is, lone that the enactment to upgrade volition instrumentality soon. It’s not wide whether it volition randomly look successful the app oregon arsenic portion of the iOS 16.3 update expected to get aboriginal adjacent year.
The caller Home architecture requires a location hub specified arsenic Apple TV (4th procreation oregon later) oregon HomePod to usage precocious features specified arsenic HomeKit Secure Video and Adaptive Lighting. Anyone who was utilizing an iPad arsenic a location hub nether the erstwhile architecture volition request to power to 1 of those devices to proceed utilizing the Home app to power their devices.
