HomeKit After 16.2, any one have luck upgrading the architecture?

[CaptainBlue]

It was a nightmare for me as it looked my wife out of our homes: we updated hers and it wouldn't let her onto our other home overseas until I'd updated Home. Except one of the HomePods there was stubbornly refusing to update to 16.2 so it all stalled.

Deleting it - so I'll need to re-add it when we're back there - and ungrouping two sets of HomePods allowed me to update Home, but I still can't access her home and vice versa despite us both inviting the other.

 

[hagjohn]

My set up is still saying "Cannot complete Update" "There are no available HomePod updates" even though every single thing I own is now updated

I was not able to do it on my Mac but I able to update via my Phone.

 

[csalm87]

My set up is still saying "Cannot complete Update" "There are no available HomePod updates" even though every single thing I own is now updated

I had that error too. I closed the app completely (going to the app switcher screen and swiping up on the app to close) then re-launched and it worked for me.

 

[adrianlondon]

It was a nightmare for me as it looked my wife out of our homes

Apple should highlight that feature ...

 

[rillrill]

FYI. I upgraded everything on our network first - Apple TVs, HomePods, phones, tablets, watches. After that the upgrade did work. HOWEVER, and kind of lame, my 2015 iMac cannot get Ventura. So I get an error message when I open the home app. Not that I used the home app much on the iMac, but still…planned obsolescence here. The Mac works perfectly fine otherwise. Not totally sure if I’m actually see any difference between the architectures though…

 

[B/D]

FYI. I upgraded everything on our network first - Apple TVs, HomePods, phones, tablets, watches. After that the upgrade did work. HOWEVER, and kind of lame, my 2015 iMac cannot get Ventura. So I get an error message when I open the home app. Not that I used the home app much on the iMac, but still…planned obsolescence here. The Mac works perfectly fine otherwise. Not totally sure if I’m actually see any difference between the architectures though…

It can with Open Core Legacy Patcher. Everything is supported for that model, so easy peasy.


I upgraded my Late 2012 Imac to Ventura using this and is even more faster than with Mac OS Catalina.

 

[Morac]

All the people in Home Settings switched to showing email addresses today. I can see names if I tap on the people, but the list view shows email addresses.

 

[dustin_]

So do we have any real solution on how to get our spouse back into our shared home? Everything's updated as required, I've re-added my spouse to our Apple TV, but no matter what I do, I'm unable to get a Home invite successfully completed. He receives the invite, appears to be added as a "resident", then he just disappears & it's as if the invite was never sent in the first place. Infuriating - for someone who's technically inclined! I cannot imagine going through this as a "regular" person.

 

[spiderman0616]

OP, mine was a little fussy with that message right at first but now everything appears to be working normally other than my August lock. The app is still working fine but HomeKit integration is now really spotty.

 

[Rassybeds]

We seem to be having the same “lockout” issues as a few people on here. We’ve been onto Apple for most of the day and nothing has been resolved as yet.

 

[Virtualball]

Different but related problem.

Now invites to my spouse for the home are not working.

Yes - they are on 16.2 & 13.1 for all their devices.

Similar to me, the app wouldn’t open the home until they removed the old homes as well.

So they did, and it still wouldn’t let them in.

They remove our current home and I re-invite them and the invite comes through, they accept and still nothing. Can’t see the home at all from their devices.

Ugh, this has not been a smooth transition at all, and we are Apple fanboys. I can’t imagine anyone critical of Apple trying to go through this process.

I have a lot of damn money sunk in HomeKit devices.

So do we have any real solution on how to get our spouse back into our shared home? Everything's updated as required, I've re-added my spouse to our Apple TV, but no matter what I do, I'm unable to get a Home invite successfully completed. He receives the invite, appears to be added as a "resident", then he just disappears & it's as if the invite was never sent in the first place. Infuriating - for someone who's technically inclined! I cannot imagine going through this as a "regular" person.

I was able to fix this today!!!

I restarted all of my Home Hub devices (homepods and AppleTV) and both of our phones. After that, my spouse appeared as a resident in the Home again. For a second, it showed like 20 copies of their user account in the Home settings but then it changed back to just one.

 

[Nozgog]

FYI. I upgraded everything on our network first - Apple TVs, HomePods, phones, tablets, watches. After that the upgrade did work. HOWEVER, and kind of lame, my 2015 iMac cannot get Ventura. So I get an error message when I open the home app. Not that I used the home app much on the iMac, but still…planned obsolescence here. The Mac works perfectly fine otherwise. Not totally sure if I’m actually see any difference between the architectures though…

So all Macs that don’t have macOS 13 Ventura the Home app will stop working after upgrading the architecture?

 

[valkraider]

I’ve already reset all HomePods at home but I still couldn’t upgrade the architecture. The Home app still thinks that my HomePods have to be updated and tries to update them, but obviously no newer software can be found since they are all already on 16.2.

Read back in the thread. Do you have any other homes in the Home app?

 

[valkraider]

All the people in Home Settings switched to showing email addresses today. I can see names if I tap on the people, but the list view shows email addresses.

Go to contacts and literally change anything in the contact and it should fix this one. There is another thread on this somewhere here in the forums.

 

[haruhiko]

Read back in the thread. Do you have any other homes in the Home app?

Yes

 

[babalougots]

So do we have any real solution on how to get our spouse back into our shared home? Everything's updated as required, I've re-added my spouse to our Apple TV, but no matter what I do, I'm unable to get a Home invite successfully completed. He receives the invite, appears to be added as a "resident", then he just disappears & it's as if the invite was never sent in the first place. Infuriating - for someone who's technically inclined! I cannot imagine going through this as a "regular" person.

Same issue here. It's annoying. I was on with Apple Support last night for almost two hours. The support person was great... the usual troubleshooting, we replicated the issue, took screen recordings, uploaded diagnostics from both iPhones, etc. Engineers working on it. I'm confident it will be fixed without having to nuke my home and start from scratch, which is worst-case. My son had no issue... only spouse.

 

[Toonartist]

Well, I have to say that was possibly one of the worst update experiences from Apple ever... well, for HomeKit anyway.

When you have a lot of different apple gear and loads of HomeKit devices with a family all wanting to use XYZ right away. It definitely didn't feel like plug and play today more like unplug and scream! I'm just glad I hadn't hit update on the HomeKit Architecture update before I was able to check everyones bit of kit had been updated etc first.

 

[Morac]

Go to contacts and literally change anything in the contact and it should fix this one. There is another thread on this somewhere here in the forums.

Didn’t work for me. I’m away from home now and it’s still showing email addresses. What’s odd is I could swear it showed names when I was at home.

 

[jdelaune]

I was able to fix this today!!!

I restarted all of my Home Hub devices (homepods and AppleTV) and both of our phones. After that, my spouse appeared as a resident in the Home again. For a second, it showed like 20 copies of their user account in the Home settings but then it changed back to just one.

Thanks that did it for my wife. Unplugged all the HomePod. Restarted the Apple TVs and my iPhone and the next time she opened the Home app it all worked.

 

[valkraider]

I was able to fix this today!!!

I restarted all of my Home Hub devices (homepods and AppleTV) and both of our phones. After that, my spouse appeared as a resident in the Home again. For a second, it showed like 20 copies of their user account in the Home settings but then it changed back to just one.

This worked for me as well!

I manually went to each AppleTV and restarted them and then I restarted each HomePod mini using the Home app (it’s buried in the HomePod accessory settings), then hard-restarted our phones and voila - spouse was back in the house!

 

[robbietop]

Mine keep updating to 16.2, despite already being at 16.2

 

[babalougots]

This worked for me as well!

I manually went to each AppleTV and restarted them and then I restarted each HomePod mini using the Home app (it’s buried in the HomePod accessory settings), then hard-restarted our phones and voila - spouse was back in the house!

Add me to this as a solution! This was first step. I also sent invite to a different email for spouse. And, I also logged out of my iCloud and logged back in... they key was restarting all HomePods and TVs.

 

[JimKas]

My set up is still saying "Cannot complete Update" "There are no available HomePod updates" even though every single thing I own is now updated

My suggestion:
*ALL* iOS and MacOS devices that are connected to your HomeKit should have the latest update.

Power down your modem, router, and any wifi extenders that you might have
Power down all HomePods and Apple TVs
Power down any device that is "Thread" enabled

Re-start your modem, router, any wifi extenders, and give them a minute to all come up and running
Power up all HomePods and Apple TVs
Power up the thread devices that you powered down

Give them all 15-30 minutes to talk to each other and get settled.

 

[david0128]

I made the same error of upgrading the HomeKit architecture before realising my partner had kept hold of an iPhone 6 as a backup device and was still rocking a perfectly respectable iMac 2015 - on Monterey only. I made multiple attempts to re-invite to the home setup but it just wasn’t working.

After making sure all the non compliant devices were off, I did the trick of restarting the appleTV and all six HomePods. My partner then rebooted the iPhone and iPad and the home re-appeared. Magic but infuriating.

 

[valkraider]

Power down your modem, router, and any wifi extenders that you might have
Power down all HomePods and Apple TVs
Power down any device that is "Thread" enabled

This is excessive and unrelated to HomeKit.

The modem, router and Wi-Fi things have absolutely no bearing on any of this. But without your modem and router - how can you update things?

You also don’t need to power down any thread devices - they can simply exist on their own without any border routers (HomePod or appleTV devices).

But you do want to make sure that your thread devices are updated to their latest firmware - usually best to use the manufacturer’s app to do that.