HomeKit HomeKit - Resident Owner question

[path293fj93]

The HomeKit "Resident Owner" on my app does not look right.
Let me give you an example of what I am seeing ;

** EXAMPLE SETUP
We only have 2 users in our house, Bill and Jane Doe.
When we look on our Iphones and Ipads - if we go to settings - we see our "apple id, icloud, media" id.
This has our name, 2 initials and our apple id ;

DEVICE NAME INITIAL APP-ID
iphone Doe Jane JD janedoe@hotmail.com
ipad Jane Doe JD janedoe@hotmail.com
iphone Doe Bill BD billdoe@gmail.com
ipad Bill Doe BD billdoe@gmail.com
appletv default and only user billdoe@gmail.com

** ISSUE
When I go to "HOMEKIT - HOME - HOME SETTINGS - PEOPLE" under 'Resident (owner)' I am seeing
Doe Jane DJ
When I select this person entry to get more information I am seeing
Doe Bill DB
This just looks messed up to me.
The 'Resident Owner' is my wife's apple-id (but the initials are reversed).
But when I select this person entry it brings up my apple-id info (but the initials are reversed).

To me it should look like this
"HOMEKIT - HOME - HOME SETTINGS - PEOPLE" under 'Resident (owner)'
Doe Bill BD
When I select this person entry to get more information I should see
Doe Bill BD


** FIX ATTEMPT 1
I removed my HomeKit setup and thought I would start from scratch.
But before I had done any setup - I went to "Resident Owner' - I saw the same above issue.

Any ideas on how to fix this up?

 

[Itinj24]

Just a shot in the dark, but when you got to the main iPhone settings, under contacts, what’s the sort order look like?

 

[path293fj93]

Just a shot in the dark, but when you got to the main iPhone settings, under contacts, what’s the sort order look like?

On our iPhones the contacts were set to ; SortOrder=Last,First DisplayOrder=Last,First.
When I changed them to First,Last - it changed what I saw under "Setting/AppleId" ;-)
Now I am seeing

DEVICE / NAME / INITIAL / APP-ID
iphone / Jane Doe / JD / janedoe@hotmail.com
ipad / Jane Doe / JD / janedoe@hotmail.com
iphone / Bill Doe / BD / billdoe@gmail.com
ipad / Bill Doe / BD / billdoe@gmail.com
appletv/ default and only user / billdoe@gmail.com

So that cleaned that up.
But it did not change anything on HomeKit - the above ISSUE is still the same (wife's name with my initials as resident owner - but details show me).

I could just move on with the HomeKit build out - but I was having issues with "HomeKit Automations" not triggering when we (PERSONS) would come and go.
So it would be nice to get the 'Resident Owner' person setting looking correct - before I continue building it out again.

 

[path293fj93]

PS
I just tried deleting the app from my iphone - then reloading it from apple store - but same issue still

 

[Itinj24]

Put up pics instead 🙂. Looks better IMO. My family has our Memoji pics instead of initials. When you change the pic under your AppleID, it comes up in HomeKit.

 

[path293fj93]

Just a shot in the dark, but when you got to the main iPhone settings, under contacts, what’s the sort order look like?

I got it fixed - thanks to you.
I dug a bit deeper into the contacts like you said.

My wife's contact entry had my email address (my appl id) in it.
My contact did not have an email address in it.
So this confused HomeKit.

I updated the contact info - and now HomeKit "Resident Owner" has my name and 2 initials.
When I select that entry - it shows my Appl-Id, Name and 2 initials

 

[Itinj24]

I got it fixed - thanks to you.
I dug a bit deeper into the contacts like you said.

My wife's contact entry had my email address (my appl id) in it.
My contact did not have an email address in it.
So this confused HomeKit.

I updated the contact info - and now HomeKit "Resident Owner" has my name and 2 initials.
When I select that entry - it shows my Appl-Id, Name and 2 initials

Awesome, glad you got it fixed.