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I won't get my hopes up, as I don't think the following suggestions are due to previous design or software choices but rather due to the incompetence of Apple in specific software departments.

Complete redesign of the Home App. Get your inspiration from Home+ 6 since you probably can't figure it out yourselves. Make automations actually useful: the conditions and their combinations (or rather, the lack of it) are so laughable weak. Again, if third party apps can do multiple, more complex conditions, then why can't your own App?

Delay conditions, logic functions, please.

Then Homepod: currently they are so frikkin unreliable when it comes to scenes with a Playlist. So many times it won't work, when Homepods are supposed to start playing a Playlist via scenes.

And before some of you start screaming network issues, let me assure you, that I can normally select them and start playing the same Playlist manually. Or use the The remote app to play the same Playlist on the same network and stream to the same Homepods.

2 days ago: the other way around had issues. I wanted to play a Playlist on my iMac and 5 Homepods (which usually works. Not always but most of the time). But not so much last weekend. One Homepods was not on the list of available Speakers or Homepods via the remote App. So I chose a scene, which plays the same Playlist on all my Homepods minus the iMac. The one Homepod, which was not available earlier started playing, but went on full rampage with 100% volume and couldn't be controlled manually afterwards. Even physically touching it, didn't bring the volume down.

Looking at the article about Siri and the internal mess about its continous development (or lack of it), I don't think we will see any significant improvements.

Apple is a company which builds pretty hardware. The software has been lacking substance and reliability. Personally I don't think any of Apple's Homekit software engineers are actually their own creations. They are incompetent. I am convinced of that.
 
  • Turning off Apple TV via Homekit automations.
  • Multiple options for Homekit notifications (you can have either when you are not at home or at night - but not both)
  • Motion sensor security notifications on Apple TV.
  • Time Range of Automations -- you can either use after sunset to sunset or between time frame. You can't mix them (so no automating something in easy way between sunset and midnight)
  • More Private Airplay on Apple TV. We have only one and I want to use is as home hub. I can put airplay option only to A) Everybody on the network or B) People I share Homekit house. But if I use everybody on the network with password protection media title and controls still shows in Home app. I care about my privacy and don't want my household members to see what I watch (even when not airplaying) so airplay on Apple TV is useless for me and I've turned it off.
  • Call them whatever but some form of logical variables or home states in Homekit. So I could have a switch that won't turn lights on me if I went to sleep before sunset.
  • Better auto switching of AirPods. If I watch something on Apple TV with headphones and answer the face time they switch after couples seconds. Even if I switched to speaker after accepting the call to make it faster they will override it.
  • Using state of Apple TV as automation trigger for turning on light strip when you turn on tv, turning lights dim when you pause etc.
  • Triggering automation when device is in state for specific amount of time ( no motion for 3 minutes, doors opened for 1 hour)
  • Pin or some password protection (maybe using Siri Remote buttons ) for profiles.
  • Apple TV related shortcuts from iOS on macOS
  • Ability for TvOS to sync iCloud for more than one user. From what I've read on Infuse forum they can do that only for one default user so their app can't utilise different profiles options of Apple TV to have separate libraries and watched history.
  • Some way of personalising Siri ( If I say "Turn off bedroom" I want her to turn off my bedroom. And putting Name in room name won't work -- non English surname. And even with English she's not the best at recognising)
  • Way to personalise favourite scenes. Why do I have the same favourites as other house members?
  • Same with shortcuts and scenes. If household member called his scene good morning I can't use it even as shortcuts name
Basically Homekit needs a big overhaul
 
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