You can keep using your iPad as an Apple Home hub until February

If you’ve been reluctant to update to the caller Apple Home architecture, you present person a fewer much months earlier Apple forces your hand. Apple has pushed backmost the deadline to February 10, 2026, alternatively than autumn 2025. 

The refreshed mentation of Apple Home has been disposable for a mates of years present and adds enactment for the Matter astute location standard. However, updating has been optional truthful far.

One of the biggest reasons for staying connected the aged architecture is its enactment for iPads arsenic Home hubs. You tin inactive usage your iPad to power your astute location connected the caller architecture, but you’ll request a abstracted hub device, specifically a HomePod oregon AppleTV. Unlike some of those devices, the iPad’s show allows it to relation likewise to a touchscreen astute display, specified arsenic Amazon’s Echo Show oregon Google’s Nest Hub Max.

Apple doesn’t person a instrumentality to capable that void successful the caller Apple Home — yet. There are rumors that it’s readying to launch a astute location show hub successful outpouring 2026, which would beryllium soon aft enactment for iPads arsenic Home hubs ends.