SmartThings gets new design and features on iPhones and Apple Watches

One of the best things about Samsung’s smart home platform, SmartThings, is that it is available on many operating systems, including Android, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, Windows, and Wear OS, allowing you to control smart home products from various devices, which is great if you have different types of devices or ever shift ecosystems.

What’s even better is that these apps are very polished, and now, the South Korean tech giant has announced that in it is upgrading the SmartThings apps for iOS and watchOS with new design and features, offering a better user experience for iPhone and Apple Watch users worldwide. Let’s take a look at all the changes.

Let’s start with the SmartThings app for Apple Watch. First, Samsung has upgraded with the ability for people to select locations. For example, if you had SmartThings setup at two locations, home and office, the watchOS app allowed you to control only one. Now, it has a hamburger menu, which lets you select between the two locations. Second, up until now, you could only run manual routines, but now, you can also control individual devices.

Coming to the SmartThings app for iPhones, Samsung had added the much-needed dark mode to it, lowering the stress on your eyes as well as the battery consumption. Second, the brand has added Routine Creation Assistant, which “AI-powered feature that allows users to build automations using natural language.” They can just type “Turn off all the lights when I leave the house,” and the app will create such routine for them.