Philips Hue App Gaining AI Assistant for Generating Light Scenes - MacRumors
Skip to Content

Philips Hue App Gaining AI Assistant for Generating Light Scenes

by

The Philips Hue app will soon be updated with new functionality that will let users generate different light scenes using AI, Hue parent company Signify announced today.

philips hue sync box 8k
A text phrase will be able to be used to generate a lighting scene with AI, offering more customization than the built-in scenes or scenes created from photos. Hue users will be able to generate scenes based on moods, styles, occasions, and more. A release date isn't available for the feature, but it is coming in 2025.

Hue Secure, which incorporates security cameras and features, is set to gain smoke alarm sound detection, iOS widgets, and integration with Amazon Alexa and Google Nest Hub.

Signify also updated the Philips Hue Sync TV app to support LG TVs, adding dynamic light synchronization for content from streaming apps to gaming consoles. The feature used to be limited to Samsung TVs, but it will launch on LG TVs in early 2025. The app is priced at $130.

Previously announced Impress outdoor lights and Datura ceiling panels will be coming to the United States in the near future, while the 8K Play HDMI Sync Box and Solo lightstrip will be expanding to additional countries. The Impress outdoor lights will be priced at $160 and will launch in mid-February, while the Datura ceiling panels are set to launch in March at a $300 price point.

Tag: Philips Hue

Popular Stories

Apple Event Logo

Apple's Next Era Begins September 1

Thursday May 7, 2026 10:36 am PDT by
Apple recently announced that Tim Cook will be stepping down as CEO later this year, after 15 years of leading the company. Effective September 1, Apple's hardware engineering chief John Ternus will become the company's next CEO, while Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board of directors. In his new role, Apple said Cook will assist with "certain aspects" of the company,...
Read Full Article
Four iPhone 18 Pro Colors Mock Feature

iPhone 18 Pro Launching in September With These 10 New Features

Saturday May 9, 2026 6:03 am PDT by
While the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are not launching until September, there are already plenty of rumors about the devices. It was initially reported that the iPhone 18 Pro models would have fully under-screen Face ID, with only a front camera visible in the top-left corner of the screen. However, the latest rumors indicate that only one Face ID component will be moved under the...
Read Full Article
Apple Watch Series 10 Jet Black Touch ID

Apple Watch Series 12 and watchOS 27: What to Expect Later This Year

Friday May 8, 2026 2:07 pm PDT by
While not too much has been reported about the next Apple Watch models, there are a few rumors about potential design changes and watchOS 27 features. Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 models are expected to be released in September, and we have outlined some of the key rumored hardware and software changes below. A new Apple Watch SE is not expected this year, as that model was...
Read Full Article • 59 comments

Top Rated Comments

The Other One Avatar
The Other One
18 months ago
I love my Philips Hue lights, and I've been using them for many years. But... am I the only one tired of companies trying to shoehorn "AI" into everything?
Score: 27 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Z
zachz
18 months ago

personally I think all this colored lighting is a fad that wont last long.

people will grow tired of their neon lit house.

go to Vegas.
I’ve had mine for a decade and they’ve been around much longer so I don’t think it’s a fad, although I rarely use them for the crazy colourful scenes shown in advertising. While it’s cool being able to have “scenes” and whatnot, 90% of the time I set them at different shades of warm white or orange. The white ambience would’ve sufficed but the sales are usually decent.
Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
CarlJ Avatar
CarlJ
18 months ago

personally I think all this colored lighting is a fad that wont last long.

people will grow tired of their neon lit house.

go to Vegas.
I have Hue lights in my house. 95% of the time, they run varying color temperatures of "white" light. The other 5% is mostly running very dim red light if, say, I need to get up in the middle of the night. All controlled by voice commands to Siri. I do occasionally set them to novel color combinations for a bit of fun. This has been set up for close to 10 years now (without Siri control, at first), and I haven't grown tired of it, and can't foresee that happening.

Similarly, my front porch "light" is a Govee LED strip. It's programmed to come on at sunset, gradually dim in several steps throughout the night, and go off at sunrise. Because it's programmable, for a bit of fun, it plays little light shows (decidedly not Vegas style, just different themed colors) at sunset, at midnight, and at sunrise. The rest of the time, it's varying brightnesses of a very warm (2700K) white light. I'll probably eventually program it to have some themes for various holidays (Christmas, Valentines, 4th of July, Halloween), but it isn't a binary choice between "only white light ever" and "Vegas / Times Square" - there are plenty of steps in between.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Regbial Avatar
Regbial
18 months ago
great... more useless AI fad bloat.. I'm not going to use it why do I suddenly need to dedicate GBs in my device to it?
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Regbial Avatar
Regbial
18 months ago
I'd rather a also a system to easily replace bulbs while keeping all their settings and scenes... or a way to save settings and pass them unto different bulbs. if not on the Hue app then with Homekit at least..
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
midkay Avatar
midkay
18 months ago
This will actually be great. For anyone who's actually used a Hue system, you know that even though it comes with dozens of preset scenes, swiping through them trying to find just the color palette you're looking for can be really tedious. Would be so much better to just type "dark blues & greens" and be given a nice result immediately.


personally I think all this colored lighting is a fad that wont last long.

people will grow tired of their neon lit house.

go to Vegas.
Won't last long? Colored smart lighting has been around for so many years and continues to propagate & proliferate.

It's actually great, try it sometime!
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Read All Comments