The first beta iOS 18.4 fell yesterday and includes an exciting intelligent house addition which was previously under the radar. As Tested by Jonathan At the Smart Home Center, the Home application now supports the vacuum cleaners and the robots that integrate into the material protocol.
Currently, the only model compatible on the market is the Switchbot S10 Robot Vacuum and MopBut many other manufacturers have promised to take care of the material with the next software updates.
While almost all these vacuum cleaners have iPhone applications with which you can control them, native management via the domestic application allows SIRI voice commands and integration into the unified dashboard alongside all your other accessories of smart house. You can also include vacuum and mop actions in your normal authorities and scenes.
Once configured, you can control your vacuum cleaner with voice commands on your iPhone, HomePods, Apple TV and any other iOS device.
The Apple Home application includes a simple but compatible command set for S10 robot vacuum cleaners. You can tell the vacuum cleaner to start cleaning, or telling it to stop a session in progress, activate or deactivate the mop and define a cleaning mode under predefined vacuum (such as fast or depth options ). There is also a “sending to the quay” button which should say to the void to go home to his charging station.
For more advanced vacuum and mop features, such as room map or definition of personalized routes, you will always have to open the manufacturer’s companion application. But for the fundamentals, you can do it just via the Apple Home application.
IOS 18.4 is currently in developer and should be published publicly as free iPhone software update in April. Support for robot vacuum cleaner is also available in the next version of other Apple operating systems, such as iPados 18.4, TVOS 18.4, Watchos 11.4 and MacOS 15.4.
