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About this app

The official Philips Hue app is the most comprehensive way to organize, control, and customize your Philips Hue smart lights and accessories.

Organize your smart lights
Group your lights into Rooms or Zones — your entire downstairs floor or all the lights in the living room, for example — that mirror the physical rooms in your home.

Easily control your lights — from anywhere
Use the app to control your lights anywhere you have an internet connection.

Explore the Hue scene gallery
Created by professional lighting designers, the scenes in the scene gallery can help you set the mood for any occasion. You can even create your own scenes based on a photo or your favorite colors.

Set up bright home security
Make your home feel safer, no matter where you are. The Security Center lets you program your Secure cameras, Secure contact sensors, and indoor motion sensors to send you alerts when they detect activity. Trigger light and sound alarms, call the authorities or a trusted contact, and monitor your home in real-time.

Get the best light for any moment of the day
Let your lights change automatically throughout the day with the Natural light scene — so you feel more energized, focused, relaxed, or rested at the right times. Just set the scene to watch your lights change with the sun’s movement, transitioning from cool blue tones in the morning to warmer, relaxing hues for sunset.

Automate your lights
Make your smart lights work around your daily routine. Whether you want your lights to gently wake you up in the morning or greet you when you get home, setting up customizable automations in the Philips Hue app is effortless.

Sync your lights to TV, music, and games
Make your lights flash, dance, dim, brighten, and change color in sync with your screen or sound! With the Philips Hue Play HDMI sync box, the Philips Hue Sync for TV or desktop apps, or Spotify, you can create totally immersive experiences.

Set up voice control
Use Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, or Google Assistant to control your smart lights with voice commands. Turn lights on and off, dim and brighten, or even change colors — completely hands-free.

Create widgets for quick control
Control your smart lights even faster by creating widgets on your home screen. Turn lights on or off, adjust brightness and temperature, or set scenes – all without even opening the app.

Learn more about the official Philips Hue app: www.philips-hue.com/app.

Note: Some features in this app require a Philips Hue Bridge.
Updated on
Jun 27, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.5
154K reviews
Christian Paul-Delage
May 2, 2025
Unusable since the last update... Freezes on the loading screen. Need to restart the phone for it to work and then again, it will freeze again at some point later that day. It does this every single day. Doesn't matter if I clear the cache. That's without mentioning how slow the app has become when it does load, not so much once you're in the app but opening it quickly just to change a scene takes time because it's so slow to start.
61 people found this review helpful
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Alexandra
February 9, 2025
Officially the worst app ever created and it does not deserve this last star that I have just reduced it to. I have removed one star as it is still too slow to connect and sometimes doesn't manage it. There has been no improvement that I can see. The app is so slow to load! My routine has to be set every day which really gets on my nerves. Please add a setting so you can choose which days the routine is for, so I can wake up to my light on weekdays, without having to set it every single day
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Will West
December 10, 2024
Lights and physical hardware are great but app gets worse with each release. Really makes no sense on something so internet / app reliant. Labs are gone gone. Widgets reinvented to be far worse; then reinvented again so that they no longer save to my screen at all. Limited control of sensors. Just more and more disappointment. Third party apps and automations are the only thing keeping Hue working. I no longer advise friends to buy into this ecosystem since it is moving backwards each release.
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What’s new

- Philips Hue Wired wall switch lets you add traditional lights to your Hue setup. Control them your way—from the app, your wall switch, or with voice. Set automations, add lights to scenes—no batteries required.
- We’ve renamed our "Custom" automation to "Lighting schedule"; same behavior, clearer use case.
- Various Sports Live improvements. Select matches and feel the excitement!