Dashboard: HomeKit & RTSP

• Apple Music player (Premium): the dashboard has a new music block — playback, your playlists and recently played. You choose where it plays via AirPlay right in the app; the volume is the system volume, so it applies to a HomePod as well. Requires an Apple Music subscription • Audio for RTSP cameras: cameras streaming G.711 or AAC now have sound too — you turn it on with a button in the camera detail. It plays only there and switches off when you close the detail, so you don't end up with four cameras talking at once on the wall • Listen on HomeKit cameras: until now the audio came on only while you were talking and was muted again after the call. The detail view now has a button for listening on its own • When camera audio is playing, the music stops and starts again once you turn the audio off — only if it was really playing before • Dark app icon (iOS 18+): a dark version of the icon is used on a dark Home Screen • Room name on tiles: the room appears in small type under the device name. It is left out when the room has the same name as the device, and for groups whose members are in different rooms • Blinds in steps of one percent: both the position and the slat tilt are set in steps of 1% instead of 5% • New languages: British English, Swedish, Dutch and Hebrew — the app is now available in 14 languages. Hebrew is the first right-to-left language, so the whole layout is mirrored in it • A review of every language: 267 fixes across twelve languages — grammar, the forms used by live counters and the rename of Apple ID to today's Apple Account • Thermometers: the settings now explain why a HomePod isn't among them — Apple doesn't make its temperature available to third-party apps, only the Home app can get to it • A custom device icon now applies to tiles as well: you pick it in the Lights and switches settings or in the 3D floor plan editor, and it shows up in both places. It works for groups from the Home app too • Locks have a menu like blinds: tapping the tile, or the icon in the floor plan, opens Lock and Unlock as separate items instead of the toggle you had until now. For gates and garage doors it's Open and Close • Open door on the locks that can do it (Nuki, tedee): you turn it on for a particular lock in the settings and try it out right there. On the tile it is then triggered by touching and holding, not by tapping, so it can't be set off by accident on the wall • The lock state updates on its own — unlocking with a key or from another app shows up right away • Animated launch screen (iPad): when the app starts, a little house folds together and turns into the dashboard. Tap to skip it • Tiles are the same height even where a device has the same name as its room