Philips’ Hue app now lets you edit lighting effects

Philips is introducing 4 caller lighting effects done its Hue app including an underwater enactment simulating the glimmer of airy beneath the waves. The added effects are portion of a caller app update, spotted by Hueblog, that besides introduces the quality to customize the lighting effects already disposable done the app, arsenic good arsenic immoderate caller effects Philips introduces successful the future.

Existing lighting effects see options that tin marque Hue lamps and bulbs simulate the quality of a candle with a brushed flickering yellowish glow, oregon a fireplace with much aggravated flashes of reddish and orange. Version 5.28 of the Hue app — which is present disposable for iOS, iPadOS, and Android — adds cosmos, underwater, enchant, and sunbeam effects, bringing the full to 10. The effects aren’t disposable for each Hue product, but Philips has shared an extended list of precisely which lights bash enactment the feature.

Although the effects are designed with circumstantial colors and animations to simulate definite lighting experiences, the latest Hue app update present lets you alteration the basal colour of effects — truthful you tin bask the glow of a pinkish candle, for illustration — and set the effects’ strength by changing the brightness and velocity of flickering oregon colour transitions.

The Hue app has agelong been a polished and streamlined mode to power Philips’ astute lighting products, but successful caller years the app’s customizability options person lagged down competitors similar Govee and Nanoleaf. Being capable to edit effects successful the Hue app is simply a invited upgrade, and different reminder of however contention tin payment consumers.

Other improvements successful the latest mentation of the Philips Hue app see a lighting benignant called scattered — primitively introduced connected the Philips Hue Festavia drawstring lights — present being made disposable connected each gradient lights successful the Hue line. The app’s icon and widgets present connection some acheronian and tinted styles if you’ve upgraded to iOS 18 oregon iPadOS18.

With spooky play good nether way, Philips has besides reintroduced Halloween scenes to the Hue app, which instrumentality power of each the lights successful a country with antithetic colors and transitions to alteration the mood. Although 2 caller Halloween scenes were introduced past year, the same 8 are disposable again this year including spellbound, glowing grins, and witching hour.