Pair and manage your Matter accessories

Pairing smart home accessories to your iPhone or iPad allows you to set up, configure, and control them. You can pair Matter accessories to your iPhone or iPad using any app that supports the Matter smart home standard.

Before you begin

• Update your iPhone or iPad to the latest software.

• Make sure that you're signed in with the Apple Account that you used to set up your Matter accessories.

• The Home app currently supports these types of Matter accessories: air conditioners, bridges, lights, locks, outlets, switches, thermostats, blinds and shades, and sensors (motion, ambient light, contact, temperature, and humidity).

Pair a Matter accessory

To ensure your privacy and keep you in control of your smart home network, apps must request access to add an accessory to your home. And to support interoperability and ease-of-use across apps and smart home ecosystems, you can easily add Matter accessories that were previously paired with other apps from any app that supports the Matter smart home standard.

Add a Matter accessory to the Home app

If you have iOS 18, you can add and control Matter accessories to the Home app without a home hub. And with iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max and later, you can control thread-based accessories without a hub.* However, for the best experience set up a home hub to add supported Matter and thread-based accessories to the Home app.

1. Open the Home app on your iPhone or iPad and tap the Add button.

2. Tap Add Accessory. If your Matter accessory was previously paired to another app, tap More options then select your Matter accessory.

3. Follow the onscreen instructions to finish setup.

To add a previously paired accessory to a third-party app that supports Matter, follow the manufacturer's instructions to add a new accessory and select the previously paired accessory.

Paired Matter accessories sync using iCloud Keychain regardless of which device or app you used to set them up, so you can view all of your paired Matter accessories in one place under Settings > Matter Accessories. Pairing keys stored in iCloud Keychain are end-to-end encrypted. No one else can access or read this data, either in transit or storage.

Learn more about how iCloud protects your information

View your paired Matter accessories

You must have at least one Matter accessory paired to your iPhone or iPad to access Matter Accessories in Settings.

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.

2. Tap General.

3. Tap Matter Accessories.

   

You can tap an accessory in the list to see the accessory's serial number and connected services.

Remove Matter accessories

You can remove Matter accessories from iCloud Keychain, individual connected services, or all connected services.

Remove from iCloud Keychain

If you don't want the setup code to be stored using iCloud Keychain, you can remove the accessory from Keychain.

1. On the Matter Accessories screen, tap Edit.

2. Tap the Delete button next to the accessory that you want to remove.

3. Swipe or tap Remove to confirm that you want to remove the accessory.

4. Choose Remove from Keychain.

Remove from individual connected services

1. On the Matter Accessories screen, tap an accessory.

2. Tap Edit.

3. Tap the Delete button next to the accessory that you want to remove.

4. Swipe or tap Remove to confirm that you want to remove the accessory.

5. Tap Remove From [Connected Service] to confirm the removal.

When you remove an individual connected service, you lose the ability to control the accessory from the app associated with that service on your iPhone or iPad.

Remove from all connected services

1. On the Matter Accessories screen, tap Edit.

2. Tap the Delete button next to the accessory that you want to remove.

3. Swipe or tap Remove to confirm that you want to remove the accessory.

4. Choose Remove From All Services.

When you remove an accessory from all connected services, you lose the ability to control the accessory from each app associated with each service on your iPhone or iPad.