Philips Hue rolling out these upgrades in early 2026 including ‘SpatialAware’ scenes

Ben Schoon | Jan 7 2026 - 12:30 am PT

Philips Hue is launching a few new upgrades in 2026, including new “SpatialAware” lighting scenes that more intelligently distribute color through a room.

As it stands today, lighting scenes in Philips Hue will randomly throw colors across your home. It can still look really nice, but it’s not always the best effect, especially if you have a lot of lights in one room. Starting in 2026, though, Hue is adopting “SpatialAware” scenes that distribute color while knowing the relative position of various lighting products throughout the room.

Hue explains:

Hue SpatialAware scenes enable you to bring nature into your home, recreating natural light settings with remarkable realism by understanding the position of each light. This results in lighting that feels more immersive, dynamic and true to life.

Currently, when using preset scenes from the Scene Gallery in the Philips Hue app, colors are distributed without knowledge of their relative positions across the products in a room. With Hue SpatialAware scenes, colors are distributed intentionally across all the lights in the room to create the most natural representation.

These new scenes will be rolling out in “Spring 2026.”

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There are also several other features around the corner. These include:

Multi-bridge migration support: You can now migrate multiple original Hue Bridges to the new Bridge Pro, assuming the migrations still fall within the Bridge Pro’s capacity (Now available)
AI assistant upgrades: The Hue app’s AI assistant can now create automations based on user requests in natural language (Now available)
New AI assistant languages: Hue will support Dutch, German, and Spanish, and other new languages for its AI assistant (Q1 2026)
Apple Home support for Hue Secure cameras and contact sensors, including video streaming via Apple TV and alerts in the Apple Home app (Q1 2026)
Automations in Rooms and Zones: The Hue app will start showing automations within the rooms and zones they’re set to control, reducing the need to jump around the app to edit automations (Q1 2026)