Philips Hue is launching a few new upgrades in 2026, including new “SpatialAware” lighting scenes that more intelligently distribute color through a room.
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Smart home lighting has become pretty predictable over the years, but Philips Hue has a pretty clever idea in its new Wall Washer light. After using it for a few months, I’m pretty impressed by it, but it doesn’t exactly buck the stereotype for Hue’s pricing.
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Philips Hue is launching a huge new product catalog at IFA 2025 this week, with the company’s new Bridge Pro unlocking more device support and features, while the new Philips Hue Essential series offers far more affordable light bulbs.
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Ahead of an expected launch this week, a new leak on Amazon has not only revealed the entire new collection of Philips Hue products, but also the way that Bridge Pro will turn your existing bulbs into motion sensors.
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Leaks from Philips Hue itself as well as other sources have revealed that the new Hue Bridge Pro will support more devices and convert bulbs into motion sensors, and now we know how much that might cost as the latest leak reveals the price and a release date.
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Philips Hue bulbs are some of the best smart lights you can buy, but they’re also pretty pricey. Soon, it seems Philips Hue “Essential” will be added to the lineup and potentially at a much lower price point.
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Ahead of its seemingly imminent launch, the Philips Hue Bridge Pro has again surfaced, this time revealing its much higher capacity for devices and some other new features.
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Philips Hue appears to be preparing a new “Bridge Pro” setup that turns your smart lights into motion sensors, while also supporting more devices.
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In the smart home world, Philips Hue already has some of the more expensive options, and now those prices are going even higher thanks to US tariffs.
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Philips Hue is launching a new “Wall Washer” light that is designed to fill a wall with light, and it’s arriving ahead of support for AI-powered scene generation.
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The Philips Hue Sync Box is a fun way to extend what’s on your TV to the lights in your room, but the original box has lagged behind on features for a while now. Today, Philips has announced a new Hue Sync Box that supports HDMI 2.1 and more.
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Philips Hue customers will soon have a new way to control lighting around the home. Signify will add a new brightness feature through an update to the Philips Hue app. Users will also have access to expanded automation tools.
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The Google Home app has been undergoing a reinvention in over the past year, and one of the best new features is improved control over TV devices. If you happen to own a Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync box, Google Home also just became the best app you can use for quick controls.
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After showing up earlier this year in a false start, the Philips Hue app seems to now be rolling out its “Natural Light” scene to more users with the ability to change the color temperature of lights in your home throughout the day.
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Smart lighting can breathe new life into your home, and one of our favorite options is Philips Hue. It’s recently been uncovered that Hue is preparing a new “Natural Light” mode which is designed to mimic real outdoor lighting conditions, and it looks pretty sweet.
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As the market for smart home products expands, the joint forces of Google, Apple, and Amazon are coming together to form a new standard in “Matter.” This week, the company behind Philips Hue announced that a future software update will make all Hue products fully compatible with Matter.
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It’s been quite some time since Google announced that the “Works with Nest” program would be shut down and replaced, but the effects are still being felt. Next week, Philips Hue is dropping support for Works with Nest.
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Google Assistant is one of the best ways to control your various smart home products, Philips Hue included. If you’re still using a Philips Hue v1 bridge, though, Google Assistant is cutting off support in the next few days.
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Smart speakers are used in many households for controlling smart lighting products. Currently, one of the most popular smart lighting options, Philips Hue, can’t be connected to Google Assistant due to a bug, but thankfully, both companies are at least aware of the problem that takes away the ability for Google Home to control the smart lights.
Philips teased back in January that it would be launching outdoor Hue lights later in the year, and it has now provided details of the products – including pricing and availability.
The company says that it will be offering three types of outdoor lights in the USA and Europe in July …
Google Home is capable of a multitude of things, and for a lot of users, one function of Home that’s the most helpful is using it to control smart home devices. Philips Hue light bulbs are the most popular connected lights on the market, and according to numerous reports on the Google Home Help Forum, they simply aren’t working for a lot of people.
Back at launch, Google Home wasn’t very friendly with smart home products, but over the past few months, Google has worked with more new companies to expand what Home is capable of. Personally, I love using smart home products, and I do so quite often in my home office. Here’s what I’ve been using.
Philips has announced that it is extending its range of Hue bulbs, adding an E14/B39 ‘candle’ bulb to fit smaller lamps. This will be added to the E26/A19, bayonet and GU10 fittings.
The new bulbs will be available in both white and color versions, as with the existing range, and will hit Europe in April, reaching the U.S. ‘later this year.’
Philips says that the candle bulbs will be particularly useful for bedside table lamps …