Robot Vacuum Cleaner Support

Apple will be adding support for the core functionality of robot vacuum cleaners to HomeKit. This means you’ll be able to ask Siri to clean your floors, start your robot vacuum from the Home app, and even add it to automations and scenes so it can run automatically.

While it’s not coming until a later iOS 18 point release, we don’t imagine too many people will miss this one. There aren’t any HomeKit-compatible robot vacuums available yet, and only about four manufacturers support the Matter standard, and they’re not exactly mainstream. Even iRobot, which helped develop Matter for robot vacuums, has yet to announce its own Matter-compatible model.