What is Apple Home Key Ultra Wide band and why you need to use it in your smart home?
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While it is true that you can disable "Unlock on Approach" per apple device such as iPhone or Watch, you can not unfortuneatly disable UWB unlock on approach at the individual lock level, and that's an issue.
For a home with say 3 u400 locks and 1 of the 3 needs NOT to have uwb unlock and the other 2 do, it appears to be an ALL LOCKS or NO locks enabled feature. There needs to be a way to selectively turn this on or off at the Lock Level in Apple Home. I have learned this as I have a side door along a narrow pathway that frequently gets walking traffic during the day and it falsely unlocks with UWB when walked by from the side even though approach setting is set to front only. The other 2 locks in the house work fine with UWB approach as expected. No way to keep the 2 that work fine on UWB Approach and the problem one have UWB turned off! Hope this will be a future fix !
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But first announced at WWDC 2024, Ultra Wideband support is about to take Home Key to the next level. Not by making it faster, but by making it smarter, more intentional, and far less likely to unlock when it should not.
Great vid, have you tried the Nuki door locks?
And with CES 2026 about to kick off, and new smart locks launching this year, expect to see a lot more locks shipping with Ultra Wideband support.
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Well, pointless. when and where are they available? I can see from your bin outside you’re probably in Yorkshire. Any chance of a Homekey enabled lock with a Eurolock cylinder in the next 5 years? How about some research? A bit short on basic info.
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