HomeKit Night Shift

While this one falls more solidly into the “wellness” category, it looks like Apple is planning to bring its “Night Shift” feature to your home lighting. While HomeKit users have long enjoyed the ability to create dynamic lighting schedules, there are reports that Apple plans to offer some more intelligent automation that could vary the colour temperature of your lighting during day and night cycles.

In addition to the obvious benefit to reducing exposure to blue light, this also has the potential to help your mood and sleep schedule by creating more comfortable lighting conditions, and could even be connected to the new sleep tracking features, automatically creating warmer and more subdued lighting as you approach your regular bedtime, and adjusting lighting throughout the day in a more gradual and natural way.