How can I expand HomeKit geofence radius?

Same! HomeKit is horribly bugged or iOS16 is, or my iPhone 14 is garbage and Apple won’t help.

I’ll be sitting on my couch now and the lights will shut off on me because I “left home” then a few minutes later they’ll turn back on.

if we could expand the geofence radius HomeKit uses to call our “home area” that could fix this

The Ecobee app no longer supports geofencing from within the app. It recently switched control to the HomeKit app. Like others, this appears to have disabled the adjustability of the geofence.

Hello Win W,

Thank you for reaching out to Apple Support Communities, and we'll be happy to help in any way we can. We understand you're having issues with your geofence. We recommend reaching out to the manufacturer of the geofence to find out how to do this.

For more help, please reach out to Apple Support here: Get Support

We hope this helps.

Cheers!

Win W,

Thanks for the clarification. Previously, you stated that you were using the Ecobee app with the HomeKit, correct?

If so, give the steps from the following resource a try that may be able to help: How can I configure my HomeKit geofence radius and triggers?

1) In the ecobee mobile app, select the Account icon in the bottom left corner of the screen.

2) Select "HomeKit" under the Integrations menu.

3) You should see the option for "Geofence"—select it

4) Select "Enable geofence."

5) Change the radius by pinching the radius-circle to increase or decrease the radius of the geofence.

6) You may select a Scene that will trigger (or choose to do nothing) when you enter the geofence boundary and another for when you leave the boundary. Once you've finished making your adjustments, select "Done" in the top right corner to save.

7) Success! You've now set up a geofence. Any time you enter or exit the set radius, your specified Scenes will trigger.

If still running into issues after the steps above, we'd recommend reaching out to Apple Support directly using the link provided in the previous reply.

Take care.