Unable to access shared 'Home' in Home app after updating to iOS 18.5

We finally updated to 18.5 and now I can no longer see my husbands version of our "home" so I cannot control any of our lights with home or Siri. We have a Phillips hub for the lights but now we need an Apple hub to work something that was working just fine before?????

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Original Title: home app sharing

iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Jun 14, 2025 05:17 AM

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Jun 17, 2025 03:58 PM in response to ALW3826

I have this problem too! I get invited to the home, accepted the invite: It shows up for less than a minute in the Home app and then the app 'resets' itself to the default "My Home" screen with no accessories. Oddly enough I am getting notifications about the 'invited -to-Home'.

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