Siri and Apple Home can control Matic vacuum/mop, here’s how

I’ve been using a robot vacuum and mop from Matic Robots for several months now. It’s a solid product with Apple-level build quality that’s built on privacy and intelligence. While Apple Home integration wasn’t always a feature, I was pleased to see support arrive recently.

Matic works with Apple Home

Matic is hardly the first robot vacuum to work with Apple Home, but it’s the first that I’ve used.

While the best Matic features are still inside the iPhone app, I’m impressed with how many features carry over into the Apple Home app.

I’m also pleased to see what new features Matic gains by integrating with Apple Home and Siri.

Apple Home and Google Home integration arrived in the Matic version 1.44 update in March.

After updating the Matic app, a new “Connect to Smart Home App” option appears in the app’s settings. From here, you tap “Enter Pairing Mode” and choose Apple Home or Google Home. You can connect Matic to both, but you must pair one at a time.

The Matic robot vacuum displays a QR code on its screen that you scan from the app, things start to process and connect, then Matic is ready to be named and assigned to a room in the Apple Home app.

You can repeat this process for Google Home. Matic notes in the app that Amazon Alexa is not yet supported, although it’s on their radar.

Siri voice control is a great new feature

Adding Matic to the Apple Home app adds great new features for customers in the Apple ecosystem, including Siri voice control.

Matic brings its knowledge of room locations and labels to the Apple Home app.

This list is separate from the rooms that you create in the Home app yourself. That’s helpful for avoiding room duplication issues or having a bunch of empty rooms without HomeKit accessories.

You can control Matic with your voice from Siri on any device, including HomePod mini and Apple Watch. All of these commands have worked during initial testing:

• “Siri, start vacuuming.”
• “Siri, vacuum and mop [room name].”
• “Siri, vacuum [one room name] and [another room name].”
• “Siri, mop [room name].”
• “Siri, vacuum and mop everywhere.”
• “Siri, pause [vacuum name].”
• “Siri, return the vacuum to the dock.”

Apple Home app controls alongside HomeKit accessories

Inside the Apple Home app, you can control Matic in the same way.

Controls let you vacuum, mop, and vacuum and mop specific rooms, room combinations, or every room. You can also pause and resume cleaning, and you can have Matic return to the dock at any point.

Vacuuming and mopping can also be triggered through scenes that you create or automations that you assign. For instance, you can automate cleaning when you leave or docking when you arrive home.

Matic also exposes three cleaning modes in Apple Home:

• Quick
• Deep Clean
• Automatic

Apple’s Home app also shows whether or not Matic is charging.

The only feature offered in the Home app that didn’t work is playing a sound to locate Matic. I know the robot vacuum can play a jingle, but that’s one button in Apple’s Home app that didn’t seem to work.

(I also noticed that the Home app on iPhone and Apple Watch fully support robot vacuum and mop features, but the Home app on macOS Tahoe 26.5 doesn’t know what to do with it. This means that Siri on the Mac cannot control Matic. This is probably an Apple issue.)