Philips Hue doesn’t have any new smart lights to unveil at CES 2026, but it does have a new smart lighting feature that aims to make your existing Hue lights look better than ever. Slated to arrive in early spring, SpatialAware is exclusive to the new and more powerful Hue Bridge Pro and it’s designed to analyze the position of the Hue lights in a room and “distribute” your light scenes across each light, thus ensuring they “work together in harmony.” Without SpatialAware, the Hue app doesn’t consider the position of your lights when it activates a light scene. SpatialAware uses an algorithm that “intentionally” spreads colors across all the Hue lights in a room, resulting in “more immersive, dynamic, and true-to-life” lighting, according to Philips Hue. For example, when SpatialAware is applied to a Hue sunset scene, lamps on one side of the room might glow in a brighter orange to simulate the look of the setting sun while the lights on the other side might be darker. In order for SpatialAware to work its magic, you must use the camera on your smartphone to scan the positions of all the Hue lights in a given room, with the “latest augmented reality technologies” helping to determine which lights are where. You’ll need to re-scan the room if you ever add lights to your setup, Hue says. SpatialAware will be accessible via the Scene Gallery in the Hue app, and the feature is compatible with roughly half of existing light scenes, namely “nature-inspired” ones such as Lake Mist, Mountain Breeze, Savannah Sunset, and Lake Placid. Philips Hue also had a few other features to announce at CES 2026, including “seamless” Apple Home support for the Hue Secure camera and video doorbell, as well as Hue contact sensors. The added Apple Home support is set to arrive in the first quarter of the year. Apple TV 4K users will also be able to stream live feeds from their Hue Secure cameras in picture-in-picture mode “in the coming months,” Hue says. Hue Bridge Pro owners can now migrate multiple Hue Bridges to migrate to the newer hub in one shot, while the Hue AI assistant is gaining the ability to create automations from user prompts, such as “wake me up at 6:45 a.m. every day except Wednesdays.” Finally, lighting and accessory automations will soon appear in their associated rooms and zones within the Hue app, rather than simply appearing in a single list under the Automations tab. This news story is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best smart lights .