Where Does Philips Hue Store Lights and Scenes?
Where the Philips Hue app keeps lights and scenes on Android and iPhone, plus bridge versus cloud roles.
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Hue splits truth between bridge and cloud. The bridge holds bulbs, rooms, and schedules on your LAN. Your Hue account links remote access and entertainment areas. The phone app holds login, cache, and demo media.
That makes phones disposable. New phone, same WiFi, find bridge, press its button, sign in. Scenes return. Exact cache names shift with releases, so ignore raw folder guides. If lights vanish, check the bridge power and LAN first. App reinstalls rarely fix what is actually a bridge offline issue.
Where Philips Hue stores this, by platform
/sdcard/Android/data/com.philips.lighting.hue2
Lights follow your Hue bridge plus linked account. Phone holds cache only. Rejoin by pressing the bridge button on the same LAN. Cache names shift with releases.
On My iPhone/Hue (settings only, lights on bridge)
Lights live on the bridge hardware plus Hue cloud link. App container holds login and cache. Sign in and join the bridge on LAN to restore rooms.
Frequently asked questions
How do I move Hue lights to a new phone?
Lights, rooms, and scenes follow your Hue bridge plus linked Hue account. Sign in on the new phone with the same account and find the bridge on the LAN. The phone holds cache only. Bridge hardware keeps the Zigbee truth even with the app deleted.
Does reinstalling Hue delete my lights?
No. The bridge stores lights, groups, and schedules on the hardware. The cloud account links remote access and Hue Sync. Clearing phone data logs out but leaves the bridge untouched. Rejoin the bridge by pressing its button during discovery.
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