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==Incidents==
==Incidents==
===Removed from Alexa (July 2025)===
===Removed from Alexa (''July 2025'')===
As of 31 July 2025, Sengled's app is no longer available on Alexa. Amazon cited its removal as being due to repeated sporadic outages the preceding few months that had remained unresolved by Sengled. Although some smart light bulbs may be able to use Alexa directly through other means such as {{Wplink|Zigbee}} and {{Wplink|Bluetooth}}, for the most part customers that relied on Alexa-compatibility have been left with {{Wplink|Brick (electronics)|bricked}} goods.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Patterson |first=Ben |title=Amazon yanks Sengled's Alexa skill after a series of service outages |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/2864586/amazon-yanks-sengleds-alexa-skill-after-a-series-of-service-outages.html |website=PCWorld |date=31 Jul 2025 |access-date=26 Aug 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250802073937/https://www.pcworld.com/article/2864586/amazon-yanks-sengleds-alexa-skill-after-a-series-of-service-outages.html |archive-date=2 Aug 2025}}</ref>
As of 31 July 2025, Sengled's app is no longer available on Alexa. Amazon cited its removal as being due to repeated sporadic outages the preceding few months that had remained unresolved by Sengled. Although some smart light bulbs may be able to use Alexa directly through other means such as {{Wplink|Zigbee}} and {{Wplink|Bluetooth}}, for the most part customers that relied on Alexa-compatibility have been left with {{Wplink|Brick (electronics)|bricked}} goods.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Patterson |first=Ben |title=Amazon yanks Sengled's Alexa skill after a series of service outages |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/2864586/amazon-yanks-sengleds-alexa-skill-after-a-series-of-service-outages.html |website=PCWorld |date=31 Jul 2025 |access-date=26 Aug 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250802073937/https://www.pcworld.com/article/2864586/amazon-yanks-sengleds-alexa-skill-after-a-series-of-service-outages.html |archive-date=2 Aug 2025}}</ref>


There still has been no statement from Sengled on the matter as of 26 August 2025. Despite the removal, its Amazon store page<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amazon.com: Sengled |url=https://www.amazon.com/stores/Sengled/page/835A951E-D6BB-46D3-94CD-11070A540E81 |website=[[Amazon]] |date=26 Aug 2025 |access-date=26 Aug 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250826234414/https://www.amazon.com/stores/Sengled/page/835A951E-D6BB-46D3-94CD-11070A540E81 |archive-date=26 Aug 2025}}</ref> and both their EU and US websites still advertise compatibility with Alexa.<ref>{{Cite web |title=sengled: Home |url=https://eu.sengled.com/en/ |website=Sengled (EU) |date=26 Aug 2025 |access-date=26 Aug 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250827000307/https://eu.sengled.com/en/ |archive-date=27 Aug 2025 |quote=''Stream music from your smartphone or via voice control with Amazon's Alexa.''}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Smart Lighting Expert |url=https://us.sengled.com/ |website=Sengled (US) |date=26 Aug 2025 |access-date=26 Aug 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250826235723/https://us.sengled.com/ |archive-date=26 Aug 2025 |quote=''[...] allowing for convenient voice or app control with Amazon Alexa''}}</ref>
There still has been no statement from Sengled on the matter as of 26 August 2025. Despite the removal, its Amazon store page<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amazon.com: Sengled |url=https://www.amazon.com/stores/Sengled/page/835A951E-D6BB-46D3-94CD-11070A540E81 |website=[[Amazon]] |date=26 Aug 2025 |access-date=26 Aug 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250826234414/https://www.amazon.com/stores/Sengled/page/835A951E-D6BB-46D3-94CD-11070A540E81 |archive-date=26 Aug 2025}}</ref> and both their EU and US websites still advertise compatibility with Alexa.<ref>{{Cite web |title=sengled: Home |url=https://eu.sengled.com/en/ |website=Sengled (EU) |date=26 Aug 2025 |access-date=26 Aug 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250827000307/https://eu.sengled.com/en/ |archive-date=27 Aug 2025 |quote=''Stream music from your smartphone or via voice control with Amazon's Alexa.''}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Smart Lighting Expert |url=https://us.sengled.com/ |website=Sengled (US) |date=26 Aug 2025 |access-date=26 Aug 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250826235723/https://us.sengled.com/ |archive-date=26 Aug 2025 |quote=''[...] allowing for convenient voice or app control with Amazon Alexa''}}</ref>


===App itself becomes inoperable (Aug 2025)===
===App itself becomes inoperable (''August 2025'')===
The Sengled app has stopped working since 2 August 2025, leaving customers with non-functioning smart light bulbs.{{Citation needed}} Again, no statement was released by Sengled as of 26 August 2025.
The Sengled app has stopped working since 2 August 2025, leaving customers with non-functioning smart light bulbs.{{Citation needed}} Again, no statement was released by Sengled as of 26 August 2025.