# Sorting zones individually in the Homey smartphone app **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Suggestions\ **Created:** [June 10, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/sorting-zones-individually-in-the-homey-smartphone-app/111305 "2024-06-10T14:03:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Towest](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/towest/32/83137_2.png) [@Towest](https://community.homey.app/u/Towest)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/sorting-zones-individually-in-the-homey-smartphone-app/111305/1 "2024-06-10T14:03:27Z")
Hello, I like to use the zone overview in the iOS app. Unfortunately, you can’t sort it individually, but it is fixed according to the alphabetical order. So my suggestion would be that you should be able to sort it individually in the future. ---
**Author:** ![newhouses](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/newhouses/32/39553_2.png) [@newhouses](https://community.homey.app/u/newhouses)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/sorting-zones-individually-in-the-homey-smartphone-app/111305/8 "2024-06-11T20:05:29Z")
For the time being just start with two digits in the order you wish. Not very handy but it works! ---
**Author:** ![Menno\_Kok](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/menno_kok/32/113290_2.png) [@Menno\_Kok](https://community.homey.app/u/Menno_Kok)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/sorting-zones-individually-in-the-homey-smartphone-app/111305/9 "2024-10-12T17:47:50Z")
Yes, would be great indeed to be able to change the order of display. Currently, starting with Attic followed by Basement and having Garage, Ground Floor etc. is not ideal. Surely, adding numbers in front solves the issue but is not preferable- less characters in the screen is better… ---
**Author:** ![Effendi68](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/effendi68/32/75651_2.png) [@Effendi68](https://community.homey.app/u/Effendi68)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/sorting-zones-individually-in-the-homey-smartphone-app/111305/10 "2025-06-20T17:40:45Z")
I would like to freely configure the order of the zones. When I installed Homey, I created zones for our house, one for each floor and then the rooms within it. This is probably how most users do it. Homey sorts these zones/floors alphabetically, but this doesn’t correspond to the order in my house. I would like to sort the zones individually. ---
**Author:** ![SunBeech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sunbeech/32/111391_2.png) [@SunBeech](https://community.homey.app/u/SunBeech)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/sorting-zones-individually-in-the-homey-smartphone-app/111305/11 "2025-06-20T18:03:59Z")
There is no option currently in Homey to freely rearrange zones. A work-around is to put an index number or similar at the start of the zone’s/room’s name. For example: ![IMG_1958](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/d/2/d2a0d84a96fd3c219637f1d27857f127b47d69c0.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![DaneedeKruyff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/daneedekruyff/32/964_2.png) [@DaneedeKruyff](https://community.homey.app/u/DaneedeKruyff)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 6:09pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/sorting-zones-individually-in-the-homey-smartphone-app/111305/12 "2025-06-20T18:09:30Z")
Glad to see Athom has a sense of history with their UX design choices. . [https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=kgyv9Tx3rnP5P53X](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=kgyv9Tx3rnP5P53X) ---
**Author:** ![Theo\_de\_Koning](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/theo_de_koning/32/136062_2.png) [@Theo\_de\_Koning](https://community.homey.app/u/Theo_de_Koning)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/sorting-zones-individually-in-the-homey-smartphone-app/111305/13 "2025-06-20T20:20:37Z")
The same here but it’s making flow cards bad to read. And the device calling out by Google Home. Please give use free movement of rooms/devices with normal names. ---
**Author:** ![DirkG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkg/32/118897_2.png) [@DirkG](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkG)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/sorting-zones-individually-in-the-homey-smartphone-app/111305/14 "2025-06-21T11:36:40Z")
Just an info that a similar request already exists. Maybe even more, I haven’t checked all the feature requests: [Sorting zones individually in the Homey smartphone app](https://community.homey.app/t/sorting-zones-individually-in-the-homey-smartphone-app/111305) ---
**Author:** ![Tore\_Th](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tore_th/32/120986_2.png) [@Tore\_Th](https://community.homey.app/u/Tore_Th)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/sorting-zones-individually-in-the-homey-smartphone-app/111305/15 "2025-08-15T19:12:03Z")
Why is this still missing..? Surely Athom too knows that sorting ones shit as one wants is a basic human right? ---
**Author:** ![SunBeech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sunbeech/32/111391_2.png) [@SunBeech](https://community.homey.app/u/SunBeech)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/sorting-zones-individually-in-the-homey-smartphone-app/111305/16 "2025-08-15T19:22:26Z")
Suggest you create a support ticket at [Support | Homey](https://homey.app/support/). The more users do that, the more attention it will get from Athom. ---
**Author:** ![Fredrik\_Tingdal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/fredrik_tingdal/32/122664_2.png) [@Fredrik\_Tingdal](https://community.homey.app/u/Fredrik_Tingdal)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/sorting-zones-individually-in-the-homey-smartphone-app/111305/17 "2025-09-20T18:51:31Z")
The current Homey display for your home is to organize it alphabetically first by floor name, then by room name. In my case, the means that the “First Floor” shows up in the tree view before the Ground Floor does (as does the Garden). This is counter intuitive since a home already has a built in organizational structure (the floors, and then the rooms in the order in which they flow from the corridor). It would be nice if Homey would allow you to organize your floors and rooms in a custom order that was not alphabetical. That way, I might organize my home as (1) Garden, (2) Basement (3) Ground Floor, (4) First Floor, (5) Second Floor, (6) Attic and (7) Roof. I know I could add numbers to them in this way to get the same effect, except that this might later cause a problem with having to use the room number with the name in voice processors. The same would be true for every room on every floor - just let us set the order of the rooms. Finally, this is currently presented as a tree view, which is a kind of bottoms up way of looking at a home. Something that better represented the home starting on the bottom floor and going up might be visually easier. This might be a better display overall for your ‘devices’ page in IOS which seems to have a room only orientation (which gives me 3 guest bedrooms on different floors). I’ll echo what others have suggested here. A killer feature would be to be able to upload a rough schematic of the home, and more precisely place each device. Coupled with your dashboards and some cheap android tablets, you could have an in-room control panel complete with a map of the room with each device and the control points. This would set you apart from almost all other products. ---
**Author:** ![Dijker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dijker](https://community.homey.app/u/Dijker)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2026, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/sorting-zones-individually-in-the-homey-smartphone-app/111305/18 "2026-02-28T14:58:35Z")
Archived on February 28, 2026, 2:58pm UTC ---
**Author:** ![Dijker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dijker](https://community.homey.app/u/Dijker)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2026, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/sorting-zones-individually-in-the-homey-smartphone-app/111305/19 "2026-02-28T14:58:47Z")
> [@\[FeatureRequest\] Sort devices within the zone's](https://community.homey.app/t/featurerequest-sort-devices-within-the-zones/14626): > > Is possible to sort the devices in devices screen? In version 1.5 it was possible, but now don’t find the option to do this.