# Setting a Mode via App v2 **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Tags:** uncategorized\ **Created:** [September 16, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/setting-a-mode-via-app-v2/22782 "2015-09-16T16:28:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cdikland](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/cdikland/32/105520_2.png) [@cdikland](https://community.smartthings.com/u/cdikland)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/setting-a-mode-via-app-v2/22782/1 "2015-09-16T16:28:16Z")
How/where the heck do I manually set a mode via the app (i.e. Change Away mode to Home mode)? With the old app, touch the top left icon (or slide screen to right) and all the modes were displayed and simply touching one changed current mode to it… I cannot find any means to do this anymore using the new app. Yes, I know new modes can be added and old modes editted via the “My Locations” option but that is all I can find within the new app. What am I not seeing here?? ---
**Author:** ![jody.albritton](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/jody.albritton/32/220661_2.png) [@jody.albritton](https://community.smartthings.com/u/jody.albritton)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/setting-a-mode-via-app-v2/22782/2 "2015-09-16T16:34:09Z")
The only way to change modes in the new app, without creating your own SmartApp, is to use Routines. The ability to change just a mode was removed in the new release. ---
**Author:** ![cdikland](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/cdikland/32/105520_2.png) [@cdikland](https://community.smartthings.com/u/cdikland)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/setting-a-mode-via-app-v2/22782/3 "2015-09-16T16:37:53Z")
> [@jody.albritton](#): > > he ability to change just a mode was removed in the new release. Fine. Now that I know I can live with that I suppose. Simply using routine(s) to change the mode makes sense if I think about it. ---
**Author:** ![JDRoberts](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/jdroberts/32/56577_2.png) [@JDRoberts](https://community.smartthings.com/u/JDRoberts)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/setting-a-mode-via-app-v2/22782/4 "2015-09-16T17:07:35Z")
Discussion here. See number 5 in the FAQ. This has been updated for the V2 app. > [@FAQ: How to Add a New Location Mode, or Manually Change from One Location Mode to Another (Classic App)](https://community.smartthings.com/t/faq-how-to-add-a-new-mode-or-manually-change-from-one-mode-to-another/15530): > > on September 15, 2016, an update was released to the android and iOS smartthings mobile apps which removed the ability to add a new mode through the app. Hopefully this was just a glitch and it will be re-added soon. Meanwhile, you can still add a new mode through the IDE. Instructions in the following thread. ======================================================= Many people use modes to manage which actions are automatically triggered. To begin with, Smartthings starts you out with a few basic modes, like Home and Away. However, many people like to add additional modes. For example, I distinguish between Night, which is when we have a lot of lights turn on when there is motion, and Asleep, when the same movement will not turn on the ceiling lights, but will turn on a soft night li… ---
**Author:** ![jelc29](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/jelc29/32/19737_2.png) [@jelc29](https://community.smartthings.com/u/jelc29)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/setting-a-mode-via-app-v2/22782/5 "2015-09-17T04:17:09Z")
This may be off topic for this post but it just struck me how bizarre and convoluted this system is lol. 1. You have to set up different modes for the system. 2. You have to set up routines to control the different modes. (cannot control modes directly.) 3. You have to set up different Smart apps to control or be controlled by the different routines and or modes. 4. You have to set up Smart apps to control and monitor your things. Wow 🙂 So weird. Who thought up this Architecture? ---
**Author:** ![Keo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/keo/32/86757_2.png) [@Keo](https://community.smartthings.com/u/Keo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/setting-a-mode-via-app-v2/22782/6 "2015-09-17T12:19:14Z")
> [@cdikland](#): > > How/where the heck do I manually set a mode via the app I’ve been using virtual switches and the “Switch Changes mode” App.