Weber terminates June Oven app

June Life sold the June Oven, a countertop oven whose built-in camera & software identify the food placed inside & set the cook program,^[1] at $1,495 when the first generation shipped in December 2016^[2][3] & at $599 to $999 when the third generation shipped in late November 2020.^[4] Amazon was still selling new units at $849.00 on October 26, 2022,^[5] three weeks after June's own store marked all three configurations Sold Out,^[6] so a June Oven still in service in 2026 is roughly four to ten years old. Weber announced on July 23, 2026 that the June mobile app & its cloud-connected services will be discontinued on September 22, 2026, ending remote monitoring, remote control, live video viewing, app notifications & premium recipe subscriptions;^[7][8] Weber says the oven is not being disabled & will keep cooking from its built-in touchscreen once the latest software update is installed.^[7][9]

• The oven cost $599 to $1,495 new, & the connected features came with it. The first generation shipped at $1,495 in December 2016;^[2] the second & third generations started at $599.^[10][4] The June app is free, so the loss lands on everyone who paid for the appliance, subscriber or not.^[11][8]
• A June Oven still in service in 2026 is roughly four to ten years old. Amazon sold new units at $849.00 as late as October 26, 2022.^[5]
• Pairing a phone to an oven runs through June's servers, which mint the pairing code. A phone that has never been paired has no documented way to get that code after the cutoff.^[12]
• Apple's listing still offered June Premium at $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year on July 27, 2026. The app has not shipped a version since 1.24.2 on November 2, 2022.^[11]
• The two public integrations for the oven, one for Homebridge & one for Home Assistant, reach it through June's hosts, api.junelife.com, messaging.junelife.com, & june-api.s3.amazonaws.com, so they stop when those servers do.^[9][13][14]
• Remote preheat, temperature adjustment, & live video are what the free June app did. The paid subscription bought recipes.^[11]
• Announced July 23, 2026. Scheduled for September 22, 2026.^[7]
• Weber says the written warranty on the June Oven has expired.^[15]
• The oven keeps cooking from its touchscreen.^[7] Weber's instruction is to keep it on Wi-Fi & powered on until the last update lands, which may take up to 24 hours.^[9]
• Weber's stated reason: it is focusing resources on new innovations and connected experiences across the Weber product portfolio.^[16]

The first generation shipped in December 2016 at $1,495.^[2][3] The trade publication The Spoon described that price as five to ten times more than other countertop convection ovens.^[3]

The second generation went on sale on August 7, 2018 & began shipping the same day at $599.^[1] June's own announcement that day gave both configurations:

It is available now on juneoven.com for $599 , or $799 with an extended 2-year warranty, 3-year recipe subscription and set of 3 air baskets

^[10]

The third generation was announced on October 21, 2020^[17] & shipped in late November 2020 in three bundles at $599, $799 & $999.^[4]

Buyers were not limited to June's own store. Best Buy listed the June Oven, SKU 6380325, as in stock on November 26, 2019,^[18] & Sur La Table listed the Gourmet Package configuration at $899.00 on October 21, 2019, marked Ships directly from vendor.^[19] Weber's FAQ states that June Ovens are sold & supported only in the United States.^[20]

June's storefront still carried a working buy button for all three configurations on August 23, 2022, at $899, $999 & $1,299.^[21] By October 4, 2022 the button on all three read Sold Out,^[6] & the same three prices were still listed Sold Out on July 27, 2026.^[22]

Amazon still had stock three weeks later. On October 26, 2022 it listed the June Oven Plus Bundle at $849.00, Only 14 left in stock, order soon, Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.^[5] An oven bought that day is 3 years & 11 months old on September 22, 2026. A first-generation unit from December 2016 is 9 years & 9 months old.

Weber published the shutdown as a set of support articles on July 23, 2026. The core one reads:

The June mobile app will be discontinued and will no longer be supported. As part of this transition, app-based features and cloud-connected services will no longer be available.

^[7]

Weber's stated rationale is three sentences long, and this is the whole of it:

Weber continuously evaluates how best to invest in future products, technologies, and cooking experiences for consumers. As part of that process, we are focusing resources on new innovations and connected experiences across the Weber product portfolio. While the June platform will no longer be actively supported, we remain proud of the innovation and technology June brought to connected cooking.

^[16]

Weber names no cost, no vendor contract, and no technical constraint. Firmware & software updates stop on the same date,^[9] and a separate article says there are currently no plans to restore or relaunch the June app or related cloud services.^[23]

June's mobile app end user license agreement reserved the right to end the software at any time:

June reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify, discontinue or terminate the Licensed Application or to modify this Agreement, at any time and without prior notice.

^[24]

Weber says the oven will continue to operate after the app is discontinued & that any feature relying on the mobile app, cloud connectivity, or remote services will not.^[8] Weber hedges the list that follows with This may include features such as, so Weber has not committed to it being complete.^[8] The third column below marks which rows corroborate from something other than Weber's assertion.

June's technology page states that the oven's camera work happens locally: All images are processed by our dedicated on device neural network to recognize and count your food.^[27] June's 2023 help center stated that The entire Food ID process takes place on-device and doesn't require an active internet connection.^[28]

Food ID survives the shutdown, then freezes. June's own October 2022 release notes describe moving model delivery off the firmware release cycle, so that updates to Cook-Program recognition could ship without needing an oven operating system release.^[29] That was the last published update.^[30] Whatever model an oven holds on September 22, 2026 is the model it keeps.

Two publicly readable integrations for the June Oven exist as add-ons for home-automation software: a Homebridge plugin & a Home Assistant custom component, one a port of the other. The Home Assistant component says so in the docstring, the descriptive comment at the top of its own protocol.py: Ported from the MIT-licensed homebridge-june-oven project.^[14]

Each defines exactly three network endpoints, & all three are June's servers: https://api.junelife.com, https://messaging.junelife.com, & the WebSocket at wss://messaging.junelife.com/1/messaging/websocket/companion.^[13][14] Neither integration's endpoint definitions include a local-network path: no mDNS, SSDP, or UPnP lookup of a June device, the standard ways software finds a device on the same local network, & no LAN address. Every June endpoint the two projects define is remote.^[13][14]

The projects say so themselves. The Homebridge plugin's troubleshooting section states that pairing goes through June's cloud, not local network,^[31] & the Home Assistant component states that This is a cloud-push integration, not local-LAN control.^[32]

The documented pairing sequence runs entirely through June's servers. The plugin registers a device by POSTing to /2/devices/register, an address on June's server, requests a pairing code by POSTing to /2/devices/pairing, & reads that code out of the server's response body.^[12] The 8-digit code the plugin then displays is derived from the value the server returned.^[12][31] The plugin POSTs to /2/devices/pairing/{code}/companion & polls /2/devices/{deviceId}/associated until June's servers confirm the association.^[12]

So after September 22, 2026, a phone that has never been paired to a June Oven has no documented way to pair to it, standing in the same room, on the same Wi-Fi network, with the oven powered on.^[12] The shutdown takes away the step that establishes trust between a phone and the appliance. A new phone, a replacement for a lost one, or a new owner after a resale each runs into the same missing server.^[12]

Weber's own factory reset also removes the WiFi connection pairing and paired phones, & Weber describes it as how you would prep the oven for resale or otherwise give to a friend.^[33] An owner who follows that procedure after the cutoff has no documented way to pair the next phone to the oven.^[12][33]

The same missing step kills both integrations, because both of them pair the same way.^[12][34]

Weber's own article on post-cutoff recovery is candid about the limits:

You will not be able to update the June Oven after this date. If you attempt a recovery from recovery mode, it may not complete successfully, and in some cases the oven's connected features may not be restorable.

^[33]

Weber adds that The only option after Sept. 22 in recovery mode is a factory reset, & that the reset erases previously saved cook information & software updates.^[33] The same article describes what an owner is left with once that reset finishes:

the oven will start with the new user experience. The user should skip the WiFi connection step and continue to use the oven through the touch panel.

^[33]

June's own documentation said something else about first boot. Its help center, captured September 23, 2023, stated:

June requires an active WiFi connection the first time the oven is turned on for setup to perform a required software update. After this software update is complete and the oven has restarted, it can be used without an active WiFi connection, though certain features will not work without an active internet connection.

^[35]

The record does not resolve that conflict. Weber's article uses the phrase the new user experience without stating whether the final software update changed the first-run flow.^[33]

Each side supports a different oven. For one that has taken the final update, Weber's own documentation says a factory reset leaves a working oven driven from the touch panel.^[33] For one that never took it, a unit still in its box or one that missed the window, June's documentation calls the first-boot update required, and the server that serves it is going away.^[35][9] The manufacturer has published two dated statements that do not sit together, has scheduled the servers off, and has told owners that recovery may not complete successfully.^[33]

Apple lists the June app as Free, & the listing's own description says the app lets the owner remotely preheat the oven, adjust temperature & time, & watch live video of food cooking.^[11] What the $4.99 monthly or $49.99 annual June Premium subscription bought is stated on the same listing in one line: Subscribe to access all premium recipes.^[11] Weber's own feature-loss article treats the two as different things, listing App-only recipe access or premium recipe subscriptions separately from Remote monitoring or remote control from your phone and Live video viewing through the app.^[8]

The June app listing on Apple's US storefront, live on July 27, 2026, four days after Weber announced the shutdown, still carried the subscription terms: Monthly ($4.99 per month) and Annual ($49.99 per year) subscriptions are available. Subscribe annually to save 20%.^[11] Apple's listing also still carried June's renewal clause:

Your June Premium subscription will automatically renew within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period and your credit card will be charged through your iTunes account.

^[11]

The listing carries no shutdown notice and no mention of September 22, 2026.^[11] The June app has not shipped a release since version 1.24.2 on November 2, 2022, and its copyright line reads 2017 to 2022.^[11]

The Google Play listing carries the same gap. It was last updated October 24, 2024, its description still promises access to the oven from anywhere, anytime, and no shutdown notice appears there either.^[36]

Weber bought June outright on January 12, 2021. Its fiscal 2021 Form 10-K, the annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, records that the Company acquired all of the remaining outstanding stock of June for total consideration of $142.205 million, of which $108.285 million was cash.^[37] The oven itself stopped being made in 2023: Weber's FAQ, dated July 22, 2026, one day before the shutdown announcement, states flatly that June Oven are discontinued and are no longer in production since 2023.^[20]

The public got a much softer version of that at the time. In February 2024, The Spoon reported that, according to Andru Edwards, a technology writer & influencer for GearLive, Weber staff told people who asked at CES that the June oven was finished, and quoted a post Edwards made on Reddit:

Just got the word from Weber themselves here at CES. The June Oven will continue receiving software updates, but no plans for a new model. The tech from June is now being integrated into the new Weber grills.

^[38]

That is three hops from Weber: staff at a trade show, to Edwards, to a Reddit post, to a trade publication quoting it. The Spoon's own reporter added, in his own voice, My own outreach to Weber has gone unanswered.^[38] The promise of continued software updates, whoever made it, has a date on it now, and the app it was made about last shipped a build in November 2022.^[11]

Weber already has a federal right-to-repair record. On July 7, 2022 the Federal Trade Commission announced an administrative complaint & a proposed consent order against Weber-Stephen Products LLC, charging that Weber's warranty conveyed that the warranty is void if customers use or install third-party parts on its grill products.^[39] The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, at 15 U.S.C. § 2302(c), bars a warrantor from conditioning coverage on the consumer using an article identified by brand, trade, or corporate name.^[40] The order in Docket No. C-4775 requires Weber to tell customers that Using third-party parts will not void this warranty.^[41]

Weber was not fined. The order requires changes to the warranty rather than any payment, & the only dollar figure in it is the jurisdictional threshold for a consumer product costing more than five dollars.^[41] The $46,517 in the press release is prospective, a civil penalty the FTC could seek per violation in federal court if Weber were to breach the order later.^[39]

Weber says the written warranty on these ovens has already expired.^[15]

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