Companion App for iOS 2024.9: Getting ready for iOS 18

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I just released in App Store, it should be available in a few moments

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Sure, here we go: Support dynamic type on iOS (Web & App)

It’d be awesome if you could forward it :slight_smile:

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I did hit save. It’s with all colours and even different scripts. I recreated all my iOS actions this morning to scripts.

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There is a reset button at the bottom of the screen, can you try to reset and start over? I can’t reproduce this issue on my side

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Hello @bgoncal I just installed the update v2024.9.1. It has fixed the problem with the script, great! However, in the control panel, I still can’t operate the assistant; it does nothing when I click on it, but it does work via the widget. Is this already known to you? Thanks in advance for this great update!

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Did you configure the Assist control? when in edit mode, tap on it to choose your Assist pipeline

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Same issue. Still the same with icons.

Also I deleted the automations in home assistant that are related to the actions. But the actions still appear. Even after I reset configuration. And restart HA

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When I put a script in the control center, I get an option to enable confirmation. However this doesn’t seem to do anything. I can only see confirmation mentioned in regards to the apple watch news. Is it not supposed to be possible to have confirmation in the regular control center or is it a bug that it’s not working?

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Those are 2 different things, Apple Watch has a “confirmation required before run”, control center has “confirmation notification after run”

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Weird, must be some issue while updating your watch app, reboot your watch and reinstall HA app on it to see if it shows up

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You need to delete the actions itself not only their automations

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Thanks for this fantastic update! :partying_face:
@bgoncal, one question: are “switch” entities in roadmap for future releases?
It would be great to have switch control besides lights.

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@bgoncal

I was able to remove the iOS actions as they were coded in the configuration.yaml file.

However the icon colour issue still persists and I tried on my wife’s phone and the same issue. Set the colour and save and still shows black.

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After watched video that @wgumaa provided. I confirmed it is the same issue I faced. Even re-install the Home Assistant app version 2024.9.1 on my Apple Watch running on watchOS 11 and iPhone 15 pro running on iOS 18 and hit the reset button to start over configure, nothing has been changed. I notice when change the icon or background color to default blue or default green, both of them respect the color change, but when change both of them to default orange or default yellow or custom color, the color is always switched back to black.

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@khuntop never thought about those colours, so I tried and confirm your findings.

Almost same setup. Latest watchOS and iOS. Both on iPhone 14pro and 12pro.

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Great update for iOS companion app, thank you a lot guys. This way one do not need to go into homebridge in order to have icons on control screen. so directly from Home Assistant, thats nice.

One question: how to use new “location permission category” and what is it useful for?

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Yes, coming soon

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In my case I use it to tell my parents and partner “hey guys, you have to “allow always” HA permission so automations work well" hahaha because iOS sometimes says “this app has been using your location in background, do you want to allow only during app usage?” and then they tap on it because well
 for many apps it makes sense but not for home assistant

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This update to iOS companion up is really useful. Thank you for all the work done.

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There was regression introduced by the latest iOS app update (non-preflight version). There are 2 main issues:

  1. “No watch configuration available. Open the iOS app and create your configuration in the Companion app settings” → this one makes the iOS actions configured on homeassistant server side (yaml) unusable as none of the actions is displayed on the watch HA app start screen. I was able to get around this by going in the HA iPhone app to Settings - Companion App - (Apple Watch) Configuration and disabling Show Assist (at the bottom) and then hit Save on the top right of the screen.
  2. The apple watch action text color for all actions is no longer accurately displayed. Instead the color white #FFFFFF is used for all actions’ text.