HA iOS Companion App Require confirmation option

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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I’m using HA iOS Companion App 2024.9.4. A new feature was introduced in the release called “Required confirmation option” for the Apple Watch action buttons. When tapping an action button, a dialog box pops up to ask “are you sure”? I don’t want to use this feature, but the feature is now happening with all of my action buttons. The blog description for the feature says it is a customization, but I can not figure out how to turn it off. How can I turn off this feature?
My actions are defined in HA’s configuration.yaml file with the ios: actions: tags.

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Open the app on your phone

Settings, Companion app, Apple watch configuration

Tap on your item and you can uncheck the require confirmation setting.

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I am not able to tap on the item when the item is an iOS action. While looking around just now I saw the warning:

We will stop supporting iOS Actions in the future, please consider using Home Assistant scripts or scenes instead.

I’ve changed my iOS actions to scripts which now allows me to uncheck the require confirmation setting for the scripts.

4

Apologies for the rookie question, but how, exactly, does one change their iOS actions to scripts?

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I had the iOS actions defined in configuration.yaml like this:

ios:
  actions:
    - name: 'Open Garage'
      label:
        text: 'Open Garage'
      icon:
        icon: arrow_up_bold_outline

with the automation:

- id: garage_control_open
  alias: 'Garage Control Open'
  mode: single
  max_exceeded: silent
  trigger:
    - platform: event
      event_type: ios.action_fired
      event_data:
        actionName: 'Open Garage'
  action:
    - service: cover.open_cover
      target:
        entity_id: cover.garage_door

I removed both of these and replaced them with the script:

garage_control_open_watch:
  alias: 'Open Garage'
  icon: mdi:arrow-up-bold-outline
  mode: single
  max_exceeded: silent
  sequence:
    - service: cover.open_cover
      target:
        entity_id: cover.garage_door

On the HA companion app on my iPhone in the Apple Watch Configuration section I deleted the references to the iOS actions and added the new scripts.

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@stu247 My girlfriend has absolutely no scipts in the new config menu in the companion app. The only thing available are the old actions. What am I missing? Where and how exactly did you add the script? I’m an Android user, so I’m not exactly sure what to do.

Did you add it directly under “ios:”?

Edit: Never mind, I found the issue. Seems that I somehow managed to delete “ios:” in the configuration.yaml file. :man_facepalming:t2::man_shrugging:t2: