iOS 18 HA widget(s) # buttons VS #actions & text out of view

After updating to iOS 18 & 2024.9.2 (2024.881) the ‘actions’ that were previously installed/active and installed as widget buttons were MIA (blank widgets).

So I updated the actions section within the app and reselected actions to show up as buttons.

Now my experience is that:

  • More actions are selected than show up (selected in dropdown vs screened)
  • Widget size s-m-l seems not consistent with number of buttons shown
  • Text is aligned to ‘bottom of button’ and is thus in a region that is ’outside the widget space’ (no text for bottom row)

Is there a way in the app or iOS settings to improve the widgets on those points? Is it a future improvement for the iOS app?



Did some more fiddling and testing, it seems related to the ‘widget size = expected/possible # buttons’ and ‘selected # < max possible’

When I totally fill out the‘selected actions/buttons’ the text alignment will match the button because of less height per button.

Also: when ‘editing’ a widget with already selected actions it showed a select/dropdown screen that is blank instead of showing the already selected actions and the blank optional buttons.




Since the layout of the widget function is ’from HA iOS app and based on iOS’ I created a related case on GitHub.

Random ‘emptied widgets’, previously configured as seen above, now empty (again)

Possible identifiable event - after updating HAcore to 2024.10.1 - not sure but known change, no App update done.

App version 2024.9.3 (2024.901)
iOS 18.0, 14Pro