I recently updated to HA 2026.3.4 and iOS 26.4, and one or both of those caused my iOS widget (which was using iOS Buttons) to stop working. Realizing now that iOS Buttons were under “legacy” support, I set about building a “custom” widget in the companion app, however when I add said custom widget in iOS it’s completely blank. Docs say this is in beta, shall I assume this is a beta bug and report it, or does someone else have this working that can guide me towards a working widget? the Scripts widget works fine, BTW.
Tangentially related - is there a way to manually refresh your available Scripts in the companion app after making changes on the server? The only way I’ve found to do a fresh pull is to restart my phone.
I’m so happy to read this. Because I thought I was going insane. Maybe we both are, but at least i’m not alone
My legacy triggers (actions) have always been working just fine, but they don’t respond anymore. The automations just don’t get triggered at all when pushing the buttons in the widgets (legacy).
I was running the testflight version of the companion app and have installed the stable, but same result.
With the new widgets I’m experience exactly the same with you. I can create them within the companion app, I can select them within the widget section, but they never show. The tasklist for example, just works fine
I’m pulling my hair, because already tried deinstalling the app, resetting the frontend cache, but nothing seems to help.
So not really much of a help to you, but maybe we have some simularities which breaks stuff. My Internal address is the local ip with 8123 for port, and remote through Cloud. Funny enough they do work through my Apple Watch.
Running 2026.4.0 HA, 2026.2.1 companion app.
I already searched Github a bit, but cannot find anything simular.
It looks like I’m having a similar issue. I already moved from legacy way to custom scripts several months ago and it was working fine. I’m not sure what exactly was the trigger when it stopped working. It might be the iOS upgrade to 26.4 but I’m unable to remember. I am pretty sure that it was still working on March 18th, cause I was able to open my garage using the custom script widget. I’m not sure if it still worked on 25th which should be already after I upgraded my device. What I can say is the fact that only my iPhone is affected. The same is working on my iPad, also on version 26.4
For me I’m sure it was working on the 25th. Because that was the ls run time of my automation. It got reset because I used my apple watch. But yes, the update to latest version of iOS very well could be the reason it’s not working anymore. But I’d assume there would be an issue for it on github.
Today it started working again on my iPhone. Today I got a HA Core Update to 2026.4.1. Not sure it was working again before or afterwards. I also rebooted my iPhone due to another thing. But I already rebooted the device after it stopped working, So iPhone reboot should not be the reason.
I encounter the same problem systematically after an iOS update or simply an update of the Home Assistant application.
A phone reboot or app reinstall fixes the problem… for a while. Yesterday, the widget buttons stopped working, and after a reboot, they started working again, but this morning it’s happening again…
I’ve already (reluctantly) replaced my legacy actions with widgets created in the Companion app for the same reasons, but the problem persists.
Same here, I'm going to log a proper bug on this. I don't know if it's iOS or HA that's the problem, but it works for 24-48 hours after a phone reboot and then all widgets stop responding.
Same issue here. They work intitially and then at some point they stop responding — just happened now and a phone reboot fixed it (doing a “reload all widgets” in ha app did not fix it). The shortcuts in command center however seem to work consistently even when the widgets stop working.
I am also having this issue, and have been for the last month or so. I keep updating apps, updating HA, deleting and reinstalling widgets and apps, restarting phones, and the issue always comes back! Sometimes one of these actions does fix the issue, but only for a couple days then my widgets breaks and I get angry again.
I’ve tried building the widget from scratch on the iOS Home Screen, and I’ve also built a custom widget inside HA and used that but same issue happens regardless. I love my widgets, and I’ve configured it on my wife’s phone too so this bug is killing me. The extra few steps to get into the HA app really ruins the usefulness of it so I hope someone figures this one out soon.
Add me to the list of people whose iPhone widgets recently quit working. Oddly enough, the widgets on my watch (identical to those one the phone), still work.
My app version is 2026.9.0 (2026.2874). HA is * Core2026.7.1
Supervisor2026.08.0
Operating System18.1
Frontend20260624.4
My custom widgets in the companion app no longer work with tap. When I tap a light to toggle it on or off just opens the HA companion app with the light toggle inside that.
