For posterity, I had to:
notify.mobile_app_DEVICE_NAME_HERE)I was then able to go into Developer Tools → Services and confirm the expected notification service was available.
This only seems to rename the notify service. If you want all your sensors/entities to be renamed as well, you need to delete the config entry from Settings → Devices & Services → Mobile App.
After restarting the app on your phone, it will automatically be created again, and all sensors/entities will have the new device name.
just for reference an official troubleshooting step was also added here: https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/troubleshooting/faqs/#ios-16-device-name-missing-from-notify-service-andor-entities
My alerts stopped as well but very confused over what I change where to make it work…
On the iPhone I opened the app itself > App Configuration, I clicked at the top entry (Above Add server), > Device name was just a grey entry with ‘iPhone’ so changed it to “notify.mobile_app_calz_iphone”, closed restarted etc but nothing worked.
I poked around my automations and the service seems to have changed from
service: notify.mobile_app_calz_iphone
to
service: notify.mobile_app_notify_mobile_app_calz_iphone
What am I doing wrong or have I got to go through all automations and change it?
Think I worked it out by reading a post on the discord channel, set my device name to “calz_iphone”, restarted app and seem to be getting alerts back, confusing info above that says you need to change it to “notify.mobile_app_calz_iphone”
Is there anything else we can try to get notifications working on iOS16? I have been through all these steps and still no notification is received.
On the companion app under Notifications i can see the rate limits going down from 500. I have tried resetting the push ID as well.
A lot of the confusion might be around when it was setup and how etc, some people say add mobile_app some note some notify. etc It might be more useful if the devs documented where to lookup your specific details, then it’s unique to them and should work. It was Apple that made the change to ‘anonymise’ the name of the phone from the app so I went into settings > general > about on my phone and where it says ‘name’ in my instance ‘Calz_iPhone’ I assumed it was this before the update and entered it into the app as this and now seems to work again.
Thanks for this Tip, I don’t think I would have known where to look. Appreciate it!
The notifications are not working sending to a Mac with the companion app installed also.
It cant be just an iOS 16 issues.
Top post about ‘Focus’, I had notifications working but when my DND would kick in at night I potentially might of missed someone breaking into my house…
Added the app to the non existent list.
The iOS 16 mess is not only about the notification service, things are even worse looking at the entities: anyone else experiencing this?
Cannot get notifications to work on iOS or macOS either now. Enabled in focus, enabled notifications, etc.
I fixed this after ios 16 update, but after 16.1, notifications stopped working again…
Sorry late to the party, I have notifications, but actionable notifications just hang and don’t give me the options - I am now on 16.2 beta but had same on 16.1 (official). Anyone else with this or should I open new thread?
New thread I guess. 16.1 here and works as they previously did.
mark, Are you saying that the notification does show on your phone, but the buttons for your actions don’t show?
This is happening to me also. I get the notification, but I can’t get the buttons to show to trigger any of my actions.
Hi Daniel,
Yes that was happening - in the end I removed (deleted for my phone only) the integration and re-added it in HA. I had to set the devices up again in node red etc but all works as expected now,
Hope this helps
mb
Yes it helped! Problem fixed after I deleted the app and reinstalled it on my phone. Thank you
OMG!!! That was IT! Thank you SO much! I spent HOURS trying this-and-that with NOTHING working!
My wife’s iPhone was on 16.1.x and wasn’t getting a single notification! I added Home Assistant as an approved app and the notify.notify notifications immediately came though!
Question though… how can I silence the notification sound while in DND without silencing them in the iOS Settings>HA settings>Notifications>Sounds toggle?
