Just confirmed I’m on iOS 16.1 and now I’m not letting it update…
Maybe time to get the Pixel tablet, looked pretty awesome with Fully Kiosk in Reed’s video featured on the state of the open home.
I’ve been using the iPad because our house is an Apple house and it was an abandoned iPad my wife no longer used after we realized laptops are still way more useful.
I have Fully Kiosk running in my office on a fire tablet and it’s really good, just the Fire Tablet is terrible…
I need to invest in a better wifi network though, so hopefully that’ll happen before iOS 16.1 gets too old.
Hi, just posting this here too in case anyone watching this thread has ever encountered a deeper sleep that won’t wake to HA but to notification list?
Not at all sure what you mean by 3. Add Home Assistant to your Homekit App on my ipad? I have Homekit on my ipad and Home Assistant in a different places on the ipad they are not in the same App and I no clue on the Guided Access as nothing comes up on my ipad when I activate it. Can you help any further on this please or where I can read a setup for it?
I confirm, after I upgraded my iPad (pro ios 16.X) and the new homey architecture, the wake up trick is not working anymore 
With all the updates, Apple is less better every day… crazy.
Anyone found an easy solution to wakeup an ios 16 ipad with motion? The homekit interface is still the easiest one for the family….
Actually I simply fixed this issue by activating all the options in the Notification settings.
Setting → Notifications → Home.
Works well now 
I managed to get it working via HA notification messages… but i would rather do it via the Home(kit) notifications.
But if i want to enable them according to step 3, there is no option to do that. Does anybody know how to fix this?
I’m having the same problem. I guessed the cause from this homekit warning:
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@ecointet Which iPadOS version are you running right now where it “works well”?
I made the mistake of upgrading my iPad to 17.x yesterday (forgot what was on before) and now the pad doesn’t turn on any more when I send a notification 
(Note: I send HA notifications)
Works IPAD air 4e génération with 17.4
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thank you works well!
I have iOS version 17.5.1. and it isn’t working anymore as said above. In the past it was perfect also at my home and I believe according to above messages in iOS version 15 all was fine.
I’m using Satel Integra, perfectly integrated into HA, sending one binary sensor to the HomeKit Bridge.
At the iPad it’s saying at this binary accessory: “This accessory has not been certified to work with HomeKit so some features may not be available.”
Could this be the problem that Apple is simply not accepting the signal of the uncertified binary sensor?
Making an automation by sending a message works fine for the first few times, after this it stops. No idea why, so this is also not a workable solution. Any ideas?
I have made some progress…
If you go to HA, HomeKit Bridge and click on Configure, you can select Bridge or Accessory and also Include or Exclude.
After I have selected Accessory (as I’m only interested in one PIR) and Include I have to select my PIR I want to push forward.
Then at my iPad the accessory is working under “Rooms” and category “Security”. At my “Home” display I only see “Security” with its icon.
The only thing that doesn’t work anymore is getting a notification, so the iPad is not lit up automatically.
According to the following article from Apple Get notifications for your smart home accessories - Apple Support it says it should have an option “Status & Notifications” which is not the case. Most likely as it’s an uncertified accessory. The only option which HomeKit allows you is the option “Include in Home Summaries”.
This explains I believe why the notification is not appearing anymore which is essential for the initial solution as this thread was started.
TADDAA…
I found an even easier solution: just create an Automation where a motion sensor is triggered and send a notification to your iPad. If the iPad is not in Guided Access mode, you will hear a nice tone (bleebb…) and the message.
If your iPad is in Guided Access mode then you won’t see the message is displayed, but your screen will lit up and is available for usage! The little tone you will hear, but you can turn down volume or maybe there is another way. For me ok.
I’m very happy I have found this for a new and simple solution without HomeKit…
alias: Turn On iPad
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.pir_kitchen
from: null
to: "on"
condition: []
action:
- service: notify.mobile_app_your_ipad
data: {}
mode: single
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Is the HA app notification method still working reliably for you?
I just wall-mounted an iPad and was disappointed to learn the homekit notification method doesn’t work anymore, at least not for me on iOS 17.
The HA app notification method sort of works. Once the iPad goes into deep sleep state (like overnight), it doesn’t seem to turn on the screen anymore and manually waking it is required. Is there something I haven’t configured properly on the iPad settings?
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!
EDIT: Nevermind, not sure what changed, but after a few days, screen wake seems to be working reliably now. I’m using the HA app notification method with Guided Access mode enabled.
Mine is still working. Works like a charm since Homekit is not supported anymore…
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Spoke too soon. It’s gone back to not working reliably anymore. Ran great for almost 2 weeks, but then for whatever reason, the iPad stopped waking.
Reboot fixed it, but not a great outcome for a wall panel (Crazy enough, my cheap fire tablets lasted over 3 years without a reboot. They’re slow as hell though…)
what is not working? for me it’s flawless… only thing is, you need to have it in Guided Access mode otherwise you receive notifications depending on settings for HA at the iPad…
Thanks for asking. Not quite sure what the issue is. Still trying to diagnose.
In the last few days, the Home Assistant app notifications have stopped coming through on the iPad after running for about a day. The app notifications don’t even show up if i manually wake the iPad. I don’t use iOS regularly a lot these days, so I’m not sure if this is known behavior. It’s almost as if the Home Assistant app notifications are being rate-limited.
It’s not on the HA side since other devices still receive notifications as normal, and a reboot of the iPad solves it.
Has anyone seen this type of behavior from iOS before where notifications stop showing until a reboot?
maybe it’s the settings at iOS. Please check at Settings, Notifications, Home Assistant and “Allow Notifications”. When the screen of iPad is off, it will automatically be turned on as soon as a notification comes through
Thanks. Yes, i triple-checked the HA notifications were allowed on the iPad (Also, they work for a while but stop after about a day. weird)