Changelog

Notification buttons that keep up

New

• Volume and mute on media notifications. Media player rows gain a volume bar, a mute badge, and a Mute/Unmute preset. Vol+ and Vol- now set an exact level, so the bar always matches the player.
• Open expanded. A notification button can show its quick controls the moment the notification opens, using the new Open expanded toggle in the blueprint. (Requires integration 1.1.26 or later.)

Improved

• The preset menu stays open after a tap, and each preset button plays its own tap animation.
• The media row icon now shows what happens next: pause while playing, play while paused, matching the menu.

Fixed

• Notification buttons now update the instant you tap them, instead of keeping the state from the original push.
• Repeat taps work. Media player, cover, climate, valve, vacuum, lock, and alarm buttons no longer get stuck sending the same action over and over.
• The Play/Pause and climate presets in the double-tap menu are fixed the same way.
• A failed action now snaps the row back to the real state.
• Players that take a while to load no longer bounce the row back to its old state.

Steadier connections and a quicker grid

Improved

• Wrist raises, scrolling, and page switching are faster, and the app uses less power while the grid is hidden behind a menu or a sheet.
• The refresh line after a wrist raise now clears as soon as the watch confirms the screen is up to date, instead of on a fixed timer.

Fixed

• The watch no longer shows as connected while it has quietly stopped receiving updates, after switching between your local and remote address.
• Your Music Assistant library now loads when you have more than one Music Assistant set up. Before, a failed or empty one could win and the library looked empty.
• Tapping a camera complication now allows enough time for the snapshot to arrive, instead of showing a failure mark on slower cameras.
• The radial menu no longer comes back stuck open after a relaunch.

Browse by room, and precise stepped controls

New

• Browse your entities by room. Every entity picker now has a Rooms section, so adding tiles, building status pages, and setting up macros no longer means walking every domain list.
• Minus and plus on stepped controls. Stepped controls like thermostats now have minus and plus buttons, so you can tap your way to an exact value.

Improved

• Long domain lists collapse to a few cards behind a "Show all" row.
• One Digital Crown click now moves exactly one step on climate and number controls. Before, some clicks did nothing at all.
• The value labels at each end of an arc control are centred properly.
• Pages with camera tiles are smoother, and tiles draw faster on the watch.

A much faster watch app

New

• Clearer waiting states. Tiles waiting on Home Assistant now show a small marker, and tiles that never get a state are dimmed but still tappable.

Improved

• The watch app opens faster and you can tap tiles much sooner.
• Scenes, scripts, and buttons work right away, without waiting for live data.
• Tap a tile too early and you now get a small nudge instead of nothing.
• Tiles come back the way you left them after closing the app.
• Complication data loads in one request instead of one per entity.
• Album art uses less memory.

Fixed

• Loading spinners no longer freeze part way round.
• Tapping a tile no longer stalls while the tap sound loads, and tap sounds keep up with fast dial and slider drags.
• Page switching is smoother, and pull to refresh and sync animations no longer stutter.
• The green sync flash only shows when your iPhone sends a real change.

Profile photos, automatic backups, and richer notifications

New

• Person profile photos. Person tiles and detail views now show a contact's real Home Assistant profile photo instead of the generic silhouette. Prefer an icon? A new Photo / Icon picker lets you choose. (Requires integration 1.1.24 or later.)
• Automatic iCloud backups. Turn it on once and Wrist Assistant quietly saves your configuration in the background: on changes and at launch. Each backup keeps its own restorable history, with an optional password-protected mode for sensitive data.
• Image-entity notification snapshots. Notification snapshots can now come from any image entity, not just cameras. On the watch, tap a snapshot to open the full-screen view, pull a fresh frame, and zoom in.
• Pick your Assist voice. Choose which installed watch voice reads your Assist replies, grouped by language with quality badges and a preview for each.

Improved

• Family Sharing now repairs your Pro access automatically when you open the paywall, with a clearer Restore hint.
• More reliable audio handling, so voice clips finish and send properly even when other audio is playing.

Fixed

• To-do items no longer briefly flash back to their old state after you complete or delete them.
• Fixed a case where completing or removing a to-do item could send an invalid request to Home Assistant.

Macros, Voice Clip Actions, and a smoother watch setup

New

• Macros — one tile, many steps. Build multi-step tile actions in a full iPhone editor: chain device controls, HTTP Actions, waits, and conditional steps — and even nest one macro inside another. Start from the recipe gallery, validate as you go, and test-run right on your phone. On the watch, a macro runs with a live progress sheet, keeps a run history, and each tile gets its own options (auto-close and run-silently). Everything syncs automatically between phone and watch.
• Voice Clip Actions. Record a short clip on your watch and POST it straight to any endpoint — great for Whisper transcription, voice notes, and kicking off automations. It's a new "Voice recording" body type on an HTTP Action, and it works inside Macros too.

Improved

• Upgrade to Family Sharing. Already own Wrist Assistant on an Individual plan? You can now upgrade to a Family plan and share it with everyone in your household.

Fixed

• Watch setup now auto-recovers from the "bearer previously rejected" loop instead of getting stuck — no manual credential reset needed.
• Pull-to-refresh no longer waits on camera snapshots, so it returns right away.
• Status pages: group-count and dynamic-list tiles now detect active state correctly for mode-based domains (climate, media players, vacuums, and the like), instead of showing zero.

Multiple Home Assistants, slide-up quick settings, and a charcoal refresh

New

• Connect multiple Home Assistants. You can now add more than one Home Assistant and switch between them right from your watch — your pages and tiles follow whichever home is active.
• New slide-up quick settings. Press the Settings icon in the bottom bar and slide your finger up — a quick menu pops up, and you lift off on the option you want. Pick which options it shows in Settings.
• Refreshed look. A new charcoal color scheme across the app, for a more readable feel throughout.

Improved

• Remember your backup password. Backups and Restores can now reuse your saved password from the keychain instead of asking for it every time.

Fixed

• Many bug fixes and improvements.

Live camera notifications on watch and iPhone, plus per-tile decimals

New

• Live camera notifications on your watch. Expand a camera notification on your Apple Watch and the snapshot upgrades to a live stream, right inside the notification — the same thing your iPhone already does. A separate "Live stream on watch" toggle in the blueprint's Camera section lets you control the watch independently of the iPhone.
• Per-tile decimal places. Numeric sensor tiles now round to a number of decimal places you choose — a new "Decimals" picker (0–3) in the tile's State Display settings. It defaults to 1, so a reading shows as 98.5, and the iPhone editor preview updates live as you change it.

Improved

• Camera Framing now shapes the live video stream in camera notifications — on both iPhone and Apple Watch — not just the still snapshot, so your framed view and the live feed stay matched. "Camera Snapshot Framing" is now simply "Camera Framing" to reflect this.

Fixed

• The per-state State Icons & Colors editor now previews the correct icon for each state — a lock tile's Unlocked row shows the open-lock glyph it actually renders, instead of the closed one.

State-aware tiles and live camera notifications

New

• Per-state tile icons and colors. Dashboard page tiles can now show a different icon and/or color for each entity state — open, closed, opening, closing, locked, unlocked, or unavailable. Set it up in the new per-state tile icons section in tile icon settings.
• "Dim When Off" per-tile option. Turn it off to keep a tile at full color and brightness even when the device is off.
• Weather text controls. A new Weather tab in the page editor lets you adjust forecast text size from 100–200% or hide condition icons per tile.
• Live camera notifications on iPhone. Expand a camera notification with a long press or slide down and the snapshot upgrades to a live stream, right inside the notification. A new "Live stream on iPhone" toggle in the blueprint's Camera section lets you keep the original moment-of-event snapshot instead.
• HTTP action quick values. Variables with quick values can now skip text input entirely. Turn on "Quick values only" and the watch shows a full-screen tappable list of your values instead of the keyboard.

Improved

• Weather tiles now show larger, easier-to-read forecast text by default.
• Faster camera streaming — the live camera loading spinner now clears as soon as the first fresh image arrives.
• More reliable watch setup. If your watch can't reach Home Assistant directly, your iPhone now completes the setup automatically.
• Clearer separation between settings sections on the edit page.

Fixed

• Fixed setting the temperature on thermostats that use separate heat/cool setpoints, common with Zigbee and zigbee2mqtt models.
• Fixed repeated failed-login entries in Home Assistant logs after credentials changed.

HTTP Action Tiles: fire your own webhooks from your wrist

New

• HTTP Action Tiles (beta). Fire your own custom HTTP requests and webhooks straight from your watch. Build any request — URL, method, headers, and body — or just paste a cURL command to create it instantly. Dynamic {{variables}} prompt you for input when you run them, and actions launch from tiles, Quick Menus, hold-slide gestures, widgets and complications, and Siri / iPhone Shortcuts. Still in beta — feedback welcome!
• Live value tiles. Show a value from the response right on the tile, auto-refreshing, with stale-value warnings. Pull values from JSON, headers, or regex.
• HTTP action auth options. Easy-auth, self-signed certificates, and opt-in mTLS client certificates.
• Password-encrypted backups. Protect backups containing sensitive data with a password.
• iCloud Quick Backup history. Quick Backup now keeps a rotated history instead of a single snapshot.

Improved

• Camera snapshots now load progressively — each camera appears the moment it's ready.
• No more black camera tiles on cold open — your last image shows instantly.
• Loading dots while snapshots arrive, plus a configurable load speed.
• All entity-control intents now work in Shortcuts on iPhone too, not just on the watch.

Fixed

• Better cover-tile badges.
• "Sync Now" from the watch now compresses its data.
• Several small bug fixes.

Client Certificate (mTLS) Support

New

• Added client certificate (mTLS) support for connecting to Home Assistant behind a certificate-protected reverse proxy or Cloudflare.

Fixed

• Picking 'no icon' for tiles now displays properly.

Cover controls that match your hardware

Improved

• Cover controls now adapt to each entity. Position, open, close, and stop only appear when your cover reports support for them — so a simple gate shows just open / stop / close, with no phantom position slider.

Fixed

• Fixed watchOS Siri and Shortcuts hijacking the Home Assistant "Call Service" action, so your service calls run as intended again.

A cleaner dashboard header with a Settings shortcut menu

New

• Settings shortcut menu. A new Settings button in the top-right of the dashboard header opens a quick menu. Press and slide to land on an option in a single motion, or tap a row to pick. It gathers your most-used destinations in one place: Setup Check, Connection, Force Sync, Watch Settings, Control Center, Status Pages, Notification Style, Camera Snapshot Framing, Voice Settings, and Backup & Restore.

Improved

• Refreshed the dashboard header buttons. Left to right: Watch shows your sync status (green means connected and ready — tap for sync info), Wi-Fi / Cellular shows how your phone is reaching Home Assistant (Wi-Fi uses your Local URL, cellular your Remote URL — tap to open Connection settings), Setup Check runs a quick health check anytime, Compact / Expand switches page rows between compact and roomy, and the new Settings menu.
• Collapsed page rows now show a preview of the page.
• A few more Setup Check tweaks.

Fixed

• Fixed a stray animation right after onboarding.
• Hardened the initial sync from iPhone to Watch.

Per-entity Quick Menus, climate and Crown fixes

New

• Per-entity Quick Menus. Until now, your press-and-hold radial was shared by every entity of a type — every light got the same menu, every lock got the same menu. Now you can give a single entity its own custom radial. Set your living room lamp up with brightness, color, and a "Movie Night" scene, while every other light keeps the simple default light controls menu. It's especially handy for the trigger-entity action, which fires one fixed target: point your bedside lamp's menu at a "Goodnight" scene, or your front door's at a "lock + arm alarm" automation — something that was meaningless when the whole light or lock type shared one menu. New menus start as a clone of the type menu, so you only tweak what's different.

Fixed

• Fixed the thermostat dial showing the target value in place of the live reading — the current room temperature (and current humidity) now appear beneath the setpoint again on all climate control screens.
• Turning the Digital Crown now reliably adjusts volume, humidity, seek position, and other dials across the app. Finger slide always works as well.

Friendlier names, smoother first-time setup

New

• Changelog, right in Settings. A new link in the app's settings takes you straight to the full release history.
• Entity name under arc sliders. Arc slider setting pages on the watch can now show the entity's name beneath the dial — toggle it on in watch settings.

Improved

• Smart pages now show the names you've configured in Home Assistant instead of raw entity IDs.
• The integration's notification blueprint no longer includes the Critical alert option.
• A few more Setup Check refinements.

Fixed

• Fixed a bootstrap deadlock that could stall watch ↔ iPhone setup on a fresh install.

Near-instant notifications, your choice of quality

New

• Snapshot quality picker. The notification blueprint now lets you choose Sharpest, Balanced, or Fast for camera snapshots. Tip: picking your camera's "Fluent" stream over "Clear" makes the biggest difference in snapshot load speed.

Improved

• Normal and camera-snapshot notifications are now far faster — basically instant. Try them with the "Watch Notification" script blueprint in Home Assistant.
• The setup wizard now shows your watch, iPhone, and integration versions, and flags when your watch is still catching up after an update (it clears on its own).

Fixed

• Plain-text notifications no longer get swallowed.
• Fixed the complication auto-refresh bug, so complications stay up to date on their own when you enable it.
• Various other bug fixes and improvements.

Cleaner list complications, broader live updates

New

• Value-forward complication rows. Hide a row's icon or name in list-style Multi-Entity and Status Summary complications for dense, value-first layouts.

Improved

• List-style complications now honor each row's own tap action.
• Status Summary rows right-align their values, with the icon on the leading edge.
• Live state updates now apply across every tracked entity domain, not just the first handful — fewer stale tiles.
• Camera streaming reaches the first frame faster, plays back more smoothly, and recovers more reliably.

Fixed

• Fixed a freeze when editing a multi-entity row's tap action or color.
• When a test notification won't expand, the app now suggests restarting your iPhone.

Setup Check redesigned, smoother streaming, faster launch

New

• Setup Check, redesigned. One clean page that walks through your Home Assistant, iPhone, and Apple Watch — with a satisfying green checkmark when everything's good.
• Built-in tests you can run yourself. Send a test notification (with or without a camera snapshot), check your entities, and verify camera streaming.
• Reset View on Exit. New watch setting to come back to the main page next time you open the app, instead of where you left off.

Improved

• Setup Check is smarter and less noisy — fewer false alarms, clearer results, and it waits for your watch to wake up instead of failing on it.
• Setup Check catches less obvious issues too, like clock drift, OS version, widget credentials, and oversized watch configs.
• Notification images load reliably with smooth, stable layouts.
• Tap to dismiss is instant on watch camera streams.
• Camera streams close automatically when you lower your wrist.
• Watch app launches noticeably quicker.
• Fewer false "Not connected" warnings during brief connection blips.

Fixed

• The green sync pulse now fires reliably for every setting.
• No more getting yanked into the setup wizard after reinstalling the integration.

Notifications, cameras, and cross-entity gestures

New

• Trigger Entity radial slots. Assign cross-entity actions to radial menu and hold-and-slide gestures, with a confirm-on-release option and an action picker grouped by intent across media, climate, and more domains.
• Interactive iPhone notifications. Rich, actionable notifications with inline controls, sharing the same UI as the watch.
• Notification delivery mode. Choose Fast (low-latency, iPhone-mirrored) or Reliable per user.
• Tappable camera notification snapshots. On Apple Watch, tap the snapshot to open the live stream; on iPhone, tap to refresh the snapshot.
• Per-camera snapshot framing. Frame each camera's notification snapshot independently, in a redesigned editor.
• Notifications hub. A dedicated Settings section with a built-in snapshot delivery test.
• Background color on Conditional Icon complications.
• Open Page complication can now peek hidden pages.
• Per-tile "Skip Open/Close Animation" toggle for peek pages.

Improved

• Reorganized app settings for faster navigation.
• Faster, fresher camera live-stream loading, including cold starts.
• Onboarding now offers previously-used Home Assistant URLs from your iCloud backup.
• Clearer notification setup and delivery guidance throughout.

Fixed

• Cold-launch camera live stream opened from a notification tap.

Connection and reliability overhaul

New

• Secure connection. A new signed-request system protects communication from the watch, widgets, and Focus Filters.
• Home Wi-Fi gating. Connect directly to your local server only on trusted networks, with per-network controls and a URL switcher that reacts live.
• Setup Check wizard. After an update, verify HACS, WebSocket, and push-token setup in one guided pass.
• Update banners. Tappable "Update available" and "Update Wrist Assistant" prompts when your integration and app versions drift — install straight through HACS.
• Contextual troubleshooting help on every Connection Status row.

Improved

• Connection setup problems are now surfaced with clear, actionable guidance.
• Sign-out is durable across all paired watches.
• Local-to-remote failover now covers reads, templates, and direct writes.
• Sensor history handles 100+ events faster, with cleaner charts and leading min/max labels.

Fixed

• Several connection-layer bugs.
• Spurious "Server unreachable" banners on cellular.
• HACS integration update flow and false-positive install prompts.

Post-launch refinements

New

• Multi-calendar support per tile, with per-source colors.
• Conversation agent selection for Assist.
• Live Support Session for hands-on troubleshooting.
• Icon favorites in the picker — long-press any icon to favorite it.
• Control Center settings redesigned as a master-detail editor.
• Skip-conditions override for automation triggers.
• Camera "Refresh on Open" with per-camera and per-tile overrides and debounce.

Improved

• Complication polish: success/fail flash on taps, correct rendering on tinted watch faces, and per-preset accent colors for camera complications.
• Sub-degree thermostat temperatures when your device supports them.

Fixed

• Icon Search crash.
• Radial menu bottom-row clipping on smaller watches.
• Watch losing state changes during pause/resume.
• Climate temperature unit defaults.
• Handling of untrusted local Home Assistant certificates.

Wrist Assistant launches

The first public release for Apple Watch and iPhone. Build your own watch pages from tiles with domain-aware controls, then control everything from your wrist.

Highlights

• Tile-first watch dashboard with purpose-built controls for 50+ entity types.
• Radial quick menus, hold-and-slide gestures, and Digital Crown navigation.
• Status pages, rooms, point control, cameras, and voice via Assist.
• Complications, Control Center widgets, and gestures.
• Design everything on iPhone with a live preview, always in sync with your watch.