home-assistant
IOs widgets stopped working / updating with ios beta 26.1
Updated to dev beta iOs 26.1 23B5059e monday evening. Since then ios widgets with HA custom widgets doesn’t seem to work anymore. At first the displayed updated time didn’t change anymore. When changing the widgets (or removing and adding them again) they stay blank (as in the screenshot).
Model Name: iphone 15 pro Software Version: iOs 26.1 23B5059e App version: 2025.10.1
To Reproduce Add custom widget
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Try to reboot your phone or reinstall the App, usually it fixes this kind of issue, the root cause is a crash that happens when the widget goes beyond the memory limit that Apple has set, no solution for that yet.
I got this issue too. But reinstalling or even rebooting the phone does not work on this new release iOS 26.1. All the Home widgets and Lock Screen are with the same behavior of this screenshots that he send. BUT the Live Activity works normally... (Dynamic Island and Lock Screen)
iOS 26.1/app 2025.12.1 - I also had to reinstall the app and recreate the widget to fix it, but that did work. Merely refreshing all widgets or resetting all widgets did not.
Same here, but unfortunately reinstalling or rebooting doesn’t fix it. When I first add the Actions widget (the auto-generated one), it displays the buttons correctly, but when I try to trigger anything it takes ages to respond. However, as soon as I make any changes — such as reordering items or editing anything — the widgets stop working entirely.
The issue appears on all my devices: two iPhones on iOS 26.1, an iPad on iPadOS 26.1, and macOS.
On the iPad it’s even stranger — the widgets turn completely blank, and neither reinstalling nor rebooting fixes them. All actions in the widget are triggers preconfigured in the host’s YAML, and they used to work perfectly until recently.
For now, I’m using Homebridge as a workaround to pass through the “scenes” and use Apple’s native Home widgets instead.
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Same here, initially reinstalling appeared to work, until I reconfigured all actions.. Appears to be a broader ios 26.1 issue as there are more references (though not very many) outside home assistant
Does it happens to all kinds of widgets or only when using legacy iOS actions widget?
The entities widget works Mixed experiences on the customs widget (it works now, but did not prior to the reinstall / reboot) the legacy actions widget does not work
In my case, I had to migrate my database from Realm (that I was using to save some user preferences and accessing on the widget) to SwiftData. Worked perfectly.
I switched to custom widgets, which worked very nice, until this evening. One was non-responsive. Reloading does not work. After readding it does not load anymore. It only had three lines and to test I removed the confirmable line and states..
