Tile Visibility
Every tile can be hidden when its entity is off / closed / idle. Combine with reflow mode and the rest of your page rearranges to fill the gap.
What It Does
Section titled “What It Does”The Hide When Off toggle answers “should this tile be visible right now?” When the entity is in an off-like state (off, closed, idle, locked, unavailable, etc.), the tile is hidden and — in reflow mode — other tiles slide up to take its place.
The upshot: pages that adapt.
- A “Running” page with every appliance tile — tiles only show up when that appliance is actually on.
- A “Warnings” page with a tile per low-battery sensor, a tile per unlocked door — only the ones currently triggered appear.
- A “Now playing” dashboard with media-player tiles that only appear when something is actually playing.
How to Set It
Section titled “How to Set It”Per tile, in the iPhone editor:
- Tap the tile.
- Open the Confirmation tab.
- Under Visibility, flip Hide When Off on.
That’s it — the tile disappears whenever its entity reports an off-like state and reappears the moment it comes back on.
Reflow Mode
Section titled “Reflow Mode”Two ways hidden tiles can behave:
- Keep grid shape — Hidden tiles leave empty space where they were. Your page layout never shifts.
- Reflow — Other tiles slide up to fill the gap. Page gets shorter when fewer things are visible.
Reflow is set per page. Some pages benefit from staying visually stable (muscle memory for locations); others benefit from reflow (less scrolling when not much is happening).
How Is This Different from Smart Pages?
Section titled “How Is This Different from Smart Pages?”- Smart Pages generate the tile list from a rule. You don’t add tiles manually — HA’s entity list is the source, with rich filters (domain, area, device class, state, numeric ranges).
- Hide When Off works on manually-added tiles. You pick the tiles; the toggle decides whether each one shows when its entity is off.
Use Smart Pages when you want every matching entity, or you need finer rules than a simple on/off check. Use Hide When Off when you want specific, styled tiles that come and go.
- Reflow pages feel more alive — tiles appearing and disappearing in response to the state of your home. Good for “what’s happening right now” dashboards.
- Keep-shape pages feel more predictable — muscle memory works because tile positions are stable. Good for primary room pages.
- Combine with themes so the rest of the page stays visually coherent as tiles come and go.