Complications & Widgets

You don’t always need to open the app. Complications put data on your watch face, Control Center gives you quick toggles, and Siri handles voice.

Watch Face Complications

Glance at your wrist to see temperature, lock status, or how many lights are on — and much more.

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Types

Icon — A simple icon that triggers an action on tap. Clean and minimal.
State — A single entity’s value with an icon. Temperature, lock status, door sensors.
Gauge — A visual meter that fills based on a value. Ring, fill bar, or Apple’s native gauge style. Supports color gradients.
Multi-Entity — Stack 1–4 entities in one complication.
Status Summary — Home overview: lights on, people home, temperature, doors secured.

All types work across every watchOS complication size — circular, rectangular, inline, and corner.

Tap Actions

Each complication has a configurable tap action:

Refresh Data — Update all complications at once
Open App — Open the watch app
Open Page — Jump to a specific page
Toggle Device — Toggle a device on or off
Run Scene — Activate a Home Assistant scene
Run Script — Execute a Home Assistant script
Open Room Page — Open the page for your current room

Customization

Custom icon (any SF Symbol), accent color (solid or gradient), label text, and font style.

Each complication refreshes on its own schedule (5 minutes to 1 hour). Auto-refresh is off by default — enable it if you want live updates. Tap to force a refresh anytime. watchOS limits actual refresh frequency — that’s an Apple restriction.

Control Center

On watchOS 26+, WristAssistant adds toggles and actions to your watch’s Control Center (press the side button).

Entity Toggle — On/off buttons for lights, switches, fans, locks, etc. Run Action — One-tap scene, script, or automation buttons.

Add them by pressing the side button → scroll down → Edit → find WristAssistant. Configure which entities show up in Settings → Watch Control Center.

Smart Stack Widgets

WristAssistant is also available in the Smart Stack (swipe up from the watch face). Add it by scrolling to the bottom of the Smart Stack → tap Edit → find WristAssistant.

Siri Shortcuts

Control your home through Siri:

“Toggle the porch light with Wrist Assistant”
“Activate movie night with Wrist Assistant”
“Set bedroom light to 50% with Wrist Assistant”
“Lock the front door with Wrist Assistant”
“Check the front door with Wrist Assistant”
“Run automation with Wrist Assistant”
“Open the garage with Wrist Assistant”
“Close the blinds with Wrist Assistant”
“Set thermostat to 68 with Wrist Assistant”

Also works in the Shortcuts app for time-based and location-based automations. Combine with Focus Filters for fully automated scenes — your phone switches to Sleep Focus, and your lights dim automatically.

Available Siri actions:

Toggle any entity (lights, switches, fans, locks, covers)
Activate scenes
Run scripts and automations
Set brightness and temperature
Query entity state
Lock and unlock doors
Open and close covers
Play/pause media