Quick Menu

Wrist Assistant has two radial shortcut menus, both opened with a long-press: the Entity Quick Menu (controls for the tile you pressed) and the Universal Quick Menu (your global “anywhere” shortcuts).

Long-press a tile. A pulsing target appears in the center with “drag toward me” rings.
Slide your finger to the center target to open the menu — the slots fan out around the edge.
Slide back out to the slot you want and release. For value controls (brightness, volume, setpoints) the control opens with your finger still down — slide to adjust, release to execute.

Slide to the red X to cancel. The hold time before the menu arms is adjustable.

The Two Menus

Long-pressing a tile opens the Entity Quick Menu: purpose-built controls for that entity’s type — brightness, color, color temperature and effects for lights; volume, transport, mute and shuffle for media players; position and tilt for covers; arm/disarm modes for alarms; start/pause/dock for vacuums; and so on. The available slots match what the device supports.

These slots are defined per entity type — every light shares one set, every cover another. You can also give a specific entity its own menu that overrides its type’s — handy when one device needs different controls than the rest of its kind. When you long-press an entity, the watch uses that entity’s own custom menu if it has one, otherwise its type menu. You set both up in the iPhone app (see Setting Them Up).

From the Entity Quick Menu, slide to the center and scroll the Digital Crown to switch to the Universal Quick Menu — a single, global set of up to 8 shortcuts that work from any tile, on any page. You can also open it directly by long-pressing empty space on a page, or with an optional secondary gesture (Swipe Up/Down, Up/Down ×2, or Clockwise) you pick and tune in Settings → Interactions. It’s the place for whole-home shortcuts like “all lights off” or jumping to a specific page from anywhere.

What You Can Put in Slots

Slots — in either menu — can hold any of these actions:

Entity controls — Purpose-built sliders and toggles for the tile’s device: brightness, color, color temperature, effects, temperature setpoints, HVAC mode, fan speed/direction, volume, next/previous track, mute, shuffle, cover position/tilt, lock/unlock, alarm arm/disarm modes, vacuum start/pause/dock, counter +/-, siren on/off, and more. The available actions match what the device supports.

Trigger Entity — Fire an action on any entity, not just the tile you pressed. A living room light tile could toggle the porch light, activate a scene, run a script, or trigger an automation. Pick a target entity, then pick the action mode for it — the modes offered match the target’s domain. Among them: Turn On / Off / Toggle, Lock / Unlock, Open / Close / Stop (and tilt variants for covers), arm/disarm modes for alarm panels, Activate (scenes), Run / Enable / Disable (scripts), Trigger / Enable / Disable (automations), Press (buttons), media transport (play/pause, next/previous, volume, mute, shuffle, repeat), fan speed and direction, vacuum and lawn-mower commands, timer and counter actions, input-select cycling, and Refresh (force a state update on any entity). This single action replaces the older separate “toggle a device,” “run a scene/script,” and “trigger an automation” slots — existing slots are migrated forward automatically. (Pro.)

Each Trigger Entity slot has a Confirm on Release toggle. When on, hovering the slot shows a floating preview label (e.g. “Activate Movie Night”, “Open Garage”) and the action fires only when you lift your finger. When off, it fires the instant you hover. New slots default to on; slots migrated from the old scene/script actions default to off to preserve their original fire-on-hover behavior.

Run HTTP Action — Fire one of your saved HTTP Actions — a user-defined HTTP request — straight from a slot, no entity required. Pick the action from your library; on fire the watch can surface the response (or a confirmation) as a bottom banner. Like Trigger Entity, each slot has a Confirm on Release toggle so hovering shows the action name and it fires only when you lift your finger. HTTP Actions is in beta. (Pro.)

Jump to a page — Switch to any page. Configure per slot.

Page Switcher — Open the page-switcher overlay to pick any page.

Peek a status page — A scrollable home-status list. Every light that’s on, every door that’s open, every low battery. Pick one of the five built-in status pages or any you’ve built. Per-slot Open on Release toggle — release to dismiss, or release to open it as a sheet.

Ask Assist — Dictate a command and send it to Home Assistant Assist.

Speak a message — Dictate a one-off message and speak it via TTS, or pick from a saved phrase list, or fire a single pre-written phrase.

Voice broadcast — Record a live message and play it on your speakers like an intercom.

Remote controls — Apple TV / universal remote commands: full D-pad overlay, power toggle, play/pause, menu, home, volume arc, mute, and next track.

App info peek — Quick glance at server URL, version, and Pro status while hovering.

Open Quick Menu — Jump straight to the Universal Quick Menu from any tile.

Entity Settings — Open the tile’s settings without reaching for your phone.

Server Mode — Toggle between local and remote server connections.

Refresh — Force a full state refresh across all tiles.

Hold-and-Slide: 4 Directions

Any tile can have up to four extra actions bound to hold-and-slide gestures on the tile itself — up, down, left, right. Hold the tile and drag in a direction to fire that action without opening the full entity view or the radial.

Assign each direction independently in the iPhone editor per tile — any action is valid (Trigger Entity on another device, Run HTTP Action, jump to a page, speak a phrase, etc.). Great for “turn the light up” without ever leaving the home grid. As you hold and slide toward a direction, a preview label shows the resolved action and entity name (e.g. “Open Garage”) before you commit. Hold-and-slide always fires on release, so it has no separate confirm toggle.

Example

A Universal Quick Menu set up for whole-home control:

Slot 1: All lights off (Trigger Entity)
Slot 2: Activate “Good Night” scene
Slot 3: Jump to the security cameras page
Slot 4: Peek the “Before Bed” status page
Slot 5: Broadcast “Heading to bed” to the house speakers

Setting Them Up

Both menus are built in the iPhone app’s Quick Menu tab — see the Quick Menu Editor:

Quick Menu — the 8 Universal “anywhere” slots.
Entity Quick Menu — with the By type / Specific entity switch, arrange the default slots every entity of a type inherits, or give one specific entity its own menu that overrides its type’s.
Radial Style — the global look of the radial (see Animation Styles).

A tile’s hold-and-slide directions and its single-tap action are the only per-tile pieces; set those on the tile in the Layout Editor.

Animation Styles

The radial’s look — glow intensity, beam effects (Wedge, Aurora, Bloom, Ripple, Wake), entrance animations (Spring, Pop, Fade), neon outline, finger shadow, icon bubble, and background dim — is configured globally in the Quick Menu tab → Radial Style, and applies to both menus.