Tile Visibility
Every tile can be hidden when its entity is off / closed / idle. The rest of your page automatically 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 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 — media-player tiles that hide when the speaker is off (idle and paused players stay visible).
How to Set It
Section titled “How to Set It”Per tile, in the iPhone editor:
- Tap the tile.
- Open the Action 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.
How Hidden Tiles Reflow
Section titled “How Hidden Tiles Reflow”Hidden tiles don’t leave a hole. Whenever a tile is hidden, the remaining tiles automatically slide up to fill the gap and the page gets shorter — so a page with only a few active tiles stays compact. This is automatic; there’s nothing to configure.
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, device class, active state, max value).
- 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.
- Hide-when-off pages feel alive — tiles appear and disappear in response to what’s happening in your home. Good for “what’s happening right now” dashboards.
- Combine with themes so the rest of the page stays visually coherent as tiles come and go.