Clearing your Home Assistant cache

Clearing Home Assistant is not as easy as you might think. But here's a guide.

Desktop Google Chrome

• Navigate to the page
• Press F12 to open the Chrome developer tools
• Right-click the refresh button to the left of the address bar (not in the developer tools, but it needs to be open for this to work)
• Select the bottom option "Empty cache and hard reload"

Desktop Microsoft Edge

Same as Desktop Google Chrome

Desktop Safari

• Navigate to the page
• Press Option+Cmd+E to clear the cache
• Press Cmd+R to reload the page

Mobile Safari

Unknown. Please open an issue if you know how to do it.

Home Assistant Companion App iOS

• Go to Home Assistant Settings
• Select "Companion" App (near the bottom)
• Select "Debugging" (at the bottom)
• Tap "Reset Frontend Cache"

Home Assistant Companion App Android

• Open the recent apps menu
• Swipe away the Home Assistant Companion App in order to close it

or

• Force close the app
  • Go to "Settings"
  • Open "Apps"
  • Select the Home Assistant Companion App
  • Click the "Force stop" button
• Reopen the app