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212rikanmofo

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Jan 31, 2003
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I haven't used any of my shortcuts in about 2-3 years and have just recently updatex to iOS 18 and now a lot of my old shortcuts are giving me errors when running them. Are they obsolete? However, new shortcuts that I tried are working fine. I'm guessing Apple changed something?

Sucks, because I had a great discount shortcut that would tell me the final cost and including the state tax after everything is said and done and now that shortcut is no longer working.

Are there any good resources for downloading shortcuts?
 

NoBoMac

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Jul 1, 2014
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Might help if you provided info on what error(s) you're getting.

I've seen in the past where some things that worked in version X iOS of Shortcuts, but X+1, nah. So need to kinda keep up with things as new releases come out. And have seen where exact same Shortcut Action works correctly on i*OS but wrong on Mac (or visa-versa).

What I'm seeing in 18 is that many/most of my more complicated Shortcuts are requiring new security/privileges approvals. Pain in that some of these run in the middle of the night and fail when I'm not awake to approve "allow Shortcut to run a Shortcut", "allow Shortcut to access Files", etc.

And also seeing in Notes part of Shorcuts where the Folder sub-field of a Note object is blank. Was returning values in 17, so, need to whip up some new code to work around this new "feature".
 
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