Shortcuts App: Buggier Mess in 16? And a PSA

[NoBoMac]

Some complaints (including myself) starting here with latest Shortcuts in iOS 16. For me, been a couple of nuisance issues, primarily Automations occasionally not running on schedule. But in one day, experienced a couple of nasty issues and wondering if others are seeing similar (I did file feedbacks on this).

A shortcut that has worked for many months, no changes in that time frame to it, ran earlier in the day, two hours later does not run. I go into the Shortcut to see what's going on and try to modify a thing or two for debugging and suddenly all Actions disappear.

And had a Shortcut where, again, ran earlier (yesterday) with no issue, but later (today), fails. This time, a Text value/type being passed to an Action was changed to a Date type. Again, something that's been running for ages, no changes, and boom.

ADD: and had a Shortcut where a value that was being input into an Action of a Shortcut was blank.

Anyone else running into problem where Shortcuts app is "changing" Shortcuts?

Questions done. PSA time.

Lucky for me I backup my Shortcuts once a week, so can retrieve the problematic Shortcut(s) from backup and put back into place. So if using Shortcuts, might want to get into a backup habit. Basic intro-to steps:

Get My Shortcuts Action: Ask Each Time for folder
Repeat with Each Shortcut
    Save <RepeatItem> to <folder>
end repeat

 

[addamas]

I have only one automation running at set time, the rest are on demand. The time based is working properly - every Sunday 21:00 is asks to start generation of weekly health stats psf graph.

Since iOS 16, less reliable working is shortcut where I start Fitness Activity on AW from the same shortcut run on phone. It works properly (all the times) only at home.

I had no problems with shortcuts changing by itself or automations. But will look over it.
For sure they are executed faster on AW and iPhone.

I used hours from date like this (see attachments)

 

[TonyC28]

I had to redo a lot of my home automations. I also have one set up to turn off Wi-Fi when I connect to CarPlay and that one bugs out about half of the time. I really wish apple would take a year off from the annual iOS schedule and just clean up bugs.