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Strokee23

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Anybody finding broken shortcuts since updating to iOS 17 (to include iOS 17.0.1 & 17.0.2)?

I have a very basic, 2-part shortcut which turns on "Do Not Disturb" and logs a 1-hour "Traditional Strength Training" workout in Apple Health. Since updating, I receive an "unexpected error" message. I've deleted and recreated the shortcut, changed the "log a workout" in the health app to "begin a workout" with a goal of 1-hour, but the shortcut is still broken.

I reached out to Apple about this a couple of weeks ago: of course they hadn't heard of any issues. The 2 small updates since have not fixed it.

Any ideas?
 

bransoj

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I've got 4 shortcuts that i use occasionally in a widget on my home screen, they all seem to be working fine.
 
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Strokee23

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Sep 28, 2023
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I've got 4 shortcuts that i use occasionally in a widget on my home screen, they all seem to be working fine.
I have 5 shortcuts (4 of which are also on the shortcuts widget on my Home Screen), and only 1 of them is having this issue.
 

earthdog

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I am using many and no real issues. Why don't you post a screenshot of it and I would be glad to see if I can replicate your issue.
 
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Strokee23

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I am using many and no real issues. Why don't you post a screenshot of it and I would be glad to see if I can replicate your issue.
I appreciate you, but all seems well now. Oddly enough, all I did was delete and recreate the shortcut, but this time I changed the order of the steps: step 1 is log 1-hour traditional strength training workout and step 2 is turn on do not disturb focus. They were reversed last time and I was getting the error message.

I'm fairly confident I tried this already with no success, but it worked today (for now)!
 
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NoBoMac

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Good to see it's working again.

Have seen this in previous updates, but not in 17. Basically what OP reported:

I've deleted and recreated the shortcut, changed the "log a workout" in the health app to "begin a workout" with a goal of 1-hour, but the shortcut is still broken.

Apple seems to change some in a non-backward compatible manner and you get these type of things. And unfortunately, don't think I've ever seen a good release note for Shortcuts, so only find out need to change things due to they're broken.

Now, what I am seeing is that some Automations are slow to trigger at scheduled time. And in one case, seemed like none of the Automations were running so deleted and re-created a simple Automation and it shook everything loose: got a ton of Notifications on the screen for the Automations from earlier in the day (acted like everything was queued up waiting for something).
 
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