Help with shortcuts that just stopped working on iOS

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Some Siri Shortcuts that used to work on iOS before iOS13 have stopped working.

I hope that maybe someone on here can help me figure what can be done.

Here is a link to a video of a shortcut on iOS that doesn’t work on iOS but does work on iPadOS: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0QtmXpa_3o6zXnvuARSEpXOog

Here is a link to the shortcut on iOS: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/96fc2f558e634a5496ddc10ed8c21ecd

And here is a link to the same shortcut on iPadOS: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5fdd5d6612cd4d82908f05d37d06beb9

Hope to hear from some shortcut angels :blush:

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looking at the shortcut it has the link to the text on the iPad OS version you linked to, but that link is greyed out in the other one that did not work.

Btw: I think there’s no difference beyween iOS and iPad OS versions of shortcuts?
(At least: mine are 100% the same.)

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Thanks for your reply and sorry for not responding sooner. I have tried to figure out how to fix it. I recently got a new phone and that didn’t help. Still the same issue.

How do you think I can fix this shortcut on iOS?

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Hi Andreas, what exactly is the shortcut supposed to do? add a specific smiley after text in a draft? Can you describe it a bit?

this works for me (changed it a bit)

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/9e8eb379d56e4aac9ba15e3ff4047d4c

it adds the timestamp and the emoji to the note specified and opens the note

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If you look at this thread, which is where I got the help to create it then you will get the full picture:

Thanks a lot for your help :blush:

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I found that many of my shortcuts stopped working because the variables were no longer working. The text in the shortcut made it appear to be intact, but in fact the variable wasn’t referencing the thing it needed to reference. (It was greyed out.)

I deleted and recreated the variable to reference whatever magic variable it needed to reference, and the shortcut started working again.

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Can you help me figure out exactly what steps or variables need to be recreated in this particular shortcut?

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I linked a fixed version of your shortcut in my reply, it should work now
You just need to reference the correct drafts uuid in the shortcut (your own)