Manuel Grabowski:
It’s almost impressive what a miserable, useless piece of crap the Shortcuts app remains. First off: No actual concept of versioning or upgrades for shared shortcuts. Sharing shortcuts happens via weird iCloud URLs rather than being an actual aspect of the system. So to update a shortcut, do you just add it again? No indication of what that will do before you press the button. Will it error out? Will it create a duplicate? Will it update/replace the existing one?
Apple Shortcuts is such a mess that I’ve actually implemented my own backup system for my shortcuts. That way, if anything goes wrong — and it has several times in the past — I have a weekly backup that I can restore from.
Here’s my backup solution:
- Install this shortcut: Backup Shortcuts.
- Navigate to Shortcuts > Automation > Plus (+) > Time of Day.
- Configure how often you want the backup to trigger. I have mine set up to backup each Wednesday at noon.
- Select the Backup Shortcuts shortcut.
Apple Shortcuts should more gracefully handle updates, including versioning, support undo/redo, and a million other things. But until then, at least I have something.
(Via Michael Tsai.)
➝ Source: annoying.technology
