2 hours ago · Tech · 0 comments

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? Alright, just risk it – now iOS does offer reasonable choices. Take a wild guess what I picked in the second screenshot to end up with screenshot #3 – yes, of course I chose Replace and it kept both regardless. Not just that, for some weird reason it created two with the exact same name. Which one is newer? Of course this Playmobil-ass UI doesn’t show anything that would be remotely useful for serious people. Imagine wanting to sort your shortcuts by date or see the last modification date, like some rocket scientist. Well,…

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