Frequent but random crashing of app creating menus

[rastafaa]

Description

Having an issue that seems to stem from the new create menu actions. Initially the problem seemed to be with just changing the foreground icon colors as it would return previous values til 2nd run (think related to dark mode detection action), I resolved that with a workaround eventually.. but now the shortcut randomly crashes when it’s run and it blames Actions for not responding or crashing.

I’ll attach some screenshots and a shortcut I made that it happens with.

Errors when creating menus which is what happens in second run of shortcut with my workaround for the dark mode detector action or menu icon color issue as mentioned before.

Running shortcut doesn’t always crash.. sometimes it works fine but then it’ll start throwing errors repeatedly til the app gets reset or something in background (not sure). Same issue happens with other shortcut seen in screenshots with menus.

Other shortcut with issue:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/dff736d8074948c2ba5e7130002ffcc6

macOS/iOS version

17.1

Shortcut URL

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/8cb4065ea3264a5c8631a9ee7bd393f3

[rastafaa]

Just fyi showing basically how the workaround works.. initial shortcut stops after dark detector and is re-run to get the action to output correct values and have icons change color, otherwise the icons will show wrong colors the first time it’s run after changing dark mode system appearance

[rastafaa]

Here’s the action menu shortcut with the workaround thing removed for people who want to run it normally (otherwise it won’t run from within it)

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/f8e156d907cd422f9266b9ef3187820a

[rastafaa]

It stopped crashing for a bit but now it’s happening constantly again

Edit: it won’t stop crashing now with the menu item action. If I reinstall the app will I lose anything? (Global variables etc)

[rastafaa]

I think I somewhat solved the crashing now by adding a 50ms wait before the first menu action.. it runs without crashing after I did that.

I think somehow the app wasn’t retrieving the variable passed to the action in time before running it?

[mkozjak]

No luck. I guess I'll just wait for the patch.

[sindresorhus]

Try out the TestFlight, there is a potential fix there: https://testflight.apple.com/join/fJGUrsZx

[mkozjak]

My Shortcut ran just first time. After that it started crashing with this error:

Same thing happens after the iOS reboot.

@sindresorhus - Can I fetch you any logs somewhere?

I just realized I posted this here instead of on #190. 🤦

[rastafaa]

No luck. I guess I'll just wait for the patch.

Hm didn't get any errors when I tested on my phone. As mentioned before it might depend what phone you're using since I'm on 15 pro, if you're on slower device try increasing the delay that I added, you might need a longer one to give the extension time to reload.

[mkozjak]

I’m on iPhone 15 Pro too.

[rastafaa]

I’m on iPhone 15 Pro too.

Increase it to 70ms.. mine started crashing repeatedly again today and resolved by increasing delay

[mkozjak]

I’m on iPhone 15 Pro too.

Increase it to 70ms.. mine started crashing repeatedly again today and resolved by increasing delay

Are you testing this with the TestFlight version also?

[rastafaa]

I’m on iPhone 15 Pro too.

Increase it to 70ms.. mine started crashing repeatedly again today and resolved by increasing delay

Are you testing this with the TestFlight version also?

No I haven’t tried that yet

[rastafaa]

Try out the TestFlight, there is a potential fix there: testflight.apple.com/join/fJGUrsZx

Will installing this lose any data, like global variables?

[sindresorhus]

@rastafaa No. It's the exact same app, just a slightly newer version.

[rastafaa]

@rastafaa No. It's the exact same app, just a slightly newer version.

Thanks I was just checking because it does give this warning

[rastafaa]

I tried it out and didn’t get crashes yet, but I found that the menu generates significantly slower than on previous version (which is already a bit slow).. so I downgraded back to App Store release

The difference was like ~3sec vs ~5sec