Day One gone from macOS Shortcuts
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Hi, I have encountered an issue that Day One gone from the Shortcuts app on macOS after a recent update. I have a workflow used to work that fetches the metadata from Apple Music app and creates an entry in Day One about the album. Now it reports as Unknown Action at the entry creation step.
- macOS: 15.7
- Day One: 2025.19.2 (1696)
Is this a known issue or planned change?
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We haven’t changed anything about our shortcuts lately on macOS, so the issue seems to be related to recent changes rolled out by Apple in Sequoia 15.7 and Tahoe 26. Our developers are investigating the cause and hope to have a solution soon.
In the meantime, would you try the following, which worked for some of our users?
- Delete existing shortcuts
- Restart Shortcuts app
- Create a new Day One shortcut
I hope that helps! Let us know how that goes.
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Hi @staff-bluejay thanks for looking into this. Day One is missing from the Shortcuts apps list. As a user there’s nothing to do. I presume the only way is to wait for an update from Day One, unless Apple is aware of the bug and pushes an update which seems very unlikely to me 🥲
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Also experiencing this issue. No other apps seem to have vanished from Shortcuts actions (though it’s possible that I”m failing to see it)
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Hi folks. Thanks for your patience with this.
Just wanted to let you know we’ve prepared a fix for the missing Shortcut actions on the Day One macOS app. That will be available in the 2025.21 update, so please keep an eye out for that, and let us know if you continue to have trouble after updating.
Thanks!
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Warning: DayOne actions returned to shortcuts on MacOS with the latest version of DO, but if that shortcut is edited on an iPhone (since shortcuts sync via iCloud), then it no longer works on macOS, and the “unknown action” message returns.
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Synching shortcuts created or modified on iPhone (iOS 26.4) and iPad (iPadOS 26.4) still results in “unknown action” on macOS (Tahoe 26.4).
Versions of Day One are up to date (v2066.7.x on all devices).
I’m aware that v2025.21 had restored the shortcuts for macOS, but the above scenario is still unresolved.
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This is a separate, known limitation. Currently, Day One’s shortcut actions on iOS and macOS are not cross-compatible. A shortcut that includes Day One actions created or modified on iPhone or iPad will show as “Unknown Action” when it syncs to macOS, and vice versa.
The workaround for now is to create or edit your Day One shortcuts directly on macOS using the Shortcuts app there, rather than syncing them from iOS/iPad. The same Day One actions are available on both platforms – they just need to be set up separately on each one.
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