home-assistant / home-assistant/iOS
iOS Shortcuts "couldn't communicate with the app"
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Description
**iOS device model, version and app version**
Model Name: iPhone 8
Software Version: 16.7.16
App version: both in 2025.12.1 (2025.1546) and 2026.7.3 (2026.2546)
**Home Assistant Core Version**
2026.8.1
**Describe the bug**
I add the Run Script action in a new shortcut and tap Choose script. An alert informs me that Shortcuts can't communicate with the app.
**To Reproduce**
1. Create a shortcut on iOS 16.7.16
2. Add Run Script action
3. Tap Choose in the action
**Expected behavior**
I get to choose a script
**Screenshots**
**Additional context**
The action should work on 16.7.16 according to docs (https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/integrations/siri-shortcuts/)
(I'm a bit puzzled by why explicitly unsupported actions are visible at all though, and, if they can't be conditionally hidden, why the iOS version requirement isn't mentioned in the action descriptions. )
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the Run Script action flow on iOS 16.7.16 with the reported app versions, then compare its behavior with the Siri Shortcuts documentation. Trace the iOS Shortcuts integration responsible for Choose script; done means the action opens the script chooser as documented, or the unsupported action and iOS requirement are clearly handled.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- swift
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 58/100