Shortcuts not showing on Apple Watch

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Shortcuts not showing on Apple Watch

Hello. I have Shortcuts showing on my Apple Watch and I have created a playlist shortcut on my iPhone. Both have the iOS 14 update and the iOS 7 update respectively. However, old shortcuts that I deleted a while ago are showing on my Apple Watch series 5 and will not refresh to show the new playlist shortcut I created on my iPhone 11 Pro Max.

I just started using Shortcuts for the first time a few days ago when I watched a YouTube video on it and thought it was very useful. Can’t believe I haven’t ever used this before. Anyways, any idea why the shortcuts won’t refresh on my watch to update to the new shortcuts I created? I deleted these shortcuts a few days ago. “Open Favorite Site”, “Call Wife” and “‘show My Booking.” They used to be on my iPhone but I deleted them from my phone and now I have four custom playlists that play music when I tap the shortcut on my iPhone but it is not showing on my watch. Is this a bug? Is this a feature that hasn’t quite made it to the watch for some reason? Or am I just not doing it right?

Thank you.

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Posted on Sep 25, 2020 2:10 AM

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Answer 1

GGisMee

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Jan 9, 2021 4:27 AM in response to Somethingonyourmind

I have found out that having wifi on and then opening and closing the shortcut app resyncs the shortcut app. Try it!

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Answer 2

brianyin

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Oct 18, 2020 12:42 PM in response to aggressivility

I had the same problem. I fixed it by telling Siri to launch it. Once I did that, the list got updated and refreshed.

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Answer 3

aypark40

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Nov 30, 2020 8:59 AM in response to aggressivility

https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/use-shortcuts-apd99050d435/watchos

the last section shows how to show each shortcut on Apple Watch. You have enable it for each shortcut. Hope that helps!

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Answer 4

Sep 25, 2020 5:09 PM in response to SimonGrant

Thank you for your confirmation. Yes, I saw that on my phone it shows that the shortcut is available to the watch but is not showing. If it is a bug because of iOS 14 then I of course will be patient as this is the first iteration. It's already 14.01 now but I didn't download it because the fixes don't apply to me. Not having the problems listed.

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Answer 5

Sep 26, 2020 12:45 AM in response to SimonGrant

Mine is still broken. Still not working. I even tapped the three shortcuts available and they all gave me errors, well, except me calling my wife which worked. So two of them were broken. Oh well, I can still use the shortcuts on my phone. Wish I could use third party shortcuts like calling back home from hangouts or using other third party apps.

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Answer 6

Sep 25, 2020 8:44 PM in response to aggressivility

Mine seems to have fixed itself. I’m not sure what I did (if anything), but I now have the right shortcuts...

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Answer 7

GGisMee

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Jan 7, 2021 7:59 AM in response to aggressivility

I also have this problem when the watch dosent sync to the phone and i have trued several guides ti fix it but it wont work

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Answer 8

Jan 8, 2021 11:10 AM in response to GGisMee

I have the same issue. Any updates on this?

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Answer 9

Sep 25, 2020 12:48 PM in response to aggressivility

I have exactly the same problem. I’ve tidied up and removed all the default shortcuts created, and created my own. I’ve then made some of them available to the watch, and the shortcuts app shows exactly what I want to be available on the watch.

However when I go into the watch app, and try to add a shortcut to a watch face, it still lists the old ones. Have tried restarting etc, but the old list doesn’t change. I suspect its an IOS14 bug...

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Answer 10

Dec 30, 2020 3:09 PM in response to aggressivility

Did anybody figure out a reliable workaround to this iOS 14 bug? My shortcuts that are already in the watch are not syncing up with the ones on the phone. If I delete one in the phone, it removes it from the watch, but that's about it.

Existing ones that I update, do not pick up the changes and new ones that I add and enable to show on watch just do not show up altogether.

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Shortcuts not showing on Apple Watch

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