What is “ShortcutsActions” and why is it accessing my contacts so much? I’ve never seen it in my privacy report before ? Anyone else have this in their privacy report?
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iPhone 16 Pro Max
Ruckles wrote:
Apple’s About App Privacy Report page details every app that accesses contact data. Shortcuts isn’t mentioned.
The mistake you are making is that you think ShortcutActions is an App and is the same thing as the Shortcut App. It is NOT. ShortcutActions operates under the App Intent Framework. These are "hooks" built into the apps to perform some function that can be called by another App or the System. Developers can create their own App Intents to perform a function by using Siri, add an action in the Shortcut App, or fetch some data from the app for use in a Widget.
App Intents | Apple Developer Documentation
In your screenshot of Messsages having access to your Contact Info, guess how it gets that information. If you said a ShortcutAction you would be correct. Messages is not launching the Shortcut App to get this information, it is using an App Intent built into the Contacts app to get it. You also cannot tell Messages that you do not want to give it access to your Contacts so you will not be preventing ShortcutActions from being used when Messages wants to know what name is associated with the number that just sent you a message.
Another thing you fail to realize is that even though the Shortcut app does not show that it has access to the Contacts in the Privacy Page, the Shortcut app can certainly be used to access Contacts. One of the publicly available actions to the Contacts app in the Shortcut app is called "Add New Contact", where it can take a First Name, Last Name, or Company Name as input and when run a new contact will be added to the Contacts app.
Whatever you did to leave part of Shortcuts still installed , as had been said a dozen times, internal phone apps have full access to on-phone data by design.
Nothing to see here.
Exactly… I agree 1000%.
The fact that the ones saying it’s normal do not have one piece of evidence to prove that, is honestly laughable.
So then the question is why are apps including the shortcuts app not completely uninstalling?
It is what it is.
there is no point in further discussion.
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So Shortcuts can be hacked after all. Fascinating.
I never said Shortcuts could be hacked. It is clear you are just a troll and not worth responding to again.
Lawrence Finch wrote:
I never said Shortcuts could be hacked. It is clear you are just a troll and not worth responding to again.
Yup.
Just found this in my cloud
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Thank you for your so helpful response links to articles that are 5 and 6 years old, respectively. Do you think they really convey any useful information now?
They provided me info I didn’t know so probably will others that are 9 levels below..
Yes, you are right. The Shortcuts app is used for many functions within iOS, and especially by Siri.
Still haven’t figured out this issue..
anyone else ever find out any new information?
I've been noticing the same too, Did you find a solution?
i hope apple would officially address this
so what’s the reason? Can anyone give an answer?
Forever?
What is "ShortcutsActions" and why is it accessing contacts on my iPhone?
