Just updated my phone to IOS 18.4, noticed in the app privacy report section an app so called shortcutActions accessing my contacts, I don't use shortcuts and don't even have the app installed and was hoping if someone could tell me what this is and if it is just a background process or something. It is also worth mentioning the image it showed next to shorcutActions was the null/ default image.
iPhone 16 Pro, iOS 18
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Currently my iPhone is not JailBroken as such cannot be related to this. After some further investigation into this, I have an unrelated iPhone, not on the same Apple ID. When updated it displayed the exact same shortcutActions item accessing contacts. As such I’m guessing it is likely to be some background process triggered by the new update.
shortcutActions App Privacy Report Accessing Contacts
