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I’ve been keeping up on my DayOne habit fairly well, but there are some days where staring at that blank page just makes every thought drop out of my head. Initially, I had a lot of success with a simple change, just writing about the previous day. I found that with a little time for reflection I had a more nuanced look at what happened, what was important, and what I thought about it. Lately though I’ve avoided writing some days because I’m not sure what to lay down.

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Sharing Shortcuts on iOS 13

I’ve been foolhardy and have been running the iOS 13 beta on all my devices since beta 2. I haven’t hit anything past a few weird layout issues until today. While working on a blog post about a shortcut I built I went to share my work … and there was no share icon.

I looked around, long pressing everywhere and trying every button I could find. I even got desperate and looked around in the Apple Settings screens. Nothing.

After lots of duckduckgoing I found the answer. You need to download a shortcut from the gallery, then go to Settings -> Shortcuts and select “Allow Untrusted Shortcuts”. The option will not exist until you download a shortcut.

Allow Untrusted Shortcuts
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