Pushcut can't send notifications with images?

It seems like no matter how I try to pass an image to pushcut, I either get

An unknown error occurred while sending notifications. Please try again
(when selecting an image from the ios file picker, or
Could not run Send Notification: There was a problem communicating with the app
when trying to pass an image as a variable.

  • The images are less than <1mb, & I’ve tried photos, jpgs, pngs, etc. I’ve tried restarting
  • Running Pushcut v.2025.2 (Pro)
  • iPhone 15 Pro
  • iOS 18.3.1
  • Test Shortcut

Any idea what’s going on?

Add in a step to resize your image before you include it in the notification.

This works for me, but if I remove the resize I get the communication error.

That seems to do it for the most part! Still getting the error every once in awhile (even when it worked with the same image previously), but this’ll get me far. Thank you!

Have a similar question now: Is there a way to refer to the images saved in the Pushcuts app itself via Shortcuts Actions? E.g. I have an image named “left”, could I pass this name as a variable in the action?

For context, I’d like to create a parent shortcut that takes a dictionary as an input, & sets up a pushcut notification that changes the contents depending on the dict.

Ended up converting my shortcuts to use the api & webhooks instead, & calling images uploaded in pushcut by name worked without issue.

Heads up to SnailedIt, I think this is a bug in the pushcut show notification action that might have been introduced with an iOS update somehow.