All of a sudden in October, it seemed like the app was broken. I’d open Scriptable and no scripts would be present.
Just on one device (iPhone in my case) – on another iPad with the exact same app and OS version, the app would open and show all scripts within a second.
I tried leaving the iPhone open on the table, after about 80 seconds the scripts would appear. Force close and try again, yep about 80 seconds.
But this is essentially the same as the app being fully unusable.
Phone and iCloud storage are only about half full. No other apps on iPhone dependent on iCloud Files seem to be affected.
Of course restarted the phone. Waited through iOS 26.1 and 26.2 updates, no change. I tried other things like Keep Downloaded for the Scriptable folder on iCloud, and then removing that. I turned off Sync Script Order and anything else I could try in app settings.
I followed the steps in the post above to pull all scripts out of the iCloud > Scriptable folder, and put one back. Closed and reopened the app. Sure enough the single script showed pretty quickly.
Moved 10 scripts back. 10-12 seconds to load.
Moved another 10 scripts back. 22-25 seconds to load.
I originally had 64 scripts when the 80 second load time issue began.
It feels like there’s a retry or backoff in the app’s code that is adding this 1 second per script delay. @simonbs not sure what other things we users can try to help isolate.
Did you do the earlier step of setting the folder to stay downloaded on that device? You don’t mention that I. Your post.
The backup, remove and re-add I suggested on that other thread was primarily to help identify if there was an issue with a particular script slowing Scriptable’s loading if they were all already on device.
Slow loading on one device where other load quickly is most often, but not always, related to it downloading data from iCloud on the fly on that device - which adds more and more delay th more files you have to be retrieved.
Thanks – mentioned above that I use Keep Downloaded – and iCloud is updating instantly, I can see in the Files app – it’s Scriptable’s accessing of that data (or mistakenly thinking it’s not downloaded) that’s the issue, it seems
Even after the app has fully shown all scripts (meaning the scripts have def been pulled from iCloud successfully), I can kill the app, restart, and the slowness happens just the same
Another thing to try is just signing out of iCloud and then after a while, back in (then let it catch up and re-sync before testing things). Reading around, I get the distinct impression that there are iCloud access issues cropping up at the moment across apps after OS updates. Perhaps a little more so than is usual, and certainly not in a consistent way applicable across all devices and configuations.
The link below was shared with me today and while it for a Mac rather than an iPhone, it might be a good indication of the sorts of causes for some of this weirdness.
Thank you @sylumer, very much that was the issue, logging out of iCloud then back in fixed it.
I had started down that path initially, but these days it’s a real threatened ordeal, with four pages of warnings including loss of AppleCare+ Theft & Loss Protection. But I verified that T&LP was back on the phone after logging back in, and after ensuring Find My was set-up.
that was the issue, logging out of iCloud then back in fixed it.