⚠️ [See Description] Check For Updates

Keep your shortcuts up to date

Description

Check for Updates is no longer being maintained and does not work on iOS 13. I still have ideas for what to add in an update, but haven't been making shortcuts recently.

You can use one of these alternative updaters in your shortcuts instead:

Embed-a-Update by @pfg and @ROP (Does not require users to download any additional shortcuts to receive updates)

Swing Updater by @D3W10 (Very similar to Check for Updates)

UpdateKit by @MikeBeas

UpdateHub by @tdevx

Original description:

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Check For Updates

Keep your shortcuts up to date.

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For Users

Run the Check For Updates shortcut to get the latest updates on all supported shortcuts. Choose a shortcut to update and update it.

For Developers

Check For Updates is easy to integrate into shortcuts

Add to your shortcut

Supporting Check For Updates requires just 3 actions:

Make sure overwrite file if exists is on.

Example Shortcut

Version Numbers

Check for updates supports multi-decimal version numbers. Your version numbers on RoutineHub must match the version in your dictionary. Version numbers are numbers such as 1.5.2 or 2.1 or .6, any value with multiple numbers and decimals.

Alternatives

UpdateHub by @tdevx - UpdateHub can be integrated into your shortcut with just one comment action. Checking shortcuts for updates becomes slower the more shortcuts you have.
UpdateKit by @MikeBeas - UpdateKit is run at the top or bottom of your shortcut to make sure it stays up to date when run. This is helpful if you are giving your shortcut to people new to shortcuts because they do not have to run something else. This will slow down your shortcut and make it so your shortcut can't be used in Siri or the notification widget.

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This shortcut supports Check For Updates

Run Check For Updates at any time to check for updates to this and other shortcuts.

### This shortcut supports [Check For Updates](https://routinehub.co/shortcut/793)
Run Check For Updates at any time to check for updates to this and other shortcuts.

Action-style Banner

[![This Shortcut Supports Check For Updates](https://i.imgur.com/fHsBvXr.png)](https://routinehub.co/shortcut/793 "Get Check For Updates")

MediaKit Banner

[![This Shortcut Supports Check For Updates](https://i.imgur.com/njgbDNI.png)](https://routinehub.co/shortcut/793 "Get Check For Updates")

Latest Release Notes

2.1 - April 28, 2019, 9:47 p.m.

New in version 2.1:
+ Add back the Add Unsupported Shortcut option

Past versions

Feedback

@Mbierman

UpdateKit should run at the end of thrnshortcut, not the beginning. But your approach is interesting. Nice job.
Reply · 1 year, 9 months ago

@pfg Author

Most of the shortcuts I've seen have it run at the beginning, but that would make things a bit better for updatekit
Reply · 1 year, 9 months ago

@Mbierman

That is not what the UpdateKit docs recommend because it causes issues and as you point out, slows execution.
Reply · 1 year, 9 months ago

@medicalshortcuts

1.4 Works so much better! Thanks for the shout out as well!
Reply · 1 year, 8 months ago

@JimSauer

Check for Updates is really cool. Thank you for creating and sharing it! I do have a suggestion: Rather than writing AutoUpdateData.json to the root of the iCloud Drive, consider writing to: /iCloud Drive/Check for Updates/device/ where device is the name of the user's device. For an example, please refer to https://routinehub.co/shortcut/1189. If you make that change, this will work better for those with multiple iOS devices, but iCloud Sync disabled.
Reply · 1 year, 8 months ago

@pfg Author

I replied on reddit but I’ll paste my reply here for anyone who didn’t see my reddit comment. That is a nice idea but it means that for shortcuts to implement check for updates it will require 5 actions instead of 4. Since that would mean it is a breaking change, I might do it in the future along with a name change of the filename to be shorter and make more sense (something like `cfu.json`)
Reply · 1 year, 8 months ago

@entee

Hi, Thanks for doing this. How does it deal with rollbacks to earlier version, eg I release .3 but delete the version due to a bug? What do people that have downloaded .3 see when running Check for Updates as .2 is the current/preferred/published release?
Reply · 1 year, 7 months ago

@pfg Author

People who have downloaded 0.3 will not see 0.2 in check for updates. I could change this, but I assumed that having a higer version than what is released would mean you have a beta or something. I can add a boolean value in the cfu dictionary if you need this.
Reply · 1 year, 7 months ago

@entee

I hope I don't need it, but probably will at some point.
Reply · 1 year, 7 months ago

@imBuenoing

Hi may I know if I leave the 4 lines of actions at the end of my shortcut where it’ll never be run or should I leave at the top?
Reply · 1 year, 7 months ago

@pfg Author

It should go at the top of your shortcut, it takes so little time to run it probably won't affect performance at all.
Reply · 1 year, 7 months ago

@timnicholson

I’m thinking of switching my shortcuts over to CFU, but am hoping you would consider adding an option for the user to edit out of the screen that lists the shortcuts available. The reason is that CFU might be run as one routine in a set of shortcuts and hitting Cancel will prevent the calling shortcut from completing.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@pfg Author

CFU isn't intended to be run from within another shortcut, it's made for people using shortcuts to run it manually and see if any shortcuts have updates available. If you want shortcuts to check every time they run, UpdateKit is a better option.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@timnicholson

I know, but let me explain further. I am the maker of RoutineKit which can run dozens of other shortcuts. The overhead of UpdateKit is too big for than many shortcuts. But I want the option for a user to add CFU to one of their routines, perhaps weekly or daily, to check for updates along with other things.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@pfg Author

I've added a Don't Update button in 1.5.3. As I said with the other commenter, it would be helpful if you join the routinehub discord ( https://discord.gg/2xdeZxY ) because I don't check my routinehub notifications that often and chat works better for discussion.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@timnicholson

Awesome! Thanks! I haven’t used discord yet, but will check it out.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@Macintosh512k

Please add a variable that if lets say, "showGUI" is 0, it won't ask you for confirmation to update, this would be useful for my shortcut,
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@pfg Author

I'm not sure which GUI you want to hide, there's the list GUI and the GUI once you've chosen which shortcut to update. Also, can you join the routinehub discord ( https://discord.gg/2xdeZxY ) to talk about this? It's probably easier to talk there than in comments.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@entee

I've had 2 Shortcuts break this for me recently, and had to edit it out of the JSON manually, bit frustrating that a rogue Shortcut can break for other users. Think it was either was to do with using Number as the Value type, or because they used Name/Version rather than name/version as the keys.
Reply · 1 year, 6 months ago

@pfg Author

fixed in 2.0
Reply · 1 year, 3 months ago

@DevCashew

Why don’t you change the short description to something that sounds more independent rather that “an alternative to UpdateKit” many say something like “Keep your shortcuts up to date”
Reply · 1 year, 5 months ago

@pfg Author

because I haven't changed the description in a while. Good idea though, I'll do that.
Reply · 1 year, 5 months ago

@entee

.version number without a preceding 0 as per RH versioning convention seem to break CfU.
Reply · 1 year, 4 months ago

@pfg Author

I'm working on a new version of CfU rewritten entirely in ScPL. The new version uses a javascript number comparison algorithm which will fix this.
Reply · 1 year, 4 months ago

@entee

Good to know.
Reply · 1 year, 4 months ago

@pfg Author

What RH versioning convention doesn't include a preceeding 0?
Reply · 1 year, 4 months ago

@entee

Example https://routinehub.co/shortcut/2145
Reply · 1 year, 4 months ago

@pfg Author

fixed in 2.0
Reply · 1 year, 3 months ago

@D3W10

Can Swing Updater be an alternative updater?
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@Silentoplayz Member

@D3W10 What exactly do you mean by this? Check for Updates is a shortcut Updater in itself just like Swing Updater. :)
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@D3W10

Where I said that?
Reply · 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@timnicholson

With iOS 13, I’m getting a dictionary error on the line that says: get Value for Key in LocalData Key is highlighted in red because that variable isn’t found.
Reply · 10 months ago

@pfg Author

Check For Updates does not work on iOS 13
Reply · 9 months, 4 weeks ago