Is there a way to terminate the action running if it is stuck?
The reason I ask is that my iPad is having slowness issues accessing iCloud files. This means that Drafts actions which use iCloud (for example by requiring scripts) sometimes hang indefinitely with the wheel spinning.
At present the only recourse I know is to kill and restart Drafts. It would be good if there were a less drastic way to terminate an action.
Eventually I have to reboot the iPad, and that clears the iCloud problem for 24 hours or so, but not having to keep killing Drafts before that point would be an improvement.
Another reason for wanting to terminate actions is embarrassing: occasionally having programmed an infinite loop. But it would be useful in that case too.
I’ve never seen a global interrupt to kill a Drafts action. If I have an action that runs long I always terminate the app and then review the logs to see if there is an obvious cause.
The same thing has been happening to me since the upgrade to 26. I was thinking it was because my iPad is a 2nd-gen Pro from 2020 – how old is yours if I may ask?
If you are consistently seeing slow-downs with iCloud Drive activity, I suggest you try logging in and out of your Apple ID on the device. Kind of a pain, but, historically, I’ve seen a lot of cases where this resolves those issues – that usually crop up after OS update installs.
I think there are sometimes weird issues with corruption of the permissions cache that slow things down. That’s just a wild guess, but may be worth a try.
As far as killing in-process actions, no there is not a way at the moment.
Thanks for the suggestion of logging out and in. So far I have thought about the smaller step of turning iCloud off and on again for the device, but when I try I get a warning
Some Changes Haven’t Synced to iCloud. If you turn off syncing this iPad before your files have synced, you will lose your changes.
It does not say which files are not synced. Before I proceed I’ll try to check that important ones are. If that doesn’t work, I’ll try logging out.
Sorry I had missed your question, @sjb100. My iPad Pro is third generation, model A1934 = MU172X/A, released November 2018 and bought July 2019. It performed well until the iPadOS 26 update, and I think the iCloud problems stem from then, though they have got steadily worse. It has a fast internet connection, so that ought not be the issue.
Since my last forum post, I tried turning iCloud Drive off and on, without improvement. I then followed agile tortoise’s suggestion and logged the iPad out from my Apple account and back in. There were several disruptive effects, but so far I think the result is better. I’ll let you know in a couple of days whether this persists.