iPadOS 26/Drafts 48 Keyboard Annihilation

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The Problem

It now seems like all(?) custom keyboard shortcuts in Drafts are non-responsive.

It’s worth noting that I was running the iPadOS 26 Developer Beta for the later part of the duration and this issue did not occur until after I had installed Drafts 48.0.

Notably, custom keyboard shortcuts were showing up in the Menu Bar under Help->More Keyboard Shortcuts. Now, only default keyboard shortcuts are.

Steps I’ve Taken to Troubleshoot

  • Complete reinstall of Drafts
  • Deleting/changing configured keyboard shortcuts in Action settings
  • Reinstalling actions
  • Verified Action shortcuts are showing as registered via this Action
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What does your main menu look like? Are your actions showing up in the “Actions” menu?

This is not a known issue. Possible you have some data that is causing problems building the menus specific to your installation.

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All actions I’ve tried are:

  1. Showing up in all action views/in the action editor
  2. Showing their configured keyboard shortcut with Show Keyboard Shortcuts toggled on
  3. Responsive to triggering using other methods

Here’s all of the items in my menu bar (let me know if you want the individual screenshots instead.):

DraftsMenuBar
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Yea, you should have an “Actions” menu. Something must be failing building that menu with your action set.

That said, I’m not sure what it would be. I’ll look at the code tomorrow and see if I see any obvious gaps. Do you have a lot of custom actions? Possible something like a duplicate key shortcut or similar might be something to look for.

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yes… far too many. (Like 1600+ with the full ThoughtAsylum library lol.)

Obviously, I have been putting off cleaning my whole action suite for far too long so I’ll give that a shot.

For thread’s sake, it looks like the same issue is occurring on my iPhone16,11.

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Interesting. I haven’t stress-tested the new main menu system on iPadOS, so I don’t know exact what its limits are, but that’s a lot. Unlike previous versions of the OS, where I was only registering the actions with keyboard shortcut, now on OS 26, I’m building all action in on iPad…so that’s a lot.

That said, I have 650 actions in 50 groups, and it’s been fine - so it may not be sheer number, but something else specific to your install.

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