Can't make Siri Shortcuts work in macCatalyst app

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Created Oct ’20

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Hi

I'm trying to port my iOS app to Mac using macCatalyst, and I'm having problem with Siri Shortcuts. The code complies and runs, but when I try to add shortcut using INUIAddVoiceShortcutViewController I'm seeing 'Shortcuts unavailable.'

Using
INVoiceShortcutCenter.shared.getAllVoiceShortcuts returns error [Intents] -[INVoiceShortcutCenter getAllVoiceShortcutsWithCompletion:]_block_invoke Error from -getVoiceShortcutsWithCompletion: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "Couldn’t communicate with a helper application."

Any ideas what's I'm doing wrong? Same code works perfectly fine on iOS.

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Answer 1

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Oct ’20

The Intents framework is unavailable at runtime on macOS except for WidgetKit support. The APIs are available at compile time in the Mac Catalyst environment to reduce the amount of changes required to compile for Mac Catalyst. Calling into the APIs as part of the shared code path between iOS and Mac Catalyst is fine, they will just return an error for Mac Catalyst, as you're seeing.

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Answer 2

Phoenix OP

Oct ’20

Thanks. Maybe documentation should say something about it - spent 5 hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, before posting here and on stack overflow.

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Answer 3

Frameworks Engineer OP

Apple

Jun ’21

macOS Monterey adds support for Shortcuts to all apps on the Mac.

Check out the talk Meet Shortcuts for macOS for more details.

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