Search Tags shortcut action on iOS broken for several releases

  • Bear Version: 2.9
  • OS Version: iOS 27 (public beta)
  • What were you doing: using the “search tags” action in shortcut app
  • What feature did you use: search tags shortcut action
  • What happened: the action fails to retrieve tags
  • What did you expect to happen: correctly fetch the tags

This has happened for several versions and was happening before I was on iOS 27 public beta

Here a screenshot of the error (no matter the argument passed to the action)

I was relying on it to handle my cookbook but haven’t been able to for several versions (can’t remember exactly when it broke but it’s been a few weeks/months)

I hope this comment might help figuring it out

Good luck devs :flexed_biceps:

I wonder if this has something to do with the iOS 27 beta becasue it seems to work with iOS 26.
Do you experience similar issues with the search notes action, or is it just the tag search?

I did have the issue on iOS 26. No issues on search notes

Do you have a lot of tags with cookbook in them?
If you search for another term, you get the same result?

Wow nice catch, I do have a lot of tags with cookbook. I tried another search term and it works.


with a limit of the results it works:

after a few tries, it breaks when the limit reaches 19 (it works up until 18)

Hopefully that helps you out !

Lucky guess. Do you have many notes inside your Cookbook tags?
The action return Tag object,s each hold a list of other Note objects, and I suspect the overall number of objects is probably more than the max memory allowed (30Mb). If this is the case, I’m unsure if I can work around this issue.

I have a lot of notes indeed ^^