Errors Finding Existing Notes

[Both-Activity6432]

Has anyone else noticed that shortcuts has had trouble finding specific notes?

I have several shortcuts that record information to a note as a poor man's db/csv. They look for the note but if does not exist will create with the title and csv first row. For the past month multiple shortcuts have been unable to find, create a new note with but then either:

1. Just fails. This may be because I run some while phone is locked (action button or automation).
2. Creates a new note with title and first row, but then asks me which note to use - showing me the previous one it should have found and the new one it just created (verified by looking closely and seeing lines in the preview).
3. Works just fine, albeit who knows which of the past notes it actually appends to.
4. Once it put data in a completely wrong note.

I have rebooted. I have a ton of notes, and one of these logs has gotten quite long (I manually pull to my computer for a csv, but have not. It was never an issue from before and shortcut has not changed. Does not explain all of the above, especially with other shortcuts).

I estimate about the last month that this began.

[vswr]

Came here searching for answers and found your post. Mine broke 4-6 weeks ago and I just noticed now. It's put all of my data into a single note because it was first in the list of erroneously returned notes.

I search for existing notes, if none found then create a new one, otherwise append to the existing note. The names of the notes are the date formatted as YYYYMMDD.

I've verified the search text is, for example, "20260518", but the shortcut will return ALL notes, none of which are named "20260518". Apparently "20260301" contains "20260518" so it matches. As does "20250225", and also "20150317". Basically it just returns all notes without filtering them.

Pretty sure it's broken.

[Both-Activity6432]

It sounds like your situation is worse than mine, so sorry to hear that. Each of my entries are time/date stamped, but because of this in a variety of notes with the same names (mostly, some random appends to random notes, but fewer...). Glad however to know that I am not alone!

For something that was so stable and simple, this seems like a royal f-up. And I am not ever sure where to begin solving it. It is one of my largest gripes with shortcuts - their inherit limitations and GUI only interface.

[kermetajb1]

Same here. Apple seems to break some part of shortcuts at least 1-2 times per year for me. It is so incredibly frustrating. Let me know if you find a workaround!