Orphaned Scene/Conflicting Shortcut
So I have an odd problem, probably a bug (following up via beta Feedback already). Wanted to see if anyone else had a similar problem.
I previously had a Home scene "Shower" that just ran two accessories/steps. I didn't care for not being able to send Pandora to the HomePod, so I deleted the Home scene and re-created it in Shortcuts.
The problem is, when I try to rename/save the Shortcut to "Shower" I get the "you cannot use this name because there is an existing scene with this name". I have checked up and down, on a myriad of devices - I definitely don't have a scene called shower. Can even confirm and say "hey Siri, run scene shower" and it fails. Trying to re-create the Home scene "Shower" also fails with the duplicate name.
Any grand ideas where in the system this one scene name is stuck?
Posted May 19, 2021, 5:58 PM UTC
Ack, figured it out - leaving up in case anyone else has this. Turned off home in iCloud on all devices, turned on. Disabled shortcuts in iCloud then turned back on…
This worked! Thanks!
FYI for anyone who encountered my specific problem: I had two scenes that I wanted to recycle the names of. I had deleted them both. So I re-created the first, renamed it, and then deleted it. Under iCloud, disabled and enabled HomeKit, and then the same steps for Shortcuts. Once complete I was able to re-use the first scene’s name. I had to repeat the above steps for the second scene. So YMMV if you have multiple scene names to restore.