🚀 Actions For Obsidian 2026.1.0 (iOS & macOS)

Actions For Obsidian
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I’m happy to announce the release of Actions for Obsidian 2026.1 for both iOS & macOS. Get it on the App Store!

This release raises the minimum system requirements to iOS 18.4 and macOS 15.4, as announced last year. If you’re on an older OS, the previous version (2025.2.x) will keep working for the foreseeable future.

No Longer Broken

  • If you held a single-platform license (iOS only, or macOS only) and opened the paywall to upgrade to the other platform, the sheet would flash a “License Verified” toast and close again on the spot, making the upgrade impossible. No longer! Single-platform license holders can now actually see, and buy, the upgrade offering.

  • The “License Verified” toast no longer appears for customers without a license, and no longer flashes on every routine open of the License tab. It now only shows up when it actually means something: after a successful purchase, after a successful restore, or when you explicitly retry a failed license check.

  • iOS: The app title on the Home tab no longer drifts off-center when it wraps to multiple lines.

  • macOS: Another narrow edge case in the “was the app launched by the system or by a human” detection has been closed, which should cut down even further on AFO’s window popping up during workflow runs.

Changes

  • Under the hood, the entire x-callback-url communication layer between AFO and its Obsidian companion plugin “Actions URI” was rewritten from scratch. You shouldn’t notice a difference in day-to-day use, but if an Obsidian call ever hangs, you’ll now get a clear, localized timeout error after 20 seconds instead of waiting indefinitely.

  • Bug fixes. So many bug fixes. Well, not that many… Still, a few. Several.

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Hi. As of this release I can no longer create notes in obsidian using the create note at file path action. I have set the vault name as a variable which is referenced in that action. But when the shortcut runs it shows an alert asking me which vault to use. (Which only has a cancel button).

(I’m on iOS, the most recent I believe)

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Welcome to the forum, @andrewsleigh! The Create Note action doesn’t take a vault name anymore, you can only pass in a Vault reference, like so:

CleanShot 2026-04-25 at 21.18.26@2x
CleanShot 2026-04-25 at 21.18.26@2x1260Ă—288 54.4 KB

Maybe that’s what you meant, I just want to make sure we’re on the same page. :slight_smile:

But let’s start at the top – could you please open AFO and check if your vault is still linked? Because if everything worked up until this update, then maybe it broken your vault links somehow? (I’ve seen this happen once or twice in the past, for no apparent reason.)

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Thanks carlo. Helpful as ever!

I checked and for whatever reason my vault was no longer linked in AFO.

I also updated the shortcut so it no longer asks for a variable with the vault name as text. I’ll confess I don’t fully understand the vault reference action - but it works.

Thanks for your prompt response

A

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Glad you got it working! Sorry about the hassle.

I’ll confess I don’t fully understand the vault reference action - but it works.

I’ve tried to explain it with an example in How to: The "Get Vault Reference" action. Hopefully, that clears it up a bit!