Shortcuts that are designed to take input from the right-click Quick Actions menu, selecting text or a file and choosing your shortcut from the menu that appears, stopped doing anything on macOS 27 Golden Gate. No error, no notification. Click the shortcut's name in the Quick Actions menu and nothing happens at all. This was reported independently across multiple betas of Golden Gate and confirmed as a real bug, filed with Apple under reference number FB23080531.

What exactly stopped working

Shortcuts that accept input specifically through macOS's Quick Actions system, the menu that appears when you right-click selected text, a file, or a folder in Finder, fail silently when triggered that way on Golden Gate. The shortcut itself is not broken; running the exact same shortcut by opening it directly in the Shortcuts app, or triggering it another way, works normally. The failure is specific to the Quick Actions entry point.

This affected every beta of macOS 27 the issue was tested against, and multiple independent Shortcuts users confirmed the same failure rather than it being isolated to one Mac or one shortcut.

Confirm you are hitting this

  1. Open the shortcut directly in the Shortcuts app and run it from there with a manually selected input. If it works fine this way, the shortcut itself is not the problem.
  2. Try triggering the same shortcut from the right-click Quick Actions menu, on the same kind of input (selected text, a file, or similar) that the shortcut expects.
  3. If step 1 works and step 2 does nothing, with no error at all, you're looking at this exact bug rather than a shortcut configuration issue.

The fix: switch to the Services menu

There is no supported way to restore the Quick Actions entry point itself while this bug is open. The practical workaround, confirmed by multiple people independently, is to trigger the same shortcut through the Services menu instead, which sits right next to Quick Actions in the same right-click menu and is not affected by this bug.

How to enable Services for a shortcut

  1. Open the Shortcuts app.
  2. Select the shortcut that's failing from Quick Actions.
  3. Click the Details or Info button (the small "i" icon) for that shortcut, or open its editor.
  4. Find the option labeled something like "Use as Quick Action" and check its settings. There is a separate checkbox, often labeled Services, that controls whether the shortcut also appears in the classic Services menu. Enable it.
  5. Right-click your selected text or file as before, but this time look under the Services submenu rather than Quick Actions. Your shortcut should appear there and run normally when selected.

This uses macOS's older Services infrastructure, which predates Quick Actions and still works correctly on Golden Gate, to reach the same shortcut that Quick Actions can no longer trigger.

What this workaround does not restore

  • Menu location changes. Your shortcut now lives under a different submenu (Services instead of Quick Actions) in the right-click menu, which means retraining muscle memory or updating any documentation or team instructions that reference "Quick Actions" by name.
  • Any Quick Actions-specific behavior some shortcuts may have relied on that Services doesn't replicate exactly. For the large majority of input-based shortcuts, the two are functionally interchangeable, but test your specific shortcut after switching.
  • Shortcuts run from other triggers (menu bar, Shortcuts app, keyboard shortcut assignments, widgets) are unaffected by this bug in the first place and need no workaround.

Is this fixed yet

As of the most recent public information, this remains an open, filed bug under FB23080531, reported consistently across the Golden Gate beta cycle and into the public release. If you rely heavily on Quick Actions-triggered shortcuts, switching the affected ones to Services now, rather than waiting on a point release, is the reliable path. Keep an eye on our known bugs tracker for confirmation once Apple addresses it directly.

A few more questions

Does this affect shortcuts triggered from the menu bar or widgets? No. The bug is specific to the Quick Actions entry point in the right-click menu. Shortcuts triggered from the Shortcuts menu bar icon, from widgets, or run manually inside the Shortcuts app are unaffected.

Will enabling Services break anything else? No. Services and Quick Actions are two separate, independent systems that happen to both live inside the right-click menu. Turning on Services for a shortcut does not disable or change its Quick Actions setting; it simply gives you a second, currently-working way to trigger it.

Should I file my own Feedback Assistant report? If you can reproduce this reliably, a report with your specific shortcut and the exact input type you were using adds useful detail beyond the existing FB23080531 report, particularly if your scenario differs from what's already been described.

The short version

  • Shortcuts triggered through the right-click Quick Actions menu silently fail to run on macOS 27 Golden Gate. This is a confirmed bug, filed as FB23080531.
  • The shortcut itself works fine when run directly from the Shortcuts app; only the Quick Actions trigger is affected.
  • Enable the Services checkbox for the affected shortcut in Shortcuts, and trigger it from the Services submenu instead of Quick Actions.
  • No fix has shipped as of the current release; this workaround is the reliable path until one does.