Userscripts Do Not Load On iPad Safari

[beanjbunny]

My iPad is an iPad Pro 12.9 inch, 5th generation, running 26.5.2

I downloaded Userscripts from the iOS store yesterday, so I have the latest copy

I use the script Default to/Force Old Reddit (https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/569062-default-to-force-old-reddit-on-www-reddit-com/post-install) on desktop quite successfully, and I would like to use it on my iPad, but have not yet gotten it to work. To my knowledge, no scripts that I've tried are working. I've tried for a few days (I doubt this is an iCloud issue, as you'll see in a second, but just in case you were worried iCloud "wasn't updated", it's had over 24 hours to do so.)

Here is Userscripts running on my iPad, I have the scripts directory set to the default directory, which points to On My iPad, not iCloud, when I tap on it.

I have turned Usescripts on in Settings:

and I am able to see it on when I tap on the puzzle piece in Safari:

If I tap on the Usescript icon (</>) itself, I see this, which also appears if I tap the cloud icon. Demo user script is there, and I can tap to gray it out or make the text white, which does nothing beyond change the text color.

If I tap on the folder icon, I can see this list of scripts I've downloaded, and I can tap them to gray them out or make their text white, but again, they do not run.

I went looking for the Userscripts folder in Files, and found it on On My iPad, as seen here. Nothing has an iCloud download icon next to it, so it should all be sitting on my iPad ready to run to the best of my knowledge.

I did try force restarting the iPad, which didn't work.

What else should I be doing/where should I be looking to get Userscripts to run?

[ACTCD]

Hello, thank you for your detailed feedback.

Here are a few mixed questions for experience:

• The way popup displays user scripts is not clear

  • The current design is that when you click on the popup, only the user scripts matching the current page will be displayed.
  • This is also why only "Demo user script" is shown because it matches all pages i.e. *://*/*
  • This point has been planned to be solved in the newly reconstructed popup UI, and the interface will be clearer.

• "Demo user script" don't do anything

  • Yes, as a userscript it doesn't do anything by itself due to its code:
    

    userscripts/xcode/App-iOS/Initialization.swift

    Lines 6 to 21 in 8b743e3

    	let demoScript = """
    	// ==UserScript==
    	// @name Demo user script
    	// @description I am a demo user script that you can safely delete (add any files to this folder and I will no longer automatically generate)
    	// @author Userscripts
    	// @version 0.0.1
    	// @match *://*/*
    	// @grant none
    	// @inject-into content
    	// ==/UserScript==
    	(function () {
    	'use strict';
    	// here is your code
    	})();
    	"""

  • The main purpose of its existence is to demonstrate where the script is stored and how to use it.
  • iOS will only show up in the Files App if at least one file exists in the default document folder.
  • Usually after you install your own scripts, you can safely remove it.

• Why isn't your script running? scripts/569062

  • I checked your userscript code and it uses unsupported APIs.
    • This script uses the old synchronous GM_* APIs such as GM_setValue.
    • This script uses API GM_registerMenuCommand which we have not yet implemented.
      • Feature request: GM.registerMenuCommand #230
    • These APIs are used to implement the switch buttons inside the script

If you don't need to toggle the "Force Old" state very often, this script should work fine with some modifications and streamlining.

This has nothing to do with iCloud, don't worry.