@ihf possible and probable, but if action = Apple Shortcut and if this shortcut starts a Pythonista script, your objective is reached, isn't it?

Edit: sorry, I didn't read correctly the from a locked state

I got sometimes the same problem and it does not look like the split keyboard, only the supplementary row.

The problem occurs when I run a script in a editor's tab where the keyboard is visible.
But not in other tabs, or not if I run a script where the keyboard is hidden.

@mikael nothing special, why? Any script is ok, it is not really started by an automation but by the shortcut

I've created a shortcut automation for

• at a defined time
• action = "run shortcut" which only contains an "open url Pythonista3:://script?action=run"
  without asking before run

and it works (in unlocked mode)

@mikael said:

timed automations that would work in the background when the device is locked.

I used successfully Pyto background module to send a remote notification to my iPhone while my iPad was locked but this stops to work after I did install iOS 14.

Thus I hoped I could replace that by Shortcuts automation. 😥

@I-L please read this, seems to be still so 7 years later

For me (or I'm really bad), automation without asking to tap on the notification does only work if I'm logged on my iPad, not if it is black. At least tested with "sending an email"

@Dylko No way to help you without your code and/or your error

@tbrown313 A last solution is to copy the standard dialogs source code and modify as you want in your own version.

@blowhard could you check if after your problem a file _objc_exception.txt has been created or updated in the root of Pythonista. Perhaps is your problem coming from an Objectivec exception. If yes, you can post its content.

I think about a thread problem