New to shortcuts, but it should be possible to ask for a prompt of client when I turn on “work” focus, then keep track of how long it was on correct?

I have a shortcut that takes a voice memo and appends the transcript to a note with the title of that days date as dd/mm/yyyy. Now I'm trying to make a automation that text the body of the note to myself but I can only get it to send the title. This is what I have so far (phone number removed for privacy)

So if audio is playing but only from apple music and/ or youtube music etc

As is always the case with this app the most useful shortcuts are things that take like 30 seconds to make. Snapchat still only works in portrait mode on iPad in 2024. I don't know why it took so long for me to think of doing this, but just setting an automation to turn on stage manager when I open the app is all it takes to completely fix what is otherwise a fairly major problem! That's the whole shortcut, hope this helps!~

Off topic but I guess since we're already done now I wanna ask any of y'all who are on the beta update, have you found any useful/clever ways to use the new Get Current App action? I've wished we had this action a few times before, but I've forgotten all the productive ideas I wanted it for lol. So right now my best idea is to just make the most cursed menu of all time where you can trigger specific actions in a shortcut by opening seemingly random apps xD. But I'm sure some of y'all have some much more useful ideas to share!

I have been trying to do it without using shortcuts, but if someone is using a shortcut that is helpful for them, could you please share it? Thanks!! Apple watch series 9

I need to save several gps points with longitude and latitude and upload it to my nextcloud. With android I could just use the "Maps Geofavorites" app from nextcloud, but there is no app for iOS.

So I think I have to create a shortcut, which writes the long and lat with the actual date and an text promt for the name, then create a .csv file which will then be moved to my connected nextcloud.

How can I do that?

Edit: I found this one here: "https://shortcutsgallery.com/shortcuts/coordinate-finder/" but it does not save the coordinates nor the text I entered. the files only contains the variable names.

I want to choose from menu number of minutes and then add it to current date, but this implementation is giving me an alarm with current time.

We are a training center, where we give our trainees iPads during their training period with us to use.

At the end of their training when they return this iPad to us, we need to manually delete any files they would have loaded on it during the training period.

We do ask them to manually delete files from the below apps, however, they more often than not, miss some files or apps altogether.

Hence, to make it easy for us as trainers and the admin team, i want to create a shortcut ( it could be one individual shortcut for each app) where it deletes all files and contents of the below apps.

I thought about resetting the iPad or formatting it, but that would take either the same time or more as going into each app and deleting the files. Plus we would have to re-do the settings for the iPad each time as per our requirements.

The Apps we need to delete all files from :
- Photos app
- Notes
- Files app
- Apple Books app

Even if i could find a fix for atleast half of these apps, it would save some time.

Tried looking for a fix, was finding it hard to find one.

Please help :))

Done with sleeping through class so I thought I’d pull out all the stops. Anything I should add?

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/13704303fcc244fd920fd67ba5f53b1d

I would like to get a daily fun fact from either Google or ChatGPT, take the result, and send it as a text to my friends at random.

Is something like this possible? I’ve tried the ChatGPT option, but it keeps giving me the same fact over and over again, and I really don’t want to keep sharing the same Octopus fact with people.

Please help and send me your suggestions!

TIA!

iPads in our training center are used by multiple trainees.
We have some shortcuts for repeated tasks.
They seem to either fiddle around or accidentally edit the shortcut actions or paths.
Is there a way to lock the shortcut editor with a passcode or disable editing in some way.

Thank you

I’m trying to create a Shortcut that does the following:

1.	Activates Sleep Focus mode.
2.	Asks me for the number of minutes for a timer.
3.	Sets a timer for the specified duration.
4.	Lets me choose a sound from a folder in the Files app.
5.	Plays the chosen sound and stop it after the timer ends.

I’m new to Shortcuts and would appreciate guidance on how to set this up. Any tips, examples, or explanations would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Hi. I wanted to achieve the “reminders/mail” link back feature with other apps. I wanted so that whenever I’m in a specific mail, I invoke a shortcut that automatically generates a link to that mail (like how it works in reminders) so that wherever that link is pasted, it returns me to that specific mail. Any ideas? ChatGPT information me that this can’t be achieved using the native mail app and I need to download airmail or spark to achieve this functionality.

So I have 2660 shortcuts that I was going to delete but I wanted to save them first. I tried all methods. But I couldn't do that. There is always an error. So I created custom solution to batch process it. It took some time but it worked. See the link below. The fault? It was few old shortcut from either workflow days or 2016. In addition the Majority of error causing shortcut had "Get songs in [Empty]" and "Play <Data from Get Songs in Playlist>" actions.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5e99cf7575244367ab8b0d0db4b1de97

The shortcut won't be useful to as a plug an play. I linked it for someone to reference in the future. Here are my notes from feedback. FB15897755 (Error with "Get My Shortcuts" and "Get item from Index/Range")

So You need to edit the "Save File" action hidden in between program. There is only one action and it should have "item buffer list" or similar variable attached to it.

You need to create a Log.txt file inside that folder. You can do this by saving blank apple notes in files app and renaming it.

There are two prompts 1. The batch index. I evenly split it into batch of 10 for this program. So if you have 2000 shortcuts and you want to start proceeding from 231 to End. You would select index 24. Since 231-240 (index:24 * 10).

Second Prompt, Debug. This is when you would go through individual file of that batch. It notifies which action worked and shows notification. The last notification indicates which "item at index" didn't or wasn't able to be fetched by "Get Shortcuts"

The Skipped List you'll see up at top. Is the (Index + 1) of number you see via last notification in debug mode a.k.a index that can't be used via "Get item from index" with "Get My Shortcuts". Those number link to shortcuts in my library that caused errors. Yours might differ. Just remember to add those as you find new ones when going through debug mode.

PS: This the icloud link where I used the skiplist found through trial and error to move those shortcut in separate folder. For some reason saving all the shortcut files to variable to work in this one. i assume it because I use specific index and not fetching 5 to 10 file at once implicitly. But I put it out there for someone who want to dig deeper

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/67570172b1ba4eca88cc1e493375adc8

Has anyone developed any shortcut that takes your notifications as they come and put them on a say Note page? That way you maintain a clean screen and less interruption during the day. At the end of the day or any interval, you can see all your notifications in the form of a note and take action on them.

Please help a newbie shortcut user!

I have figured out how to get a shortcut to play/pause my audio, and can get it to toggle my AirPod noise cancellation either on or off. I am struggling with inputting an ‘If’ step so that it will toggle the noise cancellation so that it will turn it off with the audio and back on when pressed again.

I hope that makes sense, any help will be greatly appreciated!

Convert text to number

Hi,

I’m trying to create a shortcut where I input letters, and it converts them into numbers based on the mapping below:

A, B, C -> 2

D, E, F -> 3

G, H, I -> 4

J, K, L -> 5

M, N, O -> 6

P, Q, R, S -> 7

T, U, V -> 8

W, X, Y, Z -> 9

For example:

•	If I input ABE, it will return 223.

•	If I input 2TTP5, it will return 28875.

The shortcut will then create a contact. The name of the contact should be the letters I inputted, and the phone number should be the converted numbers.

Please help! Thank you so much! 😂

P.S. If you’re wondering what this is for: It’s to block those annoying ad SMS messages that you receive with just a name and no phone number. Since iOS doesn’t allow you to block them directly from the Messages app, I figured out that the letters in the sender’s name correspond to the number mapping above.

For example, if you receive a spam message from a sender named “test,” the phone number is actually 8378. By creating a new contact, naming it “test” (or whatever), and assigning 8378 as the phone number, you can block the contact and stop receiving spam messages from them.

Hi,

I’m trying to create a shortcut where I input letters, and it converts them into numbers based on the mapping below:

A, B, C -> 2

D, E, F -> 3

G, H, I -> 4

J, K, L -> 5

M, N, O -> 6

P, Q, R, S -> 7

T, U, V -> 8

W, X, Y, Z -> 9

For example:

•	If I input ABE, it will return 223.

•	If I input 2TTP5, it will return 28875.

The shortcut will then create a contact. The name of the contact should be the letters I inputted, and the phone number should be the converted numbers.

Please help! Thank you so much! 😂

P.S. If you’re wondering what this is for: It’s to block those annoying ad SMS messages that you receive with just a name and no phone number. Since iOS doesn’t allow you to block them directly from the Messages app, I figured out that the letters in the sender’s name correspond to the number mapping above.

For example, if you receive a spam message from a sender named “test,” the phone number is actually 8378. By creating a new contact, naming it “test” (or whatever), and assigning 8378 as the phone number, you can block the contact and stop receiving spam messages from them.

This may be a little far fetched paired with some wishful thinking but ya never know unless ya ask.

My goal is when I leave my house have Siri ask if I’m going to a customers house. If I say no then nothing happens. If I say yes Siri will ask the customer’s name. Then send a predefined text letting the customer know I’m on my way. Also the location I’m coming from so they will have an idea of when I will arrive. As always any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi experts!

I’m hoping someone can help me build a shortcut for this:

In ChatGPT, I’d like the default text to be “short synopsis of movie ___,” and then I’d manually type in the movie title in a text box when the shortcut is triggered.

Thanks in advance for your help—more power to all of you! 😊

A lot of the searches i’ve found just send the prompt to a google sheet in one cell.

Is there a way to decide which column to put my text in through the shortcut prompt?

EX.

I’d like to have a shortcut prompt come up where I enter in an idea or thought, and be able to select the column it should be added to based on a list of topics.

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Hey all, since visual intelligence is never coming to 15 series and below, made my own shortcut.

Visual Intelligence: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/16d770dd39a04e0bab2a21fc994462d2

Instructions:

• Add your OpenAI API Key in the text box given.
• You can map this shortcut to your action button or lockscreen shortcut etc.
• It will let you take a picture and then you can choose to ask a question to gpt or search using google lens.

What’s on my screen: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/cb9d2dfb02a34aaeb3f6e1ee2f4cf679

Instructions:

• Add your OpenAI API Key
• You can activate this shortcut using Siri by saying “Siri, what’s on my screen”
• It will take a screenshot of what’s on your screen and give you an option to choose either Ask GPT or Search Google lens

Note: If you choose to use Ask GPT, you must prompt it using audio if the shortcut was activated using Siri. Begin your prompt with “Can you look at my screen and [your question]” because sometimes it skips GPT and Siri itself answers the question.

Please provide feedback if you have any.

I've been trying to make some shortcuts recently, and I was wondering if it was possible to make shortcuts run custom gestures instead of having to use voice controls. Apologies if this seems like a simple question.

If I click this shortcut, it would bring me to app / Home Screen page #2 for example.

Reason: I have page 1 as apps, page 2 for widgets and, page 3 for homework tracker. I want to click on an icon and it would just bring me to page 3.

So, my work schedule varies a lot. I go in to the office once or twice a week, on different days each week that is pretty much down to last minute confirmations. Due to my absolute shitshow of a commute, I need to wake up at least two hours earlier on those days.

No worries, I thought, and set up a shortcut that asks via a popup if I'm heading to the office tomorrow, and enables/disables alarms based on the response. Super simple, absolutely no flairs, just a quick prompt. This is then tied to an automation that triggers at 9pm every Sunday to Thursday.

The problem is that often I end up missing this prompt. It gets easily dismissed and sometimes I'm not even sure if it fires.

Is there a way to make these popups (I'm specifically using Choose from menu, but am open to suggestions) undismissable in any manner? Either truly undismissable (stays on screen until an answer is tapped), or just fake it out and repeat the step until an answer is given, or literally any way to ensure that 1, I get this popup and 2, I select an option.

is there any way to create shortcut that will run on every edit of note and automatically add tags to it based on content?