I make shortcuts I have limits (if its something big I might require pay but I only require it in gift card codes sorry I will prove I make shortcuts by this https://routinehub.co/shortcut/20868/ also DO NOT say that I am not the one that made that I did and my proof is that screen shot

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After upgrading to iOS 18, I noticed that using Siri Shortcuts to play Spotify playlists no longer works. Could someone still on iOS 17 help me by creating a Siri Shortcut called “Play Deep Sleep Playlist”? I would really appreciate it!

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a shortcut I made that’s been a lifesaver for me! Ever hear about a movie, show, or documentary and then spend forever figuring out which streaming service it’s on? Same here—until now.

Here’s how it works: • The shortcut prompts ChatGPT to search the web for the movie. • It tells you what streaming network it’s currently available on and gives you a short description. • Bonus: I use it to add the movie/show to a shared Reminders list with my wife. She has the same shortcut on her phone, so we’re always synced up with what we want to watch.

It’s super easy to set up and has already saved me tons of time. If you’re interested, let me know, and I’ll share the steps to get it running.

Hope this helps someone out there!

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/bd091b214008470da1999ffb8964ea86

My shortcuts app will launch for a second then exit. This started on ios 18.1, and has carried on to 18.1.1. I have the Actions app installed. If I uninstall it, then uninstall Shortcuts, then restart, then reinstall Shortcuts, I get access back again. Any better solutions?

Hi! i'm looking for a shortcut that copies a video in the youtube app, opens the video url in the EZMP3 ( https://ezmp3.cc/v1 ) website which turns the video into an mp3!

You may think "What the hell is wrong with this guy?"

Honestly you may be right when you think this is a bit excessive.

This is a way to have a shortcut triggered every five minutes (but you can get triggers whenever you want). This is helpful for me when sending a message at a scheduled time or getting information from something every so often.

Here's why I did it!

When asking ChatGPT how much battery consumption this would take it expressed that 288 triggers would be almost unnoticeable to the battery IF no actions are used.

It also said that if I ran an API request to get a stock price by the end of the day it would affected about 3% to 4% if all triggers were used.

l asked how many times other apps ping the phone:

Messages when in use many times per second Background messages many times per minute or less. Email several times per minute Stock apps every second Games several times per second

On and on

So l decided to started at 5 AM and ended at 10 making the trigger every 5 minutes. I then included the same shortcut in every trigger so that it acts as a master shortcut. Now I can include an if statement for a certain time and day and it will trigger otherwise nothing happens. I can also include the run shortcut action to include many different shortcuts and add if conditions to have it run them only when the conditions are met. I really feel like this master shortcut could be a super computer activating shortcuts at whatever times and conditions needed!

There are more instructions inside of this shortcut on how to set up the triggers and use this one as a master shortcut

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ 7f981ade323449f1828d3ef703c62fcd

If anyone has any ideas on how this could be used let me know!!

I have limited coding experience and after trial and error with chat gpt, I now turn to the loyal people of Reddit

I often like to listen to music for exactly half an hour, but I get bored of the same playlist. I’d like a shortcut to add random songs from my library to the queue that equals 30 minutes so that i can have variety every time I run it.

Hopefully this is possible. I’m not sure about the “exactly 30 minutes” part—if need be, it could just run until a song would put it over 30 minutes. So equal to or less.

Even though all three shortcuts have the same “Ask for Text with [title]” rule, all have either a different color ‘Done’ button, or have—or are lacking—a title. What could be the reason for this? I’m looking for some consistency.

i want to have 2 different home screens with focus when my iPad is in a different rotation. Is it possible?

Is there a way to somehow be notified if headphones Volume hits a certain threshold?

I need some help:

As a foster carer we have to keep a log of our daily activity with each foster child.

What would be the prompt to just verbally say what we need to, then that to convert to text and add next to the name and current date in a pages document?

Essentially each day is a new line item - any help would be appreciated!

Combine Screenshots and Share

How would I set it so that the latest screenshot is rightmost image? Seems like I’d need to use the split command but the thought of it gives me a headache.

I want to create a seemingly simple, straightforward automation with these rules:

1. If a calendar event occurs today;

2. AND the title contains "Doctor Appointment";

3. Then create and toggle ON an alarm for 1 hour before the event.

Can anyone help?

Note: I do not want a shortcut that I need to trigger manually. I essentially want to create an API to sync alarms to my calendar events.

I'm familiar with reminders and calendar alerts, but a banner pop-up is not always effective. I need a loud alarm SCREAMIMG at me or I will miss (and have missed) appointments.

Additionally, creating shortcuts and automations seems like such an opaque trial-and-error process. If anyone has any tips on how to better understand how to create custom automations, I would appreciate it.

Hello,

I want to make an automation that sends a message back to the group chat that I am in, after a message contains check. Is this possible and if so how?

Hello everyone, I have a shortcut for a quick saving my notes to Obsidian.

When I run the shortcut, there’s a prompt to input the text that is saved to a file created based on a today’s date.

This works pretty well.

Now the problematic part: Although the new file should have .md extension, sometimes .txt is created instead. I am really confused as I haven't find out why is this happening or what's causing this.

Do any of you have a similar experience? Any tips on what needs to be changed to force the shortcut to create only (!) .md files?

The link to shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/098708e6c5044bd1b03e5810451df7e8

Hello! IOS 18 user here. What I’m trying to do is properly replicate the power button + volume process in a shortcut I can then use for the action button.

There is a “Take screenshot” shortcut, but it does NOT present the tiny pop up in the lower left which you can then click to edit, crop, save, markup, delete, etc.

I tried adding “markup,” but unlike power+volume, it gives no option to crop and resize by hand.

I tried adding “crop,” but it would only do so with preset dimensions. I don’t need auto cropping. I want to be able to manually edit the screenshot, same as would if I clicked the power and volume buttons.

Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!

example select screen of shortcut

I saw some posts on changing the macOS wallpaper with focus modes, but I couldn't find any solution. So I made one.

It is not automatic, but it is fairly practical. There is a way to automatically run a shortcut with a focus mode on macOS Ventura but I can't test it as my Mac only goes up to Monterey If you do it, let me know!

I added an example video and the Shortcut link for any interested.

I'm not proficient in apple script, and the shortcut is as simple as I could get it. If anyone has tips on improving for efficiency, I'd highly appreciate them.

I don’t know if it already exists but is there a way to make a shortcut that turns off silent mode and works on motion sensor? Sometimes it is necessary to look at the clock, so is it possible to trigger the shortcut after a certain amount of movement to prevent it from running at the wrong time?

As of iOS 18.1, the until part stopped working. It turns on the sleep but forgets to turn it off at the designated time.

I had to add a second automation to tune it off at the designated time.

AI-enabled non-engineer here…and first time using Shortcuts.

As a little side-project to learn how to use Shortcuts, I built a hands-free scoreboard “app” to help keep score for any game where it’s easier to say the score and see it displayed on an iPhone/iPad (which could mirror to a larger screen theoretically) instead of having to flip a scoreboard manually or just keep it in your head. Could be used for basically any game with 2 teams and a score.

As I said above, this is my first time using Shortcuts, so please let me know if there is a better way to do this. I’m fumbling along here using ChatGPT to help me out, but its help is definitely not perfect.

Sharing this so others can copy/use it (would love real-life feedback!) and also to get feedback on how to improve.  Here goes…

Handsfree Scoreboard

Siri Shortcut Commands

• “Hey Siri, Start a New Game” (Asks for 2 team names and creates a note to keep score and the backend files)
  • Shortcut link
• “Hey Siri, Update the Score” (Asks for team A’s score and then team B’s score and then displays it in a big scoreboard - one team is red and one is blue; also keeps a log of score updates in a Note in the background)
  • Shortcut link
• “Hey Siri, What’s the Score?” (Says the current score out loud)
  • Shortcut link

In progress

• Updating only one team’s score with a simple command

Need help with

• Better way to display scores? I’m using HTML (created by ChatGPT) and Quick Look (since I can’t get Safari or Chrome to open a local HTML file for some reason), but perhaps there’s a better idea out there. This was definitely the most time-consuming and frustrating part of the whole process.
• Best way to use Apple watch for the commands but display on an iphone/ipad (which would be some distance away, e.g. on the sideline if you're playing basketball)

Ideas for future improvements

• Handle more players (not just Team A vs Team B)
• Store game and scores in a gsheet after the game finishes?
• Intake/display other game stats somehow?
• Sport-specific scoring (e.g. tennis, pickleball, etc)

Scoreboard Example

Note output

I’ve been looking for a while and I haven’t found a way to do this. Is there any way to show any hex color value without using html/js and without using any online search?

Hi all,

I searched and can not find a way to do: "Using toggle: If hotspot ON wallpaper 5, if hotspot off wallpaper 3" (I can do it with choosing ON/OFF, but want to improve it)

Reason need it: I use it for long periods in a place and forget is ON (visually I will be able to tell)

Thanks!

iPhone

Hello

I'm looking to set up my sunrise alarm shortcut only the morning after I have set it with a separate shortcut.

I have a shortcut set up to set my 3 daily alarms for work.

I want to run my sunrise alarm automation, but only the morning after I have set my alarms via my "set alarms" shortcut.

My thoughts here are if I am traveling or setting a wake up alarm for a time that I don't want my sunrise alarm to function, I just set that alarm without my "set alarms" shortcut.

Is this possible? Thank you!

Trying to learn how to script it so that the second press of the action button in portrait will turn off DND. At the moment it only turns it on and keeps it on. Have tried to figure it out but I’m not too sure.

I find my self constantly calling different people in the contacts-list.

My current approach is to open contacts, exit who-ever is currently open, click on the search bar, type the name and then call.

Is it possible to create a shortcut that allows to search for a contact and then get directly into their “card” in my contacts? I can find shortcuts allowing me the find recent added etc but nothing that allows me to make a search. Preferably one that works as well as the search function in “contacts” (can find contacts on middle names, part of names etc)