Hi all my buddies! I habitually keep a list of every book I read in the Notes app; it seems to me that there ought to be a way, when I finish a Kindle book/comic on my iPad (my primary reading method), to automatically send the title of that book to my current Books Read note. Is this possible, even with the magic of Shortcuts? Does a man dream too big?

I want to wake up to my audiobook. I typically listen to audiobooks using audible or Libby. I have an iPhone 14. I cannot figure out a way to do this. I’ve tried setting up an Alexa alarm with a routine, but apparently playing music/audiobooks as part of the routine is not supported on iPhones. Any other ideas? Thank you!

For quick context, I got poor cellular data reception on my workplace (my sim 1) that’s why I would like to switch from my primary plan (sim 1 which has poor reception) to my cellular data (sim 2) using automation. Is that possible? I tried using “set cellular plan” in automation but it is not working. I wonder if I did something wrong.

I downloaded videos from TikTok and instagram by “R downloader”(shortcut) So I want add that video to the album which I made in photos app. Can anyone know how to do?

I am trying to do something I honestly think is pretty simple... I start with a Find All Health Samples where... action, and then I literally just want to take that information and export it. So for example, I grabbed all Heart Rate data from the past 1 week, now I want to save that to a text file with times and values, so I can do some python analysis on it.

However, I can't just do Save File on the Health Samples because it saves like 1,000 individual files (and doesn't include timestamps).

I tried doing Get text from Health Samples and then saving that, but it just froze. When I try first Combine Text with New Lines and then Show Combined Text it gives me a generic "a problem occurred".

Literally the only thing I want to do here is take the health samples I've grabbed and save them somewhere else. Surely this should be easy?

Edit: okay, so doing this with 1 day instead of 1 week means the error goes away, so frustratingly, I guess 1 week is too much data for the iPad to handle. But I am still getting just a plain file with numbers, and no timestamps. How do I fix that part?

Has anyone found a solution to triggering a shortcut at a specified time only once?

Does anyone know how to and if it’s possible to create shortcut to toggle between the different autofill options in the settings in the passwords app. Like switching between apple passwords and Microsoft Authenticator.

Thanks for any help!

Hey everyone!

I’m trying to set up a shortcut on my iPhone that automatically enables “Do Not Disturb” every time it connects to my car’s Bluetooth. I don’t have CarPlay, so I can’t use the built-in features, but I was wondering if it’s possible to create an automation in the Shortcuts app for this.

Has anyone done this before or have any tips on how to set it up? Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Hi I have an automation for my furnace when I hit the snooze button but is there a way to make it happen only the first time and each time I hit snooze?

I've noticed that in the standard shortcut "Add to a Playlist", adding to "Favourite Songs" doesn't work. Is there a way to remove that option from the list when it's asking for which playlist to add to?

I seem to have constant issues with shortcuts communicating with Apple Watch, with them frequently timing out / failing.

One weird thing is that I seem to need a WiFi or mobile data connection for them to be able to communicate with it at all. I find it especially confusing that it will work with mobile data turned on, even though my watch doesn’t have mobile data. Doesn’t it just use Bluetooth to communicate?

Has anyone else experienced this? Have any tips/techniques?

My watch is a series 3, so getting on a bit now, which might be part of the problem.

Is there a way to add location services/GPS toggle like Android or is the feature still missing even with iOS 18? I'd like to add it to my control center.

I am looking to kickstart better healthy habits. I am seeking a solution / shortcut that would theoretically block some apps until I reached a certain calorie count burned per day. Right now I would love to block Instagram until I reached 500 calories burnt.

What are the best ones you've been using?

Hi everyone,

I believe there’s a logic error in my shortcut.

Everything works as expected: if one room light is off, all my scene lights should turn on. If it’s on, they should turn off.

It works correctly, but I’m encountering an issue where the first “if” condition is triggering the first scene.

How can I prevent this from happening?

Is there a way to make a shortcut that will text the score of the Milwaukee Bucks game tonight to me every 10 minutes or even when prompted? It also doesn't have to be a text, just any notification I can view on my Apple Watch. I have an event tonight that doesn't allow me to use my phone but it would be possible to glance at my watch every so often and I'd love to keep up with the score of the game since it's the first game of the season. Thank you!

yay!

I'm looking for a way to send mass messages individually but to able to add MP3/attachments. Do you know if there's a way to do it?

I travel back and forth from Canada (BC) to the U.S.A. (WA) all the time in my truck, and I always face the challenge of converting $USD Gallons to $CAD Litres on the fly to understand the actual difference in price.

An iOS shortcut seemed like a useful tool, feedback welcome:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a1f6520b78d94684a6c6ff77c42048a5

I use a smart home app that works with Siri Shortcuts, now every time I access that shortcut, it shows a pop-up notification. If I turn off 'show when run' option, then the app's shortcut doesn't work. How can I make the popup banner go away in a second without always clicking done on it. Can anyone help me?

I want to make a shortcut that when ran will delete all the pictures from a specific album that were taken over a year ago. I can’t figure out how to do it tho.

I had it once, but i deleted it. Idk why. Your 100 most played songs this year were shown in a set pattern. I know that there is a playlist, but this shortcut didn't only refresh every week

I am working on a shortcut that sends a POST request to an URL. If I have bad internet connection, the request might be timing out. Is there a way to catch this timeouts so I can do some fallback action?

Still trying to find the reason some of my shortcuts won‘t work on iOS 17 and higher. Is there any documentation about actions that broke from those versions on? Or is there anyone experienced enough with newer versions to have some information? Trying to find such information with Google on my own is a losing battle.

As I also said in my last post about this, I suspect the Filter action either being broken since iOS 17 or maybe it changed how it works. Unfortunately I can’t confirm anything without help, as I don’t have a device on these versions.

As always, help would be very appreciated 🙏🏼

As the title states, I’m curious if it’s possible to generate a QR that opens previously created note within Notes app. My use case would be making QR labels for use on large storage totes, then having the Note list its contents.

Retail solutions do exist, but I’d rather not use their half-baked apps, nor have my data logged by said apps. I did find this post, which seemed to be a solution at first, but once I looked closer, it doesn’t appear to be what I’m looking for. Honestly, I’m not sure what that shortcut would be useful for. 

Any insight would be much appreciated.

Is anyone aware of a resource that can quickly show me the difference between public iOS software shortcut actions versus what is available to the developer beta shortcuts. I can't seem to find anything and I keep running into problems with a shortcut that I share that someone else can't use because they're running on public iOS software.