Some of my shortcuts keep constantly freezing up. Daily occurrence at the moment. I'll tap on a shortcut, and it doesn't run. Tap another time, still doesn't run. Happens with home screen shortcuts, but now also with shortcuts in the Widgets pane to the left.

If one shortcut freezes up, then almost all of the others freeze up.

I have to reboot my phone every time, which is a complete waste of time (and kind of defeats the purpose of using Shortcuts in the first place).

(Was happening with previous version of iOS. Updated iOS, but still happening.)

Has anyone made or thought of making a shortcut that essentially can have chat got reply to the messages based on prompts given? Essentially like the chat boats you see on many lead capture websites. Is this even possible?

So I have a shortcut that plays a song then after x amount of time skip to a part if the song a like then go to the next song and repeat for next 2 songs. But sometimes I want to stop it while it playing but when I put the if confirm on the top I have to wait for it to reach it. So what do I do?

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Hey guys!

I'm back with an update for SCSettings.

If you haven't checked it out yet, check this post, and this one as well.

Anyway, after getting feedback that the toggles don't have a confirmation message I went ahead and added that in. I also added a `Vibrate Device` action as well to provide that little extra touch.

• Note: there is no way for Shortcuts to actually tell if settings like Wi-Fi or Bluetooth are actually on or not so the message just confirms that you've pressed the button. If there was I would make all of the icons dynamic, which would be cool.
  • I have been testing it for months and I've never had it fail.

Let me know what you think!

Grab SCSettings on RoutineHub

I have a group of coworkers who all need to add the same 50 contacts to their phone. I would love to be able to share a shortcut that adds all of the contacts to their phone automatically.

Ideally it would check to see if the number already exists in their phone so it doesn’t duplicate contacts or if someone accidentally runs the automation twice.

This is sort of weird, but I'm working on a web application that I can use to generate dinner ideas, and then select items from the ingredients list to then send to my shopping list.

https://codepen.io/Rafferty-Brown/pen/eYaJpLW

This is a link to a rough idea of the application, but at the end of it all the "share shopping list" button is able to share a txt file of whatever items I selected in the shopping list section.

In a perfect world, I would like to be able to add each of these items to my walmart cart via the walmart app shortcut,

but... it would also be okay if I could just somehow add these to my shopping list in either notes or reminders on my iPhone.

Is something like this possible? Thanks!

Edit: thanks everyone for the suggestions. Solved!

Hi! I just created my first shortcut and wanted to share it to get some feedback. I hope you enjoy it 😊

First, I created a shortcut to schedule a message using Reminders app to be able to schedule for any future date (I created a separate list called Messages for this). Then, I made another shortcut to send today’s scheduled messages. I set an automation to run daily at 09:30 AM and run this shortcut.

I struggle with insomnia and often remember a bunch of things to do, telling myself I’ll send a message first thing tomorrow, but I usually forget. I created this shortcut to send messages for setting medical appointments, talking to businesses, giving birthday compliments, and any silly message that’s not worth sending at the middle of the night 😅

Hi, I’m making a fishing shortcut for me and my friends and I’d like to make like a fishing id that shows how many fish you caught in total and if possible add it to your wallet

My car charger requires connecting to the internet to start charging. I don't have reception in my garage, so I have to turn it on after getting into the house. This is something I often forget to do, so I'd love to set up a shortcut that creates a reminder X minutes after my Tesla's charge port is open.

Is this possible with Shortcuts?

Feel free to modify whatever, just not so much as to make it not user friendly.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/904eb00dc2c44b5e98f25c39bbe8aabc The supershortcut is a large shortcut that can do many things, like make QR codes, make PDFs, speak text, etc.

When run it asks for a password, this is the correct password for the game, which other people have to guess.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0a1cc26aa03a42c79db73bf89cd1b03d

I'm trying to build a shortcut that automatically sends the drive time to my wife when I pick her up from work. Would like to automate sending this text when my phone is plugged into CarPlay and the location is set to her office. I was trying to do it by getting her location but Shortcuts doesn't seem to be able to do that.

Anyone have some suggestions on how to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Hi folks

How to stop a shortcut running with a command issued from an other shortcut ? We have a Stop shortcut command but you can’t select the name of the shortcut you wanna stop.

Any idea ?

Thanks

I've almost overslept several times in the last few days, as my alarm clock has recently stopped ringing loudly on my iPhone, but continues to ring on my AirPods, which sometimes fall out of my ears during the night, so I ask myself the following question:

Is it possible to write a shortcut that sets a timer to a user-defined time, after which the iPhone automatically disconnects from previously defined devices or even switches off the Bluetooth or Wi-Fi completely?

This should actually solve the problem and the alarm clock should ring loudly on the phone again, shouldn't it?

Many thanks in advance for your help and contributions!

It has a tutorial in it, which is spoken with the Speak Text action. I made it so almost everything is set up before the game starts, basic stuff like “how many rounds” and “how big can the number be” which is the Difficulty of the game. The higher the number the harder it is to guess. It is also a function on the supershortcut. (F17)

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/611552ef1553490b96096203145d6fc2

I have a work phone that I keep work related message conversations exclusively on, but I don’t always have that phone on my person. Is there a way to setup a shortcut that will notify my personal phone or automatically send something to phone when that phone receives a message from a specific contact?

I am new to automations. I have successfully built an automation to call a number when approaching a location. This is how we open the gate in the parking lot. But the automation starts for me even when I approach on foot. I would need to chain the condition with the condition of connecting the iPhone to my car's Bluetooth. Does anyone have any ideas for a solution please?

I want to know, is there any way to initially export my current entire calendar to a spreadsheet to show Event name, date & time.

After that, is there any way I can create a shortcut which will check if any new calendar entries were made that day and then record them to the existing spreadsheet?

you like to check the football score from your team's game last night. Maybe you want to get today's weather or do the crossword. Whatever it is, you can use the Alarm trigger to automate whatever you want to do next

The Gibberish Maker 5000 consists of 26 ifs, each with a text action with the letters A through Z and a space. Then it shows all the results, a vertical line of gibberish. Also you can choose how long the line should be.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ff04c18ec7e64fed9fcbc1a74c479dac

Been working find for months and last week stopped working for a day or so, then started but yesterday stopped.

Not sure if I've done something ( did not change anything as fair as i'm aware)

Can anyone help?

I found this website for creating Shortcuts, but it won’t let me import “unsigned” Shortcuts from the page: https://shortcutsweb.app/#/

Am I doing something wrong or the site? If it’s the site, is there another one that works? It’s just much easier to edit in a format like this.

Also, is there a way, website or program, to edit Shortcuts from a Windows PC?

The latest version of ChatGPT -- version 4o (as in 'oh') can accept and interpret an image upload of an Apple Shortcut. If the Shortcut is longer than a single screen, applications like 'CleanShot' can take a scrolling image.

Once uploaded, the AI can explain what the shortcut does. It can also explain how to fix errors.

It's not perfect but it helped me yesterday.

Are there better debugging tools for Shortcuts?

I’ve gotten this to work by selecting a focus based on sunrise/sunset which is the same time my light/dark mode triggers. Is there an alternative way to do this without doing it via focus changes?
I saw this command but it doesn’t let me choose an image, it only lets me select those 3 strings

Edit: figured it out by running an automation to run a shortcut on sunrise/sunset. The shortcut is “Switch to Wallpaper”

I search and finally find a way to set a shortcut for Autolock as below

URL: prefs:root=DISPLAY&path=AUTOLOCK

Open URL

How can I set the parameter to "never" so I don't need to answer it everytime. Many thanks

I want to set up shortcut for when i visit youtube.com to automaticially set to greyscale, but when i run it , it permantly set to greyscale and when i change to another url it still stays greyscale

I’m trying to share some Shortcuts, but I keep getting this error. This has never happened to me before.

Can someone please help me?

Thank you.

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How to get rid off the Top banner so the shortcuts not asks me the input and directly get text from the Clipboard ? no right click works..

also I have tried to create the new Shortcut with Copy A and paste from this one to start from the clipboard but shortcut not works..

Anybody also having “Filter Notes” and “Run Shortcut” can’t choose filter/input?

Restarting didn’t help.

Is it possible to automatically start Spotify and play the last song when connecting to AirPods?