Questions tagged [shortcuts-app]
An Apple application that allows users to create custom automations that use multiple steps across a wide variety of Apple and 3rd-party apps.
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Reading a text file located in iCloud Shortcuts folder using a Python script on Mac
I am appending text to a file located in Shortcuts folder using a shortcut on iPhone. I want to access the contents of this file from a Python script on Mac like any other text file. I am unable to ...
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Using SummarizeService from Shortcuts
I’d like to build a Shortcut that runs the MacOS Summarize service on some text input.
It looks like there’s no built-in support for summarizing text in Shortcut so I’m curious if I can make a ...
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How can I make an iOS shortcut that adds all my Arabic songs (Arabic songs in my library) to specific playlist without duplicates
I want to make an iOS shortcut that adds all my Arabic songs (Arabic songs in my library) to specific playlist.
Meanwhile, my shortcut keeps getting stuck because there are too many processes for my ...
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How to change settings via the Shortcuts app on iPhone
I want to make shortcuts for my iPhone to change my AirPods settings for different situations and pre-set different profiles with different settings.
I wanted to do that via the Shortcut app from ...
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Folder Watchdog for Shortcuts to Ingest Images?
I'm using a command to dump regular screenshots of a website to a folder. Now I like to run a Shortcut whenever a new image file is added to the folder. Basically the shortcut will run OCR on the ...
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How to enable Background Sounds (accessibility) from Terminal or Shortcuts?
On iOS there is a Shortcut action for enabling background sounds. This doesn't exist on macOS 13 Ventura, as far as I can tell.
I can enable background sounds manually by navigating to Accessibility -&...
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iPhone Shortcut for iBooks "Open Collection" doesn't work
The iPhone Shortcut for iBooks "Open Collection" opens the app iBooks where is was opened before (e.g. Read now, Bookstore, etc.), but I would like to be able to specify within the shortcut ...
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Can i get the Save Origin of a photo or Video in Shortcuts?
Since i can see via the photos app where photos are saved from, for example a meme from 9GAG i figured that i would somehow be able to get that via shortcut and then auto sort theese into theyre ...
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Use Apple Shortcut to create new Notion page without internet access?
I wrote a Shortcut that allows me to create a new Notion page. It sends an authenticated API request to https://api.notion.com/. While this works, it has the disadvantage that it requires internet ...
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How to configure shortcut too toggle keyboard light
How to configure shortcut to toggle keyboard light on and off on MacBook Air M2?
Like I am have set it to 20% and when I press shortcut it sets to 0%, then if I press the shortcut again it sets to 20% ...
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Shortcuts App: Format Number With Number Rounding And Thousand Separators
Say I have the following shortcut:
Calculate: 10000.7 x 4644.4785
Set variable calc to Calculation Result
Round calc to Ones Place
Set variable formattedCalc to (calc, Type: Number, Use Grouping ...
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Passing Text to Shortcut via Command Line Arguments
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I want to run a Shortcut from the command line and include Unicode text as a part of the command. I want to do something like: shortcuts run "My Notification Shortcut" "My Text ...
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How can I run a terminal command from within any app and output the result (on Mac)?
No matter what app I am in, I would like to do a keyboard shortcut which allows me to enter a terminal command and run it, and the output will be written to wherever my cursor is, if it is in a text ...
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Shortcuts app not loading
Hey fellas I brought a new MacBook air. When I opened gallery in shortcuts app it shows me a lot of shortcuts but when I click or add those it keeps on loading infinitely. Same happens for my friend ...
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Pass not working within "Run Shell Script" of Shortcuts app
I want to setup a shell script shortcut with the Shortcuts app to copy a password to my clipboard. The script works fine when running it manually from the terminal, but it times out when running it ...
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iOS Shortcuts app default save location
I have created a shortcut on my phone which essentially lets me save a photo to a folder of my choosing with a name of my choosing.
My shortcut is set to ask where to save each time. Until recently, ...
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Using the home or side button of the Apple Watch in a shortcut
I'm currently trying to create a shortcut that skips to the next song in the Music app when I press the home (or maybe side) button. Unfortunately, I haven't found the action for these 2 buttons on ...
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Why is my shortcut to replace text inserting the replacement twice?
(OSX 13.1) I made a shortcut in Shortcuts called "Text->HTML->Make Italic". Its actions are:
Receive Text from Quick Input
Replace (.*) with <i>$1</i> in Shortcut Input (...
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How to launch mac app via iOS Shortcuts app?
I'm trying to create an iOS shortcut that either launches an app on my mac. Seems like it should be fairly simple but I can't figure out how to do it. Lots of mentions I've found in my googling but ...
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Shortcuts Issue
I've had this working, but then it started messing up and now it won't perform at all.
I can ask for "Hey Siri: Water Log"
It gives me a visual "What's the text?" and I say "...
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Unable create a shortcuts to create a new file in current location
I have created this shortcut app but when I run it, I don't see any new file created anywhere
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How to create a shortcut to open OneNote app and particular page in a particular notebook?
What shortcut app command I can use?
Open URL and replacing onenote://link-to-page does not seem to work.
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How to get stock quote from Yahoo! Finance API into macOS Shortcuts
I am trying to create a macOS shortcut (with the Shortcuts app) that fetches some stock quotes.
According to this web page, here is how to use the JSON structure:
Open the Shortcuts app
Click on the +...
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How do I write an "Automation" using Shortcuts to stop my workout?
I often forget to stop my "Workout" that is running on my watch. I'd like an automation something like:
if workout is running AND
in the area of the gym (Geofence) AND
iPhone connects ...
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Retrieving a single track's lyrics in Markdown? (Via automation, ideally.)
A want/workflow desire I've kept coming back to for years:
I would really like the ability to quickly/painlessly retrieve the lyrics of a given track formatted in Markdown (to the clipboard, probably, ...
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iPhone shortcut to check whether URL is already open in Chrome
Because I use Chrome as my default browser (which does not allow for bookmarks in the Home Screen), I have created a bookmark using the Shortcuts app and the following commands:
Open URL in Chrome
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Help with Bundle ID AppleScript in Shortcut
I've attempted to make a shortcut that will tell me the bundle ID of an app. It seems to be not working at the applescript part - rather than displaying the result of the script, it simply tells me ...
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Unsilence iPhone based on coordinated/automation
I have my work phone with me all the time, and I am trying to find a way to set up a shortcut automation whereby it always stays silent, but once I am at work I want to unsilence the phone. Also, I do ...
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How to create shortcuts which only apply to a certain app?
I want to map Cmd+J/Cmd+K to Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab only when Chrome is active, in Windows, it's quite simple to implement by using AutoHotkey:
#IfWinActive ahk_exe chrome.exe
^j::Send ^+{Tab}
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How to create a global shortcut using the Shortcuts app?
Below is my current config using the Shortcuts app, although Control-5 works in some apps, it still conflicts with the apps which use Control-5.
How to create a system-wide shortcut so that when it's ...
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How to use Spotlight to open a Chrome Bookmark?
After using mac for a while now, I am often find that I am missing a few features and I am wondering if I am missing something.
Is there a way to open Chrome bookmarks from Spotlight? What I am ...
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Shortcuts Import Variable to Send Message
Is there a way to get a saved text into the Shortcut action Send Message? I can park a text into the Clipboard, but I can't seem to grab that to be sent with this action. It seems it needs to be ...
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Shortcuts Error
I have a shortcut I've designed which is pretty simple, but it's giving me an error while actually accomplishing the task.
Ask for Text with Prompt (default answer 'n/a')
Append Current Date - ...
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Avoiding user interaction for certain Siri automations
I have (finally) managed to setup a Siri automation which detects when I've left an area and switches off my Airplane mode, but it only generates a lock screen notification which I have to tap on to ...
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Why is Shortcuts dropping my URL that precedes the combined query string?
I am taking a query string in the typical form of key=value&key2=value and joining it to a URL parameter https://translate.google.com/translate_a/single?.
This error indicates to me that the URL ...
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Detect if Text-to-Speech has finished speaking
I want to turn voiceovers into mp3 files.
Since the say command doesn't include new Siri voices, I'm trying to work my way around that by creating a new Shortcut in the Shortcuts app that goes through ...
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How to preview variable in automations with shortcuts in HomeKit?
I simply have the following shortcut:
and here Łazienka Love is called at the end. I dont know why. Should be called Łazienka Noc. Why #counter is not equal to 11?
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HomeKit - how to add shortcut when motion detected and extend it for at least three minutes every time when shortcut is triggered?
Ok, I simply have motion sensor from Aqara and it is added to HomeKit to my bathroom. Sensor detects two stages:
Base on above I have created one automation for it:
When motion detected in bathroom -...
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Shortcuts: Sort pictures before handing them to Shortcut to make GIF (iOS / macOS)
I am using Shortcuts to make GIFs from the sharing menu - which works really great!
Sadly I am not able to define in which order the images will be compiled to the GIF.
Is there a way? I haven't found ...
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Siri shortcuts fails with airplane mode
I'm running iOS 16.0.3 and have created a simple Siri Shortcut automation to switch my phone to airplane mode when it connects to my home WiFi (and another to disable airplane mode when leaving the ...
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Detecting WiFi disconnection with Siri Shortcut automation
Is it possible to write a Siri Shortcuts script or automation to detect when my phone disconnects from a particular WiFi network? I've seen this posted as an issue on places like Apple discussion ...
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Is there a way using Shortcuts on an iPhone to forward a text message to another number, if the sender contains an ampersand (&) symbol?
I have a similar problem to this one but my problem is more specific.
I have seen in Shortcuts that one can setup an automation: if a text message is from x, do y.
I have the need to forward a text ...
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How to find out which automation is running - iPhone logs
Every night I get the same notification about a shortcut which ran:
Unfortunately, when I go to shortcuts nothing relevant is shown there. I also disabled all shortcuts to see if it happened again ...
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Help with iOS shortcut: translating clipboard text to various languages
What I'm trying to accomplish:
I made a shortcut for translating text on my clipboard to various specific languages, this is the shortcut:
Also the shortcut can be downloaded here.
As you can see it'...
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Sending rich text email via Shortcuts on Mac shows HTML text in Apple Mail compose
I have created a small a shortcut using Shortcuts on Mac to send email. It takes markdown text, converts it into rich text and passes on to Send Email action. Below is the screenshot.
But when the ...
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Using Apple Shortcuts app output
I must be missing something with Apple Shortcuts.
Once you have a result, how can you get it written in the application you're using if it's not an application in Shortcuts catalogue ?
Let's say for ...
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iOS Shortcuts+Notes Not Syncing with macOS Notes without manual interference
I've created a shortcut on my iPhone & added it as a Widget that will let me add quick ideas to a specific Notes folder.
In & of itself, that works fine. BUT, in order for me to access those ...
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iPadOS Shortcuts On Safari Page Load
I’m trying to create a shortcut on the iPad app that runs whenever a page loads. I’ve gotten the Run Javascript on Web Page part, but according to this article it seems that I have to press the “share”...
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Is this Shortcut even possible?
Apple (iPhone) has a tracker of your mobile data usage. One can access it through Settings > Mobile Data. Which shows you how much of the gb from your mobile plan had been used.
So the shortcut ...
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How to automatically enable/disable a phone line (dual SIM)?
A common use case for having two lines on a single device (dual SIM) is that one of these lines is personal and the other for work.
As far as I can see, it is impossible to automatically toggle a data ...
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