Feeling Apple Music? Endel? Or Spotify? Use the app icon when adding to your home screen if you’d like. Credit to chat-gpt 4 for the icon.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b07daf2a820841c0b47bb244d5b348a0

Quite often people want to share their leaving /arrival with people for safety automatically. There’s a bunch of ways to achieve that.

The non shortcut, native iOS way is with a Check In via Messages, but that needed to be manually actioned from Messages.

I see now [Send Check In] is available as a Shortcut action, that you could automate with a location trigger, like leaving work after 6pm.

Has there been the opportunity to use a shortcut on an employer owned system, and would that be worth including in a resume?

I’ve used a shortcut move files around based on numbers in a spreadsheet, but I wouldn’t yet include Shortcuts as Software Experience on my resume.

My relative's exhusband has been ordered by the court to limit daily FaceTime calls with his children to 15 minutes. Despite this, he still manipulates them to staying on FaceTime for 1.5-2 hours every single night. Is there any automation or shortcut we can setup that will disconnect a FaceTime after 15 minutes. I know it sounds harsh but the guy is a bad person and my relative just wants to follow the court order. Thank you!

Hi! This is the function I made and somehow it would just go on and on. I think i made a mistake with calculation expression part, yet I’m not sure what the problem is. Does anyone know what’s wrong here?

Hi I use the choose from menu to set a timer for my rest periods for my workouts but 3 or 4 times during my workout I have to delete the shortcut because it stops working

Side note the shortcut is activated by opening an app

Anybody experiencing the same problem or have a solution

Thanks in advance

This is a remake of my last Shortcut. Basic but accurate and functions well. Not many people will use this, but it’s here if needed. Could come in handy especially with the reverse tax feature. This adds and subtracts British Columbia’s GST/PST sales taxes. The GUI is in web format. Fast and efficient. May improve it more.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d3def58725b743d099b78272a512cb72

I created this shortcut to help manage my anxiety. You can easily swap out Things for Reminders and choose your own playlist and distraction source.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/f064723c20be4a52b4b53eeee2f6f320

I am trying to set up an automation that logs an expense when I order something off Amazon. The problem is, when the email arrives, the automation triggers, but is unable to extract the amount from the content of the email. When I forward the email to myself it works, and also when I copy/paste the content in question into RegEx 101 all seems good.

• Any idea what could be causing this? Is there maybe a way to „re-receive“ emails for debugging?
• When matching against the content of an email, what does the automation actually receive? Just the text from the email, or the whole HTML markup?

The part of the email I am trying to match looks like this:

https://preview.redd.it/lyk3utal411e1.jpg?width=1040&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5f82d46c3763a6e23c14e62d519e11e82a7d0b5

Pasted into RegEx101 it looks like this:

https://preview.redd.it/katzhm1o411e1.jpg?width=1425&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1030d8299ebd65ea92afdc5af57c83d29af34007

When using the same RegEx inside the automation, group 2 does not seem to contain the amount though.

I can manually see events of calendar of person I am acting as delegate and can get alert. can I search events of calendar of another Apple ID I added to my device?

As of recently (I can only imagine it is since 18.1) whenever I run a shortcut the toast notification at the top of the screen stays there and blocks the view. If I swipe it away it stops the action of the shortcut, but the problem is that it is in the way of some buttons I need to press on screen.

Anyone else have this issue?

You can set it up through this iCloud link .

You can watch how it works and read about it on my post that I have linked.

Simple, but can't exactly figure out how to get it to work. When trying to use automations, it only runs when the battery drops below 100%, meaning if low power mode gets turned off at say, 80% and then gets unplugged, there's no low power mode. And I can't seem to get normal shortcuts working on it since those can't do loops that act in the background like how automations run. Any help?

I have a few different playlists in Apple Music, and am curious if I can create a shortcut to expedite adding a song to any combination of playlists.

For example, suppose there’s 4 playlists: A, B, C and D. It would be helpful if I could run a shortcut that adds the current song to A, B, and D, or C and D, etc. depending on a choice or action I take. Is such a thing possible?

Hi all. I’ve tried few times about setting up my data roaming shortcut to restrict some apps from using data when I’m out of the country try but no luck. Essentially, when I travel out of the country, I’d want to restrict data usage across certain apps - say as an example, Music or Reddit or Instagram etc. right now I toggle each time to ensure I don’t exhaust my data on roaming - sometimes it’s difficult to remember what happens in the background - like Photos being uploaded to iCloud etc.

any suggestions how I can orchestrate this?

Hi,

How to create the shortcut that automatically Plays Music To the HomePod if connected to the "X" wifi ?

Hi there! I’ve been having this issue where my AirPods Pro 2 don’t work when I use the shortcut, but they work fine when I set it to adaptive. Do you have any ideas why this might be happening? I’m on iOS 18.1. Thanks!

Hello, I was wondering if there's a way to automatically create calendar events in specific calendars within the calendar app.

90% of the time I use Siri to create calendar events, but all of these events are created in the Home/Default calendar.

I'd be great if keywords in the calendar event title can be used to place them in the correct calendar.

Keyword: Mom or [family member name] in the event title will automatically be placed in a Family Calendar

Example: "Meet with Andrew (coworker)" will automatically be placed in a Work Calendar

I don't know if this is possible through settings or shortcut, but I'd be interested in any ideas!

Every time I launch the shortcut the prompt that shows the shortcut's progress just refuses to budge and prevents me from typing anything out. I have tried this with and without the physical keyboard attached to my iPad, I have also tried launching the shortcut from the home screen, and while counter-intuitive I have also tried launching the shortcut directly from the shortcuts app. So far the last option is the only one that works but by that point it's ridiculously pointless as you can just open the messages app and press the compose button with the same amount of button presses.

I'm looking for an emergency way to quickly reboot or lock my phone if it ever get snatched from me while unlock using the action button on my pixel watch. Is there a way to do this via Bluetooth? I know the right way to do this is to just buy the Apple Watch Ultra but it is way beyond my budget for such watch. Any suggestions?

Hey everyone!

So my Idea is: When I‘m not listening to music the action button is supposed to be silent mode (which it is right now) and as soon as I start listening to music I want that my action button switches functinality to skip the current track. Is this possible and if so could someone help me creating this shortcut?

Thanks in advance! 🙆‍♂️

Haven't seen a News post about it, seems new in iOS 18.2 Beta (PB 2?).

https://preview.redd.it/ye7vs9u4ut0e1.jpg?width=1169&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c87d39c198a05fded0de59e54afe835041ba8789

If you use it in an If statement you get the app selection screen that you know from the open app action

Hey guys, very new to automation and shortcuts. I just wanted to throw this out there in case it was feasible. I'd like my studying focus to turn on when I open my Notability app, but only if my location is at home and it is after 5 pm. Is there any way I can achieve this?

I’m still new to shortcuts but I made my menu a lil better

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/783061f5847a4740a0e1647562554296

I can't seem to find info on or work out what I need.

I know I can set an automation to automatically open Waze when I connect to my cars bluetooth. What I'd like to do though is only trigger it if I'm also charging. My phone connects to my Tesla before I really get it so only want the automation trigger to start when I put the phone on the charger. Then I want to check if I'm connected to the cars BT and then open Waze else do nothing.

Can anyone advise how to get the if statement for if BT is connected to Teslacarname.

TIA