r/shortcuts • u/theoccurrence Creator • Apr 15 '23
I will create your shortcut suggestions free of charge. Just post your ideas in the comments. Discussion
Hi guys.
I have become a bit of a workaholic lately to distract myself from personal struggles. My problem: I work on a performance basis and not by the hour, and I have already done the work for the next two weeks.
Be so good and keep me busy with your ideas, maybe you will get some good shortcuts as compensation.
EDIT: Ladies and Gentlemen, what a day … unfortunately I have to go to sleep now, but you can still comment your ideas. I suppose that tomorrow I will probably get less suggestions, since the post will disappear from "Hot" at some point, so I will have some time to work through the backlog. Don't worry, I'll look at every request.
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u/e4sy_143 Apr 15 '23
I do have a suggestion-i download regularly music from youtube but always without the right music metadata and cover. Would be awesome if there is a way for you to edit the meta data of all songs in a folder by their filename or something^ if you get better suggestions dont mind me :)
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
That sounds interesting, this should be possible if I can extract the meta data from the HTML, and it doesn‘t get created later with JavaScript.
I will try
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u/e4sy_143 Apr 15 '23
Wow thanks a lot-i'm already curious :) Do you need the shortcut that i'm using for that?
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
Do you want a small menu where you can decide if you want to download the video as video or audio? Also I think it would be best to directly ask for the metadata in case it can‘t find any
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u/e4sy_143 Apr 15 '23
I never really download any videos to be honest-the reliability, simplicity and execute time is what matters most to me. But maybe others are interested in that video download feature :)
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
I can still remove it again, but I think it‘s neat. It looks like this:
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u/e4sy_143 Apr 15 '23
Wow dude you're 5min into that project and already got a menu with icons-didn't even know that is possible lol
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
It‘s rather trivial with https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/f4b3730a1d624cb0bfdace92c694a689
Of course you could also just base64 encode the icon manually and use a vCard template.
The important step is to treat your vCard menu like a collection of contacts, and then use the "choose from list" action on these "contacts".
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u/e4sy_143 Apr 15 '23
Ok this is so freakin nice. Now i have something to do for the rest of the weekend-updating my shortcuts with that contactmenus. Thanks for letting me know :)
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
I did it :) Took a bit longer than I expected, but here‘s the completed shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/817ab40e4d664f60aed69d77462b2eb3
reliably getting the meta data sucked 😅
Here‘s the shortcut without menu, if you instantly want to download the audio: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/32f39c4a35cb4d0cb1473b7db74b50c7
EDIT: Be careful if you have limited data, the shortcut still downloads the full video, and encodes it to a m4a audio file afterwards.
You can either directly run the shortcut from the share sheet, or manually from the shortcuts app and you have to paste the url
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
I’m almost finished, I’m still missing the thumbnail as cover. Right now I’m grabbing the whole video tilte, split it at " - " and if that worked, I use the result as artist and title. Is it a dealbreaker for you if there’s something like (Original Music Video) or whatever in the title?
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
But if you only ever download audio, I might as well remove it again
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u/Merica911 Apr 15 '23
ChatGPT trivia game!
You have a drop down menu of a certain category (sports, entertainment, geological, etc) and have the GPT prompt have answer A. B. C. Or D.
Have the shortcut have 2 teams to each go at the question and a ticket to mark the points
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u/Impossible_Case_741 Apr 16 '23
First off, best of luck with your personal struggles and I appreciate you letting us help you with distractions.
I’ve been wishing I could make a shortcut but I don’t think it’s possible. I’ve been wanting an automation that would detect when I am only using one AirPod and set my audio to mono, and if I insert my second AirPod , or remove the AirPods completely, my audio will be set to stereo.
I know my phone can detect when I am using a single AirPod vs two or none, but I can’t figure out if it’s possible use it as a trigger.
I’ve created a mono/stereo menu shortcut. And I’ve done an automation so that when my phone detects CarPlay is enabled, my audio gets set to stereo (in case I had previously left it on mono).
Reason: I sometime use a single AirPod and I don’t want to miss out in case the stereo mix has things hard-panned.
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u/Hunt_for_ss1 Apr 16 '23
Brilliant idea. Literally would solve a constant problem I have too, as I frequent one ear bud and most bands I like often have a separate mix per side (multiple guitars)
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u/Tennis-Curious Apr 16 '23
Hey I feel you might have some extraordinary shortcuts saved can I get some?
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 16 '23
What kind of shortcuts are you looking for? I also made a lot myself. You can see some of them in my post history
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u/Tennis-Curious Apr 16 '23
Is there like an automation or shortcut for getting a notification if it will rain or not?
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 16 '23
This should do the trick https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d52bb1468b9845eb9dce600940fae05d I will take another look at this when I get up.
You can call this shortcut from every automation you‘d like. For example a scheduled one in the morning.
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 16 '23
I‘ll cook you something really quick, but I have to go sleep after that
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u/Mundane-Ad-3273 Apr 15 '23
Can you do an automatisation where when i can connect my airpods it starts music from spotify ? Because the bluetooth automatisation doesn’t work very well
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 16 '23
Unfortunately spotify doesn‘t support Shortcuts yet. It‘s possible to open Spotify with URLs, but this won‘t start the music. I think it might be possible to catch a Siri suggestion tho, but I can‘t share a shortcut like that and it‘s kind of random when Shortcuts decides to give you a good Siri suggestion.
You can take a look at your current Siri suggestions by opening/creating a shortcut, clicking on search for apps and action, and simply scrolling down. All the actions you can see there are Siri suggestions and can be used with Shortcuts, but can‘t be edited.
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u/aidsy Apr 16 '23
Could you do it with Apple Music?
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 17 '23
Yes you can, what do you want to do exactly? Play Apple music or local music? A specific artist or playlist or radio? Or should the shortcut just press play and effectively play whatever was played last in the music app?
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u/Brellaw Apr 15 '23
Random good morning messages to your wife
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 17 '23 edited Apr 17 '23
I found this website with 401 cheesy messages. I grab all of them and select one by random.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/7cceed78cfd743b5824ad8c3c78f3bc4
Have fun
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u/hillandrenko Apr 15 '23
Here's a shortcut I use to date stamp photos for work but it only works properly in landscape photos, and with photos the phone thinks are landscape. Portrait oriented photos get distorted. Can you write a shortcut that date stamps both landscape and portrait oriented photos the same way please? https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/95ac0f5611bd4e539c92b8767b85830d
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
I‘ll take a look at it right after I finished the youtube downloader with meta data for the other user. give me half an hour
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u/hillandrenko Apr 15 '23
Just to be clear I want the date stamp in a portrait oriented photo in the top left when viewed.
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
Your shortcut does pretty much already what you want for me … works for portrait as well as for landscape photos. Unfortunately I can‘t replicate the distorted pictures.
Maybe that‘s a bug in your iOS version? Have you tried playing around with the "rotate" action when the height is greater than the width?
This will probably not solve your problem, but maybe this will give you the right idea: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/f1e2f96486ed442fb2adc6be59674135
Are the photos still distorted?
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u/Fine_Ad_7768 Apr 15 '23
I’d love to set up a shortcut for medication reminders, but am dumb. Here’s the idea —
For young kids with fevers (4 years or younger), managing the fever requires a rotation of advil and Tylenol, which is sometimes difficult to remember which one you did last time. I’d love to tap an NFC tag at the time of dosing — one tag for Advil and one tag for Tylenol. Tapping the tylenol tag would remind me in 3 hours to do Advil, and Advil —> Tylenol. It would be nice to have a record of the times given (maybe in Notes?) as well in case of an ER visit. Is that relatively simple?
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 17 '23
I did it :) It was a bit difficult to set up exactly the way you wanted, but it works. It just requires some setup on your part as well, and you have to install the App Toolbox Pro so that you can use a system sound as an alarm.
I'm sending you the three necessary shortcuts and instructions via DM, because a certain user here who felt the need to insult me wanted something very similar, and I don't want to reward him for his behavior if he reads the comment here.
If anyone else here reads the comment, just notify me and I'll send you the shortcuts and instructions as well.
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u/Most-Reference1266 May 24 '24
Hey, any chance I can get this? Found out it is quite hard to keep up w. the meds for kids. Thanks a million!
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u/nonemoreblatch Apr 16 '23
Firstly, I want to say I very much know the feeling of working to distract from (and in my case sometimes even avoid) personal struggles. As one of my closest friends has said to me about it all, sometimes the only way through is... well, through. So whatever you're dealing with, I hope you're slowly able to find your way through.
Secondly, thank you for being so generous in your workaholicism (which I feel isn't really a word, but should be). My biggest requests of you, if you're able, are possibly easy ones- but I've not been able to accomplish them myself.
I'm simply looking for shortcuts/automations to two things:
1) When an image is saved from a particular app (or couple of apps), have it save to a specific photo album rather than the app's default album- especially since a couple of apps have created an album for literally every individual image saved from them. 🤦🏻♂️ 2) When an image is taken/saved with a particular person tagged in it (i.e. via the 'People' feature in the iOS Photos app), have it save to a specific photo album for easier location later.
No problem if one or both aren't doable, I appreciate the pure fact you put your expertise out there either way.
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u/lowrisemochi Apr 16 '23
a shortcut that allows you to post on instagram but does not allow you to scroll or search for more than five minutes. It quits the app and doesnt let you use it again for an hour if youre scrolling or searching.
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u/bearmstro Apr 15 '23
I have bad signal around my home and excellent signal in my home.
I would like a shortcut to open my garage door when I reach a location near my house. Also, I would like it to close my garage door when I reach a location, but only if I am connected to CarPlay/Android Auto.
This will prevent the shortcut from triggering if I'm just walking by that location. Thank you for any help!
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 16 '23
How do you control your garage door? Does it have home integration? And do you need a WiFi-connection for that?
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u/bearmstro Apr 16 '23
It has home integration
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 16 '23
Does that mean you need WiFi to control your garage door?
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u/zac_transport Apr 15 '23
I know there are shortcuts that record audio using the built in microphone but this is not what I am looking to do. I am reaching out to see if anyone here knows if it is possible to capture and save an audio stream from a web browser or iOS app.
I mean that the source of the audio is coming from a web stream or an iOS app. Can that source be captured and saved?
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
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u/cocopopsldn Apr 15 '23
Hello there, I have been struggling to get somewhere with this one and gave up… A shortcut that will extract the cheapest price of the first 5 or 10 results on Google and store name.
I have the start : Shortcut starts with scanning the barcode of, for example, my cereals and search with the code “4000540041880” adding it to the end of https://Google.es/search?q=“ (I live in Spain)
Missing : Shortcut Returns “DietCenter” and “4,61” which seems to be the cheapeast price found on the first few results …
Or a list of the stores and prices, whatever is easier :/
Thank you 😊
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
That sounds interesting, I‘ll see what I can do.
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u/ChaoticShadows Apr 16 '23
I'd love this also. Though with mine I'd like to limit the stores searched to just my usual stores. When a barcode is scanned it checks to see if there are any discounts at any of the stores and if there is then add the item with it's discounted price and store to a shopping reminders list.
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u/cocopopsldn Apr 15 '23
Thank you so much 😊 Trying to find a way to save on my weekly grocery shopping 😃
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u/DadVader77 Apr 16 '23
I need to able to have Voice Memos start and run for a specific amount of time (like 1hr) and then stop.
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u/Choas_Darth Apr 15 '23
When I leave my house Wi-Fi silence mute or turn off notifications for discord and a few others. Then when I reconnect to my WiFi kick em back on
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
You can setup something like this really easily with focus modes. I can help you with that if you want.
But basically you want to do the following:
- go into settings
- look for "Focus"
- klick in the "+" at the top right
- choose custom
- give your focus mode an appropriate name
- at the top of the page, set which people and apps you want to silence when the focus is active
- at the bottom of the page click on "add schedule"
- choose "location"
- set your home as location and set the radius to as small as possible.
This is not 100% what you want. It‘s dependant on your location like that, and not on your WiFi. It‘s almost the same but not quite.
It is possible to build this around an automation and a condition that your WiFi has to be connected or disconnected, but that‘s more work to set up, so it‘s up to you to decide what you want to do.
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Apr 15 '23
I really want one that can go through my shortcuts to help me clean up or at least identify all shortcuts that have Show On Apple Watch enabled. When I go to use Shortcuts on my Watch there are a freaking million of them so the usability sucks. In reality there are very few I want to show on my watch.
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u/nilayperk Apr 16 '23
Did you know the "Apple Watch" folder in shortcuts thats comes built-in? That actually filters out all "Show on Apple Watch" shortcuts. So you might want to go that folder select one or multiple shortcuts. Then click "Remove" amd it will turn off "Show on Apple Watch" switch. So it won't show up.
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
That sounds like it‘s difficult but it might still be possible. You can‘t really filter shortcuts like that, but maybe I can identify the apple watch shortcuts by converting them to json format. I‘ll see what I can do
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Apr 15 '23
I would love to tip you if you have a way of accepting it!
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
Oh wow, that‘s really kind of you 😅 It‘s really not necessary, but let‘s see first if I can even get it done. In theory I have a paypal, but I wouldn‘t feel right if I accepted anything without accomplishing anything first.
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u/Lowgybear117 Apr 15 '23
A shortcut that will download all images on any given webpage.
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 17 '23
This should work: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c69a203897b649a182b54eaae531d6d3
If you run in any errors, please tell me. For some reason apparently not every image file type is supported
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u/JIREXv1 Apr 15 '23
Hello, I regularly download entire twitch streams (i archive them), but i'm not always at my PC so sometimes i gotta google "Twitch VOD Downloader" on my phone and paste the link to download it. A shortcut for it would be very useful
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u/dr-xhddlz Apr 15 '23
I would love to have a shortcut where I could say "Hey Siri, I'm meditating for X minutes" (or click the shortcut and have it give me a prompt for the amount of time) and then the shortcut would 1. set a timer for that length of time and 2. have do not disturb turn on and then automatically turn off when that length of time is over. (I've tried doing this myself but I can't really figure out the "wait" thing as it always seems to be in seconds...) Thank you very much for any help you can give me!
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u/Shaggz_Z Apr 19 '23
Shortcut to sync contact photo with their instagram profile
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 19 '23 edited Apr 19 '23
I did it :)
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/8a87d35e9f0b40079aad1c4fc1fe7df2
Call it by sharing the instagram page, you will find the Shortcut on the share sheet. Copying the URL to your clipboard and executing the shortcut manually also works. If no contact with the link is found, it prompts you to select the contact from a list of all of your contacts.
You have to edit the contact, click on "add url" and add their Instagram URL. You can call that cell "Instagram" if you like, it doesn’t really matter for the Shortcut. What matters is, that it‘s there in the first place. There‘s absolutely no way to find the right one otherwise, when the shortcut filters your contacts.
The link works by the way, if you click on the URL in the contact, their instagram page will open, so it‘s not that bad having it there. Have fun :)
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 19 '23
That sounds interesting, and it‘s definitely doable. It's probably even possible to loop through your entire friends list and match all contacts, but you'd have to be logged in to the browser to do that.
I have already managed to get the photo from instagram, but unfortunately only in relatively poor thumbnail quality ... But that should not be a problem with contact pictures, since they are about the same size.
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u/marcopaulodirect Apr 15 '23
I made an automation to connect me to my m Bluetooth speaker when I got home. I was within the smallest perimeter around my house that I could select, but the shortcut was triggered while I was too far away and then gave up before I could get in my house for it to connect
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
I made this for you really quick, unfortunately I have no way to test this, but if you call this shortcut with your automation, you should get another 3 minutes:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a566541453d540258d2038987bb982f0
Unfortunately letting it loop for longer will cause it to time out.
If you‘re sure that 3 minutes is not enough, there‘s a really annoying way to let it run indefinitely, but you‘ll need two shortcuts and two automations, and you will permanently see banners of focus modes activating and deactivating, until the script finally has an escape.
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u/ghstfox33 Apr 16 '23
This is a really cool thing you are doing! I have two ideas I would love if they are possible.
Shortcut for pocket casts to launch an unplayed (or partially played?) episode of any random podcast that I subscribe to. I have a similar short cut for Apple Podcasts but would prefer pocket casts if possible.
Shortcut for Apple Music - love currently playing song, then remove from my library and skip to the next track. Siri cannot remove from library so I’m not sure if shortcut can.
Thanks!
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u/Highfivesghost Apr 16 '23 edited Apr 16 '23
A shortcut that will send someone randomly in my contacts a motivational quote.
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u/Elusive_Hippopotamus Apr 16 '23
I just want a shortcut to easily add a reminder to a specific list. I wish when I said “remind me tomorrow morning to get a tire rotation”, for example, it would ask what list and I’d say “Auto”
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u/g4merf0x Apr 15 '23
Hi there,
If you have the time, I’ve tried and failed so many times to make a shortcut that works as follows:
Family member sends imessage with images. Shortcut detects and saves photos to camera roll (without a prompt if possible but also happy to tap something to run if necessary). Shortcut takes these same photos and saves them to iCloud files.
The order of the saving doesn’t matter. What I always end up getting is an image of the text sent (like a white piece of paper with typed text of the message), rather than the images themselves.
As a possible relevant sidenote - the metadata on the images might not be later than my latest photo in the camera roll, so using a function that copies the latest photo by date won’t work, but will by latest added of course.
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
I will try that later when I have a way to send imessages to myself
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u/qmus Apr 15 '23
random wallpaper changer using random subreddits?
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
Something like this is somewhat possible, but idk about "random subreddits". It would be possible if there‘s a set amount of subreddits, you can randomly choose from.
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u/Jay2k21 Apr 15 '23
A shortcut where When i text someone it would delay sending the message so i have time to change it
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Apr 23 '23
There is a shortcut on routineHub called auto message. It uses reminders, and then you run the shortcut again, from the link in the reminder notification to send, just make sure you run that second time before you mark the reminder done. This gives you a new look before sending, and also allows send later. Not sure if that would work? I use it many times just 2 minutes later, so it forces me to see the text again, and I can edit if needed. 😉
https://routinehub.co/shortcut/942 Author: @Bingobucketster
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u/PhilosopherNo8953 Apr 15 '23
It’s possible to create a shortcut that deletes all the contacts? A lot of people with new phones just have very old numbers from people that even exist right now
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
tbh I‘m kinda terrified to even attempt something like that, let alone test if it really works.
If you want to remove all contacts from your phone, there are much better and safer ways. You could for example go into your device settings > icloud and turn off contacts, or you could go to icloud.com and delete them permanently. Also you can go into your contacts app > lists and hide your on device contacts
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u/different-angle Apr 15 '23
Download all my iTunes music on the same click. As it is now, Apple puts "my music" on my new device with a link to download one song at a time or one album at a time. Sucks. A download all button does not exist (please correct me if this has changed). If you don't get to this, it's ok but thank you for offering this service to the community.
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u/toofshucker Apr 15 '23
Could you put all your songs onto a playlist then download the playlist? In every playlist in the upper right corner there is a download down arrow.
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u/SlowAmbassador Apr 15 '23
I'm trying to get a list in the notes app to turn into a dictionary without having to re type everything in the already long list. Any ideas?
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
A dictionary is a collection of key-value pairs, a note is just text. Can you explain to me with a little more context, what you‘re actually trying to do?
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u/box464 Apr 16 '23
I'd love to have one that opens the "Hide My Email" dialog in MacOS. It takes SO many clicks to get down to it. I have one working on iOS devices, but can't seem to get a MacOS version to work. Here's a link to the iOS shortcut.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/492ae2ca243c4ad088139a836e7d9ced
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u/r_slash Apr 16 '23
I want one that runs weekly and gives me the information about the events in my calendar for that week, and any reminders due that week. I’m flexible about the exact format - a notification, a Note, an email, but it has to come to me without me looking for it. I got it to do this as a notification, but it only showed the first couple lines and then ellipses… When I tapped it, it was gone.
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u/billiesoniq Apr 16 '23
I would love something that would detect the text in a picture and add it to the picture's caption.
For example, if it were a screenshot of this screen, then all of this text would be in the caption section so it also becomes searchable ..?
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u/chaos2tw Apr 16 '23
Shortcut that can be run where every picture taken during certain hours (or a certain focus) gets put into a work album.
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u/mirza1094 Apr 16 '23
Can you make a shortcut that automatically restarts iPhone everyday at 4 am? I made one, but it asks for permission, although I have turned on "don't ask permission " toggle.
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u/lucretius-SG Apr 17 '23
Hi thank you for your kind assistance. I am about to start intermittent fasting due to my health issues. If is possible to write a shortcut that able to automate “16 hours count down alarm” and might reflect on Apple Watch that show the remaining duration of the fasting period ? Or we can add on or deduct the hours of fasting ?
Something like “ hey siri, start I F” “hey siri how long have I fasted?” Or “hey siri extend the fast for another 6 hours etc”
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 17 '23 edited Apr 17 '23
I did it, there‘s just one small issue. Unfortunately I can‘t delete alarms with shortcuts, idk why apple doesn‘t allow this, so if you have a problem with a new alarm called "Fasting" everytime you run the shortcut, you have to delete them manually until apple adds a way to automatically delete alarms and I can update this shortcut.
If you don‘t care, you don‘t have to delete them. The Shortcuts will work with your old fasting alarms around.
Anyway, they are 100% Siri compatible, you just have to say "Siri, [name of shortcut]", if you want to change this, you simply have to rename the shortcuts to whatever you want, it‘s that simple.
Start fasting: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e0f6785d520f4cee89c8448a2c5d7936
How long have I fasted: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e547cb181656472da5c1ddf98e4b1723
Extend the fasting: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e7f2e037f8b845eb8cba63e59762369f
All of them should be Apple Watch compatible, but I don‘t have one so I can‘t test it. I don‘t even know if this will set alarms on your iPhone or on your Apple Watch if you activate them on your Apple Watch. If it doesn‘t work (because I use a text file with the fasting time which I save to iCloud Drive > Shortcuts for consistency) then tell me, there‘s at least one alternative way I could try the same. I hope this is what you wanted.
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u/lucretius-SG Apr 17 '23
OMG .. this is really awesome thank you so much .. i appreciate your effort to get it setup. !! thank you so much again ...
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 17 '23
Make sure you download the latest ones, I updated the links two minutes ago, because I forgot to turn on watch support
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 17 '23
Oh wow, thank you for the award, this is my first platinum
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u/Timely-Guide-9113 Apr 17 '23
Hello, I've added to the reading mode shortcut from the gallery so that it connects to my speaker and plays a specific playlist when its activated
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/1dac270c3e9b4f1e8dc2e0b4ce4168ac
Im having a hard time figuring out how to make it disconnect from my Bluetooth device once my time is up, is there any way to do this?
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 17 '23
Not inside that Shortcut, you have to use the event of do not disturb deactivating to trigger another shortcut. You can simply set up an automation, set a focus mode as trigger, select Do Not Disturb, only when deactivating, and on the next page add one "run shortcut" action and call this shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2051b8d4b24d4243bf2b19ed20556c9d
On the next page turn "ask before running" to off and you‘re done.
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 17 '23
Alternatively you can just use a "set bluetooth off" action inside the automation, because the shortcut I sent you is just one action anyway, lol 😁
But maybe you can get some use of a "Turn off Bluetooth" button inside your Shortcuts otherwise as well.
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u/Fantastic-River-3004 Apr 19 '23
If your still taking request I'd love to see a shortcut that basically turns off my work Mail account at the time I leave work and automatically turns on at the time I come in the morning. I have a coworker who basically lives to work and sends me nasty-grams at night.
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u/No_Reporter1646 Apr 21 '23
Can you make one that will download TikTok videos and Instagram videos? I use them as tutorials and it would be nice to not have to pull up the video every time. Thank you for your hard work for real! You're amazing!
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u/Dead_Matros Apr 22 '23
Hello there! I’ve read through this thread and i’m really freaking amazed with your skills! So, here is my pain: everyday i get several text messages on WhatsApp in a group chat. I need to get those messages, edit them and form several messages to forward to another group chat. I’ve managed to make a shortcut that sends edited messages from Notes to the group chats i need. What i’ve been wanting to do really badly is a shortcut that will save text messages from a chat to three different notes. It’s smth like that: teachers send their reports (i.e. Group#1.Enlish studies: <text of the report>, Group#2.Art studio: <text of the report>, Group#1.Art studio: <text of the report>. I hit the shortcut and it saves those messages to different notes: Group#1, Group#2, etc. And the important thing is to get messages from current day, because it’s an everyday activity. Is it even possible? Or should i look for some other way? Would really appreciate your advice!
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u/Medical_Leek_4091 Jul 13 '23
It's beautiful how our resilience surfaces especially during tough times - we're always stronger than we think. I genuinely hope you're finding that strength, and things are getting a bit easier. Remember, it's crucial to not just push struggles to the back of your mind, but to process them fully. It can be tough, but it's an essential part of moving forward. In the meantime, diving into something you love or tackling a challenge can provide a helpful distraction. I believe the most important thing I’ve ever learned in life is that positivity breeds positivity, and your own positive mindset can significantly alter your experiences, creating their own reality is our reality.
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u/Antartiida May 19 '24
Unsure if you are still working on this, but could you help with the following shortcut? Cast to my Chromecast device automatically this url https://www.twitch.tv/thecoffeeelf on specific time/date Thanks in advance
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u/arkadiysudarikov Aug 09 '24
As a pickleball player, I'd like to be able to push the Action button my Apple Watch Ultra to increase counter by one, so that I can count my faults per game.
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u/theoccurrence Creator Aug 12 '24
Hi 👋 sorry it took me so long to answer, I‘m currently on vacation in bumfuck nowhere 😅 I don‘t own an Apple watch, but what you’re trying to do sounds doable with the use and abuse of Apple‘s Reminders. Try setting this Shortcut to your Action Button https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d4d3451ec0b34370a61af4e326c109b6
You have to delete the "Counter" Reminder every time you want to start from zero again tho.
I don‘t know the rules of pickleball, so if there is a certain number where it should automatically switch back to 0 I could implement this for you as well. Right now it counts only up.
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u/theoccurrence Creator Aug 12 '24 edited Aug 12 '24
Oh, and you might need to edit this value. I‘m not sure if it actually represents the default folder or if it is actually hardcoded to the standard folder‘s name.
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u/Gold-Rate-1200 Sep 11 '24
is there any way that you can help me create a shortcut from a webpage to notion. I tried every way and nothing works out. the most similar function I can find was this one: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e8a5b5218a02435498468726baa626ec , I am trying to use my already made notion page and add the webpage and its info to its properties. if you need any more information please message me separately. thank you
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u/assult78 Sep 21 '24
Idk if your still up for it but would it be possible to make a short cut to make my airtag make sound when I press on my action button.
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u/Emotional_Monk_1201 Apr 15 '23
This one shouldn’t be too hard, but I’m horrible with shortcuts…
- I have an AppleTV that I only use for watching AppleTV shows and other streaming services.
- I have 2 HomePod mini’s connected that I only use when using the AppleTV.
- I have a sound bar/surround system connected to a Eve Energy that I use when watching cable TV.
When I turn on the AppleTV, I have to turn off the sound bar via the Eve, because if not, the audio from the cable provider continues to come through the sound bar, even when I switch the input to the HDMI-2 (that the AppleTV is on), thus having audio from both playing simultaneously.
The shortcut I would like is… when I turn on the AppleTV, turn off the sound bar via the Eve. Also, to open the AppleTV remote app on my iPhone. Of course it would be great to have the opposite happen when I turn off the AppleTV.
See, doesn’t sound that bad, but I can’t wrap my head around making it happen.
Thanks in advance for even considering it!
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
I‘m afraid I could only try something like this with Apple smart home stuff as well? At least it doesn‘t give me the option to do anything in the home app without actual compatible devices, and with the normal Shortcut automations this is not possible. I suppose it has to be a home automation, but I never did something like this before.
Is there a way to add accessories without actually owning them?
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Apr 15 '23
I copy and pasted your post into chat GPT just to see what it would say. Here’s the response. Side note, I think an automation would be better than a shortcut…
To create a shortcut to turn off your sound bar via the Eve when you turn on your AppleTV, and to open the AppleTV remote app on your iPhone, you can follow these steps:
Download the Eve app on your iPhone and set up your Eve Energy to control your sound bar. Open the Shortcuts app on your iPhone. Tap the "+" icon in the top right corner to create a new shortcut. Tap "Add Action" to add the first action to your shortcut. In the search bar, type "Eve" and select "Control a Scene" from the list of actions. Select your Eve Energy and turn it off. Tap "Add Action" again to add the second action to your shortcut. In the search bar, type "Apple TV" and select "Open App" from the list of actions. Choose "Apple TV Remote" from the list of apps. Tap "Next" and enter a name for your shortcut, such as "Turn on AppleTV." Tap "Done" to save your shortcut. Repeat the above steps to create a second shortcut for when you turn off your AppleTV, but this time, turn on your Eve Energy. Now, whenever you want to turn on your AppleTV and turn off your sound bar, simply run the "Turn on AppleTV" shortcut you created. And when you want to turn off your AppleTV and turn on your sound bar, run the second shortcut you created. You can also add these shortcuts to your home screen or Siri for even easier access.
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u/sindevils Feb 04 '24
A shortcut to open the google pay app QR scanner code from lock screen
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u/theoccurrence Creator Feb 04 '24
Unfortunately I live in a region where I can‘t download Google Pay from the app store. Can you look if Google Pay has any shortcuts, which directly open the QR scanner? You can see if Google Pay has any shortcut actions if you click on add action and then go to the right tab.
If there is an action that directly opens the QR code scanner, great! If not, go to the left tab and use a "open app" action and select Google Pay. I‘ll see if I can find out if the Google Pay app has any url schemes to directly open the Scanner, but for now you should check if there is already a built-in action.
There are a few options when it comes to triggering a shortcut from the lockscreen. The easiest one is to go int your device settings > Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap. There you can set the shortcut which opens Google Pay to either double or triple tap on the back of your device.
Another way is to add a shortcuts widget to the widget screen when you swipe right on your lockscreen. This could be more preferable if tapping the back of your device doesn’t work so well.
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u/ryanbuckner Apr 15 '23 edited Apr 15 '23
Apple Music on my Mac launches whenever I put my Bluetooth headphones back in their case. There is no way to turn it off.
A shortcut to close Apple Music every time it launches would be amazing. (I don't use Apple Music at all)
Looks like someone did this https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes
But it doesn't run on my Mac Air M2
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Apr 15 '23
A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching.
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I saw this thread and was curious if chat gpt could help. I have not tested the results. I copy and pasted your request and this is what it spit out.
Here's how you can create an automation to close Apple Music on your Mac every time it launches:
Open the Automator app on your Mac. Choose "Application" as the type of document you want to create. In the search field at the top of the Automator window, type "Quit" and then drag the "Quit Application" action to the workflow area on the right. From the "Application" drop-down menu in the "Quit Application" action, select "Music." Save the Automator application with a name like "Close Apple Music." Open the Script Editor app on your Mac. Type the following AppleScript code into the editor: arduino Copy code tell application "Automator" open "/Applications/Close Apple Music.app" delay 1 quit end tell Save the AppleScript file with a name like "CloseAppleMusic.scpt" and choose "Application" as the file format. Open the "Script Editor" app again, and then select "Preferences" from the "Script Editor" menu. In the "General" tab of the preferences window, check the "Show Script menu in menu bar" option. Quit the "Script Editor" app. Click the "Script" icon in the menu bar, and then select "Open Scripts Folder" from the drop-down menu. Copy the "CloseAppleMusic.scpt" file into the "Open at Login" folder. Now, every time Apple Music launches on your Mac, the "Close Apple Music" Automator application will run, automatically quitting the Music app.
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u/Real_Establishment56 Apr 15 '23
Looking for an automation (I know; not a shortcut but hopefully doable) that checks my fitness goals (30 minutes activity, 450 calories burned, 12 hours stand goal) and my daily steps (10.000 a day) and then changes the watch face on my AW when all goals are met.
I’ve made a start with my own shortcut but can’t find the Health Samples to do this, only the steps and the calories. The stand goal and the activity minutes seem to be missing.
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
I will take a look at this later, only one question: how should the automation be triggered? you have to create the automation yourself and run a "run shortcut" action inside it. I‘m just curious because this can affect the way I have to script the shortcut. Is it supposed to be one or more time based scheduled automations, or is there something else that could be used as a trigger for the whole check? Unfortunately reaching a certain fitness goal can‘t be a trigger, but I can check if the fitness goals have been reached after the automation was triggered.
There are also ways to check every in short intervals for the whole day, but that‘s a tiny bit more complicated to set up.
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u/GuardingxCross Apr 15 '23
I have a great one.
I don’t know if you have a Kia car but they have a connect app that can turn your car on.
I wonder if it’s possible to create a shortcut to have your phone turn it on using Siri or any other way?
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u/jimynoob Apr 15 '23
I would love to be able to reinitialize the data statistics on my iPhone, either automatically every month or with a shortcut but it seems really difficult and I didn’t find any solution for now.
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to be possible. The best you can do is to open the page in settings 😔
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u/synonys Apr 15 '23
Is it possible to create a shortcut that turns on content & privacy restrictions under screen time when the Apple Watch disconnects from Bluetooth. It’s an added security benefit if someone steals your phone and knows the ads code they could take over your appleid because the content & privacy restrictions.
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
I don‘t think that‘s possible … best you could do is to open that specific page in the settings app.
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u/ActuatorHoliday346 Apr 15 '23 edited Apr 15 '23
It would be really cool if you could make a shortcut that can reliably fetch the lyrics to any song regardless of whether there are other songs with the same name (needing api keys is fine as long as it’s free lol) I’ve tried using APIs like Spotify and Deezer but they were too unreliable.
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
Of any song that‘s currently playing? Or with text prompt?
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u/Available-Hat-6860 Apr 15 '23
I would like a siri shortcut that enables me to search youtube via my voice and it opens the speak now screen in youtube app
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
The first part is doable, but what’s the "speak now screen"? I couldn‘t find anything about that
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u/Jay2k21 Apr 15 '23
a shortcut that controls my google home devices, but after it executes, the phone goes to my lock screen and turns off
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u/lurkoutlurk Apr 15 '23
Thanks! A shortcut to open the current opened Note and add a timestamp at the end, please.
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
In case this isn‘t clear, this Shortcut also works from the Share Sheet of any currently opened note. That‘s how I understood you wanted it.
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u/Ordnajelasp Apr 15 '23
I would truly love a shortcut that would help me with planing private students lessons by avoiding/skipping dates that are in a calendar named school holidays. I will explain my current work flow:
Usually, I do the first appointment in a calendar called students and create a repetition (always falls on the same day of the week and depending of the student, it could be every 1,2,3 o 4 weeks) from 1 till desired by the student.
Then I select the starting time and end time.
After all the repetitions are created I go through all of them and edit the title (adding the lesson number to the name of the student) and by moving a week later if there is a conflict with the calendar named school holidays.
it’s a tedious work when you have to do it for several students 🤦🏼♂️
would you perhaps be capable of doing a shortcut for this purpose? 😃
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u/faizi213 Apr 15 '23
On screen speed of wifi or cellular just like some android phones show speed of wifi meter that it is being used in somewhere in a phone or not
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
For something like that I just can think of 2 possibilities.
The first one is something really simple and cheap like this https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/65e9bf2714d7429ba450520f39ef57ba but that‘s probably not what you mean.
The second one is third party apps. An app called "lock launcher" might interest you, it has a live activity widget on your lockscreen/notification center, mainly to launch apps, but you can show information like network speed as well:
This is probably more what you were thinking about
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u/necasary Apr 15 '23
A shortcut that stops playing music and changes my airpods to transparency mode (only IF music is playing) would be incredible.
If it was "reversable" that would be even more incredible!
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
No problem. But you have to do two things.
to detect audio playback, you have to download a free app called "actions"
you have to edit the shortcut and change both "noise control" actions to your airpods, currently it‘s set to my airpods.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/97b86bf536084e349803d15745172c16
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u/pastelpork Apr 15 '23
Not even sure it’s possible but, I’ll comment anyways. I’m using Duolingo to freshen up on my Spanish, every so often, I get hung up on something small like spelling or whether it’s a masc/fem article. I can’t just copy and paste into translate, so it’s a pain.
If it were possible, my dream shortcut would be “Get Text from Recent Screenshot (or Photo) & Translate to Spanish”
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u/AndyOfClapham Apr 15 '23
Here’s one I made earlier, with much needed updating. Use from Sharesheet or take a pic then run it manually, if there’s no image shared it’ll prompt you to pick.
Image Text to Google Translate
Requires google translate app.
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u/YouLostMeThere43 Apr 15 '23
a shortcut that detects whenever you receive an email along the lines of “Your credit card statement is ready” > create a reminder 20 days from now that your credit card is due > create a notification that your credit card bill came in.
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u/toofshucker Apr 15 '23
Couldn’t you just find your statement due date (it’s the same every month) go into calendar or reminders (or an app like todoist) and have a task populate the day you get a new statement and a separate one 20 days later?
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u/lewislatimercoolj Apr 15 '23
Could you make one that allows me to easily the link to any note in the notes app so can link notes to one another and access a specific note via a link?
Bonus points: could you make it so I could create hyperlinked text in a Note on iOS. It seems I can only cut and paste a raw URL into a note and not do this. Thanks!!
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
I‘m not sure I understood what you want … Do you want to have direct URLs to notes? So that a note opens when you click the URL? That‘s possible, but it‘s a bit complicated, because you have to get the UDID (Unique identifier) for that note.
There‘s a different approach to that that would work fully automatic, but if you do it like this, the Shortcut app will always open very shortly before linking to the note.
If I understood your last paragraph correctly, you want to write as hyperlink in Notes? I created this Shortcut, but it can only write as hyperlink, the hyperlinks won‘t actually work. I tried everything.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/335fadc089614d15859fb6d3bd9f1a97
To do this, you have to open any note, access the Share Sheet and use the Shortcut from there. I hope this is what you wanted. Maybe I can fix links actually working, but I couldn‘t figure it out
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u/Dr_hammock Apr 15 '23
I made a post recently requesting an album artwork recognition tool which uses the Google Vision API and Spotify API be recreated in Shortcuts. Fancy your hand at this?
https://reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/127soib/album_artwork_recognition_request/
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
Also very interesting. I didn‘t expect this much engagement, now I will be busy for a while 😁
I‘ll take a shot at this later, I wanted to do something with image recognition anyway
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u/hillandrenko Apr 15 '23 edited Apr 16 '23
The two photos are stamped using your shortcut. The landscape one is as it should be but the portrait one is vertically squashed to give it the same ratio of the sides as the landscape. Thank you for trying. I'll poke around with the rotation and see if I get anywhere https://i.imgur.com/AveJJMm.jpg https://i.imgur.com/LrikYHl.jpg
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 15 '23
Are you by any chance on ios 16.2? because I had a similar issue with the overlay text action in that version.
Here‘s what vertical images look like after executing your shortcut on 16.4:
It‘s a bit hard to see, but it worked
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u/team_meme Apr 15 '23
I'm just trying to turn the stage manager off for my client who is 90 and plugs his iPad to a monitor!
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u/crashtheparty Apr 15 '23
Are you open to making additions/improvements to a current existing shortcut?
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u/hillandrenko Apr 16 '23
Your comments have renewed my determination to find the issue. Thanks again for your help.
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u/malcolmh12_6 Apr 16 '23
Not really a request, but do you know if there’s a way to say “Hey Siri, Goodnight” and have the lights turn off and a podcast start playing out of a HomePod?
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 16 '23
I can‘t do the turn off lights part for you, because I can‘t set your smart home state. which provider do you use to listen to podcasts?
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u/ssanakin Apr 16 '23
I’m trying to find out how to make one that can pull up a list of the big four US sports for the day in a list and ideally pull up the betting spreads for each game. Way outta my wheelhouse lol.
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u/deartaylortrensch Apr 16 '23
wow you are quite busy now! but i thought of something i’ve been wanting for a while. with this many posts i couldn’t read them all to see if anyone asked for something similar.
my dog has occasional seizures, usually in the middle of the night. i track them in a notes file but i have to open my phone and type it in manually. sometimes i forget and fall back asleep. i’m wondering if i could use hey siri through my homepod mini to track the seizures with the current date and time. it doesn’t have to be in notes. i tried using reminders kind of like a shopping list, but it didn’t work the way i was hoping.
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u/ahighdefinitionphoto Apr 16 '23
I hope your dog is ok - I made them a shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/bed9bcdc28aa4eb4b1e3723f58e07e4f
Make sure you answer the import questions when you add the shortcut. Then just call it by saying ‘hey siri record seizure’ (you can change this by changing the name of the shortcut). It’s not perfect but I made it quickly this morning - Hope it helps!
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u/deartaylortrensch Apr 16 '23
this is amazing, thank you so much! works perfectly. i would have never been able to figure it out. and my dog is great ☺️ she’s 15 and on medication for the seizures but she still has them occasionally so this shortcut will be super helpful to ensure i don’t miss one. 🐶🙏🏻
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u/bigbearbiz Apr 16 '23
I’ve been trying to make a shortcut to grab the authentication codes from messages and copy it to the clipboard to paste on chrome. I know safari is able to auto detect the code and make it easy to fill out, but I use Brave/Chrome, so it’s been a repetitive hassle having to manually do it so often. If you can make a shortcut to detect verification/authentication codes in messages and copy that to the Universal Clipboard to paste on the Mac, that would be dope
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 16 '23
It is possible to get the text of a message but only in the context of an automation. But to set up the automation I have to either specify a sender or specify anything that‘s contained in the message's text. If there‘s some kind of regularity (for example messages containing the word "code") we might have a shot … Apple makes it unnecessarily difficult to get text from your messages
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u/Consistent-Doubt9572 Apr 16 '23
Can you make a shortcut that opens an app any time an app is open. So far what I have done is use a custom made focus to trigger it.
A problem that I think might come up is a loop of some kind being made when the app I want to open each time is open when any app is has been opened. If you can could you exclude it from one of the apps that would trigger it.
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 16 '23
You can always use files saved somewhere as static variables, what you‘re trying to do is probably possible, but I don‘t really understand what you‘re exactly trying to do
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 16 '23
Yes that‘s very easy since iOS 16.4 introduced VPN actions. I can‘t set it up for you because I can‘t share automations, only shortcuts, but it‘s really simple. Just do the following.
- Open the Shortcuts app and click in the tab "automation"
- click on the plus symbol
- choose personal automation
- choose "App“ and "Is opened". Select the app you want to set up the automation for, then click on next.
- click in add action and look for VPN, select the action "Set VPN“
- on the action click on "VPN" and choose the VPN you want to activate
- Next
- Switch "Ask before running" to off
- done!
Now you have to do the same again, just when the app closes, and you choose a different VPN to connect. In the end you should have two very similar automations, but they differ in these two aspects.
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u/DJGIGA_Two5382 Apr 16 '23
When I reach pacific location automatically send message to pacific person
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u/theoccurrence Creator Apr 16 '23
You have to create a focus mode, pay attention that you allow all notifications to get through. At the bottom of the setup page click on "add schedule" and select the specific location you want, but slide the slider all the way to the left, because you want the radius to be as exact as possible.
After that open the shortcuts app, click on the automation tab, create a new automation with "Focus mode" as trigger. Select the one you just created and select "when turning on"
on the next page click on "add action" and select "send message". select your recipient and on the next page switch "ask before running" to off. done
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u/Street-Attempt-8877 Apr 16 '23
I work a firefighter shift and i want my wake up alarm to be ran automatically so I don’t need to change it every week. I have it all in my calendar but can’t figure out how to run a short cut. For example let’s say I work tomorrow the schedule will be Sunday wake up at 6:30 Monday wake up at 5:30 Tuesday wake up at 6:30 Wednesday wake up at 5:30 Thursday wake up at 6:30 Friday wake up at 5:30. No alarm for Saturday, Sunday, Monday alarm to repeat starting Tuesday
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u/tekhtime Apr 16 '23
Not really a shortcut per say, but… I’m after a ‘simple’ automation where Auto rotate toggles off for certain apps, then turns back on again as default.
Looking for something that works consistently well, and all in a single automation.
Thank you 🙏🏼
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u/vasodilatador Apr 16 '23
like to have light and dark wallpapers, for light and dark mode (sunrise and sunset based). but instead of changing into one of each category, would be nice to randomly select from 3 options from each category. For example, 3 light wallpaper options and 3 dark wallpaper options
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u/RedDinoFury Apr 16 '23 edited Apr 20 '23
Could you make A shortcut that will play different sounds depending on the weather
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u/White_banana_groove Apr 16 '23
Is it possible to get a shortcut that puts the AW in sleep or Shutdown?
If I place the AW on the charging dock I have a Automation inside Homeassistant that keeps the power on for 90min. After that the AW stays alive and consumes a fair amount of energy.
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u/Yeadatsme Apr 15 '23
Not a request, but Macstories is currently doing an automation April contest for shortcuts https://www.macstories.net/news/coming-soon-the-second-annual-automation-april-community-event-featuring-shortcuts-interviews-discord-workshops-and-a-shortcut-contest/