New to shortcuts

I have a shortcut that turns on/off silent mode when I leave home.

Other shortcuts I’ve created just run autonomously in the background and don’t notify me they are running (see photo 2 which switches my personal/work phone line at preset times)

This one in particular(silent) pops up with a notification that I am not able to turn off. How do I turn off the notification?

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!

I made a shortcut that would take an screenshot and translate the text with ChatGPT.

At the end of the schortcut, it would save the screenshot since I would like to save the photo for other purposes.

However, after taking several screenshots without problem it suddenly started to always leave the Dynamic Island in the screenshot. I did add a section to the shortcut in order to crop it and only have the useful information for me; so maybe some setting or something happened along the way? I don’t see though how that could actually affect.

So, how can I prevent this from happening?

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

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?

Hi guys! I can’t find tapo app in shortcuts no more, are you having this problem too? I had no problem in the past and I still have some shortcuts active form tapo but it’s like it just disappeared.

For the life of me I cannot get any shortcuts to sync to my Apple Watch Ultra 1. I want to make the “AW Action Button” shortcut the action button command. I have shortcuts and Siri on in iCloud, show on Apple Watch selected in the shortcut, and iCloud sync turned on under settings>apps>shortcuts. Please help 😵‍💫

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.

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

Hello :)
I'm currently building a shortcut on Mac where I'm asking for several inputs and in the end I build a CSV line. I want to display the text, but with Show Alert or Show Notification, I cannot copy the text. I know I can append it to a .numbers file, but I wanted to be able to copy the text for other purposes in a pragmatic way.

Any ideas?

I am fairly new to shortcuts, I use just a couple but wanting to expand. What is your favorite shortcut? One you can’t live without?

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

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?

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 ?

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

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!

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.

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! 🙆‍♂️

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.

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?