Update on my post here for people who like to using URL schemes, but not the hassle of finding them.

It’s just something I made using Lovable AI this time for an updated, app-like list of iOS 26+ settings URL schemes.

https://ios-26-urlschemes.lovable.app

I want a screenshot from an app to automatically go to a specific album.

Hi - so would like to know if this is possible - I have a current shortcut that speaks a phrase when I plug in the iphone to charge, and now would like another shortcut that speaks "on battery" when the iphone loses its charging state. Is this possible? If so can someone smarter than me post it?

This is based on a previous screenshot renaming shortcut by u/Cost_Internal and u/iBanks3 and a date/time suffixer by u/pmarksen. Based on the discussion here, just deleting the original inputs didn't seem to work, so I had the idea to generate a list of timestamps to figure out how to get the original screenshot to be deleted from Cost_Internal's shortcut.

I've tried taking different numbers of screenshots at staggered times and it seems to be working so far. One issue is that iOS only 'completes' the screenshot process if you swipe the mini preview away or wait until it disappears, and the shortcut only runs after that. So if you switch apps before that, the app name will be whatever app you're on then. Or if you close the app too quickly the app name will be blank. If you have suggestions to improve this or other parts of the shortcut do share!

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/3aa6e4576e2c43f2b92009341cff5789

I can’t seem to get describing shortcut working on iOS 27.2. Anybody else have an issue?

Hey everyone!

I’m back with another shortcut I’ve been working on, and honestly, this might be one of my favorite projects yet.

Introducing Link Studio V1!

It’s an incredibly powerful shortcut that combines seven different website tools into one:

Website Inspector - Get webpage titles, links, and information, including links found within text.
Article Reader - Read webpage content in a cleaner format.
Media Finder - Find images and media from websites.
Link Library - Save, view, and delete links.
Link Extractor - Extract multiple links, copy them, save them, or turn them into PDFs.
Website Archiver - Save webpages as PDFs with automatic titles and dates.
Link Toolkit - Copy, open, inspect, and share URLs.

One thing I want to mention: I originally designed Link Studio to work when you have a link copied to your clipboard or shared directly to the shortcut. Because of that, you currently need a link to access the menu, even for features like viewing saved links or the About section.

It’s something I plan to improve in V2!

I’ve spent quite a bit of time putting this together, testing things, and figuring out what works. I’m genuinely proud of how it turned out.

I’d love to hear what you think! If you run into any issues or have suggestions, please let me know. I appreciate all the feedback and support.

Download Link Studio V1:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/58f61a4d24b14e5892a01a5efaa68bcc

Please upvote if you found this useful or interesting, and drop me a follow if you would like to keep up with any new shortcuts I drop.

Thanks for checking it out!

Over the weeekend all of my automations just disappeared. I had over 40 automations configured on my phone and now they are just gone, the shortcuts are still there thankfully. Has anybody else had this happen?

Edit: Based on when the last automation’s successfully ran it appears to have happened when I logged into my new MacBook. Is there possibly a bug where adding a Mac resets automations?

Edit 2: I’m not talking about the iOS 27 change where they merged automations with shortcuts. I updated as soon as iOS 27 was available and have had no issues until this weekend when all of my automations just stopped working. When I investigated it I found the automations folder under library is empty.

Avrei la necessità di chiamare un determinato numero (ho un relè che si attiva sul telefono che squilla e aziona l’apertura porta di un ingresso) e chiudere la chiamata in 0.5-1 secondo. Non riesco a trovare nessun comando per chiudere la chiamata. Unica alternativa è la modalità aereo ? Grazie

I have an automation that runs at 6am every morning and when I have traveled from the US to Europe the automation updated itself to 1PM.

I have never seen this before and I do t recall this happening when I e traveled in the past. Is this something new? Is it intended behavior?

A while ago I posted a Mac app that lays a shortcut out as a diagram instead of one long list, so you can see the shape of what you’re building. Thanks to everyone who tried it.

The original problem was big shortcuts, and they were still hard to work with once they got really big. So the new version is all about that:

• Groups: select a few actions and press ⌘G to fold them into one named card.
• Minimap: a small overview in the corner, click or drag it to jump around.
• Snippets: save a set of actions and drop a copy into any other shortcut.
• Export the whole canvas as PNG or PDF, so you can share a shortcut here and people can actually read it.

None of this changes your shortcut. Groups only change how it looks in the editor, and what you paste back into Shortcuts is exactly the same.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shortcuts-editor/id6799502399?mt=12

What’s the biggest shortcut you’ve got? I’d like to know if it holds up.

Please let me know if you have any suggestion.

Salut 👋

Nouvelle version 6.3

• Nouvelle interface inspirée d'iOS, de style verre, avec modes clair et sombre automatiques.
• Personnalisation avancée des couleurs, de la transparence, des icônes, des animations et de la mise en page.
• Historique de la batterie amélioré grâce à une gestion plus fiable des dates, au formatage régional et à un rendu graphique optimisé.
• Chargement plus rapide grâce à une initialisation optimisée et à la mise en cache des préférences locales.
• Traitement optimisé des données Analytics pour les fichiers volumineux.

💀 Ne fonctionne pas sur les versions bêta d'iOS.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/1c65a6773572464a9b2ce5db8eff42b8

I created an iPhone automation that plays a specific podcast after Carplay starts

But it doesn't always work. Sometimes the podcast starts correctly. But sometimes it starts after rewinding about 3 minutes. Other times the podcast doesn't play at all.

I need help revising the automation

This is for recipes in screenshots and captions, where getting the ingredients into Reminders means typing them in one at a time.

You share a screenshot of a recipe, or select the ingredient text and share that (from Safari, Notes or a caption). It then does four things:

1. For a screenshot, Apple's on-device Extract Text reads the text.
2. It reads the open items on your Reminders grocery list.
3. It sends the recipe text and that list to the Ask for Dictionary action in AI Actions, an app I make. The model sorts each ingredient into buy, already on your list, or always at home (salt, pepper, cooking oil and water by default, editable in the shortcut).
4. It shows the things to buy, all ticked, so you can untick what you don't need. Nothing is added until you tap Done.

When the model says an item is already on your list, it has to quote the matching entry. If that entry isn't there, the shortcut adds the item anyway, so a wrong match means a duplicate and not a missing ingredient. I added that after one test run claimed an onion was already on my list. It also sometimes puts sunflower oil under buy, so check the tick list.

Here's the shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4e18ab6b909c4d58a067287c399f0afe

The app is on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6447460842?pt=126224582&ct=rshortcuts-recipe-to-groceries&mt=8

It needs iOS 17 or later. When you add it, it asks which Reminders list to add to. It also reads that list by name to see what's already on it, so if yours isn't called Groceries, change the name in the first Text action too. The action is in the app's free tier (8 runs a day), so you don't need a subscription or an API key. The recipe text and your open grocery items go through my server to OpenAI, and the privacy policy (https://apps.9592.tech/ai-actions/privacy) says the server doesn't store prompts or responses. The first run asks a few permission questions.

I tested it on an iOS 18 simulator with a caption, a cookbook screenshot, and one recipe run twice (the second run added nothing).

I'd be curious whether a fixed "always at home" list works for you, or whether you'd want it to ask about pantry items each time.

Note that “Lost” wasn’t made by me and the publisher is unknown, if you have any information from where it came from DM me! I have also made small adjustments in the original shortcut so that you get to have a randomized world generator! For this to happen I made a shortcut that works as an extension, you run it and it copies the world code in your clipboard, and when running the main shortcut you will have the option to either use the default terrain or the one in your clipboard, cheers! 🥂

Link for main “Lost” shortcut

Link for extension that generates random terrain

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I have two shortcuts that toggles all alarms on or off. I had no issues with these on iOS 26, but after I updated to 27 I started noticing this infinite loop.

Currently have 5 alarms but number of alarms doesn't seem to matter. Even if I limit it to one alarm, I still see the infinite loop.

Toggling itself works instantly though. Its just this shortcut lingering forever until I manually stop it.

Not sure if anyone else can reproduce this on their phone but was there any Shortcut updates introduced in 27 that possibly breaks this logic?

I Am Making A Chiikawa Shortcut That Will Talk At A Random Time, But I Don’t Know How!

I'd love an Apple Shortcute that toggles on 1.5x speed and smart speed. The tricky part of this is making it a single shortcut that does both of these things, and then once run again goes back to normal speed with smart speed off.

So in other words, a toggle switch that goes back and forth between 1.5x with smart speed and normal workout smart speed.

I feel like it is possible but I'm just not good at making shortcuts.

Hey everyone! I'm planning my next shortcuts and would rather build something people actually need than guess.

So I'd love to know:-

1. What do you do on your phone repeatedly that feels like it should be automated?
2. Is there a shortcut you tried to build but gave up on? What part broke or got too complicated?
3. Any shortcut you used to love that stopped working after an iOS update or an API change?
4. Which category do you care about most? Media, productivity, files, utilities, social, AI/APIs, or something else.

The more specific, the better. "Something for music" is hard to build. "Grab the song playing in a video and add it to my Apple Music playlist" is something I can actually make.

If something gets a lot of interest, I'll build it and share it here properly when it's done.

Thanks! 🙌

Edit:- Hey a lot of people have commented so I’ll try to get back to everyone gradually. There are some really cool ideas, although unfortunately, a few things aren’t possible with Shortcuts. I’ll do my best to reply to everyone

I built Natural Voice Reader, a free text-to-speech app that uses Shortcuts to make iOS 27’s expressive Siri voice read you anything.

Apple doesn’t let third-party apps access this voice directly, only standard voices like Samantha. This app uses a Shortcut to generate the audio, then brings it back into the app for playback.

It includes word-by-word highlighting, playback controls, adjustable speed, and audio export. Recordings are saved for repeat listening.

100% free. No ads, subscriptions, locked features, or API keys.

Requires: iOS 27, a device supporting Siri’s expressive voice, and a one-time Shortcut installation.

It’s brand new, and I’d love feedback, especially from fellow Shortcuts users!

Since the Auto Unlock feature on my Lucid Air Touring is glitchy, has anyone been able to create a shortcut for iPhone or Apple Watch(especially the action button) that you can use to unlock the Air Touring? I had to disable the Auto Unlock as it was triggering every few minutes for a couple days/nights randomly.

Why isn’t there an option to set a sleep timer in an Apple TV in shortcuts?! It seems like something straightforward to do. I have a bedtime shortcut set up, which turns on my bedroom tv. I want it to switch off after 45 minutes, but can’t for the life of me figure out how to set it up via a shortcut.

I’ve tried “wait 2700 seconds” but it seems to time out for some reason! Any help would be much appreciated.

edit: this was a stupid question I didn’t think through lol- so much makes sense now upon being given the obvious answer to this🙃

r/ShortcutsMac is barely active, there’s ofc sites with articles/etc, but I want to engage with a space that’s as active as this one. And I don’t see Mac mentioned as much here.

And with that, the YouTube content is either minimal, or my algorithm hates me- any recommendations for creators who prioritize making content about shortcuts on MacOS specifically? It seems Stephen Robles does on occasion, and though I enjoy his content for iOS, I don’t really prefer it for Mac stuff.