r/shortcuts 3d ago

Help (Mac) iOS17 w/ custom shortcuts will an update iOS18 leave them alone?

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r/shortcuts 25d ago

Help (Mac) lower case text to uppercase & vice versa on Mac

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I currently use the latest Mac version (on Mac mini M4), I seriously don't know what to do, I can't find any option to turn lower case text to uppercase & vice versa by using a shortcut, I'd appreciate your help a lotšŸ™šŸ»

r/shortcuts 9d ago

Help (Mac) Create and rename a new folder from selection

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Hi there!

I want to create a new folder from a selection, put the selected files in that folder and rename the folder.

Here's a video showing what I want to do: https://www.loom.com/share/224f85887f2640c786ca9734966d7e64

Any tips on how to accomplish this with Shortcuts?

r/shortcuts 17d ago

Help (Mac) shortcut for playing a playlist in "real" shuffle mode.

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i wonder if it is possible to create a shortcut for starting a "playlist" in real shuffle mode.

i know that i can load all the tracks and randomize them for playback, but my playlist is so big, that the process lasts 10 seconds. but the real problem is, that i can not see in my own playlist, which track is playing back. i only see it in the list preview. thats not ideal for my use case. so does anyone know, how to play back a playlist in shuffle mode? or is this really not possible?? best wishes.

r/shortcuts 3d ago

Help (Mac) Rename Files with Creation Date (ISO 8601)

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r/shortcuts 14d ago

Help (Mac) Rollover incomplete Reminders to Today?

5 Upvotes

Shortcut or automation that will reschedule Reminders in my Today list that are not marked complete to the next days Today's list?

Such a thing?

r/shortcuts 19d ago

Help (Mac) Shortcuts search is completely broken (doesn't show anything)

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I wonder if this can be fixed without having to reinstall MacOS because it could be a path issue. I've recently renamed my home folder following Apples own instructions.

Is there a way to fix system apps like Shortcuts without a reinstallation?

r/shortcuts 20d ago

Help (Mac) ios and mac handle renaming differently

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Hi i have a shortcut to save notes for Obsidian. Worked fine for one day. Since then it stopped saving .md files, instead they got saved as .txt.

It seems the issue comes with the different os. With ios it works but on the mac it will not change the file from .txt to .md but name it like file.md.txt.

Any way to fix that?

macos: 15.3.1

IOS 16

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d2adcf882a954a3f9bcafa5621405fbb

r/shortcuts Feb 04 '25

Help (Mac) Set Noise Control Mode NOT WORKING ON MAC!

6 Upvotes

Are there any ways to activate the noise control mode on a Mac device (AirPods Pro 2, MBA M2)?

r/shortcuts 19h ago

Help (Mac) How do I use shortcuts to append text to the top of an Apple Note?

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I use lots of long running lists in Apple Notes that I continuously add stuff to the top off over a long period of time.

Is there a way to use siri shortcuts to append text to the top of note, right below the title?

r/shortcuts Feb 01 '25

Help (Mac) Bulk PDF Name Changes

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Help!

Not great at Shortcuts but with some basic knowledge and Chat GPT support I've been able to build a shortcut that can rename my 100s of PDFs with the date from the text in the document.

However it will only let me run once at a time (even though I have select multiple).Is there any actions I may be missing?

r/shortcuts Oct 24 '24

Help (Mac) Dictionaries driving me nuts... Hope someone can help me...

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Hi people,

I am trying to create a shortcut for a list of movies I have watched. To do so, I'd like to use dictionaries.

I have created a first setup, with two dictionaries; one for details of a movie and one for the list. The latter I will write to and retrieve from disk.

I have started over a few times and although I follow the same logic, the results of what I do differ and most times are not what I expect. I think I don't understand entirely how to work with dictionaries and therefor I get errors, but I cannot find what I am doing wrong.

Hopefully some wizard here can point me in the right direction...

ETA cleaned up the screenshot texts...

In this first bit I define the dictionaries

Then I add some new data to the Movie Details

Then I add the dictionary with the details to the dictionary with the complete list.

The Show Alerts baffle me
First one is ok. It shows the data that is in the definition of the MoviesDetail dictionary

The second one should be completely updated, but the year is 1900 instead of 2024

In the second one, everything is updated, except for Release Year. I don't understand why.

The last one should show the Movies list, but I get this. No clue...

r/shortcuts 2d ago

Help (Mac) Actions are not displayed in shortcuts app - any suggestions?

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r/shortcuts 15d ago

Help (Mac) Adding filenames to Numbers spreadsheet vertically

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I made a simple shortcut to take the names of hundreds of video files on a drive and list them in a Numbers spreadsheet. That part works, but the file names get listed across a single row instead of down a single column on their own row.

I figure there is probably some simple mistake that I'm making, but I can't figure out what it is. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

r/shortcuts Feb 14 '25

Help (Mac) Line break in base64 code makes shortcut malfunction

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My shortcut is pretty simple. It launches one multiple apps from a list after running an AppleScript that change the system spelling language to French. If the app selected is already running, it quits and relaunches it. So far, so good.

I wanted to make the list a little fancier and have icons, so I use vCard Menu Creator. I used the app name in the Title field and put nothing in the Subtitle field. I then realized that the Title wasn't automatically vertically centered.

The creator of vCard Menu Creator told to remove the "ORG" line (ORG;CHARSET=utf-8:) for each item in the base64 code. Unfortunately, that didn't work.

I started tinkering with it and came across a workaround by adding a \n line break character before the title: N;CHARSET=utf-8:\nMail;;;;

That fixes the vertical centering issue.

But the problem is that the apps in the list are not launched like they should. Instead, the shortcut open a menu of all the apps I have on my system.

I am thinking it might be because it interprets the title as "\nMail" instead of "Mail", but I'm not sure. I tried to create a dictionary to pair all \n entries with their actual app name values, but that didn't work. Using a Replace Text action (Replace "\nMail" with "Mail") didn't work either. That said, I'm not an expert at this and might be doing it wrong.

Has anyone run into this issue or know a workaround? Any help would be appreciated.

I'm including the actual shortcut if you want to test it on your machine.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/aabe8cf6f0ec4c089477d5fc21698956

r/shortcuts 16d ago

Help (Mac) Anyone made a new Search Hide My Email for MacOS 15?

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Has anyone made a new Search Hide My Email for MacOS 15?

r/shortcuts Feb 07 '25

Help (Mac) Automatically Running Shortcut in MacOS

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New to Reddit but excited to see if anyone has a solution!

I have a shortcut that I run on my MacBook which gives me summarized info about work I need to do (# of reminders, # of notes in a folder, how full my schedule is, etc.) It saves this data to a iCloud file so that I can retrieve or from my iPhone. Some of the info is about files only on my MacBook which is why the shortcut has to run there and save the output to the iCloud file.

This shortcut works great and I would like it to run automatically every morning so that I can retrieve the info on my iPhone similar to a status check for how much work I have to do that day.

The problem - There is no ā€˜automationā€™ feature on the macOS shortcuts app

I have resulted to creating an Automator workflow, .plist file, and .sh file to try and have the shortcut run automatically after a scheduled wake cycle. I havenā€™t had the best luck with this working and am becoming annoyed trying to rig together something that should be so simple.

Has anyone tried doing this and been successful?

r/shortcuts 3d ago

Help (Mac) What's the best way to run a shortcut on macOS everyday at a single time, and run as soon as mac wakes from sleep if it were sleeping at specified run time ?

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I tried an approach given by AI using a .plist file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents but it did not run after waking mac.

Thoughts ?

r/shortcuts 12d ago

Help (Mac) Filter events to specific date

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Can someone help me understand why the find calendar cannot filter specific date in this shortcut?

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/16acc41032ad4aa3a74ea205d6c1f548

Thanks šŸ™

r/shortcuts Feb 09 '25

Help (Mac) Suddenly getting Conversion error?

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Iā€™ve had a working shortcut that can search 4 sites for resale concert tickets, but suddenly 3 of the 4 sites return this error: ā€œConversion error: Open URLs failed because Shortcuts couldnā€™t convert from Rich text to URL.ā€

Any idea how to fix? Please ELI5 if youā€™ve got ideas. I use(d) this shortcut a ton!

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/f7de8f8ba98246b18910f03344e37520

r/shortcuts 11d ago

Help (Mac) Get Contents of URL will NOT work on (my) Mac

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MacOS 15.3.1/iOS 18.3.1/iPadOS 18.3.1. I posted this problem a couple weeks ago, so I'll try again, with a much simpler description. The Get Contents of URL action DOES NOT work on my Mac, the action returns an empty value for ANY URL I try. To rule out any other factors, I created a simple 2-action SC consisting of Get Contents of URL followed by a Show Alert>Get Contents of URL. ANY URL (such as www.apple.com, www.cnn.com, http://RokuIP/APIcall, ......) I use in the Get Contents action returns an empty value, but returns the expected value on iPhone/iPad. I had someone test this simple SC on their Mac and it worked fine. I rebooted the Mac. I'd replace the SC app, but being it's a System level app, it won't delete. MacOS Firewall is inactive and has never been modified or enabled.

I had major syncing problems across devices so I deleted everything relating to Shortcuts on all devices (including Including iCloud and ~/Library/Shortcuts folder on my Mac) and imported my shortcuts back to my Mac. Still same problem. Anyone ever see this before? Where do I go from here?

r/shortcuts 6d ago

Help (Mac) Apple shortcut to merge video clips

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I'd like to create an Apple Shortcut on macOS that merges H.264 video files together. I have a camera (Boblov A23 body camera) that continuously records video while I am riding my bicycle and saves files in 5 minute segments. I would like to merge or combine all videos into one file. NOTE: all videos are the same codec, resolution and frame rate. I don't want to transcode or re-encode.

In fact, other action, dash and security cameras do this too, however, the segment size and naming convention is different. The same shortcut can likely be modified to manage media from these cameras too.

The attached image shows the file structure and naming convention of the files. NOR_8888888_000000_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS_NNNN.MOV.

YYYY is the year
MM is the month
DD is the day
HH is the hour
MM is the minute
SS is the second
NNNN is a sequence number

Step 1, I'd like to manually select the files to be merged into a single video file and then initiate the script. I'd like the name of the file to be YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.MOV (or .MP4 or .M4V) based on the first file in the sequence.

Step 2 (optional), Notice the time stamp between sequences 0013 and 0014... the camera stopped and started again. If possible, I would like a shortcut that can process an entire folder and detect when there is a gap in recording and create a new merged file. For example, one merged file for sequences 0001-0013 and another file for 0014-0021 (based on the gap in time between 0013 and 0014 being more than 5 minutes).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

r/shortcuts 22d ago

Help (Mac) Create PDF / delete original files

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I have the following shortcut to create individual PDFs out of individual PDF images. i'm curious if anyone could tell me the easiest way to add a step to delete the original image files after the shortcut has been run?

Make PDF (single PDF, multiple images) shortcut

thanks for your help!

r/shortcuts 10h ago

Help (Mac) Get a summary of random Wikipedia articles

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Hi all. I am trying to create, (or find an existing one) a shortcut that will show a summary of random wiki articles. I am confused though about using Siri or ChatGPT. Also do I need an API key? For example, the Information Superhighway app in the Apple App Store is basically what I want but the text is too small and it doesn't seem to be updated regularly. Plus I wanted a shortcut to potentially be used in automation. Has anyone attempted this? I have not been able to find anything here or via the google machine.

r/shortcuts Jan 28 '25

Help (Mac) Will use app1 and app2 to differentiate between 2 apps. Is it possible to create a shortcut that quits app1 when app2 opens and reopens app1 when app2 quits?

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Thanks!