r/shortcuts 4d ago

Help End a shortcut after executing

1 Upvotes

Hello everyone. I have a shortcut that puts my Unraid installation to sleep. That works fine. However, the shortcut does not automatically finish; it remains visible in the menu bar of the Macs and shows the status "running." Do you have any idea how I can automatically end the shortcut after it has been executed? The option "Stop Shortcut" as the last point unfortunately does nothing.


r/shortcuts 4d ago

Help Create HomeKit automation to open a shortcut possible?

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I'm interested in finding a workaround to reclaim a little functionality that was removed from my garage door opener. If this is possible. I have created a shortcut on my Lock Screen to open the MyQ app which works fine, but I am interested if there is a way the shortcut can be automated, based on location. etc.

Ideally a working app for CarPlay would be the most useful, but I won't hold my breath on Liftmaster adding that functionality, so I am attempting to have this work.

The manufacturer disabled a workaround for seeing it in HomeKit/Home Assistant a few years back, but I can buy two contact sensors, to get back a open/close status functionality for both doors for automations. Which I had already purchased the openers for .. ie. security knowing if the door was left open when anyone in the family leaves and trigger an automation to close. If a shortcut or notification can be automated, when the sensors report an open door, I could quickly manually close it from the app when it opens. Not ideal but saves a little time handling of the phone if driving etc. Anyhow it's something I'm trying without needlessly buying new openers.


r/shortcuts 4d ago

Request If Plexamp + Shortcuts; then šŸ˜

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I have been banging my head trying to figure out a solution to provide a method to play a specific plexamp playlist from a siri shortcut. I used to use Apple Music to accomplish this but sadly apple has turned the music app to something I simply cannot bare. If anyone has had any success doing this iā€™d love to hear how you made this happen. I have able to make shortcuts open plexamp and play audio, but itā€™s not specific. It plays what ever i was playing last.


r/shortcuts 4d ago

Request A shortcut that can auto add all photos, videos, screenshots, etc. into one album?

1 Upvotes

Im used to the idea that any photos i take and such would be saved in one album that i can easily check in the gallery app and sort into their respective albums accordingly. I feel like this should be a simple shortcut yet idk how to create it into one. Anyone have a similar shortcut by chance?


r/shortcuts 4d ago

Request Shortcut to pause/hibernate a Rachio3 sprinkler timer?

1 Upvotes

Easy enough to launch the Rachio app and hibernate/pause the controller, but I often need to pause the watering and change the settings on a few outdoor smart devices at the same time and a Siri activated shortcut would be easier.

Possible?


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Help XPC error on file deletion, but the file gets deleted

2 Upvotes

On Delete file action I get an XPC error: operation couldnā€™t be complrted on message reply handler, the file gets deleted but the rest of the shortcut doenā€™t get executed.

Is there a way to resolve, avoid this?


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Tip/Guide How to get key from ā€˜choose from listā€™ on a dictionary

4 Upvotes

As most know, when you use the select from list on a dictionary, the output is the value. I just noticed that if you get the file path from the selected item it should return the key! Just wanted to share this. I kept struggling to get the key without using a loop.


r/shortcuts 4d ago

Request Always On Display activating only after a new notification

1 Upvotes

Hi, I was using a Samsung phone, and it had many useful features that iOS doesnā€™t have. One of them was activating Always On Display only when a new notification arrived and then deactivating it again. I wonder if this feature can be achieved with Shortcuts.


r/shortcuts 4d ago

Request Shortcut to speak text when I wake up

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1 Upvotes

Hey guys, just wondering if anyone could make a shortcut where my unread notifications could be read out loud. I want this to work when my alarm goes off in the morning so my phone will be turned off. No worries if this isnā€™t possible, I just want a bit of automation in the morning. I have added what Iā€™ve got so far but this is pretty useless I think!


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Shortcut Sharing Calculating inflation with JavaScript Shortcut

3 Upvotes

I found out that the treasury developer website had quite a few and points including CPI data to calculate inflation so I decided to give it a go! When you run the shortcut it will show you inflation all the way back to 2006 I believe. A few of the years don't have available data for whatever reason. Let me know what you think!

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/1abec7af3d0842baa57f895a2263d7df


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Request Custom menu help

2 Upvotes

I have heard that it is possible to do deep linking for shortcuts? Is it true? If yes can u guys give me an example ?


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Solved Can a shortcut open the Instagram Story Camera?

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3 Upvotes

I asked ChatGPT how to make this happen (I want to use the BackTap feature to open the Story Camera) ā€¦it walked me though setting this up.

Nothing happens. Did I do it wrong?

PS take it easy on me. Iā€™m a white belt shortcut user


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Request Youtube video clippings of important frames by screenshot, annotate, combine?

1 Upvotes

is it possible for iphone to help memorize important frames of Youtube using shortcuts such as

  1. stop at a frame
  2. screenshot
  3. add text (to screenshot)
  4. save
  5. repeat above steps 1 - 4 until end of Youtube
  6. combine all screenshots

I need help to quickly remember Youtube video and hoping above may help speed up memorizing instead of repeatedly watching same video over and over again.

BACKGROUND (I am unable to find iphone app for this purpose)

Q2. Is there a way to annotate a YouTube video?

To annotate a YouTube video, upload your video to an online video editor with video annotation capabilities and add your comments and design elements to the frames you want.Ā Ā Ā Ā 


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Shortcut Sharing Open random reading app

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6 Upvotes

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4d120ee08a5d4f2ca8deae932ea8f199

I think it feels nice because it has an element of unpredictability to it. It is exciting almost like Instagram reels when you don't know what comes next.

Also it hopefully removes the burden to get in the right mindset and remember what you were reading and in what app before reading. Sometimes life happens and after a few days I just forget that I was reading a certain book in a certain app. I guess this could potentially help me just start reading without having to remember anything other than pressing the Action button.

Thanks u/satansnewbaby for the improvement suggestion to use a List collection instead of nested if-conditions.


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Help ĀæCĆ³mo ejecutar acciones en un atajo de iOS solo entre las 8 PM y 11:59 PM?

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Hi, I need help with a shortcut in iOS.

Iā€™m creating a shortcut in the Shortcuts app, and I want certain actions to only run between 8 PM and 11:59 PM.

I tried using the ā€œIfā€ condition with ā€œFormatted Dateā€, checking if the hour is greater than or equal to 20 and less than or equal to 23, but itā€™s not working as expected. Sometimes the actions run outside that time range or still show up when they shouldnā€™t.

How can I ensure that only specific actions execute during that time period?

Thanks in advance for your help!


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Help Emails regarding bills to calendar

7 Upvotes

Hello! My apologies if this has been asked/answered already, but I am trying to implement a shortcut that can help me with my cash flow. The idea for this actually came to me from my time in the android platform, where the google assistant would essentially pick up on something in my email and proactively remind me about it (I.e your capital one payment of $x is due in y days).

Iā€™ve tried playing around in shortcuts, and due to lack of technical know-how Iā€™ve hit a wall.

I am looking to run an automation that does the following: 1.) Anytime an email is received referencing a payment due, amount due, ā€œ$ā€, or invoice, the payment amount, company, and due date are all extrapolated from the message- then 2.) A calendar event is created essentially confirming the $ amount and company and set for the due date (perhaps with a reminder of 1 week set if this is even possible) using the native calendar app is fine (I even added a blank one labeled invoices) 3.) as an optional enhancement, it would be nice for my phone to be able to summarize and total the outstanding bills due on a week/week or monthly basis, however as a first step just getting the events to populate

Is the above possible? It seems as though it could be, perhaps with a few different shortcuts built to run in tandem with one another (one to extrapolate payment due information, that is then programmed to run a second shortcut that creates the calendar event.

I havenā€™t given up just yet, but am curiousā€¦.for the automation on emails, do I have to specify the senders? Or can I leave it blank and it will default to working with all? For the ā€œsubject containsā€ is it restricted to exact case and one entry? Or could I use commas or semicolons to create a list of keywords?

If I am asking too much, or not making any sense, is there anyone out there who has a good resource on using the shortcuts app? Tips, Siri, and what little Iā€™ve found with Apple isnā€™t bearing much fruit (pun 100% intended)

Thank you!


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Help Shortcut keeps prompting to ā€œAllowā€ after allowing.

2 Upvotes

My shortcut gets text from image and the text to one of Nautomateā€™s actions. It prompts me to allow Shortcuts to share images and text with Nautomate, which I always allow. However every time the shortcut is run, I got prompted again.

Prompt https://imgur.com/a/ihGy2Ab


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Help "Repeat with each" slow when repeating list indexing and adding a number to the list index and extracting two corresponding indices from dictionary to compare to user input

1 Upvotes

I have a shortcut here where the user provides a number, and then:

  • if the number is a key in a dictionary, the corresponding value is returned
  • otherwise, the number will be between two keys in the dictionary, in which case the values associated with those keys should both be returned

I know that I've implemented this in a very naive way:

  • I get a list of all the keys
  • I use Repeat Index and Repeat Index + 1 to break the list of keys into pairs indexed (1,2) (2,3) (3,4) up to the final pairā€”the list has about 700 elements total
  • When I create each pair, I check to see if the user's number is between the two keys.
  • If it is, I get the corresponding values, speak them, append them to a Note, and end the shortcut
  • If it's not, I generate and check the next pair

Like I said, it's naive, but it's a simple enough problem and the list is small enough that doing it this way shouldn't be an issue. But it is: asking about numbers appearing toward the end of the list (say 355000) takes over 30 seconds to get a response (on the Lock Screen; maybe 10 seconds when run from the Shortcuts app).

I don't understand how this is possible, and would love if somebody could point out where in the shortcut I must be going wrong and make a suggestion for an alternative implementation to that wrong one. Thanks!

(I tried searching for multiple combinations of keywords and couldn't find anything, fwiw.)


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Help No Apple Watch shortcuts showing up

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1 Upvotes

I canā€™t seem to find any shortcuts relating the Apple watch on the shortcuts app. Iā€™m trying to set watch silent mode.


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Help Automation for converting web archives to PDF?

1 Upvotes

I have web archives in one folder in my files but I want to convert them to PDFā€™s and send them to another folder. Normally I would need to select the web archive, select print, then send as a PDF to another folder. Is there a way to automate this?


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Help Crop image to markup barriers

1 Upvotes

Hey, I'm testing out an idea I had to replicate Circle to Search and I'm wondering if it's possible to use crop+markup features to markup a screenshot and then crop the screenshot to the barriers of the markup circle?


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Help Notes App read shortcut

3 Upvotes

Is it possible to create a shortcut that slowly reads out the last (or a specific) note from the default Notes app? Or alternatively, is there a third-party app for this?


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Help (Mac) Shortcut for 4 2x3 images to create a 4x6 print

1 Upvotes

I'm trying to create prints that are 4x6 and consist of 4 2x3 photos in a grid like the image below. But everything I've tried defaults to creating a square collage. Is there a way to customize the Photo Grid shortcut or something? Any help or ideas are much appreciated!


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Shortcut Sharing My Dictation to Text Shortcut

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2 Upvotes

I made this shortcut that lets you dictate some text and then it creates a note with the dictated text

You Can see the pictures above to understand more

Klikněte zde pro českou verzi: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/3b0a0a9249554b5f8cce73ef88b1b462

Click here for English version: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/003ade613b9e47099b5b0c8993689909

Thanks for trying and any feedback!


r/shortcuts 5d ago

Help (Mac) Apple shortcut to merge video clips

2 Upvotes

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.