I often get flight or concert tickets that don't come as Wallet entries, but I wan't to treat them in the same way: 1. Easy Access (e.g., not searching back through emails or logging in to a service); 2. Not dependant on internet/phone connectivity (especially in airports!)

I now have a pair of shortcuts that more-or-less achieve this. In operation, I just open my iPhone, tap an app icon (shortcut to 'LocalFileOpener').

How it works:

'→ Local iPhone' Appears in the Share Menu and saves a file locally on my iPhone (i.e., I don't need an internet/phone connection to access it as I would with iCloud storage).

'LocalFileOpener' Just opens the local iPhone folder.

Unclear to me if this is or isn't old news—that I was just bad at searching for—but I wanted to let more[^1] people know regardless:

Context: I have set up safari to always open to specific tab groups on phone and iPad, to avoid losing tabs on inadvertent close and to ease pickup from Mac.

This is the safari that lives in my dock, but a large irritation was that on iPad it only worked to open safari fullscreen now (vs a drag onto screen split). So I was still having to go looking in the app switcher or use Spotlight (which I have on AssistiveTouch double tap) to find “real” safari

but I figured it out (ish*)

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Has to run in the app once for the setup, the timer shows how long it’s been since the last refresh.

It only uses scriptable, no shortcuts, but I guess that’s close enough.

Hello,

I am trying to create a shortcut to use the TubeArchivist api to archive YouTube videos. I've tried to send the request as text but it doesn't work because it expects an array I guess? I've gotten the request to work using CURL on the command line but when I try to add a value to an array in shortcuts the field is locked and won't accept any input.

I've done some searching across the wider internet for how to construct arrays in shortcuts but no matter what I attempt that field is always locked. Can it not accept any inputs? Confused how to actually put my structured data into it.

The URL that comes before it is the local host and port of the TubeArchivist server API endpoint.

This Siri Shortcut, Open URL in Private Tab (Safari iOS), Opens a URL from Share Sheet or Clipboard in Private Safari Tab

Using this method can improve your chances of maintaining your privacy on your iPhone.

Seeking your feedback! My first shortcut on RoutineHub

Credit to unknown original author of an Open URL in Safari Shortcut

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Does this exist?

I would love to activate an iOS shortcut that instantly begins dictation, allows me to tap to stop dictation, and then pastes the transcript into a specified text field. For an added benefit, it would be great to view the live transcript to help maintain my train of thought.

I would like it to use the best available free offline transcription software (e.g. OpenAI Whisper) as well.

Inspirations include:

• Whisper shortcut by Giacomo Melzi - online, very inexpensive, but not offline/live. Requires OpenAI API key ($0.006 / minute, thirty-six cents an hour)
• Ecco Dictate app - offline (private!), but not live nor able to be opened and autostart via shortcut

(Here I’ll mention… If you have never used dictation beyond Apple’s built-in offering, it may be hard for you to imagine just how much you are missing 🙂 If Apple doesn’t catch up by iOS 1

Is there a way to know which app triggered the shortcut call?

For instance, if I share files from the Files app, I could reference something to see “Files” or “iCloud Drive”. When it’s Mail, I’d see “Mail”. Etc.

I am trying to have one universal shortcut for file input but I need to specialize some actions depending on the app that provided the files.

I checked “Shortcut Input” but there aren’t a lot of choices to evaluate. “File Path” is inconsistent in what it will show: executing from the Shortcuts app and picking a file will shows “iCloudDrive/FolderName/Filename.ext” but sharing from the Files app will just show the filename.ext. Sharing from Mail shows the file content.

I found this nifty shortcut to backup all shortcuts. You can set it to an automation and do a rolling limited number of backups on a set schedule, like 10 zip files max, backed up weekly.

There’s a problem though. There’s an error on the Make Archive step.

I stripped the shortcut down to Get All Shortcuts, Make .zip of My Shortcuts. The error persists.

I’m not sure why it’s not working unless this is an existing Shortcuts bug at the moment.

Anyone know?

Anyone know how to tag an Apple Note with multiple tags?

I can create the note, append to it, and tag it with a variable or straight text but I cannot figure how to add multiple tags.

I tried a list, dictionary values, comma separated, new lines. I even tried looping over Add Tag action with a single tag but everything results in an error on trying to tag multiple times to the note.

Let me know if you’ve figured it out!

I made a shortcut that will tell me how many minutes i plyed the game and how much battery i spent for that playing sesion. Its wery usefull to me, so if someone is interested i can share it. I still dont know how to do it but i can find out if someone wants it.

Hii to all, im glad that comunity for this exists on lemmy, because thats just what i was searching for..

Question is: I want shortcut to recognise what app im curently using and to write down apps name, so i can make list of apps that are used in las hower for example.. Is there a way that shortcut can do something like that..? 🤔

When you copy the URL for sharing in YouTube, it adds a query parameter now, so=blah, for tracking the source. This removes that. It could of course be smarter and stop at either the end or the next parameter, but since I haven’t seen any extras, I just remove everything after.

Just wanted to remind the Lemmy community that you can enable and disable portrait mode on a per app basis so you don’t need to manually do it and open the control center each time.

MacRumors has a guide for those interested in doing this: Link

I created this Shortcut to address a long-present and costly need of my own: interlinked, visible task management per single files of all types. It has begun to assist me in slowing the accumulation of redundant/duplicate/forgotten/lost files across all of my various file systems.

Out of the box, this version requires Toolbox Pro for its whole function.

Video Demo

• HardLimit
• YouTube (Shorts)
• Imgur

Shown are two methods:

1. Running the Shortcut independently (which will show a file picker.)
2. Running the Shortcut from the Share Sheet.

Setup Step

Yeah I know, this might be taking things too far. But I got tired of typing the same variations over and over, so I decided to generate it from a few custom snippets.

You can use this optional shortcut together with Pushcut to get a notification when it’s someone’s birthday. You can set it up to generate the message when tapping on the Pushcut notification.

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It currently works with WhatsApp or messages. It generates a message with three parts:

• "Happy birthday" (randomly selects a variation of it, you can customize these)
• "Tanja" (chooses the first name or nickname if you have one set for the contact)
• "🎂🤗" (also customizable ending, chooses randomly)

So the message here would be: "Happy birthday Tanja 🎂🤗". It will then open the chat app you picked and pre-fill the message. It’s not sending the message automatically.

The contents of "What's new in Shortcuts for iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS 14, and watchOS 10," reformatted with care applied.

New Actions

• Transcribe Audio generates text from an audio file
• Delete Alarms removes specified alarms from Clock
• Edit Sleep Alarm skips the next sleep alarm, or reactivates a skipped sleep alarm
• Open Camera opens the Camera app into a specific capture mode, such as "Selfie"
• Open Collection navigates to a specific section of the Photos app, such as "Places"
• Show Passwords navigates to Passwords in Settings on iOS and System Settings on macOS
• End Workout completes your current workout session on iOS and watchOS
• Scan Document captures an image and saves it to the Files app on iOS
• Get Current Timer, Pause Timer, Resume Timer, and Cancel Timer are now supported on iOS
• Start Stopwatch, Lap Stopwatch, Stop the Stopwatch, and Reset Stopwatch are now supported on iOS

I’ve done it from scratch now, here it is: download. I’ve split it into two shortcuts, one takes a dictionary with the post info and makes a post. That one can be used for anything.

I also created a second shortcut to grab the title, url, and optionally generate a TL;DR via ChatGPT from any website. You can find it here.

I’d appreciate it if someone could try it out and let me know if everything works as it should :)

Edit: I’ve done it from scratch now, here’s the shortcut: download

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I’ve been thinking of creating a shortcut that shares an article to a specific community, with the title & url prefilled and a ChatGPT short summary of the article. I’d prefer not to start from scratch with authentication etc.

Has anyone come across a shortcut that lets me post to Lemmy that I can use as a starting point? I couldn’t find one yet.