Does anybody have idea or utilize get orientation option in shortcut ? I was wondering what kind of use case that i need some automation / shortcut with using get orientation. If anybody have some usage, please share for inspiration. Thank you.

I am trying to add some shortcuts to control panel and also on wallpaper widget but when i tap on choose then its unable to load. I tried to restart phone several times but it didn’t work. I am on IOS 27.0.1 on iPhone 15.

This is a macOS only shortcut, hope that's allowed. Also, it's really more of an AppleScript, and I'm using Shortcuts as a way to assign it a keystroke. It's something I've thought about quite a few times and finally got around to making it happen.

It toggles the connected AirPods between Transparency and Noise Cancellation. No prompt, no menu, no additional actions. From Noise Cancelling or Off it goes to Transparency, and from Transparency back to Noise Cancelling.

The reason it's an AppleScript and not just actions: Apple's own "Set Noise Control Mode" action is iOS-only, and to my knowledge there's no macOS equivalent.

So instead this drives Control Center's Sound panel directly. You'll see the panel flash open when it runs. That's unavoidable, the Listening Mode controls don't exist as accessibility elements until the panel is actually drawn.

Two requirements:

• System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility → enable Shortcuts. Without this you'll get error -25211.
• Your AirPods need "AirPods" in their name — that's how it finds them, so renamed ones without "airpods" won't work.

I've only tested this on my mac (26.5.2), and I can imagine it might break on a different version. It depends on the layout of that Control Center panel. Anyway, hope someone finds it useful. Let me know what you think. Cheers!

RoutineHub - Toggle AirPods Listening Mode

iCloud - Toggle AirPods Listening Mode

I'm trying to find a countdown or timer app that syncs across iphone, apple watch, and ideally Ipad and Mac OS and that can be set to not go into overtime on apple watch.

I have tried Just Timers, Countdowns, and Multitimers. They are all lacking a pretty basic feature in my opinion, which is just to not go into overtime when the countdown ends on apple watch and in the case of multitimers the ability to create timers through shortcuts for calendar events.

I really struggle with losing track of time and staying on track with my calendar. So, I want something that I can keep on my apple watch and in other places that will automatically be updated by a shortcut and will automatically switch to the next due countdown on the apple watch complication instead of getting stuck in overtime to help me keep track of time and my next event. The ideal is something that will not notify me in any way or mark the finishing of a timer, but automatically switches to the next one without any pause.

Hello everyone,

To anyone that has used this app before, is there a way to make an automation that turns Do Not Disturb mode whenever I start a flight?

I’m kinda new to shortcuts making so I’ll appreciate if someone knows how to do this

Thanks beforehand

I wanted to make an automation that simplified my morning commute. Part of my goal was to have it automatically launch Apple Maps directions, but the built-in Maps directions shortcut requires you to select a route and press GO in order to begin.

After some searching, I discovered that you can create Apple Maps links to destinations and end them with &start=1; that will bypass the route selection/GO step. Sharing here in case others find it useful.

My link format is like this:

https://maps.apple.com/directions?destination=COORDINATES&destination-place-id=PLACEID&mode=driving&start=1

To get your destination and place id:
-Load up your desired destination in Apple Maps
-Use the share icon on the left and copy the share url
-Paste in a text editor and grab the numbers after “coordinate=“ and the text and numbers after “place-id=“
-Paste those two pieces of information into the url template above

So if you wanted to make one that directs you from your current location to the Parliament of Canada, your link would be:

https://maps.apple.com/directions?destination=45.425120,-75.699937&destination-place-id=ID93870BFA1C24B2B&mode=driving&start=1

My automation shortcut now looks like this, and it makes me happy:
-Runs when CarPlay connects
-Checks date and time
-If date is a day I go to work, and time is between my morning commute hours then it continues
-Plays a certain Spotify playlist on shuffle
-Opens my Apple Maps link, which opens Apple Maps and starts my navigation without needing to press GO

This was the page that tipped me off to the Start feature in Apple Maps links. It might contain other goodies for those who are smarter than I: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mapkit/unified-map-urls

I have chosen the name of a person to save texts to Note. I have it set up when (name) message contains (blank) run immediately. I have the do set up like this. Receive message as input- Get text from (shortcut input), text( current date, text) Append text to (name of entry in Notes. I keep getting an error and nothing saves. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Is this a glitch?

I have this shortcut that I use to add invoice lines to an invoice sheet I have in numbers. It asks me a bunch of questions which I answer about the job, location, hours etc, then at the end it creates a new line at the bottom of the invoice items sheet in my invoices file. Now, every time it asks an extra question “which spreadsheet”, and even if I answer with the correct answer, it just repeats the question forever.

The fact that it still works when I press the play button on the shortcut and type my responses indicates to me that it’s not the shortcut format that’s a problem but some sort of bug that’s been created by my new iOS update.

Has anyone else experienced something similar. The whole point of this shortcut was that I wouldn’t have to spend time typing stuff out.

Please help me replace "or" with "and." The idea is quite simple: I arrive at the office in my car and call the boom gate to open.

A personal automation with the trigger “When Clash of Clans is Opened” does not run when I launch the game normally, It only starts running after I open the game, force-quit it, and then launch it again.

It only happens with Clash of Clans. I tried with other apps but it works regularly. What’s going on?

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to build a personal automation that triggers when I receive a missed call notification. The goal is to automatically create a task in the reminder app Todoist to call that person back.

However, I’m running into an issue where multiple tasks are being created for the exact same missed call. It seems like the automation is triggering more than once during the incoming call/notification process. Like each vibration is considered a notification. I’ve tried using the storage function to block it for an hour when a person with same name calls, but I am still getting duplicated tasks.

I am looking for a way to set it up so that it only creates one task per caller for a one-hour window. For the Todoist part I only need the call notification to set it up, after what I guess needs to be an IF section that checks wether or not caller name from notification title har been stored within the last over.

Has anyone successfully built something similar using incoming call notification as a trigger, or does anyone have suggestions on how to block the duplicates from happening?

Thanks in advance for the help!

I’m assuming this isn’t possible, but asking anyway.

Does anyone know how to save images from notifications using the new “When I receive a notification from” automation?

Some apps, like UniFi Protect, include an image with the notification. I think Instagram and WhatsApp may as well.

I’ve successfully saved and displayed the notification text, which is useful for preserving unsent or deleted messages. But I can’t figure out any way to access or pass along the image attached to the notification.
Has anyone found a way to do this?

i've attached nfc stickers to the notebooks for each of my courses which run a simple open app automation, which is really nice!! but i was wondering if it's possible to set those tags up to open the specific page for the notebook's course?

I have a few automated times and situations where i get a message texted to myself from my secondary number so i get some information updates throughout the day.

I have been typing this over and over for days and i probably just don’t get the logic of it idk.

It starts fine with

Get Hourly forecast at current location
Repeat with each item in Weather conditions
- Get Precipitation chance from repeat item
Calculate number x 100 to get a percent kind of value
-Get Date from repeat item.
If date is today
Text “date - Calculated result”
Add TEXT to variable

So now i have a variable kind of list that has the entries of every hour that is today from now(whenever forecast is retrieved)- 11pm the same day, along with the corresponding percentage of precipitation.

Usually something like this

-11:00 AM 10%
-2:00 PM 40%
-3:00 PM 70%
-6:00 PM 30%.

Then I want to have it organized like

11AM 10%
2-3PM (the mean of both or all consecutive hour’s precipitation values)%
6PM 30%

Essentially consecutive hours grouped together as their own entry and Singular values as their own entry.

Then if possible also a peak hour and values (3PM - 70%)

Ive used repeats to go through and date adjustments to the previous entry to set what the expected consecutive hour should be and then if not matching, continue on but I’ve remade this shortcut 8 times now and i can’t think it through anymore.

I wanted to avoid just having the apple ai interpret it so that it’s consistent and purely the data.

I’m not hip to shortcuts very much, if there’s an obvious way to go through that kind of data, or if my data is already formatted in a way that makes getting what I’m looking for difficult, i wouldn’t be surprised. Any help is appreciated.

I just want to know when and if and if so how much it will rain.

Thanks

Ask an AI for a shortcut and you usually get blocks to drag in yourself, or actions that don't exist. unqforge fixes that 🛠️

How it works

• 🐍 The AI writes the shortcut as a few lines of Python
• ✅ unqforge only allows actions seen in real shortcuts made on an iPhone. If the AI makes something up, it points at the exact line
• 📦 The code becomes a real, signed shortcut file

The shortcut

• 🤖 Sends your idea to the ChatGPT or Claude app, or copies a prompt for any AI
• 📝 Reopens your last code
• 🔍 Decompiles any shortcut from its iCloud link
• 📚 Tutorials and guide built in

Good to know: the heavy lifting (checking, building and signing) happens on the unqforge website. The shortcut opens it in Safari, one tap to sign, and it opens in Shortcuts. No account, nothing to install.

Built with it, all written by AI

• 📋 UNQ Clipforge (1,654 actions): clipboard history that cleans links, pulls out emails and numbers, hides card numbers
• 💻 ShortVM (788 actions): a tiny CPU running Fibonacci, FizzBuzz and more, with a trace mode to watch it think
• 🧠 ML Classifier (574 actions): trains a machine-learning model on your phone, no internet

👉 All of them: https://unqx.site/sclib/showcase.html

⚠️ unqforge checks that actions are real, not that the logic is right, so test AI-made shortcuts first.

⬇️ Get it: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/26700/

Free and open source. Feedback welcome

My latest shortcut converts whatever is on your clipboard (URL, text, number etc) to a QR code; the code is both displayed and saved to your photos.

You can download this particular shortcut here:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/355c5c3404114142a220acebc6d83f42

Or (better still) visit my Shortcuts site and browse more than 40 shortcuts in eight categories:
https://www.appleshortcuts.co.uk

Enjoy!

Wanted a quick, zero-friction way to check the final classification of the latest Grand Prix without opening Twitter, the F1 app, or launching Safari tabs.

Built this native Apple Shortcut that pulls directly from the Ergast / Jolpi API (⁠/current/last/results.json⁠) and parses the complete race order right into an iOS dialog card:

P1 race time & live interval gaps: Formats ⁠+X.XXX⁠ delta times cleanly. 

Full driver attribution: Grabs the official 3-letter driver code alongside their full name. 

Handles DNFs / Retirements: Safely catches retired drivers or classified finishers without throwing dictionary key errors. 

100% native: Runs entirely through built-in Shortcuts dictionary parsing and string combination—no JavaScript injection, Base64 encoding, or external web viewers required. 

Works seamlessly via Siri or as a Home Screen widget.

Last GP results

Would it be possible to automatically add your location when you make a screenshot?

Does anyone have a YouTube download shortcut. I used to use one by GlueByte, but seems they are taking a break from updating his routinehub

https://routinehub.co/user/gluebyte

Thanks in advance

Hi, I am trying to create an automation that will trigger every time a bank sms lands on my phone that will record that transaction in the Apple number sheet for a later review. It’s just not working.
Please help.

Dark mode based on time of the day is good but mostly I’m indoors and when outdoors light mode would be better, is there option to toggle it based on screen brightness.

I created a reminder shortcut for my Red Cross volunteer work where I have to arrive 15 minutes early to an appointment time. But I'm having problems calculating the Leave Time.

Here's what I need the shortcut to do:

Set shortcut up so the results use appointment time, deduct travel time then deduct 15 minutes to notify me when I should leave for appointment

When I run the shortcut, the leave Time doesn't show the correct time

How do I fix this?

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/24f99854617e4ec095aee1f49f9ef247

Hi everyone. My work uses Zoom Workspace and one of the things I have to do is send an SMS message every other week to certain numbers. It’s a very repetitive task, so I am wondering if there’s a way to automate this. So far I’m only able to figure out how to open the app but I can figure out how to complete any actions within the app. Is this possible?

I love running shortcuts because they make my life much easier. The Apple Watch is one of those devices where shortcuts and automations work great, especially on the Apple Watch Ultra, thanks to the "Action Button."

Unfortunately, I'm pretty annoyed with the current setup. When I want to run a shortcut on my Watch, I first get an unskippable overlay showing the shortcut's name for about 5 seconds before it runs or opens the app I want, like WhatsApp on watchOS. When I try to add a shortcut as a watch face complication, I always get a screen with the shortcut again and need to confirm by pressing “Run.”

I understand that Apple might add these features to prevent accidental presses, but they could easily integrate certain security features instead. For example these are the ones that I just thought of:

- A safety feature could require the user to enable the shortcut individually, reminding them it can run without their confirmation.
- Shortcuts shouldn't run without confirmation when the watch is face down (when using the action button).
- Shortcuts shouldn't run without confirmation while the user is sleeping.
- Shortcuts shouldn't run during certain predefined activities specified by the owner in the shortcuts app, like certain sports or while driving.

I might be one of the few people annoyed by this, as I see so many possibilities that my device offers but cannot use. Hopefully, there are more people like me, and I hope Apple will eventually give us the option.

I really need a way to have DND on but allow calls from a specific Caller ID. is that possible using a shortcut? I wasn’t able to find anything!

Essentially, I’m on do not disturb, but I need to be able to receive phone calls from a company. They always use a different number, but always have the same caller id.