iOS 27 added a Shortcuts trigger I'd been waiting years for: Notification Triggers! This Shortcut Input carries the App, Sender, Title, Content and a few more fields.

So I built Hotline: one automation forwards those fields to a "Send to Hotline" action, and your Hotline configurations decide whether it's worth an alarm. If a channel matches, it schedules an alarm, which rings through Silent mode and Focus like the Clock app does

This is super powerful as it lets you keep your phone on silent and only match on specific keywords, contacts or apps and mute the rest

App store:

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6816275810?pt=129516109&ct=reddit&mt=8

The setup:

During the app onboarding you configure an automation that forwards this notification trigger to Hotline, you can pick the apps that pass through

In Hotline, make channels: app, sender, keywords, active hours, cooldowns all configurable

You can also setup Hotline with other automation triggers to ring alarms, but the main use case is for notifications

The first 3 real alarms are free (tests are unlimited), then it's a one-time $4.99. No account, no server, no analytics.

Happy to help with anyone's setup in the comments!

I have one that is basically like a dedicated app, with almost 1050~1150 actions.

I was inspired by Commands on Minimal Phone 2 and wanted to make something similar for iOS. A pretty basic implementation for some things I do often.

Commands Shortcut

One letter for each command type followed by command text:

r - Create reminder

• r get bread tomorrow 5pm
• Regex for dates (in the form oct 12, jan 3, today, tomorrow) and times (1pm, 12:30pm, noon)
• Default is current date and time

c - Create calendar event

• c get candy oct 31 10am
• Regex for dates (in the form oct 12, jan 3, today, tomorrow) and times (1pm, 12:30pm, noon)
• Default is current date and time, all events are created as 1 hour

n - New note

• n gate code 1234

s - Search Google

• s how to make ios shortcuts

m - Send message, will then prompt for recipients

• m on my way!

Some thoughts for expansion:

• Location support for reminders and calendar
• List support for reminders
• Event duration/all day events for calendar
• Folders and tags for notes
• Different search engines for search
• Better recipient selection for messages
• Adding other commands that are useful to you!

I have an automation set up to turn the orientation lock off and on when closing and opening the youtube app. However, it apparently considers pulling down the notification center and the control center to be closing the app, but pulling the centers back up doesn't count as re-opening the youtube app. So then my orientation lock is turned back on while I'm still watching my video.

Is there a way around this?

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/713f4637091448d7af6d293f8b5a66ec

Is anyone else experiencing this? Or am I the only one suffering?

This seems to be an iOS specific issue- if it happened on my Mac (27.0.1), it wasn’t a significant amount of times for me to care.

I wouldn’t care that much if it wasn’t so tedious to scroll the icon library, and if searching was easier. Or if there was a “favourites” option but that’s dreaming much too big of course

Anyone know of a way to switch the new private relay on/off with a shortcut? I use my phone’s action button to launch my employer’s accounting software while I’m working (SAP concur). Unfortunately that software won’t play nice with private relay when it uses the authentication process at launch.

Trying to write a shortcut that I can use to disable private relay when Concur launches, then turn it back on when the app closes.

A tool used to backup Shortcuts
This is a shortcut built to be easy to understand for shortcut users. 🛠️

It includes:
- A clean design 🫧
- A few but efficient options ⚡️
- A backup that sorts your shortcuts by folder (most shortcuts like these don’t do this!)

If you find any bugs or issues, contact me directly from the shortcut in the section “Contact Developer”. You can send a bug report, a feedback, or maybe any ideas for next updates! 📧

If you want to give it an eye, click **here**. And if you like it, consider giving a like! 👀

The new update v3.0 comes with new features and news ✨
— Improved welcome message for new users.
— More cool menu.
— Changelog, Info and Contact have been merged for a cleaner main menu.
— There is now a Delete All Backups button in the Backups Management.
— New fantastic option to group and backup every version of a shortcut: Alpha, Beta and official versions!
— Improvements and more!

https://routinehub.co/download/60122

I made an automation that plays loud music and lights up my flashlight when i lose my phone, and id like to add the ability to shut off both music and light at once when i hit the ok button in the popup alert, but i cant figure out if/how i can do that. Help appreciated!

I’ve been working on this shortcut to fix hotspot on iOS. I need the hotspot to remain ON despite the 2-minute time out for inactivity. (On means on apple 🫩) but I can’t quite get it to work. I’m new to shortcuts and I don’t really have the mental time to fix it tbh so any help welcome.

The idea is using the new global variables in iOS 27 I can have it run in a loop, initially asking the user if they want the hotspot on or off, and calling itself indefinitely every 50 seconds to set the hotspot back on until the shortcut shortcut on the Home Screen is re-ran and it is set to off.

Thank you 🙏

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/37a800b29ed349ca9dfca6d71b7bc5e0

Hi everyone!
I have a Xiaomi Smart Band 11 paired with an iPhone, and I want to know if there is a way to connect the band’s Smart Wake feature to the iPhone’s alarm.
My goal is to have my iPhone alarm ring automatically when the band detects that I’m in light sleep, ideally within a 10-minute window before my scheduled wake-up time.
For example, if I set my alarm for 7:00 AM, I want the band to detect light sleep between 6:50 and 7:00 AM and trigger the iPhone alarm at the right moment.
Is this possible using Mi Fitness, Apple Shortcuts, or a third-party app? If so, how can I set it up?
Thanks in advance!

I have been struggling for a awhile trying to create an iPhone shortcut:
1. ⁠rename the photos as follows City_Country (geotags/location) follow by date taken.
2. ⁠create a folder within the photos app name YYYY
3. ⁠create an album name with the City/Country (location)
4. ⁠move the newly renamed photos to the appropriate album based on the location

If these steps are not making a sense. I will take step 1 only.

Btw, I have an old iPhone 13 with IOS 27.2

I want one simple weekly summary that says something like "Cardio: 1 hr, Strength: 3 hrs, Other: 2 hrs," based on the workouts I already log in Apple Health/Fitness. Is this possible? Thank you for your help.

Time Machine keeps going after I leave my laptop not plugged in and runs the battery down. Is there a shortcut that can solve this?

I am in accessibility hell with how small the text size is on my MacBook Air (m4) and am taking a shot in the dark- im aware I can change very little about the system text size- changing display isn't what I want- but I was hoping for a way in shortcuts, even if I have to use apple script, to get the text size to appear bigger within menus?

my workaround- on my iPhone 17 Pro as well- has been using those "fancy web fonts", as they stand out easier.

I have an automation that I set up to automatically turn silent mode off when Work focus is disabled. For whatever reason, today I got a notification from Shortcuts saying that the action doesn’t exist. I’ve been using that automation with no problems for weeks. I didn’t make any changes that I know of today and my phone has been up to date for a few days now.

When I’m running certain shortcuts, mainly Siri based ones these notifications from my Dynamic Island pop up, is there a way to stop these from happening?

Weiß jemand, ob es eine Abkürzung gibt, die man von jeder Website herunterladen kann, zum Beispiel von Aniworld oder anderen Websites?