Could anyone confirm whether we can build a shortcut or if one already exists that switches a specific app’s alerts on or off with a single click?

I created a Carplay automation to play an episode of a podcast when I start my car. But if there's no episode available, Carplay shows an error message and won't play anything.

How do I create a IF action to play first podcast choice and if none available, play 2nd choice

Do I create a shortcut or automation and what are the actions

What this does

This shortcut makes you choose an app to customize then it creates a shortcut and waits for you to add it to your library so that it can put it on your homescreen.

Shortcut Configuration Settings

WT stands for wait time WT is the amount of time you have before the shortcut checks your library and adds your customized app onto your homescreen.

CL stands for custom label you can modify the boolean to true if you want labeled apps.

Why did I make this?

The only reason I made this shortcut was to one-up an app icon making shortcut that got paywalled after it became popular. But I will update the shortcut

I made a a shortcut that opens a particular app when I start a focus mode and opens it again when I end the focus mode. This works great if my phone is unlocked, but if it is locked, I get prompted with "tap to run focus mode" with continue or quit options. Is there not a way for it to run Face ID and open the app if it sees me without a prompt?

Hi there!

Wanting to get a smart bulb that I can set up a shortcut/automation for when I arrive home (or within a radius of home) for the bulb to turn on. I tried to do something similar with a fan or led strip lights but they are all sort of connected through Google home app. None of them appeared on the shortcut app. So couldn’t figure out how to do it. Does it need to be a wifi bulb?
Seen one on Argos that is relatively well priced, its the
Philips WiZ E27 Colour Smart LED Wi-Fi Bulb

Does anyone have this and use it for this purpose? Or any recommendations for one?
I like the idea of being able to control different colours and dimmable as well but ideally just want to make sure it works with a shortcut that runs immediately and doesn’t require any clicking of a button/confirmation

Thanks in advance!!

I'm customizing my iPhone, to change the icons, using the shortcuts, but every time I click on them this banner appears, is it possible to deactivate this?

Here’s my iOS shortcut that checks for new text massages with words like “vote” and “ lease”, then checks to see if the sender is in your contacts, if not, it replies “Stop”. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a20e84d762df4e9aaf750a24915f6525

I originally had it delete the messages but didn’t want it to go on a rampage.

Quick update on TDownload v2.0.

Instagram and Facebook video downloads are working again (API credits restored).

What works now
• TikTok video (HD when available)
• One image from a TikTok photo post
• X / Twitter video & photo
• Instagram video
• Facebook video

Still not included
• Instagram carousels
• Facebook albums

Links
RoutineHub
https://routinehub.co/shortcut/26636/

ShareShortcuts
https://shareshortcuts.com/shortcuts/4190-tdownload-v2.1.html

iCloud
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/21ea10ec48564bdab2cb5a378bc85f4b

Personal use only. Third-party APIs can change.

Bug reports welcome here.

Hi!

I’m a student and I read a lot of my readings on my iPad with a keyboard, I’m wondering if there’s a way to highlight selected text quickly with a shortcut, rather than have to touch the screen to do so.

I’ve looked around online to no avail, and I’m not shortcut savvy enough to be able to see a way to do it myself.

Thanks yall ^^

I was fed up not doing things on time, going to bed late, getting out of bed late. Although I was always keen to plan ahead, thinking it’s easy to act, I always ended up not doing what I planned. That’s why I decided to push things a little bit and add real constraints. I got inspired by an old Reddit thread, and I admit there are some escape hatches, but it’s fine for now. If I trust the system, and remind why I’m doing this, I’ll (normally) act.

My organisation relies on several items :

• a BED alarm
• a HEY alarm
• a Lock all screens shortcut (iPhone, iPad, Macbook via SSH if reachable). basically a loop that lock the device every X second X times. It forces me to stop using my devices.
• a Chaos shortcut. a series of events I don’t want to happen : all my lights at full power, a loop with an alarm every 2 minutes, a song I hate on my HomePod. Could be even worse.
• NFC cards in my bathroom (Morning and Evening)
• Actions and DataJar app (available on the App Store)

EVENING : Stop what I do and prepare to go to bed

1. Every Sunday, an automation enables my BED alarm.
2. When the alarm stops, it launches a “Evening Bathroom Checker” shortcut to :
   • launch “Lock all devices” shortcut
   • wait 90 seconds (some time to leave the sofa)
   • check if the variable GOING_TO_BED is 1 in DataJar. if no, launch the Chaos shortcut. if yes, set back GOING_TO_BED to 0
3. Tapping my Evening card launches a “Going to bed” shortcut to :
   • set global variables SLEEP and GOING_TO_BED to 1 (using Actions app)
   • set a scene in my bathroom (dimmed warm light)
   • enable Sleep Focus
4. If I open Safari or any other distracting app I tend to open once in bed, a “Web App Checker” shortcut launches and check SLEEP value. If 1, lock 5 minutes.
5. Once in bed, I launch a Sleep shortcut that turn off all my lights and sockets, and disables cellular data, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

MORNING : Wake up and leave bed, then enable things

1. When my Sleep alarm stops in the morning, it sets my lights (bedroom + bathroom) to a very dimmed blue.
2. When my HEY alarm stops, it launches a “Morning Bathroom Checker” shortcut to :
   • wait 90 seconds (some time to get up)
   • check if the global variable WAKE_UP is 1. if no, launch the Chaos shortcut. if yes, set back WAKE_UP to 0
3. Tapping my Morning card launches a “Wake up” shortcut to :
   • set SLEEP to 0
   • set WAKE_UP to 1
   • enable cellular data, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
   • turn off Sleep Focus
   • turn off my bedroom light
   • enable my BED alarm for the evening. The notification reminds me to adjust it, if I know that I have things planned that evening, for instance

DAY
If I open social apps like Facebook, Instagram, a shortcut launches and check if time is within “allowed” time ranges (using Actions app). If no, run the “Lock 5 minutes” shortcut (a simple locking loop)
I also have a “Day” card in my living room, linked to an alarm with the same logic (and locking Mac only). It forces me to take regular breaks in the day. It’s so easy to get lost when you’re following the wrong track when working on a task.

It may seems overcomplicated, but like I said, I have tried lots of things before that didn’t work. I’d like to know your own tips and I’d be more than happy to explain the process to anyone interested, or share shortcuts.

As many are involved and custom, I chose not to share them, but I may do if against the community rules. Be kind, it’s my first Reddit post ever !

Hope this could inspire some of you !

I normally keep Call Screening set to “Ask Reason for Calling,” but occasionally switch it to “Never” when I'm expecting a callback and want the call to come straight through.

Unfortunately, changing this setting requires several taps, so I'm trying to create a Shortcut to make switching between the two easier.

I've successfully created Shortcuts for “Never” and “Silence,” but can't figure out how to set one for “Ask Reason for Calling.”

Has anyone managed to get this working?

Thanks!

I love to take cute photos of my long-distance girlfriend on FaceTime, but the photo button built in is so clunky. I have never used shortcuts but is there a way to make clicking the camera control button or the action button take a FaceTime photo (or really any other way than the built-in button)?

I tried a couple of wordings of my request in the Shortcuts app to no avail, but I don’t know if it’s user error. I know I could just take a screenshot but I don’t want my much less pretty face in it and I want it to be live. I also like how FaceTime photos notify her that I took a photo.

Thanks for the help!

Hey guys, I am Joseph, the developer behind Integrated, it lets you run shortcuts on your mac and iphone (ios 27 is required for shortcuts on iphone)

Above is a video I made with a few shortcuts and apple scripts I use on my mac, trust me the double tap to trigger an shortcut feels magical

Official site: integratedevices.com

iOS download: App Store
(If your country is not included, do mention it, i'll include it ASAP)

The app has a free 5 day trial, and has a one time cost of 10$

Looking forward to hear any way I can improve the app and what creative shortcuts you guys would love to run from your watch

I need an app specific volume shortcut.
I know what I want to do, but not sure if it’s possible.
I’m somewhat okay with creating shortcuts but this one is a bit complicated.

I want to create a shortcut that turns down Facebook reels volume. I want to create an icon so that when Facebook is opened, it turns down (to like 10%) the app volume. Then either times out after 30 minutes or when the app is closed.

To complicate things I’m trying to make it husband proof (he’s a bit technologically challenged) so I’m thinking I can include the shortcut steps to open Facebook, turn down the volume, and have it auto reset after done or closing out the app.

He is constantly turning the volume to almost off and then forgets it is down and misses texts and calls.

I’m trying to make it automated so he doesn’t have to remember to turn it back up.

Possible??? I would be willing to send funds to get it to come out right. 🙂

Apologies for the multiple fixes I've had to push out. I just released v2.10 to cover the issue that many users were facing with the shortcut not being able to download any media. I have also added the option back in for downloading full story from a user's profile.

Previous post link: https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/1x557v3

Links to download (or get in updater within shortcut)

RoutineHub

Shortcuty Link

Hi everyone! I’m trying to make a shortcut that plays music from Spotify (because I don’t pay for Apple Music) when I snooze or turn off my alarm. But it asks for permission to open Spotify every time it runs, which defeats the purpose. My attempt is attached. There’s no option under “Open Spotify” to turn on/off Automation. If you have any advice on how to change it to stop that request to have it run properly, I’d appreciate it. Thanks!!

ETA: link to shortcut https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/72ef2aade2fd4fde9be8a9fb080d2c7c

Hi

I have asked for help creating this shortcut before and it worked great until it didn’t. The shortcut logges my clock in and out in a text file just fine.

Then a Ai summary shortcut was suppose to look at all the data and summaries the total days worked, gross hours, net hours (minus fixed break) and overtime hours (Monday - Thursday everything over 7.5 hours and Friday anything over 7 hours)

However, it seems to work only with a few clock in and clock out. If there’s to much data it won’t complete the shortcut.

I have been trying to find another solution but with out luck. I was thinking maybe it’s possible to use google sheets and use that to calculate, but not sure how to automatically switch when a new month starts

My last resort hoping someone can help me create this shortcut.

Thanks
Simon

Is it feasible to create a shortcut that would open the Facebook app then navigate to the Friends tab and then the All page?

I was getting the (The file "settings.json" couldn't be opened.) error before so I deleted the shortcut and file from “Files” and now I’m getting the following error

(-- No media downloaded, {Out} is empty --)

Is anyone familiar with this and how to resolve the error on iPhone?

Hey everyone! I made another Shortcut, this time for working with PDFs without needing a separate app.
It currently has six tools:
• Photos to PDF
• Merge PDFs
• Image to PDF
• Split PDF Pages
• Extract Text from PDFs
• PDF to Image (PNG)
You can also preview, rename, save, or share your PDFs, and export extracted text.
Everything runs through Apple Shortcuts. No subscriptions or additional apps needed.
🔗 Download:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5aaf39f580b845c39beb3aefeecf6465

Still working on improvements, so feel free to share any feedback or suggestions!

If I'm not mistaken, used to be able to disable an automation in Shortcuts. Now in iOS 27 I don't see the option given that they combine Shortcuts and automations into one category (which I think was a very dumb idea).
I didn't see the answer in Apples new guide for shortcuts.
Did they just remove the option to disable an automation that you made? I don't want to spend a bunch of time creating an automation and then have to delete it anytime I don't want it to run.

Ask Siri AI to create an automation that runs when I join my gym WiFi but it doesn’t work and throws up an error “This action could not be run with the current user interface.” What’s the point of Siri making an automation it should know can’t run!?

So i posted this summary of a shortcut i made when commenting on an earlier post. A few people have asked for it so thought I’d put it here.

Notes-

1. This is a skeleton version (necessary as we have different playlists, folders, notes/reminder categories, etc), so you will need to go through the various modules and customize them as you see fit (playlists, podcasts, notes/files and folders, directions home, etc) I’ve left examples where possible, to help with the customization.
2. i created this as a modular system, so youll need all the shortcuts linked in order for it to work properly.
3. i have not yet updated to iOS 27 and have heard multiple issues with shortcuts, no idea what it might break in this so YMMV.

Hope you find it as useful as I do!

Menu UI shortcut summary

I set the action button to open a scrollable menu of the following options- most lead to submenus and actions, denoted by bullets below

Maps

• ⁠search (opens Google Maps directly into search box entry)
• ⁠directions (opens Google Maps directly into destination box entry)
• ⁠home (Google Maps directions home)
• ⁠Maps (opens Apple Maps)

Music -(a scrollable list of my fav playlists and a Music app launch option)

Podcasts -(a scrollable list of my fav podcasts and a podcasts app launch option)

Strands (i find this to be the most useful section for me. Quickly using copied text to create reminders or notes without leaving the app im in. Collecting quotes, saving information in an organized manner, easily finding a saved Reddit post about where the best pizza in my area is, etc)

• ⁠creates a new Note in my Quotes folder in Apple Notes with clipboard text/pic
• ⁠creates a new Note in my Strands folder in Apple Notes with clipboard text/pic
• ⁠creates a new Reminder with clipboard text
• ⁠creates a new Reminder with copied link and asks for Reminder title text (I’ll often use this option for links to specific Reddit posts about suggested restaurants, etc.- just copy the link, activate this action, title it Pizza for example, and its saved to my Recommended category in Reminders)
• ⁠opens a new Reminder text box
• ⁠opens a new Note text box
• ⁠opens camera, picture taken will not save to phone library, but instead to a Files folder (I prefer keeping my phone library empty (everything is in albums, and are filtered from library view)

Search

• ⁠opens a text entry box, once entered, gives options to search that text in Google, DuckDuckGo, Youtube, Giphy, Reddit, or ChatGPT.

Reddit

• ⁠opens Reddit

Safari

• ⁠opens Safari

Photos

• ⁠opens Photos

Play/Pause

• ⁠as stated (super useful to me as i find ios kills the music/podcasts controls on the locksreen and notification shade much too quickly- this action will resume the last thing playing regardless.)

Next

• ⁠next track

Back

• ⁠restart track

Add

• ⁠add current track to any playlist

Apps

• ⁠scrollable menu of all apps

Record

• ⁠opens Camera and begins video recording

Memo

• ⁠begins voice memo recording

Remote

• ⁠Apple TV remote

Time

• ⁠menu options of timers (5,10,15,20,30, or custom minutes) and set alarm option

Translate

• ⁠opens text box with clipboard inserted for translation selection

Send pic

• ⁠opens camera and sends taken pic to selected contact, photo not saved to photo library

Business papers

• ⁠Notes document scanner

Torch

• ⁠flashlight

Great that it works from the lock screen and it also generally prevents the need to switch apps for saving links or other tangents, or go to the homescreen at all.

Shortcut links

Main Menu shortcut

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/347e4253ed294a1595ee4aeaeb4dc7d4

Associated required shortcuts

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/1561b7a40e2f47aaad919944703416f0

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e382cfd6e4b24d66a6a3c38b5d8764df

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6d4f8af80cac417ea4e6b0b27fff8888

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a71a6191c49d48a7a901cea41cbd8c3b

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0a339219f4ca4441a61bf40d814253e4

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/355153e2695e4a57a802d869f57b1551

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/7c73f49e2ade4a728fbeffe0d17ab13e

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b068e26bd43e4f56a82e04ed34674684

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ac31d74e038f4ad4820d9148b1716839

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/800a4f3a10fa4ed28556c1f84d5f5f73

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e77736cc376d4ef595c0e85cc761aefej

Edit-
Last link wasnt working, new link-

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/cdf78466421b443999f022d614961fb6

I looked around with the search function and have not been able to find a shortcut that simply toggles "hey siri" on/off. The use case is that when I am at my desk I want to be able to hands free my phone to play music or respond to messages or emails. Whenever I try to create one myself it keeps telling me a shortcut can change settings. Ideas?

Just want a simple shortcut as above. I used Siri but it’s not working and I can’t figure out why. Does any one know what the problem could be?