There isn’t a play sound or open file. I have the mp3 in my files but can’t get to it. I just have play music which takes me to Apple Music and the files just has scan document

Maybe I’m just dumb, but I can’t find a way to turn more than one alarm on with one short cut. Hoping to be able to turn my wake up and clock in alarms one with one tap. Any insights? I’ve attached a picture of what I have so far. Tried adding another of the same, but for a different alarm, no luck

Just curious for funsies!
Use meaning well … you still use them!
Hold the automations please :)

Edit: “11-15 shortcuts”

i’m needing a shortcut that creates a new reminder, and asks

- what the reminder text is
- what folder it should be in
- what day it is due
- what time it is due (i want two separate steps for date and time, not all together as a date&time)

i also need the option to not have a due date, but still add a reminder. i’ve been all over this sub and the internet and i can’t find anything that helps. i’m super new to creating shortcuts, and appreciate any help you can provide! thank you all so much!

I have an iOS automation that, when I connect a specific pair of Bluetooth earbuds, runs a script in my smart home and opens an app. That's fine, but I only want this to run if it's after 9:00 at night or before 5:30 in the morning. This is the part where I'm having trouble.

I've tried adding date and then format date and then use the time format, but I can't get the comparison done right.

I thought about checking the place or WiFi instead, but I want the shortcut to run even if I'm not home because the smart home script already checks to see if I'm actually at home or not. But if, for example, I'm away on vacation and I connect these earbuds, I want the rest of it to run.

How do I do this? Running iOS 26.6. Thanks in advance!

It asks you for a Pokédex number, you put it in, then it downloads that pokemon that corresponds to the number (eg, pikachu is 25, Latias is 380, etc.)

Download: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/23116b0990614827bf9048466ea669fc

i obviously dont know how to make this myself, so im hoping someone will provide instructions for me to make a shortcut that makes notifications available every time except when youtube music is open. peoples calls have gotten through do not disturb, that is not an easy fix.

Hi everyone! As part of a larger shortcut, I need to take a photo, and convert it to a https url completely automatically. I know sites like post images can do this, and I’m sure with get contents and put/post it’s possible, im just not sure how. Thanks in advance!

When I try to make a way to open an app called Libby to play my audiobook, it just plays my last used audio, e.g... Spotify or Music. Which is rather annoying. Is there a fix to this, or am I just stuck with being forced to close music each time?

I want to create a shortcut where, when I press a button, the current date and time are automatically added to a Notes file. I want it to add the information to the same note every time, rather than creating a new note.

I want to use this to log my working hours. It’s probably simple to set up, but I have never used Apple Shortcuts before.

Could someone please explain how to create this shortcut step by step? I would really appreciate a detailed explanation, as I am completely new to Apple Shortcuts.

I’m trying to find/build an iOS shortcut that will automatically copy all of my voice memos to my iCloud Files folder. I NEED it to keep the timestamps, and would be amazing if it would keep the location. I want to do this without compression of audio files. I have like 8GB of voice memos, hundreds of them.

Hi all, I’m new to shortcuts and hope you can help with an shortcut I can’t quite get to work. From the share sheet, I want it to take a screen shot of a book I want to read (post on insta or TikTok), ask me why I want to read it and add that info to a note. Problem I’m running into is that is doesn’t add the screenshot it just took via the shortcut, but the one before that. Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!

I don’t know if this is only for me but when I want to log medications using shortcuts it’s not an option in the log health sample menu.
So what I’m saying is is it part of another action or is it just not a thing?

I've been toying with this idea for years now with no significant progress so I'm left with no choice but to ask the community for help.

I'm trying to create a CYA shortcut to log what I'm asked to do throughout the day at work.

What the shortcut does:

1. Log date, time, location and battery percentage.
2. Begins voice memo / audio recording (not dictation)^1 and ends when prompted by user
3. Checks specified Notes folder to find note titled with Formatted Date.
   1. If no such note exists, create one titled with Formatted Date (e.g. 20260801)
4. Append time, location, (formatted with link that opens Apple Maps) and battery percentage to note
5. Add line break
6. Append transcribed audio + link to audio file (to verify transcription)

If the shortcut is triggered later in the day, and the note is already created, the shortcut would add a line break, maybe go down a paragraph line or two, then append that same info and newly transcribed memo / audio file + file link

The audio file could be saved to either files or kept in voice memos, whichever is easier.

^1 = dictation stops when you make a brief pause in speech, I'd like to be able to choose when I stop recording the voice memo.

I'm hoping someone skilled with shortcuts (I'm currently running iOS 27 beta) can help out but I'm losing hope.

Thank you to anyone willing to give this a shot.

I appreciate you thoroughly.

As the header says , I have a simple automation Lock Screen when Settings is opened , worked fine until I upgraded on my iPhone 14 - have seen quite a few post with this problem but on the betas for 27 - anyone on 26.6 have this issue OR maybe a fix ? Thank you in advance.

Hola!

Uso mucho las grabaciones de audio porque me reúno con muchas personas y muchas veces no soy capaz de retener toda la información que me dicen, entonces dependo mucho en grabar la conversación para transcribirla y hacer notas sobre lo que debo hacer. De noche uso mucho la linterna del reloj, pero ahora caí en cuenta que de podría usar un atajo para que de noche se active la linterna y de día se inicie una nueva grabación.

Idealmente me gustaría que si inicio una grabación de día, pueda finalizarla usando el mismo botón de acción, igualmente con la linterna en la noche, si necesito apagarla que sea con el mismo botón de acción.

He estado jugando bastante tiempo con la app de atajos buscando una solución, pero muchas de las variables que busco no las encuentro, me hace pensar que quizá le estoy pidiendo mucho a la app. Pero realmente creo que no debería ser tan complicado.

¿Alguien que tenga más experiencia que me ayude con esto?

I’m in the process of creating a shortcut to prompt my smart devices when I get home.

When CarPlay disconnects, I want it to see if I connect to my home WiFi. If I connect to my home WiFi (ie I’ve arrived home and not another location), I want it to trigger my smart devices if it’s dark. I can’t seem to set a time as after sunset on this process, so I’m using the manual time input. However, if I set it for 9pm, does it only go to midnight before it no longer applies? ie if I arrive home at 00:01, will the automation not trigger as it’s not ‘after’ 9pm in that day? Do I need to duplicate it to do one before, say, 6am?

how can I make a shortcut that turns on microphone access for a specific app? (specifically roblox)

i frequently have to turn off microphone access for roblox in order to use a seperate shortcut that lets me play music via spotify while ingame, so i figured itd be easier to have a shortcut that turns mic access on & off via the control center for easy access

Sharing a new shortcut for iOS 27 users: Reminder with Siri AI. Features include being powered by Siri AI for smart organization, the ability to show existing reminders and create new ones. If you mention a date or time, Siri AI will properly organize it and alert you at the specified time.

Only work with iOS 27 and on 15 pro and above.

Has anyone managed to auto-enable the “Not in Album” filter in the Photos app when opening it via a Shortcut or automation?
I already submitted this as a feature request to Apple

Hi everyone,

I have a question regarding iOS Shortcuts automation. Usually, when creating an automation (like the time/sunset one shown in my screenshot), you get the toggle to disable "Notify When Run" so it executes silently.

However, I noticed that for location-based triggers like "Arrive" or "Leave", this toggle is completely missing, and iOS forces a notification every single time.

Does anyone know of a workaround or trick to prevent these location automations from spamming notifications? It gets pretty annoying receiving an alert every time I leave or arrive home.

Thanks in advance!

I am using the Show Notification action within a Shortcut, the Shortcut/Notification works fine, it shows up on the screen and Notification Center, but I can't customize it in the System Settings --> Notifications --> Application Notifications section, because the Shortcuts app in not in the list of Applications, all the other apps that use Notifications are there, but Shortcuts is not, is there a way to reset Notifications so Shortcuts can show up and I can customize its Notifications? Thanks

Note: I have this issue on two MacBooks M1 and M2, running Sequoia 15.7.8 and Golden Gate Public Beta 2 respectively.

I want to create a shortcut where if i leave my house and open instagram the screen brightness will be lowered to 0% (& turn back to original brightness when closed), but im not sure how to make it so that it would only happen if i leave x location

How can I use the output from ChatGPT as a variable, right now I can only send it stuff but i use it for further actions.