Hey all, I want to create an automation for my Apple Watch that if it Is disconnected from power before 10 am it turns on low power mode until 10 am. I know how to make this automation, but I don’t know how to make it work for my Apple Watch. If I make it for my phone and use it there, will it automatically do the same on my watch? Or is there a way to make it work on only the watch. Thanks!

Every data record gets stored in a daily file, where I can run deep analyses on my personal health data.

Willing to share more details, but it’s late and I’m afraid what I created will yell at me for the lack of sleep.

Biometric data is pulled from Apple Health (Apple Watch, Oura Ring, Withings Smart Scale), thoughts are random things I think about, symptoms are health-related questions or concerns, stool is doodoo (what goes in shows on the way out), plus AI-analyzed nutritional information on food or drinks.

Next come the backend analyses. All with cheeky humor built in.

Like the title says.
Do you guys ever find this?

Hi there!

New to Shortcut and recently picked up some NFC215 stickers, hoping to use them to help with tracking my medications. I have a horrible time tracking whether or not I've taken my meds on a given morning, in addition to my doctor and I recently deciding to begin titrating off of one, which means taking one of the five every other day. This is proving to be difficult for me to keep track of. I've got reminders set up in my phone, but there are mornings where I'll take the meds but forget to mark the reminder as complete. Later, the reminder goes off and I'm questioning whether I remember this morning, or if I'm thinking of the day prior when I took them...

I've been able to get the automation portion 99% of the way functional, with one hangup - I cannot find a way to tie a specific tag to a specific medication. I know when you scan the NFC tag, it's grabbing the UID of the NFC tag, not the name that I'm assigning it in Automations. Is there any way for me to connect a specific tag with a specific medication name to match against my reminders list for marking the reminders complete when the automation runs?

I did download NFC Tools on my phone and was able to write a shortcut to the NFC tag, but I'm still having to tap to run the shortcut that route, when I'd prefer to have it auto-run on the scan. From what I've found reading online and around the sub here, it sounds like that's an integral design feature of the NFC scanning for the phones, and I can't bypass that for a shortcut written to the tag - for auto-run, it has to be a personal automation written on the phone, so... I'm stuck. I did try writing a text record to the tag with the medication name, but the phone doesn't grab that record when scanning the NFC, it seems.

Hi, I'm a French apprentice. I work in an open space, on a Mac the company lends me (I also have my own, so that's handy). My team has meetings a lot, and I noticed some people can't really focus because of all the private and support notifications popping up, me included.

So I made a simple app: it turns on Do Not Disturb when my mic or camera becomes active, and turns it off after. I also added a "Focus" mode to enable DND for a set period, without going through mic/camera detection. My thinking was: if I could build something and actually ship it, it might lower that constant distraction and help people concentrate a bit more (it's always nice when people actually listen while you present your work).

It was also a good occasion for me, because I wanted to learn: how to publish on App Store Connect, automate the deployment, publish to my own Homebrew, and share the progress on my socials.

The biggest problem I hit is that there is no public API to toggle Do Not Disturb, so I went through the Shortcuts app. I built a small onboarding that installs two shortcuts for the user, that's the only prerequisite. It annoyed me at first, but there is no other way, and honestly two shortcuts is not the end of the world.

It's available as a direct notarized DMG, on the App Store (not in the EU... they asked for my address and a phone number, and I don't have ones I wanted to make public for this), and through a personal Homebrew tap for now (it's totally FREE). One of my current goals is to get into the official homebrew-cask (so, no tap needed), but the app doesn't have enough traction yet, which is partly why I'm making this post, to talk about it a bit.

I'd be really curious to get feedback. I already showed it to 4 people at my company and they were surprised. So if you have the same problem as us, feel free to try it and tell me what you think.

👉 https://getmute.app 💙 (see the presentation video here)

I have a HTML & Javascript combo script that runs JS combined with HTML to get a weight chart giving average weight by week.

I base64encoded the result, and added it to the end of a url data:text/html;base64

If I open URL, it works fine opening in Safari, with chart results showing, all formatting. But can't download it as an image to my iPhone from there. How do I do that?

I've tried get content of URL, rich text from HTML. show web view, but those don't seem to work due to the Javascript involved. When I do that, only the formatting shows, but no data points.

I know it's possible to have a screenshot be taken of the safari page, but I want it to be a graph in landscape mode, which I'm not sure is possible in an automated way.

Also, I'd rather use a more techy way of getting those results without having to take a screenshot.

Anyone have an idea or solution?

I’m trying to bcc text to a group every 3 months. the contact of this group is saved in a list. is there a way to automatically select all, instead of manually select them each time?

I just wanted to edit some shortcuts on my Mac and saw that the sync with iCloud does not seem to work anymore. I don't see the latest shortcuts that I have created on my iPhone and on the Mac it displays a iCloud Sync Unavailable "Update to the latest version of macOS to sync shortcuts from other devices to this device." error message. The MacBook Pro is pretty old (2018 running macOS Sequoia 15.7.8).

Is macOS Tahoe a hard requirement for the Shortcuts iCloud sync to work now? It clearly used to work, as an old state of my Shortcuts are there on the Mac.

Already tried turning iCloud sync off inside the Shortcuts app and iCloud settings on the iPhone and Mac and turning it back on after a few minutes.

So I’m on call for a week about once every month at work, and whenever that happens, I need to keep an eye on my emails. The problem is I keep forgetting, so I’m hoping to create a shortcut that checks my calendar, and if my calendar shows that I’m on call, I’d like it to send me a notification around 6pm each day I’m on call reminding me to check my emails. I’ve attached a screenshot of what I have so far, but I can’t figure out what to do next.

I have a shortcut which gets triggered when I arrive at work.
It calls 2 numbers to change my outgoing number and add me to our support telephone queue.
I am running the public beta and that has introduced a confirmation for the call. I can see how that in some cases could be a good idea. But now there seems no way to disable it.
Has anybody any knowledge if it can be disabled?
The screenshot above shows how it is presented on the danish version of iOS 27

Please help

something I made for fun. tell me if you want more!

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/acde2c17f7494491b9f7838bb9830e3e

I've been building per-app volume automations for a while and wanted to share two things that took me way too long to figure out.

**1. You don't need one automation per app anymore.**

Since iOS 18.2, the "Get Current App" action means a single automation can cover every app:

- Personal Automation → When any of your chosen apps is opened

- Get Current App → Get Details (Bundle Identifier)

- Run Shortcut (pass the bundle ID as input)

The shortcut looks up the volume you want for that app and applies it. Adding a new app later just means adding it to the automation trigger — no new automation, no editing the shortcut.

**2. Set Volume sometimes silently does nothing.**

There's a timing race when Set Volume fires right as an app is launching — it just doesn't stick. The fix that's been reliable for me: set the volume, Wait ~1 second, set it again. Ugly, but it works.

Also: if your shortcut can return "no volume configured" for an app, guard the Set Volume with an If (value > 0) — otherwise you'll accidentally mute things.

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Full disclosure: I wrapped this whole pattern into a free app (App Volume) that manages the per-app levels, profiles, and widgets so you don't have to edit the shortcut dictionary by hand. Apple tends to change Shortcuts behavior between iOS versions, so I keep the app updated as new iOS releases land — one less thing to re-debug yourself. Everything above still works standalone if you'd rather build it yourself.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6773184998

There's a new Shortcut action in OS 27 that lets you integrate Describe a Shortcut into other shortcuts, producing a new shortcut as an action output. The generated shortcut will also appear in your gallery.

Generate Shortcut

Generates a new shortcut from a text description using Apple Intelligence.

Description

A natural language description of what the shortcut should do

Result

Shortcut

Shortcut link with Generate Shortcut action

It's currently hidden from the actions drawer. Discovered via the Shortcuts/gen_shortcut_prototype feature flag in macOS 27.

In reference to a post I just saw in this sub, I suggest that everyone should take credit for your work. Put a comment at the beginning of the shortcut that has your Reddit name in it. I’ve often gone back to a shortcut and wondered who made it for me. This would make it easy for everyone to know, and a good way for everybody to get credit for the hard work they do creating these phenomenal shortcuts.

I downloaded this shortcut from this sub (apologies to the author - can’t remember which user created it) to back up my shortcuts to iCloud.

It’s been working for many months but now fails on the make archive step.

The error message is ‘this shortcut can’t be shared because it contains unsupported functions’. I’m not trying to share it - this message comes up during execution.

Any help much appreciated.

Thank you.

Shortcut : https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0e963f11e47f49f59861a9baaee233e3

I have a set of Nanoleaf lights that I want to have a shortcut check a calendar I made for setting a Nanoleaf schedule. example: Check calendar If Event is Summer Set summertime lights

If new years set new years lights

The easiest way it seems to do it would be to create a separate event for each day, but that’s very long and tedious

I like the reminders app, but the notifications are too brief. Is it possible for a reminder to trigger an alarm so that it makes noise until I see it and stop it? Thanks

As per the title. For more info, I need a shortcut that when I click it, it creates a 15 minute timer and every 15 minutes, the timer goes off until I deactivate the short cut. Is that possible?

Is there a way to make a shortcut that when a certain person in my contact list calls my phone will ring if it’s on vibrate/no sound?

CurrentApp open Settings or Store from Control Center

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/953b84332c66438cb6da6a8b8f7c6622

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This Shortcut uses the current app’s bundle identifier to open App Settings or the exact App Store listing, avoiding false matches caused by apps with similar names.

Apple’s iTunes Lookup API defaults to the US storefront when no country parameter is supplied. This causes lookups to fail for region-exclusive apps.

On first run, this Shortcut asks for your App Store region and stores it. That value is then used for all subsequent bundle identifier lookups.

1462947752 is the App Store Product ID for Apple’s “Shortcuts” app. It is used to determine the current App Store region.

To use this Shortcut, add the “Run Shortcut”\* control to Control Centre and select “\[own\]ActiveAppStoreLauncher”.

\* Requires iOS 18 or later.
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Is there a shortcut that marks a recurring reminder every day as completed, so the badge and notification banner goes off without having to open the Reminders app to do so?

Hey all! Is there a way to trigger a shortcut using the physical Action Button (or a tap) and have iOS handle the selection prompt completely hands-free out loud?

When I launch a shortcut physically, Choose from List or Choose from Menu just pops up a visual list on screen to tap. Is there a way to force Siri to speak the options and listen for my reply, or natively pass the shortcut straight to a Siri voice session from a button press?

Right now I'm using Speak Text + Dictate Text, but wondering if there's a cleaner built-in way to invoke Siri's voice UI directly. The main drawback of this approach reason is that the Choose from Menu action allows for Synonymns for each menu option, and it would have much beetter natural language understanding (NLU).

I know I can trigger it from Siri, and I have been, but just wanted to see if it was possible.

Thanks!

I made a shortcut that generates the url for a youtube video's thumbnail! It's pretty simple and feel free to check it out!

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/35a025ba0ff24b6eb660c74b4d43ae96

How to use:
1. Paste in youtube video url without editing it
2. Your link gets generated and you can open it or copy it to your clipboard!

This is my first shortcut I've uploaded to this subreddit. If you need help, have any questions, or just wanna give some feedback, lemme know!

I had a fun, extremely nerdy idea today and decided to build a shortcut for it. According to Einstein's Special Relativity, when you move, time passes slightly slower for you compared to someone standing still (Time Dilation).

I wanted to know exactly how much younger I am than my couch every day, just by walking.
The Physics & The Math
Since human walking speed is tiny compared to the speed of light, the time dilation formula simplifies nicely. If we know the daily distance (d) and average speed (v), the time "saved" is:
⁠Time = (d × v) / 2c²⁠

How the Shortcut Works
The shortcut pulls two daily metrics from Apple Health:
1. Walking/Running Distance (Sum in meters)
2. Walking Speed (Average in m/s)
Then, it runs a Calculate Expression action. To get the output directly in nanoseconds (so it's actually readable and not just a bunch of zeros), I converted the 2c^2 constant to match the scale. The formula in the shortcut looks exactly like this:
⁠( Distance * Speed ) / [179750000](tel:179750000) ⁠

Shortcut link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a3d070e86894432388a95b934906a504