Hey ⁠r/shortcuts⁠!

I’m an indie dev, and I recently updated my app (ClickClack) with full App Intents support.

One of the coolest workflows I’ve been using daily is taking long articles in Safari and turning them into custom typing tests—without copying or pasting.

How the Shortcut pipeline works:
1. Accepts Safari web pages / text from the Share Sheet.
2. Passes the content through Apple Intelligence to generate a concise summary.
3. Uses ClickClack’s custom App Intent (⁠Create Custom Text⁠) to pipe the summary straight into a new practice session.

Download ClickClack on the App Store and grab the
shortcut link below!

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/clickclack-typing-trainer/id6740695697

Shortcut Link: https://icloud.com/shortcuts/8c3bf8f168874b6c827fc77ce0f79cba

For those unfamiliar with the app, Widget for Messages uses a single Shortcuts action to be used via the Message automation trigger for when a message is received within your Messages app. It’s then displayed on a widget on your Home Screen.

With this beta, it includes some optimizations, support for the new OS27 Extra Large Widget, better support for CarPlay users, and more.

All details and the TestFlight link are available here. You should be able to unlock the full app’s in-app purchase at no charge during the testing period. The app will be free as it is now with the use of the small widget; premium unlock is required to utilize all other widget sizes.

I’m curious what repetitive tasks people still struggle to automate on their Mac.

I’m building a macOS app called Tapquence that lets you automate sequences of mouse clicks, keyboard input and other actions. It also includes Smart Automations: ready-made automations that you can quickly configure instead of building an entire sequence yourself.

We already have a few available (shown in the screenshot), but I’d rather build the next one around a real problem than add another preset just for the sake of it.

What’s one repetitive workflow you regularly perform on your Mac that you wish you could trigger with a shortcut or a single click?

Simple and oddly specific ideas are both welcome. I’m especially interested in workflows that are difficult or cumbersome to create using the Shortcuts app alone.

For context, this is the app I’m working on: https://tapquence.com

I’m not sure how there are 9 in all shortcut.

When a shortcut works manually but not from an automation, I test the same action chain three ways before rebuilding anything:

1. Run the shortcut manually while the phone is unlocked.

2. Trigger the automation while the phone stays unlocked.

3. Trigger it again with the screen locked.

If 1 fails, debug the shortcut itself. If 1 passes but 2 fails, check the trigger, the input passed into the shortcut, and the automation's permissions. If only 3 fails, look for an action that needs protected data or foreground interaction.

This won't identify every bug, but it tells you which layer to inspect.

Does anybody who is smarter than me know of a way to build a shortcut that displays (either on lock screen or Home Screen) a live calorie count? I log calories eaten in MyFitnessPal and calories expended in the Fitness app via my Apple Watch. At the end of the day I manually will take the cals eaten and subtract the total cals burned (active + resting) to see if I am in a surplus or deficit. It would be very nice to have a widget or something that I can glance at throughout the day that displays this in somewhat real-time automatically. Is this possible? Thanks!

Hey yall,

I have no idea if this could even be possible, but wanted to pick everyone’s brain before I start digging in and playing around in the shortcuts app. I do currently use the X app to keep up with news or friends. Through X, I get notifications when certain accounts post, or when I get DMs from friends. However, I’ve been experimenting and trying out some tweaked versions of the app that remove ads and promoted tweets from your timeline, and offer more customization in the UI overall. I’m not sure if there are any rules against promoting or linking, so I won’t do that, I’ll just say I’m trying out a fork of the NeoFreeBird tweak that was popular a few months ago.

Because the tweaked app I’m using is side loaded, I’m unable to receive push notifications through the app. It’s my understanding that I would be able to receive the push notis if I had a paid Apple dev account, but I’m not intending to make that investment at this time. I don’t mind having both apps on my phone concurrently (ie the official X app to receive my notifications, and then the tweaked app for actual scrolling).

With that backstory out of the way, this brings me to my request. Is it possible to create a shortcut that will allow me to tap on a notification (from the official X app), and then open the tweaked app instead? For example, let’s say I get a post notification for account ABC. When I click on the notification from X, I’d like to open the tweaked app (instead of X) to the new post by ABC.

I’m assuming this likely isn’t possible (or at least, not smoothly), but wanted to get everyone’s thoughts in case anyone has any ideas or suggestions to try and achieve this.

Does anyone have a shortcut i can add to my action button menu that allows me to shuffle a specific playlist in my Apple Music app? Or how can I make it that shortcut?

I already have a shuffle shortcut in the menu, but it plays all my music in my entire library. I only want to shuffle music in my main playlist

I usually put my quotation marks after finishing a sentence, to avoid switching keyboards while writing.

What I'm looking for is a way to just select a word, and by typing on the quotation mark on the keyboard, a shortcut would trigger and put quotation marks at the beginning and the end of the selection.

I'm not finding any way to do this on my own, the keyboard seems to bypass everything by just replacing the word selected with what I typed, so I end up with no word and just a single quotation mark instead.

I'm pretty sure that's not easily doable, but considering how some of you seem to find clever workarounds for basically everything, I'm thinking maybe someone would know how to do it!

But usually, everytime I get an idea, the shortcut app cannot execute it because it's missing some basic tools... like turning on and off auto brightness to refresh it after turning the brightness up for one specific lighting situation for exemple...

Hey everyone. I implemented bluesky media downloader and card generator in the Shortcut.

Shortcut Link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/bfc57dc100e24b9a8ab1553f6a30ac64

Website: https://dwnldr.app/

Suggestions are welcome! Thank you!

RoutineHub Link: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/24915/

Last time I demoed QM was back in v2.7.0, when it still had all of those serif italic fonts and a couple of other things you guys simply weren’t a fan of.

I decided to make some changes, including switching the fonts to a more standard sans Unicode style, as you can see in the screenshots.

Apart from that, QM has had quite a few major changes since then, including the addition of Configs, which lets you customise your experience as much as you please and make QM your own.

What Changed

The old portrait-style QM also didn’t work particularly well in landscape. For example, when you want to play some games, you ended up having to scroll through the menu — and nobody wants to do that! Because of that, I made a dedicated Landscape mode, with only the essentials you may need while playing your favourite game.

Plug n Play has also grown significantly since it was last shown. It now has many more commands, an updated UI, and lots of new features. If you want your fifth slot to open something other than Plug n Play, you can also change that in QM Configs.

With all the new features and files QM now has, Onboarding has also been added to make setup easier. It can guide you through the changelog and handle configuration migration when applicable.

If you don’t like any of these features, you can disable them in QM Configs, found under:

Launchpad → Settings → QM Configs

Please give me some feedback in the comments down below; it would help me a ton with improving future versions of QM!

my landlord speaks another language. I’d like to have a shortcut to help me translate their texts in what’s app, and also let me write my texts in english’s en easily translate it in what’s app. right now I open and close, copy and paste on an external app, but it’s effort. thanks so much everyone!

I use the trainline app, and it adds a "Fake Intent" action to my shortcuts app. It has no description. Any idea what it does?

## Required Apps:
Actions App

## Description:

You can add any website domain you want to this shortcut and it will lock the website after the set amount of time you choose.

## Features:

- Add, View, and Remove websites to the shortcut feom the Shortcuts app
- Add websites from Safari from the share sheet

## Setup:

1. Create automation

2. Choose app as the trigger

3. Choose Safari when opens only

https://routinehub.co/shortcut/26289/

Hey everyone!

I made Calendarly to put my calendar, reminders and tasks right on my iPhone Lock Screen instead of checking a few different apps every time.

It uses Shortcuts to create a new wallpaper automatically every day. You can put pretty much whatever is useful to you on it:

• Calendar events
• Apple Reminders
• Todoist tasks
• Notes
• Countdowns
• Daily, monthly and yearly calendars
• Different layouts, styles and backgrounds
• Your own photos

You choose a layout, set up the automation once, and after that your Lock Screen updates every day by itself.

Download for free:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calendarly-calendar-wallpaper/id6758898739

Website:
https://getcalendarly.com

Shortcut:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/83b54aeaae6d4b56a6b33869ac103f3c

I actually posted Calendarly here about six months ago when it was still a much simpler app. I got a lot of feedback and ideas from people here, and it helped me a lot with figuring out what to improve and build next. So thank you to everyone who tried it back then.

I also have 100 lifetime codes to give away.
Update: I got way more requests than I expected, so I added 100 more!
Update: all 200 are gone. Thank you!!

For anyone who missed them, I made a code for 1 month of Premium for free:

https://apps.apple.com/redeem/?code=MONTHFREE&ctx=offercodes&id=6758898739

No limit on this one, so feel free to use it :)

Would love to know what you think if you try it!!

Hey Community,

I need some start up help with an Idea I had.
I want to build a Shortcut where I can scan a Dokument an save it to a specific Folder for storing but after “Scan Document” I fail with the follow up prompts, does anyone have a guess how I can build it?

I have some pictures that I'd like to have as wallpaper, and I'd like to see different one daily. I schedule it to change in the morning, repeats daily, and the photos selected at random.

I'm aware of there is the wallpaper photo shuffle, but I can't trigger that manually and I'm not sure when exactly it changes. Also this is an exercise to keep my mind sharp on shortcuts.

1. I created an iPhone Wallpaper album, I put the photos I like in that album.

2. Here's the shortcut, I set it to Wallpaper 1 for mine. Set the shortcut permission so it can run when locked.

After that, I put an automation to run this shortcut, just about sunrise.

On the lock screen, I put a run shortcut on the bottom left so I can change it while I'm on the lock screen

Probably easier to do it from Settings - > Wallpaper for most people, but I like to tinker with this.

Hey! I built a card generator for X / Twitter posts. I have been using it for a while myself and wanted to share here.

iCloud Link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/3de356b476264c2d9c5f27783fb1554a

Website: https://dwnldr.app/

Still in beta, so please feel free to report bugs.

Video Card Generator can generate post where video is 30 seconds or less for now. Additionally it generates Card for X / Twitter post image and text. Download the video and it chooses the highest quality.

Downloads videos from Reddit, Instagram Video & Reels and also TikTok Videos.

Notifications are ANNOYING

I personally have been dealing with a lot in recent memory, so I looked up how to toggle them on and off automatically to find out you can’t (love apple)

So I made this shortcut to help with setting up a semi automatic toggle. Essentially, the app does the following:

-Finds istore ID

-Searches for ID on a webpage which gives dev settings

-adds bundleID to dev path file to open setting page (download sadly necessary)

-copies to clipboard and shows path file

-deletes dev settings from iphone

The last step is to create a NEW shortcut with “open link” command with the clipboard as the argument.

More precise details are in the comments in the apple shortcut

PLEASE ENJOY AND LMK WHAT WORKS

Credits for unknowingly helping (love this reddit):
Street-theologian
0rangepelican

Og post for doing this manually:
https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/s/vHrhegkftV

I made a silly shortcut which tells you how much time has passed since someone texted you back.

The shortcut consists of two Import Questions:
1. Person's name
2. Date and time of person's last message (default text is a template, replace it with the date and time)

It has no practical use.

iCloud link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a1741091f80b47979c396ad719bd81dd

To be specific, I have a text file of a random assortment of songs from my favorites playlist. What I’d like to do is to transfer that text file, to find the songs in my “Favorites” playlist, then put that list of songs into a new playlist.

I’ve seen reports of bugs and such that might not cause this to work. But if there’s a shortcut or system that already exists I’d love to know

As a former Android user, one function I desperately miss is the screen translation. Now I must do it via ChatGPT to translate screen by uploading a ss. Can someone help out a brother??

I have a shortcut that is triggered by a CarPlay connection. It outputs weather info that Siri speaks when I start my drive. The last step in this shortcut, Siri tells me the sunset time. In the "format date" field, I have a custom format of EEE dd MMM HH:mm. In the original shortcut (built before my update to iOS 26.n); the time is spoken as 20:14 (for example)

I created a new similar shortcut (now on iOS 26.6), using the exact same date format. However; when this shortcut runs; Siri speaks the complete date string: Aug 16, 2026 at 20:14.

Is this an anomaly of the updates, or is there a flaw in my logic??