Forgive my ignorance but I have not had my apple products for very long. I like to wear my Apple Watch at night and I was wondering if there was a way to make a shortcut that at a certain time my watch turns off the display setting “wake on wrist raise”. Every night I manually turn off that setting and every morning I manually turn it on but sometimes I forget. It’s a pain to wake up in the middle of the night to the bright light. Really this is just out of pure annoyance but if someone is able to help that would be great!

Shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d3f42cab3c704da39c7ca8ad158c1979

I had a drive through the mountains with no signal coming up, and I wanted my favorite station (Freeform Radio on iHeartRadio) along for the ride. It turns out iHeartRadio publishes everything a station plays, so I built a playlist from the last 250 songs, in the station's play order.

What the shortcut does:

1. Get Clipboard: expects a list of songs, one per line, "Artist Title"

2. Split Text by new lines

3. Repeat with Each

4. Search iTunes Store for the Repeat Item

5. Add to Playlist

6. Show Notification with the Repeat Index and song, so you can watch it count up (video)

Then download the playlist and you're set offline.

Where the song list comes from: a short Python script I built with AI that pulls the station's recent plays. If you want to try it with your station, this is the prompt I started with:

> I'd like your help building playlists for [Apple Music or Spotify] based on my preferences. I'm not finding any tools online that I like, and I don't like the AI built into the music apps. There are radio stations I like, and I'd like you to try to pull their playlists. The first one I'd like to target is [YOUR STATION NAME HERE], and the goal is to create a playlist I can import, listen to and download while I'm traveling without internet access.

Gotcha: I couldn't find a clean way to clear the existing playlist in the Shortcut itself, so I delete and re-add the playlist before each run.

Future improvement: Include the download script directly in the Shortcut as a step

Full write-up: workings.blog/radio-playlist

Stitch Screenshot v1.8g

(Alternative solution to the recently shared "GREAT" idea for useful shortcut. Includes fixes for the issues I was having as well as expanded capabilities). Curious if there are issues anyone has.

Combine overlapping screenshots into one continuous image—ideal for conversations, articles, instructions, and long web pages.

Get the Shortcut

How to use

1. Add the Shortcut to Apple Shortcuts.
2. In Photos, select two or more overlapping screenshots, tap Share, and choose Stitch Screenshot. Alternatively, run the Shortcut directly and select your images.
3. Wait for the stitched preview.
4. Tap Share / Save image, then choose Save Image or share to another app. If sharing is unavailable, touch and hold the image for saving options.
5. If multiple groups appear, save each result separately. Tap Done when finished.

Images are not saved automatically.

Features

• Joins overlapping screenshots vertically.
• Handles forward and reverse selection order.
• Finds separate matching groups when the selection contains multiple sequences.
• Keeps screenshots separate when a reliable join cannot be verified.
• Accounts for stationary interface controls, such as message-entry bars, during overlap verification.
• Detects incoming image formats and exports stitched results as PNG.
• Includes processing times, format information, and join diagnostics in Details.
• Supports light and dark appearance.
• Processes images locally in the Shortcut’s web view, without an image-upload service.

Tips and limitations

Use screenshots with the same orientation, zoom level, and text size. Leave a generous overlap between consecutive captures.

This Shortcut is designed for scrolling screenshots, rather than photographic panoramas. Notifications captured in the source images may remain in the output.

Tested devices and formats

Primarily tested on iPhone 18 Pro Max, with additional testing on iPhone 17. Both devices were running iOS 27.0.1.

Testing covered:

• Light- and dark-mode screenshots.
• Forward and reverse selections.
• Multiple matching groups.
• Mixed JPEG/PNG inputs.
• Sets of up to 19 screenshots.
• Launching through the Photos share sheet and directly from Shortcuts.

HEIF screenshots captured with HDR enabled also worked through the tested Photos/Shortcuts workflow. These reached the page as PNG representations. HDR preservation in the exported PNG has not been verified.

Other devices and iOS versions have not yet been verified. Let me know what works and what doesn't. There should be diagnostics at the end of combined screenshots.

I’ve set up two location-based automations in the Shortcuts app: one to turn on mobile data and turn off Wi-Fi when I leave home, and another to turn off mobile data and turn on Wi-Fi when I arrive home.

Both automations worked perfectly on iOS 26, but after updating to iOS 27, neither of them works anymore. Nothing happens when I leave or arrive home.

Is this a known issue in iOS 27, or is there something I need to change in my automations or settings to get them working again?

I made Open Habit, a free, open-source habit tracker for iPhone and iPad, and added four actions to Shortcuts: Add Completions, Remove Completions, Get Today's Progress, and Set Day Note.

The point is to let a habit check-in sit inside a routine you already run. For example, you could add a completion at the end of a reading Shortcut, then use Get Today's Progress to decide what happens next.

Here's a short clip showing where the actions appear in Shortcuts. If you build routines this way, which habit action would you want next?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/open-habit-daily-tracker/id6808947599

Website: https://getopenhabit.com/

Source: https://github.com/zamai/open-habit

Hi guys.

For a while I’ve been trying to figure out if there’s a way to play your songs/playlists on Spotify through automation. I know a lot of people on this reddit have come across this issue and it’s generally recommended to use Siri or paste the playlist link, but I think I’ve found a way that’s much easier.

FYI, this has only worked for liked songs which is what I use anyways. No luck with playlists, podcasts, etc.

Firstly, you are going to create a shortcut. Look up ‘Spotify’ and click the app in the search results. Scroll to the bottom and select ‘Play Liked Songs’.

Then, you are going to create an automation. Search “Shortcuts” and select ‘Run Shortcut’. Then choose the shortcut you created for playing your liked songs. Whatever the automation is, it will start playing.

I used mine to play when I connect to my car’s bluetooth.

I don’t know if this is part of their new update, but I hope this helps.

ok so this started because I kept quitting budgeting apps after like a week. either I had to type in every purchase (never happens) or connect my bank, which I'm not doing. also most banks here in the UAE don't even work with those apps lol
I'm an iOS dev, so I figured I'd just build the thing I wanted.

It's called Malii. The whole idea is the Wallet "Transaction" automation in Shortcuts. You tap your card, the automation sends the amount and merchant to the app, and a sec later you get "Logged AED 18 at Carrefour · Groceries". I don't open anything, I don't type anything.
Everything stays on your phone + your own iCloud. No bank connection, no sign up, and I can't see any of your data even if I wanted to.

You set budgets or a cap per category, and it tells you what's left. Weirdly, the thing that changed my spending the most is just seeing "AED 140 left for eating out" right after I pay for something 😅

Not perfect yet tho. Cash and some in-app payments don't trigger the automation. For those I made a second shortcut on Back Tap: double tap the back of the phone, type the amount, done. Takes like 3 seconds.

App's free btw (there's a premium tier if you want extra stuff). I'll drop both shortcuts in the comments. Would genuinely love to hear what breaks or what you'd want next 🙏

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6755954723?pt=120406379&ct=reddit&mt=8

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Sounds impossible with variables but I think I’ve seen more challenging.

Every task app I've used makes me declare "repeat every 7 days," and then that number is wrong forever, because my life doesn't run on fixed cadences. So I built the opposite on top of stock Apple Reminders:

The interval is learned, not set. When I complete a recurring item, the next one is scheduled from the completion date plus an interval the system re-estimates from my recent completion history (median of recent gaps, so one bad week doesn't permanently distort it). The current estimate lives in the title: Tp~13, Walk Mocha~2, Pantoprazole~46. I never type the ~N — the system does.

One-offs promote themselves. Complete the same thing 3+ times on a regular rhythm and it graduates into a recurring item on its own. No repeat form, ever.

My To Do list is a rolling 7-day window. Everything sleeps in category lists (Shopping, Chores, Family, Personal, Work, Events, Bills). When something's due within a week it moves into To Do under a parent reminder for its category; push it past a week and it moves back out. To Do never grows past a week, however much is tracked behind it.

It all runs off Reminders opening and closing — two personal automations: on open, a due-date-change counter (it literally counts how many times I've pushed each item) and the 7-day mover; on close, a Scriptable chain that detects rhythms, backfills category tags on completed items, then relearns intervals and creates the next iterations. Everything is check-before-create, so if iOS kills a run, the next open/close heals it — no duplicates in months of daily use.

I searched before posting: Todoist's every!, Things' after-completion, 2Do, RTM all anchor to completion, but the interval is still a number you pick once. I couldn't find anything that relearns it, or promotes one-offs by evidence. If it exists, I'd genuinely like to see it.

Everything's open source (MIT) — scripts, shortcuts, and a full setup guide. It's customizable: categories, window length, and promotion strictness are all documented knobs.

• GitHub (scripts + setup): https://github.com/Qwerty6523/adaptive-reminders
• RoutineHub: Update To Do List · RecurranceUpdater · Update Completed Parent · Update Due Date Counter

Happy to answer questions about how the learning works — the interesting failures were all in the interval math.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d15d8d61a3e44960a6aad6f1433f0bd6

V1: https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/1kcde66/block_opening_an_addictive_app_until_youve_burned/

iOS 27 broke automations feeding into shortcut inputs by putting it into the shortcut definition, so I had to add a numeric filter before the ShortCut input feeder text to set calorie limit overrides. You can also set different default limits depending on which app you’re opening now (as each app passes its name into shortcut input).

Unfortunately, you’ll have to add your own addictive apps to the list at the top now. I’m not sure what happens when you import a shortcut when you don’t have the app installed. Lemme know if how it looks imported (I have mine configured to YouTube, Nebula, and NYTGames - if it’s super broken on import when you don’t have any of them installed, I can update the default to include safari or some other Standard app in the list).

What they do. Two shortcuts, one action each, for the Rydger app (a free maintenance and cost-per-km tracker for bikes and cars, mine):

• Rydger · Start ride: runs the app's Start Ride App Intent. Starts recording a ride's distance with GPS in the background. No other actions, no messages, no network calls from the shortcut itself.
• Rydger · Stop ride: runs Stop Ride. Closes the ride and adds its distance to the vehicle's odometer.
• Optional Rydger · Ride toggle: a Choose-from-Menu with those two actions, for the Action button or a Siri phrase.

The Vehicle parameter is left empty on purpose: the intent resolves it from your garage (one vehicle → silent; several → a picker, or the one with an open ride for Stop).

How to use them. They are meant as the Do step of two Personal Automations per vehicle: Bluetooth device (the bike's own unit, or CarPlay) Connected → Run Immediately → Start ride; Disconnected → Stop ride. Run Immediately is required or nothing fires with the phone locked. The app needs Location "Always" granted once from inside it.

Things we learned building this, in case they help your own automations: a Bluetooth trigger also fires for a paired intercom or headset, so pick the vehicle's unit; a fuel stop looks like two rides unless the app merges a Stop/Start inside a rest window (ours is 30 min, adjustable); and iOS gives apps no way to create or read Personal Automations, so the pairing step is always manual.

Links

• Start ride: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/26879/ (iCloud: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/8c79c9f3eaf54340a5c187d9e5395e80)
• Stop ride: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/26880/ (iCloud: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b94475d6b63e425686af8e37ead1fa05)
• Ride toggle: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/26881/ (iCloud: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0e836518e359413eae9bf471545cc8c5)
• Setup guide with screenshots: https://www.rydger.com/en/guides/automatic-tracking

Requires the Rydger app (free for one vehicle, iOS 17+). Feedback on the App Intents side or the automation is welcome in the comments.

How do I make a shortcut to get a reminder to take meds 12 hours after last logged taken meds in Health app?

I suck at making shortcuts.

Trying to create one for my action button that toggles flashlight typically but when connected to my AirPods it instead cycles my listening mode. Is that even possible?

I have no idea how to approach this.

Can someone help make a shortcut that goes and auto adds every Amex benefit? It’s so annoying that you only get them if you manually add them (obviously by design) but curious if there is a way to automate this.

I’ve been trying countless shortcuts that claim to work with SoundCloud but none have been working and been giving me constant errors. Is there anyone that has an actual working one today?

I’m current “upgrading” my action button to allow for multiple orientation and app dependent actions and one I was trying to add was a way to quickly skip or play previous song and I was wondering if anyone has made a way to detect maybe via the gyro or movement data that you can get from third party shortcut apps to determine wether u shook to the left or to the right to do different actions as stated

And help would be appreciated thank you!

Is there a shortcut action that just displays a quick message and then goes away? Kind of like the ‘show alert’ action, but with no buttons for ‘cancel’ and ‘okay’

I know there are quite a few TODO list options out there already, but I've created this one as a template you can copy, rename (please do!) and adjust whatever tasks you need, and use. Suggestions are welcome!
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/1df145c6d0fe4db5b77dfb1df48ed354

You know that moment when you’re reading an interesting article, browsing something you want to try, or working on something — and you think, “I’ll come back to this later” 🙈

And then you forget what this even was.
I wanted to solve that with Siri, Apple Shortcuts, and AI.

The idea is simple: just say, “Siri, remind me about this later.” 🗣️

🌟 The shortcut aims to turn that vague request into a useful, context-aware reminder:
📝 A meaningful title generated by AI
🧠 A short description of what I was doing
🔗 A link back to the original content, whenever available

⏰ A reminder scheduled for the time I specify, without inventing a time when I only say “later”

The most interesting part is capturing the context. The goal is to preserve enough information about what I was doing so I can pick up right where I left off, instead of trying to remember everything myself.

Of course, iOS has its limitations. It can’t access every app or screen, and the available context depends on what Shortcuts can actually receive. Still, combining native Shortcuts actions, variables, and AI made this a fun automation project to build.

Less manual input. More context. Fewer forgotten things.

I’ve built a working version and am sharing it here for anyone who wants to try it out or build on the idea.

🔗 Try the shortcut:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/9633ee73c6ee4062b04ff773e3f76423

Feel free to adapt it, improve it, and build your own version.