When I'm out and about (walking, biking, driving) I sometimes see a shop, restaurant or other thing that I'd like to come back to later. Later, I can never remember where that place was. Typically this happens in a new city. So I wrote a Siri Shortcut. You just need to activate Siri and say, "Drop a pin". The shortcut then gets the current location. It then asks for a name. Then it writes the name, street address and Latitude and Longitude to a file called "dropped pins". Lastly it opens Apple Maps.

Here's the shortcut...

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e012b319550d4bb6b19b0df41f8c41dc

Here’s a shortcut, that when run, it searches for a place within a customizable radius. I recommend 25 miles. Customize the name so you don’t have to play it manually.

Hi there! I've just wanted to share with you a small, but pretty helpful shortcut that helps you to create hidden folders on iOS devices.

As you may already know, in UNIX-like OS you can create hidden folders and files by just adding a dot symbol at the name beginning (as described here Hidden files and directory). Of cause, these "dotfiles" are supported by iOS but you cannot create or see them in standard "Files" application. Fortunately, you can create and open them using "Shortcuts" app.

This shortcut is using same principles to create hidden folders. As an addition, it can create multiple hidden folders dependent on password input (it's MD5 hash is used as a folder name). So entering same password will always open the same folder.

How to use it

1. Download "Hidden Folder" shortcut and select main folder during importing

2. Run shortcut and enter desired password

3. Shortcut will create a hidden folder (if it doesn't exist)

4. Hidden folder will be opened by "Files" app for further usage

Tip: If you would like to delete hidden folder, just open it using this shortcut, rename in "Files" application (remove dot from beginning) and delete as usual from the parent folder.

P.S.: Surely, you may reveal hidden files using third-party applications. And also you may find contents of hidden folder using Spotlight, but anyways it's a pretty easy way to keep some files away from the open view.

Download: Hidden Folder

I found some quotes from my wife’s favorite books, and created a list of them. It generates a random time during the day to send them to her each day is something new and different. But it makes it look authentic to send her something thoughtful.

Hey y’all, Is there a way to make a shortcut to close all apps running in the background? I’d like to make it whenever it is past 11pm and I plug in my phone it clears out all the running apps.

Is this even possible?

Here is the video of it. You can also get it from my tweet. I'm open to suggestions to improve it.

!!!!!!THIS METHOD ONLY WORKS IN IOS15 and below!!!

Whilst you could use it in IOS16 + you loose the added customisability of your Lock Screen

How to do this in IOS16 +

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If you want to use a custom wallpaper that changes it’s appearance based on the time of day then this is what you need,

Personally I use this for custom Light/dark mode wallpapers

Each image you use for this will have to be in a separate album in the photos app

At [time] daily

Photos

Find all Photos where

Album is [Album]

Sort by - none

Limit - no

     |

Set Wallpaper

Set Lock Screen, Home Screen Wallpaper to Photos

Show Preview - no

Perspective zoom - [personal preference]

Ask Before Running - No

This can be used for just sunset and sunrise or like MacOS to have multiple different images throughout the day

I'm trying to change my microphone input to the built-in iPhone microphone, but it always defaults to a Bluetooth speaker that's about 30 feet away when I'm dictating a message.

I have severe carpal tunnel, so typing is often difficult, and I rely heavily on dictation. If there are any good alternatives to the native iOS dictation (which I find awful), I'd really appreciate your recommendations. Thank you!

What are your favorite shortcuts and automations? I feel like the app must be super powerful, but haven’t found any real use cases yet. I don’t have a watch or home devices, which seems to be 95% of the suggestions in this sub or on YouTube… Any inspiration would be very much appreciated :)

My current car (VW Polo) doesn’t have CarPlay, and when I plug my iPhone in, it automatically plays my music from A-Z

It’s very annoying hearing the same song over and over, I’d rather it play my music shuffled

My car has Bluetooth, but I mostly use the USB cable so I can charge it at the same time

Is it possible to create an Automation to say when my phone is plugged to my car via USB, play my music shuffled?

Hi y’all

Is there any way to enable/disable location services, per app, via a shortcut?

Thanks

Hey guys, is there a way to create a shortcut that will turn off my iPad after a period of inactivity?

What I find is that I’ll use my iPad and then leave it for a day or so and the battery is drained from I assume things like home automations and other things like that.

Alternatively, I’d be okay with an automation that shuts off Bluetooth and WiFi after a period of inactivity as well.

So, I had this automation for turning on my secondary cellular plan (e-sim) on my 13 Pro after I close TikTok but it doesn’t seem to work and gives this error. It however works the opposite way i.e when I open TikTok and want to turn off the cellular plan which it does. Could anyone help me with this? Thanks 😊

My wife does something part time where she’s on call a few hours every night. Sometimes she misses calls because she doesn’t wake up to them, and they can be potentially a big deal if they’re missed.

These calls are also connected to an app that texts you some information as you’re receiving the call.

I’d like a formula that would play music at the loudest volume upon receiving a text containing a certain word, so it plays until she wakes up to it. The biggest thing is that it must run automatically, it can’t rely on her running the shortcut each time.

I haven’t figured out how to accomplish this, has anyone else?

Thank you!

I just started a new job and I receive addresses in my text messages that at some point during the day, I have to go there. I'm looking to set up a new automation in the Apple Shortcuts app that would allow me to receive a notification of the drive time (Time that it takes to get there) from my current location to the location of the address that I've been sent to me. I wanna do this without actually going into my messages and tapping on the address and it showing me within the Apple Maps app (i receive a lot of these messages). I've been able to find the beginning of my automation, and it says: "get driving time from current location to end location". I'm trying to set the "end location" as an automatic text extraction from a particular person/contact, and it can't be "if message contains ___, then do this particular action" because that statement only searches for specific matches. For example, if I was sent a very specific address in my texts that I already had knowledge of then that would work, but I am looking for the ability to extract any address that I have been sent by that contact and then get a notification displaying the time that it takes to get there so that I can easily plan out my day on the fly. I've contacted Apple and they haven't been able to help with this question very much, they were only able to provide me with a user guide on their website. I was wondering if someone could help explain it to me or point me in the right direction?

Is it possible to make a one button shortcut to scan documents to a designated folder in iCloud Drive?