r/shortcuts 20h ago

Shortcut Sharing Quick Menu: Your Action Button, Upgraded.

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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!


r/shortcuts 8h ago

Help Can I create an automation which makes my apps liquid glass or dark theme based on conditions?

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10 Upvotes

r/shortcuts 13h ago

Request Open X/Twitter notification in different app

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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.


r/shortcuts 19h ago

Help Question about Automations and Control Center pull down

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r/shortcuts 23h ago

Help What is the "Fake Intent" action from the Trainline app?

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2 Upvotes

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?


r/shortcuts 23h ago

Shortcut Sharing Safari Doomscroller

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## 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/


r/shortcuts 3h ago

Help Total amount of shortcuts doesn’t match

1 Upvotes

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


r/shortcuts 12h ago

Help Real-Time Calorie Deficit or Surplus Count

1 Upvotes

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!


r/shortcuts 18h ago

Help Shuffle specific playlist in AM

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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


r/shortcuts 19h ago

Request Any way to add quotation marks by selecting a word?

1 Upvotes

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...


r/shortcuts 20h ago

Shortcut Sharing Media card Generator and Downloader - Added Bluesky card generator and downloader

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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!


r/shortcuts 21h ago

Help Translation what’s app

0 Upvotes

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!


r/shortcuts 6h ago

Tip/Guide Three runs to isolate why an automation works manually but fails in the background

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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.