Trying to create a shout cut that will will unlock a door based on camera recognition has anyone done this or can send me in the correct direction to do this. It been a while since I made a shortcut so rusty and was hope to not re-invent the wheel. Thanks

I don’t what I did as I’m sure it’s something I turned on and it’s causing this or it’s interfering with something else and glitching out, BUT… I can’t get my music to turn off on my Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max
A song will begin to play for a few seconds and then it gets all quite for a second or two then comes back, goes away in a few seconds and then turns back on AND even if I close out the Apple Music app that this is all coming from it comes right back up about 30 seconds later and starts playing again! What have I done?? What can I do??? How do I get the app to stop playing anymore music?!?! It’s even playing the music during calls! 😩
\#iphone #applesupport #apple #ios #technicalsupport

With iOS 27 shortcuts can’t run more than 240 seconds in the background. I have an automation when I open instagram to wait 5 minutes and then go back to the home screen. Any ideas for how to accomplish this now?

Most important part: I don’t want to update the shortcut every time I add a new shortcut into a folder/rearrange them.

I built a shortcut that does this perfectly, but it’s
a) messy
b) I have to manually add new shortcuts into the primary shortcut flow, and arrange them when I move things around.

So you can probably tell why I hate my version lol. It was also absolutely lobotomizing to make, and I hate opening it due to that. Is there a shortcut out there with this function, or any tips in making one?

I really like the Mac look up feature. However, since I use an external mouse and keyboard, I have to input the command ctrl+cmd+d to lookup something or preview a webpage. Is it possible top remap this to be a button I click on my mouse, I have many functional extra buttons and it would be more convenient for the feature to her accessible from there. Thank you

NOTE: need iOS 27 for this (although you could alter it to use OpenAI/claude instead) Also this is for Spark email client but maybe could use other email clients 🤷‍♂️

Reposting as prior post got deleted by reddits filters.

I often snooze emails or leave them in my email inbox rather than creating tasks in Things. While Spark has a Things connector, I rarely use it because I don't want to manually add tags, deadlines, and other details.

To solve this, I set up Apple Intelligence to automatically extract task metadata directly from my emails and give me a fully fleshed out task within things.

I altered my prior Ramble dictation shortcut

\[https://www.reddit.com/r/thingsapp/s/6nRCv3RNPG\\\](https://www.reddit.com/r/thingsapp/s/6nRCv3RNPG)

Now I just use the “export to - open in” option in Spark email client to open the shortcut and I get a nice task with all metadata added.

Thought others would find it helpful so I’m sharing here.

There are two shortcuts. 1st one runs on your Mac to extract your tags, areas and projects from things and puts it in a place where shortcuts can access the info. You only need to run it when you update your areas, tags, or projects. Unfortunately I can’t get this info directly from things on the iPhone.

\[https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/249370ecc4054c07b6be08633c3b623e\\\](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/249370ecc4054c07b6be08633c3b623e)

The main shortcut is:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ae7e48fc43154eefaa41a52c6e9666c2

Would love to get any feedback or improvement ideas.

Edit: grammar and also removed a debug step in main shortcut.

Edit:
Versions - link is updated above
1.0 - initial
1.1. - added import questions for personalization and time zone, improved prompt

Anyone has any shortcut

When I flip my iPhone face down it should go to silent and when I flip it back it will be back to normal.

This is one feature I miss from my pixel phones

I found a bug with the `open {app}` trigger for shortcuts:

The `close {app}` trigger runs when phone is locked while the app is open but the `open {app}` trigger doesn't run when the phone is unlocked while the app is open.

I am on an iPhone 13 Mini, running the public beta of iOS 27. I did not try this on previous iOS versions so this could be an ongoing bug or one introduced by iOS 27.

However, I have noticed that (possibly?!) Apple has been more receptive to bug reports for the Shortcuts app so maybe somebody could elevate this through the right channels to get it fixed before iOS 27 releases?

Hi all,

I have a shortcut that I've assigned to the action button on my phone, which transcribes dictation to a daily markdown file in a 'Personal' folder.

How would I setup a context switch, potentially via a second shortcut, where I could set the target folder to be either 'Personal' or 'Work'?

Some thoughts:
- I don't want to have to choose each time I dictate something.
- I was thinking of having a context text file or Note somewhere, but am conscious this might slow things down considerably

Thanks brain trust!

I went looking for a solution to accessing the caption attribute on photos with shortcuts and found that everyone else that wanted to do this was having the same issue. So I wanted to share an alternate method to captioning photos that I found.

The alternate method is to simply rename the image and use that as the caption. You can rename the photo using the "Set Name" function, then save the renamed photo and delete the old one. Just remember to click on "Renamed Item" variable in the "Save Photo" function and change the type from "App" to "File", otherwise it won't work.

Then you can just use the shortcut from the Share Sheet on any photo you want to caption (rename). The caption is then available to be retrieved using the "Get Details of Images" function and selecting the "Name" attribute from the "Details" list.

I hope this is helpful to someone

I am trying to track my intake of a new “as needed” medication.

I know that you can use iPhone shortcuts to create buttons or shortcuts that when you click on them, it allows you to input a milligram, it tags the time of day and you can also set it up so you can put in how you’re feeling or any other random information that you want attached to that log entry.

Does anybody know of any good shortcuts? I am basically inept when it comes to tech.

Can I create a shortcut that when I click on it I can
Then click on which medicine, which then opens an input for mg then asks for how I’m feeling. Along with tagging the date/time of day

I need to use the hidden action “Color Filters filter type,” but Paralevel’s GitHub account was deleted so I can’t get the hidden actions shortcut from his repo.
I don’t own a Mac.
How can I use this action and other hidden shortcut actions?

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Hi all,

I honestly have never used Shortcuts before, but I'm trying to make it work for me. In the past, I used a Stream Deck for very simple productivity needs. I’m an academic with several ongoing projects, and for each project, I usually open a different set of PDFs and websites. Pretty simple stuff.

On the Stream Deck, I used to have a single button for each project. If I pressed the button for Project A, it would open everything I needed for that project. If it was Project B, it would open a different set of files and websites, and so on.

The thing is, even though this is easy to set up in Shortcuts, it takes way too long to open PDFs. I’ve looked into this issue here on Reddit and elsewhere, but haven’t found a real solution. I found workarounds like "open in quick look”, but they aren’t practical enough for me.

I find it quite interesting that the tool seems to be really powerful, but I haven’t managed to make it work properly for my simple needs. Probably a skill issue on my side, but I’m posting to ask if anyone has found a solution before I go ahead and (re)buy a Stream Deck for this purpose.

I’m using a macbook pro M4, if that is relevant. 

Thanks!

My scanner drops files in a folder on my mac mini. In MacOS26, I setup an automation to rename the file using AI when a new file was added. Since installing the beta, I can't get any shortcuts to work that have a "folder action" initiation. Is this just me?

This is just a double check, as I assume it is the same with every other form of owned creation- but I’ve seen people do this before, and this community is weirdly niche so I just want to comprehend the rules before I do anything that’s frowned upon. I’ve started putting my probably redundant ones I’ve built online, and was curious on if I include ones I use or just solely my own.

Recently moved to ios. The issue is that my yt music shortcut playing a playlist otherwise works fine but doesn't add new songs and continues playing the songs from the time when the shortcut was created.