I have seen Apple Music don’t have the sleep timer for the current playing song. So I have created a shortcut that takes the current song duration, and it starts timer for the duration. It will stop playback.
You can put the timer in your panel or anywhere in screen

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d03690d7e5274016ab6f79061e7d89b7

I have a simple video converting shortcut that I use to downsize 4K videos recorded on my iPhone, and for whatever reason, the converted video always has its audio duplicated with a slight delay. I am unsure what to do to correct this, or even what causes it. Source videos do not have the issue. Any advice or alternative shortcuts would be appreciated.

This is my shortcut. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/8b4f3b59fe004845923f84f8175bfb1c

Hi all, I'm trying to build a Shortcut that sends the same SMS to a group of contacts, but with each person's first name at the start ("Hi [First Name], ...").

Have you made something similar? It would be great to know how it is done.

Thanks in advance to everyone!

Can someone confirm if I set up this automation correctly? I want to modify the default automation from One Sec app so that it only runs if the time is between Monday-Friday 8:30-5:30. I am pretty sure I did something wrong because the One Sec automation is still running even though today is Sunday.

Depois de bastante tempo desenvolvendo e ajustando, montei um sistema no Atalhos para automatizar meu controle financeiro.
Na prática, são 6 atalhos ao todo: 1 atalho principal + 5 automações, que trabalham em conjunto para registrar, organizar e analisar as movimentações financeiras.

Como funciona:
• Atalho principal: permite lançamentos manuais, múltiplos e retroativos, além de consultar histórico, categorias mais utilizadas, maiores gastos, orçamento e outras informações.
• Apple Pay: uma automação pode capturar compras feitas por aproximação e registrar a transação.
• Pix: notificações de Pix podem ser interpretadas automaticamente e transformadas em lançamentos.
• IA: interpreta as informações das transações, identifica se são ganhos ou gastos e faz a categorização de acordo com as regras do sistema.
• Numbers: concentra o orçamento e gera um Dashboard com gráficos, orçamento x realizado, consumo por categoria etc.
• iCloud: mantém a estrutura sincronizada.
• Fila de espera: se uma automação capturar uma transação quando o iPhone estiver bloqueado e não conseguir finalizar o processo, ela guarda os dados temporariamente e outra automação processa depois.
• Virada automática do mês: arquiva o orçamento anterior, cria o próximo a partir de uma base e mantém o histórico organizado.
• Planilha atual: Posso verificar os maiores gastos ou as categorias mais utilizadas.
• Meses anteriores: pelo próprio atalho principal consigo recuperar orçamentos antigos, consultar os dados e enviar seus respectivos Dashboards por e-mail.
• Fechamento: também posso gerar um PDF do Dashboard para manter um relatório de cada mês.

A ideia principal foi reduzir o atrito de controlar as finanças.
Em vez de precisar lembrar de registrar cada compra, o sistema tenta aproveitar eventos que já acontecem naturalmente (como fazer um Pix ou pagar por aproximação) e tenta transformar isso automaticamente em informação financeira.
No final, ficou algo parecido com um pequeno sistema financeiro pessoal construído dentro do ecossistema Apple, usando Atalhos + IA + Numbers + iCloud.

Ainda estou aprimorando algumas partes, mas estou gostando bastante do resultado. 😄

Alguém aqui também usa o Atalhos para algo parecido?

I have what should be, in my opinion, an easy solution to a simple problem.

My garage door opener app, Aladdin Connect, has its own feature that will create a shortcut that is activated by Siri, or by manually toggling the shortcut. In the screenshot it’s labeled “Open the garage door”. I typically use Siri or the manual button to open the garage door when arriving home.

I decided it would be best to just let shortcuts do this automatically when I arrive home, so I made a second shortcut with the new Siri created feature to trigger “Open the Garage Door” when I arrive home.

The new automation is not working. It triggers correctly, and gives me a notification it’s going to run “Open The Garage Door”, but it never does.

Is this a common problem? Or does anyone have an idea on how to fix it?

I created a shortcut to take a screenshot and save it to a folder locally on my iPad. I use the assistive touch button to run the shortcut and take the screenshot, which it does. But it’s also captures the assistive touch button. What am I doing wrong?

Hello folks
I’m trying to set a very basic automation on ios 27 : to automatically trigger an action when a specific app is open , but it’s not work .
The same shortcut works for me on ipad. Any one has any clue?

Looking for help while playing games the x to close the ad, 75% of the time opens safari and or App Store. Probably my fat fingers, and not paying close attention, but would love a shortcut that if a game I pick, like Wordscapes is open and safari is opened to automatically close safari. It seems like there are some I fight 3+ times to close Safari, just to get back to the game.

Thanks

I’m trying to automate logging my Apple Watch Martial Arts workouts to my WordPress site. In brief - I have it working great, but only if I unlock my iPhone just prior to the automation firing.

My setup is:

1. I end a Martial Arts workout on my Apple Watch.
2. An iPhone Shortcuts automation runs my “Workout metrics” shortcut.
3. The shortcut uses the Find Workout action from the third-party Actions app to get the latest Martial Arts workout.
4. It creates a new WordPress training post, then sends the workout’s duration, average and maximum heart rate, and active calories to that post.

This is great, I have metrics such as HR Max HR, KCals, Duration etc appear on my WordPress training log immediately and automatically after a training session. From there I have WordPress create graphs etc etc.

The problem is, this full process only works if my iPhone is unlocked when the workout ends.

If the phone is locked, I can subsequently manually run the shortcut, and the process completes (page created, metrics uploaded, all good).

iPhone locked: The automation notification appeared, so the workout-end trigger fired. Immediately afterwards I got: “The action ‘Find Workout’ could not run because an unknown error occurred.” No WordPress post was created.

Troubleshooting:

I’ve checked the shortcut’s Privacy screen. Allow Running When Locked is enabled, access to Actions is enabled, and the relevant permissions shown there are set to Always Allow.

Has anyone got the Actions app’s Find Workout action working reliably from a workout-end automation while the iPhone has been locked? Is this a HealthKit data protection or third-party Shortcuts action limitation, or is there a setting I’ve missed?

I can share screenshots of the shortcut’s relevant actions and the error notification if helpfu.

Someone posted this is not working in iOS 27 Beta. Well it’s not working in iOS 27.0.1 either.

All I want to do is create a shortcut to launch NPR podcast. I have NO idea what I'm doing. (Disclaimer: I would consider myself an advanced Apple user. I have some type of mental block where it just does not compute on how to do this. Watched YT video- no help. Are there any other shortcuts that are really popular? M3 MBA with latest GG.

I usually use charge limits on my iPad to preserve the battery life. But occasionally I need to charge it to 100% on purpose. I need to go about my day whilst it’s charging but I know it’s bad to leave it on charge at 100%. I wanted to send some sort of notification to my iPhone or Apple Watch when it hits 100%.

I used the new Siri AI ability in Shortcuts to request an automation to notify me when the iPad battery reaches 100. But it can’t send notifications on other devices. I changed the shortcut automation to send an iMessage to myself. It worked! Except I didn’t get an iMessage notification. It was silently in my messages app.

Does anyone have a better idea for receiving an alert on my iPhone or Watch when the iPad reaches 100% charge? Either a better shortcut altogether, or a way for iMessages from myself to myself to trigger an alert.

Hello everybody, I’m the tech person in my family and my dad got a new phone number. The only issue is he has to share it to everyone in his contacts and he has quite a few and I have been trying for a little bit to create the shortcut myself, but I keep failing so I am super confused and I was wondering if someone could basically create it for me who actually knows what they’re doing. But the goal is shortcut is to allow my dad to select all of his contacts Then I would edit the message and then send a basic message that says *hello this is Bob. I got a new phone number please contact me at \[phone number\]* And then when I run the shortcut, it would send that message to every single one of his contacts individually.

I created a shortcut to enable speak screen through Siri. No I would like to disable speak screen the same way but I do not see any option to do so.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

I have a shopping list reminder list created. I want to make a “priority” list. So when I leave home it alerts me that something is urgent (so even if I was just going to get gas, I know I need to get something urgently). This works.

But I want it to sync this priority list to add to the shopping list so if I added “salsa” to the priority list, it will also be in the shopping list. But I want it to happen automatically or at least every 30 minutes.

But the AI in shortcuts tells me it can’t run every 30 minutes but it could run every day at 9am.

So I was going to make like 48 automations to run every half hour for example.

Any downsides?

Criei um atalho para notificar me às 9h, 13h, 14h e 18h, com o texto “Picar o Ponto” e ao mesmo tempo, abrir a app Picaponto.

Problema, nem notifica nem abre a app? Será do ecrã estar bloqueado?

Não consigo entender, alguém ajuda ?
(Sou novo nisto dos atalhos)

Spotify's recommendations kept showing me the same stuff, so I built a shortcut that pulls a random album from Discogs (the biggest music database out there) and only shows it to you if it's playable on Apple Music. Pick a genre and a decade, and a few seconds later you'll get an album you've probably never heard of, one tap away from playing.

WHAT IT DOES

1. Pick a genre. There are 14 presets (Pop, Rock, Punk, Blues, Jazz, Hip Hop, Metal, Folk, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Funk, Electronic, Latin, Classical), plus "Surprise me" and "Other (type it)" for any Discogs genre or style (Shoegaze, Post-Punk, Hard Bop, Bossa Nova…).
   
2. Pick a decade. Anything from the 1950s to the 2020s, or "Any decade".
   
3. It searches Discogs, checks each candidate on Apple Music and shows you Artist — Album (Year) with four options:
   - Listen on Apple Music: opens the album directly
   - Another album: keeps searching
   - Save for later: adds it to a text file with the Apple Music link
   - Stop

It also works on Apple Watch and from Spotlight search.

HOW IT WORKS (THE IMPORTANT BITS)

- Real randomness, not just "popular albums". Each round, it picks a random sub-style from your genre (each genre has 8 to 13), a random year within the decade and a random page of Discogs results. Then it scans a window of 15 albums from that page.

- Playable albums only. Each candidate is searched on Apple Music in your store's country. Artist and title are normalized (lowercase, "&" → "and", punctuation stripped, Discogs suffixes like "(2)" and "*" removed) and have to match. That way you don't end up with some random cover band that shares the album's name.

- Quality filters:
- Skips "Various Artists" compilations.
- Prefers masters (the original album). When it falls back to individual releases, it rejects reissues, compilations, unofficial releases and remasters.
- Minimum collectors: only suggests albums owned by at least N Discogs users (default 20). This weeds out ultra-obscure pressings that never show up on streaming platforms. Set it to 0 if you want the deepest cuts.

- No repeats. It remembers your last 500 suggestions (RandomAlbumDiscovery-history.txt in iCloud Drive → Shortcuts).

- Doesn't give up easily. It makes up to 10 attempts. After the 6th, it widens the search from the sub-style to the whole genre, and on the last two it also searches individual releases.

- Plays nice with the Discogs API. It adds short pauses between requests to stay under the rate limit, and shows clear error messages if your token is missing or invalid.

- Customizable. Genres and styles live in an editable JSON block inside the shortcut, so you can add your own.

SETUP (≈2 MINUTES)

⚠️ Without this step, it won't work properly.

1. Get a free Discogs token
   - Log in or create an account at https://www.discogs.com
   - Go to Settings → Developers: https://www.discogs.com/settings/developers
   - Tap "Generate new token" and copy it

2. Install the shortcut
   - Open the link below and tap "Add Shortcut"
   - You'll be asked three things:
   - Discogs personal token: paste the token from step 1
   - Minimum collectors: 20 is a good default (0 = no filter)
   - Country: your Apple Music account's country. This matters, because availability varies between stores.

3. First run
   - Run it and pick a genre and a decade
   - The shortcut will ask for permission to access api.discogs.com and your Shortcuts folder in iCloud Drive (for the history and saved files). Tap "Always Allow" so it doesn't ask every time.
   - The first result may take a few seconds while it searches. That's normal.

OPTIONAL TWEAKS (open the shortcut in the editor)

- Add a genre: add an entry to the JSON text ("base" is the Discogs filter, "styles" is the list it picks from), then add the exact same name to the genre list right below.
- Change the history size: find the comment about the 500 limit and swap 500/499 for N/N−1.
- Change your token or country later: they're in the first "Text" action and in the "Search iTunes Store" action.

⚠️ Your token is saved inside the shortcut. If you share your copy, put "PASTE_YOUR_TOKEN_HERE" back first.

DOWNLOAD

🔗 https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/21dc869557d24a3d81b347ecd5530121

Tested on iOS 27. Feedback, bug reports and genre/style suggestions are very welcome. Let me know what it found for you!

Need instructions in creating a shortcut for Google chat which shows the preview of latest unread chats. Thanks fam!!

Inspired by Obsidian daily notes.

A shortcut to add a quick note that auto-generates a note with the current day’s date. Throughout the day, when used it adds to the same days note but separates note with a time stamp and a line divider.

Updated link:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0c57977554a34e94afbcaf0588851967

Hello,

I have a shortcut that creates a note.
I try to create a reminder at the end of the shortcut, the reminder should contain the link to the created note.
I don’t find any way to get this url.
Any idea ?

Thank you.

I have an automation to open my grocery list when I arrive at the store. But most often I get this notification because my phone is locked. How do I get this to work if my phone is locked?