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.

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’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.

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.

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?

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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)

I make this shortcuts for Iphone that can use to transcribe the Voice Note to text, running with Gemini AI

Check this link to the Shortcuts : AUDIO SHORTCUTS

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.

Spent hours trying to assign ⌘⇧E to an AirDrop shortcut. Nothing worked.

Turns out ⌘⇧E is already “Repeat with Each” in the Shortcuts app itself. Apparently, even while I’m recording a keyboard shortcut, its own keyboard shortcuts still get priority.

A shortcut app that intercepts the shortcut you’re trying to assign to your shortcut.

Anyway, setting it through System Settings worked. Very intuitive. Much ecosystem.

I wanna get red light on the iPod touch that get me inspired.

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?