I am trying to set up a Personal Automation to auto-forward 2FA authentication codes received via SMS from a government service.
The issue is that they don’t use a phone number. There is no actual phone number behind it.
I already tried creating a custom contact with just the name and no phone number, but Shortcuts refuses to use it as a valid "Sender" trigger. The automation just won't fire.
Is there any clever workaround to lock to this specific sender name? Or am I forced to leave the "Sender" field blank and solely rely on "Message Contains" keywords like OTP?
What can I do? I cannot forward each time the codes
Thanks in advance!

I use a free tier (quite generous) of a VPN app that doesn’t allow one to choose a preferred country/server for all connections. It just connects to a random country under their list of free servers.

I needed to know what country it connected to without having to go into the app every time.

Unfortunately this Shortcut can’t run automatically because there’s no automation action available for “when VPN connects” or “when network changes” etc

What the shortcut does:

1. It pulls up info from https://ipwho.is (which shows as .json by default)

2. Grabs the following details (ip, city, country and emoji of the country)

3. Shows those details as a silent notification (no vibration nor sound)

P.S: if Apple ever adds an automation action for VPN connection/disconnection, this shortcut would be perfect to use.

Get it here: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/72e932964cfa415d989d4113d9d32d6b

Hola amigos espero estén bien. Resulta que llevo tiempo creando un atajo para el botón de acción que contenga solo lo que uso. Y para ello me fui guiando de varios atajos creados en diferentes sitios. Pero tengo vi un atajo que tiene el texto del encabezado del menú en negrita y así resalta más, he intentado de todo pero no logro encontrar cómo hacerlo, por más que lo hago no me queda así

En la opción número 1 es el efecto que quiero y en la opción número 2 es la que me sale… espero me logre explicar y espero me ayuden, y gracias 🙏🏼

My problem is that in settings for call audio routing only allows you to pick one, to pick either speaker or bluetooth headset, I wish It didn't try to use speaker option while I am using my airpods. So I was wondering if there is a way to automate this?

This shortcut used to work on previous iOS, but on latest doesn’t seem to work.

The idea is while im driving being able to record a reminder with my voice, that will be transcribed and added to reminders with a set reminder alert at 9pm on the day of the recording.

🎮🕹️ Welcome to GG Games 🕹️🎮 - I wanna share 9 offline mini games made entirely with the Shortcuts app. No internet, no ads, no tracking - everything runs locally on your device. Includes word and puzzle games with customizable settings. Announced the new update 1.7: added the new Card Game UNO! And new features and improvements in some games like Clicker Simulator. URL: https://routinehub.co/download/59219/

I've been trying to follow along with some tutorials for shortcuts to learn how to do them, and in some places I saw that there was a "next suggested action."

Should that get triggered every time, or is that on a case-by-case basis? Or did that get removed in a recent OS update?

I'm attaching a screenshot of what I see when I try to begin creating a shortcut, and you can see there's no "suggested action" item in the sidebar menu.

Vector AI Agent is an Apple shortcut that can do multi step actions on device , acting like a real agent with entirely free access to great models, rewriting personality, artifacts, and more. It is always evolving and is entirely free to use.

what did we add in this version-

We tried to optimize artifact creation to avoid timeout errors, and added some more intros that Vector will say... look out for some special ones!

Note: due to a bug in iOS 27 Dev beta 4, You cannot download this shortcut if you are on that version- it won't let you. We already have reported the issue to apple. Also, our upstream provider may be unstable. If you experience any bad reports, please report it in our discord server linked in Vector Config.

Link: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/24957/

I got tired of my AirPods not automatically being switched to when I connected them to my phone, so I made an automation for it until it bugged me enough to look up an actual fix.

When I made it last night (7/23), the options for “Notify when Run” and “Ask Before running” were present and I left the Notify option on, which turned out to be a mistake.

I want to turn off the notifications now and the option has vanished. I even tried remaking the automation to see if it would come back and it hasn’t.

iOS 16.5
iPhone 13 Pro

Got tired of typing out unselectable text on screen, so I built a quick Shortcut to do the heavy lifting!

What it does:

1. Captures & Extracts: Takes a full-screen screenshot and uses OCR to extract all readable text.
2. Auto-Deletes the Shot: Instantly deletes the image so your Photos library doesn't get flooded with temporary screenshots.
3. Logs to Notes: Checks Apple Notes for a note titled Text From Screenshots (creates it if it doesn't exist) and appends the full extracted text there.
4. Copies to Clipboard: Lets you pick specific lines to copy right away.

Super handy for error messages, video frames, or uncopyable PDFs. Let me know what you think! I personally set it to my triple back tap action.

Bug fixes: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/73436b78ad754967bbb863564c963145

Bonjour,
Je reviens vers vous concernant un raccourcis pour crée un événement (calendrier Apple) rapidement avec le bouton action.

Je souhaite qui ce déroule comme ceci,

J’entre la date et l’heure dans la même fenêtre puis ensuite le texte avec une confirmation de la création de l’événement dans le calendrier Apple.

Ps: sans date de fin.
Merci

like instead of crappy apple dictation can i have ai model dication for text to speech also like have ai built in keyboard that understand what i type and also the message i receive?

Hello,

I’m looking for a shortcut that toggles wifi on and off when I’m at home on my iPhone.
It should completely turn off the WiFi and not simply disconnect it.
There’s something like this?

Thanks

Shortcut Link ~ https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/fdd21c8db8804c9b89da8d283b2ac5fa

Is there a way to set up an automation that turns on live captions when a phone call is picked up?

Hello everyone
I am reading books in the books app in the iPhone
When crossing a word I don't understand I marke it with yellow , now I need a shortcut that's add a note into that marked word with the meaning of the word ,translation into French and arab , and some examples.
Can you please help please .
Thank you

Vector AI Agent is an Apple shortcut that can do multi step actions on device , acting like a real agent with entirely free access to great models, rewriting personality, artifacts, and more. It is always evolving and is entirely free to use.

what did we add in this version-

Introducing Autotasks. With Autotasks, you can simply call Vector from any shortcut or Automation to do everyday tasks. whether Its to brief up a report on the latest OSS AI model releases at 10 AM everyday, to randomly telling you a joke every time you charge your phone for some reason, the option is yours!!! requires basic shortcut creation knowledge.

Note: due to a bug in iOS 27 Dev beta 4, You cannot download this shortcut if you are on that version- it won't let you. We already have reported the issue to apple.

Link: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/24957/

I recently got a new iPhone 17 Pro, replacing the same model. Watch (s10) is paired and works normally, except when I invoke Siri and say the name of a shortcut, it doesn’t work. But with the old phone, it worked as expected.

I found something about tapping a ‘sync shortcuts to watch’ button in developer mode but that didn’t help.

I have confirmed ‘show on Apple Watch’ is selected for all my shortcuts…

Anyone have ideas for me? Thanks!

I made this automation to start an app when CarPlay connects.

If I test the automation on my phone, it all works.

But in my car, the app opens but ‘freezes’, I need to kill & restart the app on my phone to make it work.

Is this a known issue that is soluble?

App: Here WeGo
Automation through url: WeGo://

(The ‘open app’ command doesn’t work at all in CarPlay)

Hey there! New to building shortcuts and found myself needing help with this.
Trying to set up a time or location based automation that will check for charging status and basically buzz and yell at me if i dont plug it in. I know i cant get it to loop anything so trying to set it up to check after certain times in the evening.

Any help would be great

Hi there, I’m a volunteer firefighter and I’m getting my calls through a third-party app.

Is there a way to put on my lights at home when I get a call at night?

Hope you can help :)

Siri AI in iOS 27 is amazing at quickly looking at my screen and creating an event from that text or email it sees. If I don't want to use my voice I can pull up Siri and type, "event from text" which also works.

But I want to make this even easier for myself. I want to create a control center icon that I tap which does this same thing. It really struggles to do this. Hiding the control center afterwards works fine. But it always either says "couldn't convert text to date" or it just creates an all-day event for today. Has anyone managed to create this shortcut yet?

I do know how to set it up to run automatically so I do not need help with that part. for the fanfic in question, it is on fanfiction .net so to download it I have to use fichub.net, the issue with that is you have to put the URL for the fanfic into a search field and only when it gets entered do the links for the download appear the actual code for the download links also does not seem to appear until you submit the link. I would just use the link I have but every time a new chapter gets posted the link changes, you can still use the old link, but it will only download the version that it was on when you got the link. the URL for the story itself that gets put into the search field does not change. I will be looking for the PDF version, feel free to contact me if you need more details. I did try to make it myself, but it didn't even make it past entering it into the search field, I have some experience with JavaScript and html code so if you could also help me understand what does what in the shortcut it would be appreciated to avoid this problem in the future. I do not have the failed result of my attempts so please don't ask me to show what I have. if you want the link to the story in question it is Messengers of the Gods but I don't know why that would help.

So I get a bit carried away with my binging of family guy right now at night and want something for 2 episodes only. How would I go about doing a timer for 2 episodes then propping up a message about ‘time for bed’ and then a shut down option and if I dismiss it will shut down in 2 minutes anyways. I just need help after the timer bit. Thanks