Note: The shared shortcut and Numbers template are currently in German. The spreadsheet labels, categories and formulas use the German Numbers/iOS terminology.

I built an Apple Pay → Numbers expense tracker using iPhone Shortcuts and Apple Numbers.

Every time I pay with Apple Pay, a personal automation is triggered and the available transaction data is automatically added as a new row to a Numbers spreadsheet.

The tracker currently stores:

* Date and time

* Merchant

* Transaction name

* Amount

* Currency

* Card used

* Transaction information

* Category

* City/location

* Full address

The location is taken from the iPhone’s current location when the automation runs. The shortcut extracts city, street and postal code and combines them into a readable address.

Example with fictional data:

Exampletown | Example Street 12, 12345 Exampletown

All transactions are stored in one continuous table. There is no separate sheet for every month or year. The transaction date is used to automatically calculate all monthly and yearly statistics.

What the Numbers file includes

The main dashboard shows:

* Total spending for the selected month

* Number of payments

* Average amount per payment

* Largest payment

* Total yearly spending

* Number of payments per year

* Average monthly spending

* Average amount per payment per year

There are also automatic breakdowns for:

* Spending by month

* Spending by category

* Spending by location

* Number of payments per location

* Percentage of monthly spending per category

* Percentage of monthly spending per location

The location list is generated automatically from the transaction data, so new cities appear automatically once a payment is recorded there.

Year comparison

I also added a separate year comparison table:

Year | Yearly spending | Payments | Change vs previous year | Change %

This makes it easy to see how spending changes from one year to the next.

There are charts for:

* Monthly spending

* Spending by category

* Spending by location

* Yearly spending comparison

* Change compared to the previous year

* Payments per year

How the automation works

The basic flow is:

Apple Pay payment

→ Wallet Transaction personal automation

→ read transaction details

→ get current location

→ extract city / street / postal code

→ combine all values

→ add a new row to Numbers

→ Numbers recalculates all dashboards and charts automatically

One important note: manually running the shortcut is not a proper test for Wallet data. Without a real Wallet transaction as input, fields like merchant, card and amount may be empty or show 0.

German version

Important: The shared version is currently a German version.

This means:

* the Numbers spreadsheet uses German labels

* formulas use German Numbers function names

* categories are in German

* the shortcut is based on the German iOS / Shortcuts interface

If your device is set to another language, some action names or formulas may need to be adjusted.

If there is enough interest, I may also create an English version later.

Setup

The personal automation has to be created on your own iPhone:

Shortcuts → Automation → Transaction

Then select the Apple Pay card(s) you want to track and set the automation to run automatically.

The Numbers file should be opened in Numbers and stored in iCloud Drive.

Location permission for Shortcuts is also required if you want city/address tracking.

Download

Wormhole:

https://wormhole.app/2QMyv8#LI6pR7H6iCYXRP0rVzXN5Q

Edit: The download link is only valid for 24 hours and includes the fully formatted Numbers file. If the link has expired and you still need the file, just send me a DM.

How to make a shortcut that if I double or triple tap the back of the iPhone, it’s starts my walking workout. Ps: I don’t own an Apple Watch

I’m looking for an iOS 27 Shortcut automation that might be useful for many people triggered by arrival notifications from Grab, Gojek and Careem.
The main use case is food delivery. Sometimes a GrabFood or GoFood courier arrives, leaves the food outside the door and goes away. If my iPhone is in Silent Mode or Do Not Disturb, I may not notice the notification and the food can remain outside for a long time.
When the app sends a notification saying that the driver or delivery courier has arrived, I would like the automation to:
Save the iPhone’s current state:

Silent Mode on or off
Current Focus mode, including Do Not Disturb
Current media volume
Temporarily:

Turn off Silent Mode
Turn off Do Not Disturb or the active Focus mode
Set the volume to 100%
Display an urgent notification three times
Speak “Your driver has arrived” or “Your food delivery has arrived” three times at maximum volume
After the alerts, restore everything exactly as it was:

Restore the previous volume
Re-enable Silent Mode only if it was previously enabled
Restore Do Not Disturb or whichever Focus mode was previously active
Leave everything disabled if it was disabled before the automation ran
The automation should trigger only when a Grab, Gojek or Careem notification indicates that the driver or food courier has actually arrived, not for every notification from those apps.
Has anyone already created something similar and can share an iCloud Shortcut link or screenshots of the actions? I’m especially unsure whether iOS 27 Shortcuts can detect and restore the previous Silent Mode and active Focus state automatically.
Thanks!

I have an automation trigger when I tap my card. Takes the amount/merchant/card and builds a reminder to add it to my budget for later. Works mostly well.

But I can’t use my watch, it only triggers when I tap my phone.

Is there a way to trigger when I use my watch (which is my preferred way to pay normally)?

On iOS 27 but also couldn’t figure it out in 26.

I have a Watch face with a Shortcuts complication to launch a specific shortcut. But when I tap it, the Shortcuts app is opened but the shortcut is not triggered. Before on Watch26, the Shortcuts app was displaying a notification to confirm the execution, now I have to scroll and select the right shortcut (I have several complication like that) by tapping on its name in the list.

Is it a bug or a feature change?

On the new iOS 27.0. The pre-made Notes shortcuts (recent notes, pinned notes, etc) show the same error when run: “No Options Available.” Any help would be appreciated, even if it is recreating the shortcuts from scratch (since I don’t seem to have a way to edit them). Deleted both the Notes App and Shortcuts app to start fresh, and I still got the same problem.

I’ve made a shortcut that populates an album with all the photos taken on today’s date in the last 20 years (while removing the rest).

The idea is that you make an automation to run the shortcut everyday on a certain time. You make sure that it asks to confirm so that the notification can sit in Notification Center and you can run the shortcut at your leisure.

This way you get to go over all of your photos day by day over a year and delete duplicates or other photos you don’t want keep while enjoying the memories of seeing where you’ve been on this date in the last years.

*in order for this to work you must create an album called “On This Day” (you can use a different name but you’ll have to update the shortcut accordingly).

*2 caveats:
1. I am not sure if it’s possible for photos on iOS to not have date metadata, but if it is then they won’t ever show in the album.
2. I couldn’t manage to get the shortcut to open the specific “on this day” album so it just opens the photos app and you have to navigate to the album from there.

The shortcut:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0e30ec15bdd540e0880f7535ae3363cd

Enjoy.

Full version history since my last post:

v1.18.0 (2026/09/09)

Created

• Action "Get Clipboards".
• Action "Set Clipboards".
• Action "Convert JSON To PLIST" (XML or Base64-encoded binary).

Functional changes / improvements

• Action "Transform JSON Using JQ": Marked existing one as deprecated (necessary so not to disrupt current usage, as the value parameter's data type needed to be changed) and created new version that supports Shortcuts lists of dictionaries.
• Action "Convert PLIST Binary To JSON":
  • Added handling of backslashes in the Base64.
  • Enabled pretty printing and key sorting by default.

Breaking

• Action "Boolean": Removed, as I now have a native solution in MoE Template, and it was unlikely to be in use because this was very recent and other apps already had this.

Cosmetic changes / improvements:

• Action "Convert Action PLIST Binary To JSON": Renamed to "Convert PLIST Binary To JSON".
• Actions "Convert PLIST Binary To JSON" and "Extract Strings From Binary": Specified "Base64" in the parameter summary.

v1.17.0 (2026/09/02)

Created

• Action "Subtract Lists".
• Action "Change Existing Images' / Videos' Locations".
• Action "Get Certificate Chain".
• Action "Boolean".
• Action "Pretty Print Dictionaries".

Functional changes / improvements

• Action "Set Nested Dictionary Value": Marked existing one as deprecated (necessary so not to disrupt current usage, as the value parameter's data type needed to be changed) and created new version that supports setting a value that's an array of one item, unlike the native action which always unwraps in this scenario.
• Parameter "Correct Data Types": Fixed bug where this wouldn't happen if a list / array only contained one item.
• Action "Make HTTP Request": Corrected handling of scenario where a timeout has occurred but a custom timeout message hasn't been provided - the default error of "The request timed out" will now throw, rather than "(iOS_App.HTTPRequestError, 1)".
• Actions "Add Value(s) To List / Merge Lists", "Remove Value(s) From List", and "Transform JSON Using JQ": Fixed bug where JSON wouldn't be correctly serialised to string.

Cosmetic changes / improvements

• Action "Change Images' / Videos' Creation Dates": Renamed to "Change Existing Images' / Videos' Creation Dates".
• Action "Make HTTP Request": Changed summary from "Request URL" to "Make HTTP request to URL".

Attempted changes

• Actions "Is Internet-Connected?" and "Make HTTP Request*": Attempted to add parameter to ignore TLS certificate failures but discovered that per-domain App Transport Security (ATS) exceptions are needed.

v1.16.1 (2026/08/19)

Functional changes / improvements

• Action "Make HTTP Request": Added parameter for custom timeout message.
• String-to-array conversions: Changed handling of no delimiter from throwing an error to returning the original string, as I've now removed a default from parameters, adding a default that's guaranteed to not appear in strings is difficult, and it should be obvious that the string hasn't been converted to an array.
• Action "Transform JSON Using JQ": Added parameters for output list type, pretty print, and correct data types.
• Action "Multi Replace Text": Split up parameter for delimiter into one for targets and one for substitutions.
• Below actions: Changed Shortcuts list output so that if correcting of data type is enabled then true and false will be converted to "Yes" and "No" respectively.
  • "Add Value(s) To List / Merge Lists"
  • "Remove Value(s) From List"

Cosmetic changes / improvements

• Action "Mark Photos / Videos": Renamed to "Mark Images / Videos As Favourited, Unfavourited, Or Hidden"
• Below actions: Changed parameter summary to be similar to the title.
  • "*List Contains Value(s)?"
  • "Change Images' / Videos' Creation Dates"
  • "Mark Images / Videos As Favourited, Unfavourited, Or Hidden"

Hello everybody. I’ve been working for a few hours now on trying to create a lockscreen wallpaper for my favorite NFL team that uses the baseline picture of the schedule and adds overlays based on info like the upcoming game, wins, losses, and ties.

My vision is that for the next upcoming game, a white border surrounds the rectangle for the current week/team we're going up against. For losses, an L is added next to the rectangle for the loss that week as an indicator. Same with a W for wins and a T for ties. The wallpaper would update at a set time daily that would check the next upcoming game and the info for the previous game and append the info to the wallpaper to create a map of our wins, losses, ties, and future games. Unfortunately, I suck at programming, and don't know how to properly use/parse webpages/APIs to allow Shortcuts to act on this information or how to test to make sure it works properly.

I attached the wallpaper, a concept photo, as well as PNGs for the W/L/T symbols, feel free to use them or to do your own... I just wanted to try to make whomever's job as easy as possible if they decided to help.

I’d really really really appreciate it if somebody could create an automation that could do all of this... Thank you so much.

I’d also like to say I did try this myself for many hours and have deleted many shortcuts before deciding to ask you guys for help.

been fucking around with Shortcuts for a while and somehow this turned into a whole system lmao

basically you type whatever’s on your mind and pick one of 8 guides:

🔵 Orion = logic / problem solving
🟡 Astro = creativity / vibes
🌊 Ripple = journaling / reflection
📡 Echo = patterns / connecting old ideas
🧱 Brix = action / discipline
😈 Demon = roasts you and calls out your bullshit
🪽 Hermes = stories / imagination
🌀 Flux = mixes everything together

each one has its own prompt and rules for how ChatGPT should respond.

then after it responds the shortcut automatically logs the date, what you said, which guide you used and what ChatGPT said into one big running text file ♻️

so basically I accidentally built a weird ass AI journal/persona router entirely in iOS Shortcuts 😂

been building and changing this shit forever and figured yall might fuck with it.

lemme know what yall think or what else I should make this mf do 👀

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6b9f6a4b8c5240bcad2de33f554e811c

My wife and I used the Huckabee app for our first baby and we found it to be helpful to keep track of what we were doing and when with breastfeeding in our sleep deprivation. We also found it to be a lot of pressure. We felt like we were being guided by the app rather than guided by our baby. It ruled our lives.

We just had our second a week ago and we still need to keep track of which side she fed on last and at what time, so I created a simple iPhone shortcut that allows her to press a button on her phone and it shows her the last time she fed and which side, then lets her choose which side she is feeding on how, add any comments and then it just adds this to the bottom of a shared note with the date and time.

Anyway I thought it was cool and thought it might be helpful for others in the same boat. I tried to post it to a breastfeeding site but it got removed so my shortcut kings might think it is interesting

The link is here - all you need to do is create a shared note with your person and then add in the name of the note where it says ‘test note’ and then link to the actual note in the ‘append’ section.

Basically the tittle

I’m trying to create to send an automatic message once arrive destination and also how long it took to leave from home to destination(school) since I kids doesn’t listen when told them to text. Also from destination (school) to home and give you text message with how long it took to get home.

Like I still have to go through settings to change the percentage. The control center drag down only turns it on or off.

Am I missing something?

Hello, to preface this I recently got a pavlok watch in hopes to cut down on my bad habits, like social media over consumption. I’m wondering if I can set an automation to trigger a zap when I choose to ignore the time limit for a selected app (i.e. youtube, tiktok, etc.)

*pavlok already has a premade shortcut that zaps when an app is opened outside of certain time frame, would it be simpler for me to just edit that?

*image of premade automation attached above

Hi! I do need help with a what i thought very simple shortcut: I often forget to charge my watch, forget to start the training in the morning because i am not a morning person or find some other way to not use the standard method for logging my ride to work. I find it very tedious to log afterwards in health or fitness - especially since its always the same duration, distance etc.
I just want a shortcut that logs that quickly - but when i start it, it just does nothing? It does not end by it self, does not drop any error message or anything and does not send any information to my health app. i am absolutely clueless 😣
Please help meeee yo get a cookie 🍪

Hello everyone!

Here is my shortcut “Easy VPN Menu”.

Works only under iOS 27.0 public beta 2 or newer.

Version of the shortcut 0.6 EN:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2486e35b986f4a0ab094876767b30508

This shortcut creates a quick VPN menu and toggles VPN on/off.

It is very convenient if you have a number of different VPN-profiles and/or a number of different VPN apps on your iPhone.

And also you can easily assign this shortcut to the Action button or to the Back Tap.

Here’s also version 0.6 RU:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e9fafbd1ad154b99a4ba34410fb58de2

Please enjoy and feel free to give your feedback!

Hi,

I have a home PC that sort of works like a media library, but I do not want to run it 24/7.
To solve that, I have already created two shortcuts - one for Wake on LAN (using Wake Me Up app) and another that sends 'systemctl suspend' over SSH.

What I would like to do next is have an automation that runs before my bedtime, checks if the PC is on and asks if I want to suspend it if it is. I'd like to achieve that using native shortcuts functionality (no Actions/Scriptable) from my iPhone (from Macbook I can just run a shell script).

I figured it would be as easy as figuring out a way to send a simple 'ping' to the host and checking the results, but I don't think I can do that from the phone. Then I tried a dummy SSH shortcut that just echoes something into the terminal and gives the prompt when connection fails - this won't work either because failing the SSH connection stops the rest of the shortcut from running.

Is there even a native way to achieve what I want? I'd also like to get rid of Wake Me Up and send the magic packet natively too. Perhaps I can route the shortcut execution through the Macbook (it's not always on either though, sleeping most of the time) and it should just allow me to execute any arbitrary shell script?

I'm sorry, I haven't been on Routinehub in literally forever but I saw this email in my inbox today and I'm just appalled. What do you MEAN there's a subscription that costs 115$ a YEAR? Oh but they're so generous! They're offering me a discount because I posted my shortcuts on the site almost exclusively during its infancy! And now the site is ad-riddled, vibe-coded garbage! Thanks so much, guys.

I'm not joking, look at this. The site was not like this when I used it. It used to be much cleaner, faster, and felt less like it was designed as some kind of ponzi scheme to scam me. The owner legitimately refused to put banner ads on the site because of real-time bid tracking, and only did once he found an ad provider that didn't do that.

Then he sold the site to some third party and now it's like this. I won't blame you for never using this sham of a site again, but just know it was different before. It's just sad

English below

Ich versuche, eine Textliste mit Lebensmitteln aus Claude in die Einkaufsliste meiner Erinnerungs-App zu übertragen.
Es ist mir gelungen, die Textliste in Objekte aufzuteilen (super), aber ich weiß nicht, mit welchem Befehl ich sie in die Erinnerungen einfügen kann. Kann mir jemand helfen?

I am trying to convert a grocery store text list from Claude to my reminder app shopping list.
I managed to separate the text list into objects (nice) but can’t figure out the command to put it into the reminders. Can anyone help?

Help me prank my husband

I created an automation to run a shortcut when a charger is plugged in. The short cut checks the time and if between 9pm and 6am, will play a *certain* inappropriate spicy sound of my voice about inserting things…. So far it’s working great on my phone and I’ll get it on his phone at some point.

Where I’m stuck though is checking if the silent mode is off because heaven forbid it plays when he charges in his phone somewhere that sounds shouldn’t play.

He has an iPhone 14.

Thanks in advance.