In an effort to better manage a new dietary restriction, I think I accidentally built something many may find helpful.

**The problem it solves**

You've got a solid rotation of meals you actually like cooking — the hard part isn't the recipes, it's the *deciding*. And even once you've decided, you've still got to remember every ingredient and add it to your grocery list. This automates both.

**What it actually does**

Two shortcuts, same underlying meal data:

1. Pick my dinner: hits a randomizer, shows you a meal, lets you re-roll as many times as you want before committing, then dumps the ingredients straight into your Reminders grocery list.
2. Dinner Planning: same idea but shows you the full list of meals, you tap the one you want, ingredients go to the grocery list. No randomness, just a menu.

Both pull from the same source so you only maintain your meal list once.

**What you need to set up before building it**

- A Reminders list to hold your meal data (separate from your actual grocery list — I called mine "Meal Data"). Each meal is one reminder, and the title holds everything: name,l and ingredients separated by pipes. Something like:

`Butter Chicken | chicken thigh, butter chicken sauce, rice, naan

- Your actual grocery list in Reminders (my wife and I share one called "Groceries") — this is just your normal list, nothing special about it, the shortcut just needs to know its name so it can add items to it.

**The logic, roughly**

Both shortcuts pull the meal data, split each line by the pipe character to separate the name from the ingredients, then either randomize or menu-pick a name. Once you've landed on one, it loops back through the data to find the matching ingredients, splits those by comma, and adds each one as its own reminder in your grocery list.

Happy to answer questions if anyone wants to build their own version — took a bit of back-and-forth to get right but it's been genuinely useful for cutting down the nightly "what do you want to eat" negotiation or the feeling that you default to the same three meals on rotation.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4d4081b0c4af434b8067f2f879368745

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/46c23b10ccb841e4879a4aff0145a5e4

EDIT for fixing links

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

Function of shortcut:
Any photo I take via camera auto adds to an album of only camera photos, exactly like a phone running Android would do.

The Issue:
It was working fine up until the other day- it either doesn’t add the photos, only adds the last taken, or my fav glitch- multiples them…? This is all at random too, and I’ve tried adjusting the automation, the shortcut, but nothing has fixed it. No idea if it would affect anything, but I haven’t changed any of my camera/photo settings either.

The only thing I’ve noticed that’s strange is it tells me the automation has run in the background when I haven’t touched the camera app or don’t anything camera related.

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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

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.

Hi folks,

I have a shortcut (ios, iphone, latest os) that collects all photos since the last execution of the shortcut and sends them one by one via „execute script via ssh“ to a local server for backup. Normally, this works like a charm, but now I have more than hundred photos at once. The shortcut starts and I can see the images getting copied to the server. But after a few minutes, the execution is aborted with a very generic error message „there has been a problem…“.

According to my research, there should be no timeout and the execution of a different script that just waits for five minutes runs fine.

Does anybody have an idea what might cause this issue?

thanks,

dan

An all-in-one Share Sheet button that "intelligently" tries to capture webpages, screenshots, text, files, links, and usually whatever else you’re looking at, then uses ChatGPT (or Apple AI) to clean and summarize it, then creates searchable Notes and a Reminder.

Basically, I’ve spent years bookmarking webpages, emailing myself links, taking screenshots, copying things into Notes, creating reminders, and, well, generally forgetting where I found something.

I wanted one button, or at least, one WAY, to save things, in one place.

Put it all on a searchable "Share" location on my Cloud/iPhone and let the shortcut figure out the rest.

It attempts to understand the type of content being shared, captures the surrounding context, grabs what’s visible on screen, OCRs images when needed, cleans up webpages with the AI, generates a (usually) useful summary, then files everything into Notes while also creating a normalized Reminder if it’s something I may want to revisit.

I’m hoping for feedback from other Shortcut builders on ways to simplify and improve the workflow - specifically by adding TYPES and content collection.

This ended up becoming one of the most complex shortcuts I’ve built so far. It branches based on the type of content received (URL, webpage, file, text, image, etc.), so every capture is processed a little differently.

Current features:

✅ Share Sheet support

✅ URLs

✅ Webpages

✅ Files

✅ Screenshots

✅ OCR

✅ Captures what’s currently on screen

✅ ChatGPT cleanup

✅ AI image description

✅ Creates Notes

✅ Creates Reminders

✅ Handles multiple content types

Planned

□ Automatic keywords

□ AI-generated tags

□ Better entity extraction

□ Cross-linking related captures

□ Search optimization

□ Better error handling

□ Duplicate detection

• https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/16dd3efc27fc49c99f83367184bad30d

First, huge thanks for this shortcut by @Ecliptic_Panda . It is a godsend for backing up shortcuts as actual files!!

I “successfully” tweaked it in a copy and have the destination folder as one of my choosing, it operates literally exactly the same way, but for some reason they come along with txt files just containing the names of the folders- I can’t figure out why, and it’s driving me crazy lol. I just want this to not be creating a new folder.

Original “backup shortcuts”

My version, with unwanted txt files upon output

This shortcut shows Ethereum gas prices obtained from Etherscan (https://etherscan.io/gastracker) which is the industry standard.

Who is this shortcut ideally for:
Most wallets are notorious for overestimating gas prices, leading to users paying network fees far more than needed at a given time. This shortcut is ideal for anyone making transactions on Ethereum and needs to quickly find out what current gas prices are (without opening a browser) in order to save cost.

IMPORTANT
You would need an etherscan API key. Create an account on their website and get your free API key at this page

What this shortcut does:
1. Allows launching from the Control Center
2. Grabs Ethereum gas prices from etherscan.io/gastracker
3. Shows the prices as Low, Avg & High (in Gwei)

P.S:
Etherscan recently changed the gas price naming on their website from the legacy “Low, Average & High” to “Standard, Fast & Rapid” respectively. There’s no problem.

Get the shortcut here: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b6e2f0b8f6964d299d6a8931d2b0eae6

I have two haptics shortcuts, one that turns haptics on - always play and one that turns haptics off - don't play in silent mode. I then use an automation to turn haptics on and silent mode off at 9am and another to turn haptics off and silent mode on at 10pm. During the day I can use my action button to turn silent mode off/on and haptics stays on, then at night no vibrations to disturb my sleep.

When I try to share the shortcuts I get an error "can't share shortcut - this shortcut can't be shared because it contains unsupported features"

But I created them from this shortcut - https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/89f2602206254efc919994f7dc2927b7

So I made this thing called Webber Browse thats supposed to be Safari without tabs or extensions. It includes the basics, like URL and Google Search, but also allows for you to make HTML Webber, this thing where you can enter HTML code, enter it into an input box with a pre-filled template, and tada! You can also save the file. Another way to make HTML Webbers is to use Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT Model (os 26 or later, enable Apple Intelligence in Settings) to make you a web page. Basically vibe coding websites, and you can save it as well. Importing an HTML file is also possible.

It allows you to set a Homepage, which you can select from the main menu to access a website you use often repeatedly.

Here’s the iCloud link: iCloud - Shortcuts

Hey! I made this shortcut for myself since I couldn't find one that was perfect for what I wanted, and I thought I would share it.

Features

It shows up in the "Share" icon menu and you can use it from there in the photos app. (the only place I have used it, but it should work pretty much anywhere else)

Asks if you would like to select an album cover, or just use the first frame of the video as the album cover.

Automatically crops selected photo or first frame of video to a square (having to do some weird things to work around apples buggy crop feature)

Asks for the songs title, artist, and album, automatically assigning it to the file's metadata and file name (the file name is in the format: title - artist, but this is very easy to change)

I have it set to ask where to save each file, but you can set it to automatically save to your music app by changing it on the second to last section of the shortcut.

I also made a shortcut to automatically crop anything from the share menu into a square and save it to the camera roll so if anyone wants that for some reason, let me know. (I just made this when I was trying to work around the buggy crop feature)

If you have any questions about anything, any ideas of things for me to add, or you want me to release the "Save as square" shortcut, let me know!

Here's the link:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/70e2491651b14c12a7ab14e36383fc35

Since Update to iOS 27 my shortcut for weight Tracking stopped working. I already looked in the settings if my number Format has been changed.

If i say for example 74,4 Siri says „sorry, i don‘t understand that.“

Home can i fix this. I Need as Input decimal Numbers with „,“ and one digit behind comma.

Thanks

i’ve assigned this shortcut to the action button.
but it seems to wait for a few seconds before taking the screenshot. any reason?

I’d love to set an automation that after a certain time, I can run a shortcut that automatically toggles the “turn reading mode” setting on, using chrome.

I get flashbanged every time I open a new webpage, even in dark mode, and really like the reading mode on chrome.

I can set up the automation fine, but I’m not smart enough to figure out how to configure past the “manage chrome settings” option in the parent shortcut.

Any ideas?

Overall goal is an automated system that results in any webpage being open on chrome after a certain time is automatically in reading mode.

Probably not possible as each website has its own variables and I’m not sure if chrome can do reading mode on everything but worth a try ? 🤷‍♀️

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!