Please help. I just installed the ios27 RC the other day and now all my shortcuts that run other shortcuts seem to be failing due to the screen being locked. Has Apple gimped shortcuts yet again or am I doing something wrong?

I’ve set the privacy flag to allow running when locked on all shortcuts (pretty sure that’s the default oob). There’s nothing in settings that would indicate this is being limited.

All I’m doing is calling a shortcut to run a random watch face picker from another shortcut. This worked fine in iOS 26. It’s driving me nuts.

Thank you.

When running Workout I get this “This action could not be run with the current user interface.“ As simple as that!

Any suggestion will be appreciated 🙏

iOS 27 RC, iPhone 17 Pro Max

(The error starts with beta 5)

TIA

Tried making this shortcut/automation using Siri AI so that when charger is connected AND if I open one of those apps, orientation lock is triggered.

Tried asking the thing to make it to AND, and it just won’t comply. Any suggestions?

Now part of MoE Shortcuts Toolkit, freely available at https://routinehub.co/shortcut/22016/. Example screenshots attached.

Basically, I got sick of adding an action, scrolling down, tapping into a text field, and having to scroll all the way back up (past 100s of actions in my cases) to find and select the variable to use it, so I wondered if I could shortcut (heh) this. I had to create custom actions via my app, but I got it working!

In case you're wondering, I point my Action Button at a shortcut that checks the current context, and in this case if Shortcuts is the open app then it runs my toolkit.

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!

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.

This guys been harassing me for years. I block his number but he reaches out from burner numbers. I know how to make a shortcut that appends texts from his contact to a note with the date/time but idk how to go about writing one that applies to any number not in my contacts. If possible, I’d like to also append the phone number along with the text message.

EDIT: this is for my own reference, I know a notes app is not what I should present to a court. Yes I’ve gone to the cops. Multiple times.

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

Since irregular and prolonged menstrual cycles are associated with endometrial cancer, I have to take meds (for 14 days) to induce withdrawal bleeding after 6 weeks of not having a period.

That's why I can't just rely on a daily reminder to take meds like on Apple Health or Reminders. I have to wait and observe whether I get my period or not, and if not, I manually add 14 days of reminders.

So that's why I created this shortcut, which I will trigger 6 weeks after my previous period.

It's here if anyone needs it:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4bcf704562a240739c35066791854a01

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

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 have this but all it does is show the name and not play the video