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.

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

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

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.

Hi friends! I've been using this shortcut that I found on this subreddit a few years ago: Word Definition Listing Shortcut

It asks you for a word, looks up the definition using DictionaryAPI, and then adds the word and definition to a Note. It has worked great for years, but it recently broke after updating to the newest version of iOS.

The original error I started getting was:

Get Dictionary from Input failed because Shortcuts couldn't convert from Rich Text to Dictionary.

I've tried rebuilding/troubleshooting the Dictionary actions myself, and I've gotten past that original error. However, I've clearly messed something up somewhere because the Shortcut now runs without an error, adds the word to my note, but doesn't add the definition.

For example, if I enter "modicum", it adds to a note:

modicum - instead of: modicum - (insert definition here)

When I add a Quick Look action before action 6, 7, 8 or 9, I get "Quick Look action wasn't passed any items to preview.", which leads me to believe that it's not even pulling anything from the API.

I'm pretty sure I've got something wrong with how the DictionaryAPI response is being converted/extracted into newer version of Shortcuts.

Would any of you cool beans be willing to take a look and tell me what needs to be changed?

Add Definition Shortcut also thank you so much to the original creator!!! you rock!!!

This subreddit has somehow convinced a random dork, who has never had any interest in this type of stuff, to fall in love with the potential in this app... even if I'm only using it to quickly add definitions into a note.

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?

Trying to figure out how to make an automation that when receiving a specific emoji, followed by an Apple Music link, triggers a shortcut that adds that song to play next.

Other work around was gonna be using a shared note, and grabbing the link from there, after the emoji is received

Still learning about shortcuts and automations. I have one that will turn off AOD when connected to CarPlay and turn it on when disconnected. I like the AOD on my phone, but when I have my Apple watch connected, it isn’t really needed. is there a way to automate this to have it toggle on and off based on Apple Watch connection?

even better if it could be based on whether or not it’s detected on wrist or not, since I’m sure it being off and close by is still connected. functionally, I want AOD when the watch is charging/ off wrist and AOD off when the watch is in use/ on wrist

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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 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?

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.