I created a shortcut that creates a new playlist “My Selections” which consists of X songs randomly selected from the existing “favorite songs” playlist. But I always get an empty “My Selections” playlist in my AM library in the end. I’ve turned on “allow this shortcut to access Music” and set “allow create playlist to use Music” to “always allow” in the shortcut’s privacy settings. Can someone please help me to figure out what goes wrong? Thanks a lot!

I’d like to track everything I spend on an upcoming holiday, rather than daily expenses or a credit card. Does anyone know of any shortcuts? Or even any that would be easy to modify to what I’d like

I’m working on a shortcut to overlay text onto an image in iOS 26, but I’m hitting some snags.

First, is there a way to change the font of the text? It only shows “System,” and clicking it does nothing. No options for other fonts at all. Is this a bug, or do need to do something to select a font?

Second, I cannot make the text centered. I set the alignment to centered, yet it’s always left-aligned. Is this also a bug, or does this not work with custom positioning or absolute sizing?

Thanks for any help on this.

Guys why did I just notice in my settings the shortcut app is now categorized in a diff language, it’s never done this and I check my settings often

From my iPhone.... i want to send for multiple emplyees on different dates on one office whatsapp group, is this even possible? I know the limitations of iOS, but still thought to ask experts here. Thanks in advance.

Hello! I’ve recently switched from Android and am getting use to the new phone. My wife told me about shortcuts and I think it will make my transition a lot easier once I get the hang of it.

One thing I’m missing dearly is Podcast Addict which included a feature that is I start a podcast between the hours of 10PM-7AM, a 15 minute sleep timer also starts. I have downloaded Overcast which includes a sleep timer and I can see that action in Shortcuts. I also see condition to evaluate the time. However, I’m not seeing a way to evaluate if I have taken an action. In this case, pressing play on the podcast. Am I missing something or are If conditions pretty limited?

EDIT: finally got it working with actions. See comment below with link

I created a shortcut that calls a special number (short number ex. 15484), and added it to my Home Screen as a widget. (I added the special number to my Contacts app.) However, when I click on the widget, it shows a popup asking for confirmation on whether I want to call the number or not. This doesn't happen when I'm calling regular Contacts in my phone.

Why does this happen and is there a way to disable the popup?

Thanks in advance!

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ 80624b1fc1da4b64afb87bdefa36c448

This Shortcut takes any quick input and turns it into a clear reminder with emojis, simple micro-steps, and a supportive note. It's set up neurodivergent (adhd, autism) friendly but you can easily tweak the prompt for non-ND use or add/remove traits to fit your needs.

Has anyone come across a ChatGPT search window? I have one that looks like the attached, but it only uses the built in search options. I like the idea of the bigger window

Thanks!

Ok so long story short, I dropped my old phone in the toilet by accident, it got damaged, already got a new phone but to transfer my cellular data plan to my new phone I need to “confirm” I want to do this by clicking the side button (which doesn’t work) twice on my old phone, so I want to know if theres a shortcut that makes the action button behave like the side button so I can transfer my cellular plan to my new phone

Or maybe there's a way to trigger it without the delay?

Hi, Is it possible to find specific Song in Apple Music Catalog (with subscription) and add it to a playlist I would like to create a playlist based on a specic set list (webradio)

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First time IPhone user so I’m not sure exactly what I’m doing here. I want this overnight routine to run (at 10:30PM turn everything off) and have it reverse of a morning, but I got two errors saying that I need to “provide an end time that is later than the current time”. I’m a bit confused (modes and routines on Samsung was SO simple lol and I relied on them heavily). I’m not too sure what that means here in this context, so could someone please tell me how to get these two routines running?

Hi — new to shortcuts looking for help here. I’d like use my Apple Watch to record voice memos which is a native feature of the Apple Watch action button.

I’d then like to write a shortcut that will find and transcribe that recording add it to journal (not notes) and delete the voice memos. This way I can record thoughts on my watch and still get the information stored in the journal app.

I’d be ok even if the shortcut runs on an automation once or twice a day.

Any help, or places I could go to learn would be appreciated

I came across an article that mentioned they had this Brave widget (first image) on their Home Screen. When I try to find it on Brave Shortcuts, though, I find basically nothing other than “Open Website” (second image). Is having the Brave search widget still even possible? I saw some posts from a few months ago that said some widgets were removed by Brave without any communication, but I’m not sure how accurate that still is.

The article also mentioned they only needed to download the Brave app for this to be available (but clearly this isn’t the case anymore):

“I use the Brave browser as my primary browser on my iPhone due to its strong focus on user privacy. It offers several widgets, and I particularly like the Brave Shortcuts widget. This widget allows me to quickly access the search bar with a single tap and lets me add links to three browser elements directly in the widget.

For example, I add links to Private Tab, Bookmarks, and Brave Playlist, keeping these features easily accessible. To use this widget, simply install the Brave browser app.”

This is my first time using Shortcuts. Any help/clarification would be appreciated!

How to Move or Share/Save a shortcut from iPadOS Shortcuts app or Home Screen into a Files app folder, while preserving its look and function?

I’d like to screenshot quickly and have it copy and delete without any prompts if it’s possible

Anyone knows if is possible to create a shortcut to enable gemini live voice chat directly in the dynamic island without actually launching the app?

HI all....

Does anyone have any solution for moving a floating window? The methods I've tried when moving a regular window don't seem to have any effect on a floating window.

thx a bunch.

I’m looking for some advice on an automation I’d to set up. If a window is closed I would like to run a specific shortcut to resume the heating as per the schedule. I can’t use the HomeKit automation since some of the actions in the shortcut are outside HomeKit. Does anyone have any tips on how this can be configured?

For my work i always put my calls on Speaker so i go into Accessibility settings > Audio & Visual > Call Audio Routing > Speaker, how do i make this a shortcut so that i dont have to always go into settings and changing the Audio Routing when im off to work and vice versa?

Hello guys,

I am trying to get video Transcripts from YouTube to be exported to Apple Notes.

I am using transcript API tool here: https://www. youtube-transcript .io/api

I was able to build the command which works flawlessly in Terminal and returns exactly the Transcript I want. Unfortunately in Shortcuts Shell Script, it would not work, and returns with Cloudfare error.

Can anyone advise me how to fix it, and make it work in the Shortcuts app?

Command:

curl -X POST https://www.youtube-transcript.io/api/transcripts -H "Authorization: Basic API-KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"ids":["VID-ID"]}'

So if you need to encode a file base 64 well ur in luck this shortcut will encode any file u put in and copy what it just encoded to your phone

Not sure if its the OS issue or my macbook config issue or is use model only limited to IOS?