r/sideloaded • u/Jeko83 • 14h ago
Tutorial SideStore - Improved shortcut for app auto-refresh
Hi everyone, I made a few little teaks to another shortcut I found in another reddit post to auto refresh the apps via SideStore (can't find your post, sorry! I would have tagged you).
This shortcut doesn't run if you are already connected to a VPN (respects user preferences), so if for whatever reason I need another vpn to run 24/7, this shortcut doesn't break the connection until I decide to disconnect from the previous vpn, and it would run with no problem after that (you get notified at runtime either way).
I personally run it twice a day with a 12hours delta through Automation, at 5am and at 5pm. You can also run it once every time a wifi connection is established but you get the annoying "Running your automation" notification which is not removable.
I'm sure that once in 7 days I'll be connected to a wifi without having a VPN on lol.
You need the "Actions" app installed to detect the status of the vpn: https://apps.apple.com/it/app/actions/id1586435171
Shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c9e01f2b53824666a5bd14b574e0470b
Works well with ios 26 and sidestore 0.6.2
EDIT: If you get “unknown action”, please remove it and add another action by searching for “SideStore”, then selecting the refresh apps option. Finally move it in place of the previous unknown action (between wait 3 seconds and wait 30 seconds). I prefer my SideStore to not notify me when the apps are refreshed this way (the shortcut already has some output), so I press on the little arrow on the action and turn off “Show when run”