I put a shortcut on my Lock Screen. But I can’t figure out how to play it from there (phone forces me to login). This shortcut is a simple timer so I’d like it to run directly on the Lock Screen like the camera and flashlight are able to.
Can we create an iOS shortcut that suggests a balanced dinner menu based on what I ate for breakfast and lunch? Additionally, when I take pictures of my food and store them in apps like MyFitnessPal, will they be able to accurately estimate the grams of food consumed?
I'm still using iOS 17 as I only have one device. Have they added the feature to not notify when run on the automations regarding wifi and mobile data?
@@beardfm I have an automation that when I leave a WiFi network, to automatically turn on my mobile data. There is no option to turn off notify when run. What exactly should I turn off?
@@beardfm can you make an automation about joining a WiFi network, without getting any notifications? There is only the option to Run immediately and not to toggle notify when run
Nice video info. I can’t wait until iOS 18 is out. I want to put a Countdown Timer shortcut on the Lock Screen, and iOS 17 only lets me put it on the Home Screen. BTW, when you talked about Home and the 24 hour clock, 19(00) hours is 7PM, not 8PM.
I have a Shortcut request: I usually keep my work email (inactive), and whenever I am away from office and need to fetch an email I go to Settings >>Apps>>Mail>> Mail accounts>>the activate the mail and the calander to check for meetings I would very much to have a shortcut on the iphone desktop that activate both the work email and work calander if they are inactive and deactivate them if they are active once i am done with what i need
Hey Stephen, love your content! I have a question about Apple Shortcuts. I use group texting a lot for work, and I’ve set up a shortcut to send messages to a group. I have to manually add each recipient in the messages action. The problem is, whenever people come and go from the group, I have to manually update the recipients in the Messages action in Shortcuts. I’d love to be able to choose a group text rather than individual contacts. Would really appreciate your help!
Appreciate it! And I wish Shortcuts supports groups better. If you've just messaged a group and then go back to shortcuts, you can choose the group from recipients as it will be in the "suggested" area. Make sure the group is titled. But there's no way to auto send a message to a group without confirmation. The only options right now is to "open the group" and the paste the message.
Great video Stephen, thanks! I've got two questions regarding iOS 18 shortcuts - 1. Is it possible to get active timers by labels? 2. Is it possible to change the lock-screen shortcuts automatically based on location or focus?
@@beardfmyou actually can! You can get the current focus that is chosen and run an if statement and then run the corresponding shortcut. So you have one shortcut that controls this that is set to your Lock Screen and then two other shortcuts that are run depending on your focus mode
I need to create a database! I don't have one yet, this playlist is the closest thing: th-cam.com/play/PLCnyeuWW0bgaj8ZykefmxpSLZYX9sHdlS.html&si=A8OUgpB9AOO7uXNT
I was trying to get the voice notes to work for my online classes, but the stopping part or going on longer than it can handle have been my biggest hurdles. The normal recording app transcribes okay but getting a shortcut to do it and format all my class lectures would be killer. Recording app has done up to ~21min for me but after ~8-10 it starts lagging out visually
Love your videos!! Suggestion: I built something similar for the health tracking - but I think you can take it one step further if you have it append into a Number Sheet versus plain text note. As it dumps data in, it can automatically update charts and graphs so you have visuals for all that data. (I.e. track frequency symptoms over time, etc) You can even pair it with Apple Watch Data from your Health Apple like average heart rate for the day etc. but you do have to turn on a setting to allow mass export of health data.
Thank you! And that's a great idea. Have you found the Numbers spreadsheet actions to be reliable? That was my only hesitation as it used to be a little flaky.
It was definitely very finicky to set up but after that it was pretty seamless. And it took a while to figure out the health data import issue (unless you change the setting it blocks you doing calculations with large amounts of exported health data). I used the Add Row to Top/Bottom function - and add return to Home Screen at the end because it wants to take you into the sheet when it runs.
Hi Stephen Do you know if it is possible to have a shortcut that turns down the music volume on your streaming speaker when there are an incoming call on your iPhone. Streaming from the same iPhone that’s receiving the incoming call. Volume to be turned down gradually. Cheers from Michael in Denmark
Learnt something new again! Didn’t know they added the Home Toggle action, such a relief! I’d earlier made a theatre mode shortcut too which turns in my Apple TV, opens remote on my phone, asks me which app I’d like to see, and turns on my Govee lights in dreamview mode. Quick question though, your Mute Toggle mentioned in the last shortcut is still using IF statements right, and not a new direct toggle?
Literally added shortcuts to my Home Screen today before This video dropped! Great minds! Another set of helpful shortcuts, especially the 1st one as I am always late! 🤭
I’m always getting ideas from your videos. On your translate shortcut, is there a better way to have the audio repeated? I don’t understand the repeat action very well. That way if someone didn’t listen carefully the first time they can hear it again. Also, on your heath tracker, I think putting a Numbers action over Notes might be better. That way you could graph and analyze any data. Just a thought. Thanks for making these videos!
Thanks! Def going to try and add health data to a spreadsheet next time, and you can have a menu at the end that asks whether to repeat or start over. Then duplicate the speak text action and put it under the proper menu option.
@@TheRealmfc90125 have an if device is watch flow in your shortcut. Really depends on what the shortcut does but I have some that work slightly differently to achieve the same outcome using an if statement which includes an extra step if run from watch.
Stephen - I tried adding the resume podcast shortcut to the Lock Screen. However, it only brings up the main shortcut icon as a choice. Any suggestions?
@@beardfm same.. but trying to find what’s new or fixed yet. Updating macOS now to try mirroring.. control center seems a bit stable.. I think india region didn’t get RCS support as others did in messages settings
@@beardfm a few bugs noticed.. app icons suddenly lost and all default to white boxes. This bug got fixed by changing app icon size to large once and then back to normal, all icons reappeared. Also, photos app interface customisation that I did after DB1 seem to have been reset.
Dude! I really like your videos. I learn a los about shortcuts and automation, but i have a request that i really need: currently i use differents focus modes in my day. So, i need to active it in different hours ON the same day and in certain days Of the week. Also, i need to learn how can i silence a notificatios for certain app without silence it in a focus mode!! Regards from chile
Thanks! It sounds like you can create a bunch of manual automations for time of day that activates the Focus Modes when you want them. Does that make sense?
Sometimes your Shortcut seem a lot to overengineered to me. I have a Shortcut for turning AirDrop on/off (all avail states) and it’s just one action, no menu needed …
If you just want to toggle it, that works without a menu for sure! It's all preference, and even more so where you want to use it. Action Button vs. Lock Screen. vs. Widget, etc.
@@beardfm Not only if you want to toggle it. Instead of setting the shortcut action to what to do, you can set it to ask what to do. So you don't need the menu, it will ask you to what it should be set when running the shortcut. This works for basically any action which sets a state or needs other kind of input.
Indeed it is. However, the time is formatted to hour only, so "Greater than 19" is 20. Fooled me when I created a similar When Connects to Carplay shortcut. CarPlay played a local station between 8-10, for the trip to work. When the station played at 10.30, I was confused. The If statement was looking at the whole time , 0800-10.59. Because the time was acually between those times, the local station was splayed. Changed the date format to hours (H) and all was well.
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I put a shortcut on my Lock Screen. But I can’t figure out how to play it from there (phone forces me to login). This shortcut is a simple timer so I’d like it to run directly on the Lock Screen like the camera and flashlight are able to.
Can you create a shortcut to announce reminders using intercom on the homepod mini? Thank you!
Yes! You can follow the steps here and add the intercom step at the end: th-cam.com/video/6rs8c4bnIUM/w-d-xo.html&si=JZ6coY-2JAG1QM1i
Can you please advise how to take a selfi using shortcuts?
Can we create an iOS shortcut that suggests a balanced dinner menu based on what I ate for breakfast and lunch? Additionally, when I take pictures of my food and store them in apps like MyFitnessPal, will they be able to accurately estimate the grams of food consumed?
I think that's a little too advanced just yet, but we're getting close!
A shortcut that allows play the next/preview using the volume bottons would be amazing! I was used to it on android and miss so much
Thanks for all your hard work. I really like your shortcut videos, I’m always amazed by what you think of!
Appreciate that! And many are from the community and viewers here!
I'm still using iOS 17 as I only have one device. Have they added the feature to not notify when run on the automations regarding wifi and mobile data?
I've been able to turn off all notifications for Shortcuts, just make sure to turn off all "show when run" toggles
@@beardfm I have an automation that when I leave a WiFi network, to automatically turn on my mobile data. There is no option to turn off notify when run. What exactly should I turn off?
@@beardfm can you make an automation about joining a WiFi network, without getting any notifications? There is only the option to Run immediately and not to toggle notify when run
I have a request! Is it possible to set up a shortcut to launch a app in Guided Access mode?
Nice video info. I can’t wait until iOS 18 is out. I want to put a Countdown Timer shortcut on the Lock Screen, and iOS 17 only lets me put it on the Home Screen.
BTW, when you talked about Home and the 24 hour clock, 19(00) hours is 7PM, not 8PM.
Thanks! And the 24 hour clock is weird. Since the action specifies *after* the IF statement needs to read an hour before.
A new home toggle?! Ahhhhhhhh this is a game changer!
Yes!! Much needed.
Is it possible to create a shortcut just to toggle vibration on/off?
You can turn "silent" mode on/off, but not vibration specifically.
@@beardfm That's a shame. It's a pain to go through the settings menu every time you want to change between vibrate or not vibrate in sound/silent...
I have a Shortcut request: I usually keep my work email (inactive), and whenever I am away from office and need to fetch an email I go to Settings >>Apps>>Mail>> Mail accounts>>the activate the mail and the calander to check for meetings
I would very much to have a shortcut on the iphone desktop that activate both the work email and work calander if they are inactive
and deactivate them if they are active once i am done with what i need
I’m not able to choose what shortcut should I add in Lock Screen please help!!!
That's an iOS 18 feature which is only in early beta right now. It will be coming as a public beta in July and then out for everyone this Fall!
Hey Stephen, love your content! I have a question about Apple Shortcuts. I use group texting a lot for work, and I’ve set up a shortcut to send messages to a group. I have to manually add each recipient in the messages action. The problem is, whenever people come and go from the group, I have to manually update the recipients in the Messages action in Shortcuts. I’d love to be able to choose a group text rather than individual contacts. Would really appreciate your help!
Appreciate it! And I wish Shortcuts supports groups better. If you've just messaged a group and then go back to shortcuts, you can choose the group from recipients as it will be in the "suggested" area. Make sure the group is titled. But there's no way to auto send a message to a group without confirmation. The only options right now is to "open the group" and the paste the message.
The If/And as well as the if/Or is so clutch
Going to be awesome!
@@beardfm Yes, looks like I can simplify several Shortcuts I made, that have nested if/then statements.
How do you edit and change the shortcut on the Lock Screen. It’s setup as a reminder and I don’t know how to change it
Same question
Got to know?
It requires iOS 18 which is only in developer beta right now. Public beta should be available in July and then it's out for everyone this Fall
You have a link to this shirt?
Can we create a shortcut like phone automatically switches from wifi to mobile signal and vice versa when signal is weak or gone ?
There *are* actions for cellular and wifi toggles, but nothing to "get cellular signal" unfortunately.
Great video Stephen, thanks!
I've got two questions regarding iOS 18 shortcuts -
1. Is it possible to get active timers by labels?
2. Is it possible to change the lock-screen shortcuts automatically based on location or focus?
Thanks! You can't change the Shortcuts on the Lock Screen automatically, it's always a manual process. And yes! You can get alarms by label.
@@beardfmyou actually can! You can get the current focus that is chosen and run an if statement and then run the corresponding shortcut. So you have one shortcut that controls this that is set to your Lock Screen and then two other shortcuts that are run depending on your focus mode
Do you have a list of all your shortcuts? Even ones not listed in this video?
Thanks!!
I need to create a database! I don't have one yet, this playlist is the closest thing: th-cam.com/play/PLCnyeuWW0bgaj8ZykefmxpSLZYX9sHdlS.html&si=A8OUgpB9AOO7uXNT
I was trying to get the voice notes to work for my online classes, but the stopping part or going on longer than it can handle have been my biggest hurdles. The normal recording app transcribes okay but getting a shortcut to do it and format all my class lectures would be killer. Recording app has done up to ~21min for me but after ~8-10 it starts lagging out visually
I so wish it honored the "on tap" choice as well.
Love your videos!!
Suggestion: I built something similar for the health tracking - but I think you can take it one step further if you have it append into a Number Sheet versus plain text note. As it dumps data in, it can automatically update charts and graphs so you have visuals for all that data. (I.e. track frequency symptoms over time, etc)
You can even pair it with Apple Watch Data from your Health Apple like average heart rate for the day etc. but
you do have to turn on a setting to allow mass export of health data.
Thank you! And that's a great idea. Have you found the Numbers spreadsheet actions to be reliable? That was my only hesitation as it used to be a little flaky.
It was definitely very finicky to set up but after that it was pretty seamless. And it took a while to figure out the health data import issue (unless you change the setting it blocks you doing calculations with large amounts of exported health data). I used the Add Row to Top/Bottom function - and add return to Home Screen at the end because it wants to take you into the sheet when it runs.
I do the same thing for collecting rainfall data. The Numbers app with shortcuts it’s awesome!
Hi Stephen
Do you know if it is possible to have a shortcut that turns down the music volume on your streaming speaker when there are an incoming call on your iPhone. Streaming from the same iPhone that’s receiving the incoming call. Volume to be turned down gradually.
Cheers from Michael in Denmark
Learnt something new again! Didn’t know they added the Home Toggle action, such a relief! I’d earlier made a theatre mode shortcut too which turns in my Apple TV, opens remote on my phone, asks me which app I’d like to see, and turns on my Govee lights in dreamview mode. Quick question though, your Mute Toggle mentioned in the last shortcut is still using IF statements right, and not a new direct toggle?
Thanks! And correct, the Mute Toggle still needs IF statements.
Is there a Shortcut action to open control center? Maybe to a specific page?
There's not, unfortunately.
Do you have a website set up with a library of all the shortcuts you’ve created and maybe some merch?
Always love your content. This one is absolutely amazing. Love your channel
Appreciate that so much, and thank you for watching!
Literally added shortcuts to my Home Screen today before This video dropped! Great minds! Another set of helpful shortcuts, especially the 1st one as I am always late! 🤭
Haha I've used the late one often too!
@@beardfm 🤭
I’m always getting ideas from your videos. On your translate shortcut, is there a better way to have the audio repeated? I don’t understand the repeat action very well. That way if someone didn’t listen carefully the first time they can hear it again. Also, on your heath tracker, I think putting a Numbers action over Notes might be better. That way you could graph and analyze any data. Just a thought. Thanks for making these videos!
Thanks! Def going to try and add health data to a spreadsheet next time, and you can have a menu at the end that asks whether to repeat or start over. Then duplicate the speak text action and put it under the proper menu option.
@@beardfm well that was simple. It worked thanks. I look forward to your next video. Keep em coming!
Question: can you toggle scenes with the new toggle action or it only toggle individual accesorios?
Depends on the complexity but with more simple ones…yes.
I haven't gotten scenes to do that yet, but it's early in the beta cycle so will have to test closer to release!
Mine don’t even work. Just glitches out and doesn’t let me choose the shortcut 😆
same🎉
Yeah, the iOS 18 beta 1 had that issue. Beta 2 for developers is out now though!
Thanks for sharing. I enjoy learning about Shortcuts. I appreciate your video. Blessings on your day.
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Instead of using the time, is there a sunset and sunrise condition?
Yes! You can use that too
How do you deal with shortcuts failing? Nearly all of my shortcuts to my Apple Watch consistently fail.
tbh, I don't run Shortcuts on Watch often for that reason. They fail less on Mac for me, but it's not perfect.
@@TheRealmfc90125 have an if device is watch flow in your shortcut.
Really depends on what the shortcut does but I have some that work slightly differently to achieve the same outcome using an if statement which includes an extra step if run from watch.
Can't find the link to your merch 😢
The shirt is actually from Basic Apple Guy! His merch is here: basicappleguy.com/merch
The best 2 shortcuts on the lock screen are just one for shutdown and one for restart
thanks many great ideas, but at 9:49 why Air Drop is not working and you have to select air drop again!
AirDrop can be finicky
I downloaded the voice to note shortcut, but it does not show as one I can select from the lock screen. What am I missing? Running iOS 18 beta one.
beta one was pretty buggy with the Lock Screen options. would recommend updating to beta 2 which came out today!
Love all your videos. Great stuff.
Appreciate it!
Stephen - I tried adding the resume podcast shortcut to the Lock Screen. However, it only brings up the main shortcut icon as a choice. Any suggestions?
iOS 18 has been buggy with the Lock Screen Shortcuts, would recommend trying to update to beta 2 which came out today!
Thanks! I did update and this has now fixed this
Anyone else missing lot of shortcut actions in the iOS 18 beta?
Shortcuts have been buggy on iOS 18 beta 1, would recommend grabbing beta 2 which came out today!
@@beardfm updated and all shortcut actions that I noticed were missing have returned.
and beta 2 is out!
Downloaded already!
@@beardfm same.. but trying to find what’s new or fixed yet. Updating macOS now to try mirroring.. control center seems a bit stable.. I think india region didn’t get RCS support as others did in messages settings
@@beardfm a few bugs noticed.. app icons suddenly lost and all default to white boxes. This bug got fixed by changing app icon size to large once and then back to normal, all icons reappeared. Also, photos app interface customisation that I did after DB1 seem to have been reset.
Really looking forward to iOS18 and the new shortcuts capabilities. Thanks for giving us a look at some possibilities 👍🏼
Same here, and you're welcome!
Sriracha!!!
haha yes!
Dude! I really like your videos. I learn a los about shortcuts and automation, but i have a request that i really need: currently i use differents focus modes in my day. So, i need to active it in different hours ON the same day and in certain days Of the week. Also, i need to learn how can i silence a notificatios for certain app without silence it in a focus mode!! Regards from chile
Thanks! It sounds like you can create a bunch of manual automations for time of day that activates the Focus Modes when you want them. Does that make sense?
Sometimes your Shortcut seem a lot to overengineered to me. I have a Shortcut for turning AirDrop on/off (all avail states) and it’s just one action, no menu needed …
You can do that in Control Center without even leaving the lock screen.
If you just want to toggle it, that works without a menu for sure! It's all preference, and even more so where you want to use it. Action Button vs. Lock Screen. vs. Widget, etc.
@@beardfm Not only if you want to toggle it. Instead of setting the shortcut action to what to do, you can set it to ask what to do. So you don't need the menu, it will ask you to what it should be set when running the shortcut. This works for basically any action which sets a state or needs other kind of input.
Unfortunately Tim can’t Cook. The fact that “apple intelligence” didn’t come to shortcuts creating is something else.
It may yet, we still haven't seen Apple Intelligence in action.
Makes a video about shortcuts on Lock Screen and hardly talks about that. Instead he just shows off all his weird ass shortcuts.
They're Shortcuts that work well...on the Lock Screen
1900 is 7pm not 8pm
Indeed it is. However, the time is formatted to hour only, so "Greater than 19" is 20. Fooled me when I created a similar When Connects to Carplay shortcut. CarPlay played a local station between 8-10, for the trip to work. When the station played at 10.30, I was confused. The If statement was looking at the whole time , 0800-10.59. Because the time was acually between those times, the local station was splayed. Changed the date format to hours (H) and all was well.
What they said ^
Creating all these manual step actually not so smart
What do you suggest?
@@beardfm I wish Siri can do the job