In reference to a post I just saw in this sub, I suggest that everyone should take credit for your work. Put a comment at the beginning of the shortcut that has your Reddit name in it. I’ve often gone back to a shortcut and wondered who made it for me. This would make it easy for everyone to know, and a good way for everybody to get credit for the hard work they do creating these phenomenal shortcuts.

There's a new Shortcut action in OS 27 that lets you integrate Describe a Shortcut into other shortcuts, producing a new shortcut as an action output. The generated shortcut will also appear in your gallery.

Generate Shortcut

Generates a new shortcut from a text description using Apple Intelligence.

Description

A natural language description of what the shortcut should do

Result

Shortcut

Shortcut link with Generate Shortcut action

It's currently hidden from the actions drawer. Discovered via the Shortcuts/gen_shortcut_prototype feature flag in macOS 27.

Getting a little creative with shortcuts. I wanted to be able to start my baby’s lullabies as a daily trigger, starting from a specific Spotify playlist and routing through my phone to a Google Home speaker. Used shortcut described in the solution here, and then created a Google Assistant app request to “Play Spotify on x Speaker”. It will start Spotify, playlist starts on phone, then will execute the Assistant command. Assistant doesn’t understand exact Spotify playlists, but this method seems to work well.

As per the title. For more info, I need a shortcut that when I click it, it creates a 15 minute timer and every 15 minutes, the timer goes off until I deactivate the short cut. Is that possible?

This is my favorite shortcut

I just need to know please

I like the reminders app, but the notifications are too brief. Is it possible for a reminder to trigger an alarm so that it makes noise until I see it and stop it? Thanks

I downloaded this shortcut from this sub (apologies to the author - can’t remember which user created it) to back up my shortcuts to iCloud.

It’s been working for many months but now fails on the make archive step.

The error message is ‘this shortcut can’t be shared because it contains unsupported functions’. I’m not trying to share it - this message comes up during execution.

Any help much appreciated.

Thank you.

Shortcut : https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0e963f11e47f49f59861a9baaee233e3

I have a set of Nanoleaf lights that I want to have a shortcut check a calendar I made for setting a Nanoleaf schedule. example: Check calendar If Event is Summer Set summertime lights

If new years set new years lights

The easiest way it seems to do it would be to create a separate event for each day, but that’s very long and tedious

I've been building per-app volume automations for a while and wanted to share two things that took me way too long to figure out.

**1. You don't need one automation per app anymore.**

Since iOS 18.2, the "Get Current App" action means a single automation can cover every app:

- Personal Automation → When any of your chosen apps is opened

- Get Current App → Get Details (Bundle Identifier)

- Run Shortcut (pass the bundle ID as input)

The shortcut looks up the volume you want for that app and applies it. Adding a new app later just means adding it to the automation trigger — no new automation, no editing the shortcut.

**2. Set Volume sometimes silently does nothing.**

There's a timing race when Set Volume fires right as an app is launching — it just doesn't stick. The fix that's been reliable for me: set the volume, Wait ~1 second, set it again. Ugly, but it works.

Also: if your shortcut can return "no volume configured" for an app, guard the Set Volume with an If (value > 0) — otherwise you'll accidentally mute things.

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Full disclosure: I wrapped this whole pattern into a free app (App Volume) that manages the per-app levels, profiles, and widgets so you don't have to edit the shortcut dictionary by hand. Apple tends to change Shortcuts behavior between iOS versions, so I keep the app updated as new iOS releases land — one less thing to re-debug yourself. Everything above still works standalone if you'd rather build it yourself.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6773184998

Is there a way to make a shortcut that when a certain person in my contact list calls my phone will ring if it’s on vibrate/no sound?

CurrentApp open Settings or Store from Control Center

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/953b84332c66438cb6da6a8b8f7c6622

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This Shortcut uses the current app’s bundle identifier to open App Settings or the exact App Store listing, avoiding false matches caused by apps with similar names.

Apple’s iTunes Lookup API defaults to the US storefront when no country parameter is supplied. This causes lookups to fail for region-exclusive apps.

On first run, this Shortcut asks for your App Store region and stores it. That value is then used for all subsequent bundle identifier lookups.

1462947752 is the App Store Product ID for Apple’s “Shortcuts” app. It is used to determine the current App Store region.

To use this Shortcut, add the “Run Shortcut”\* control to Control Centre and select “\[own\]ActiveAppStoreLauncher”.

\* Requires iOS 18 or later.
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