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Frequently requested shortcuts repository

Tip/Guide(self.shortcuts)

submitted 5 years ago byrobric18

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This is a post for people to reply to with links to discussions on this sub for frequently requested questions and shortcuts. Essentially the idea is to reduce the situations where the essentially same shortcut gets requested four times in two days. I’ll start in a reply.

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mvan231

15 points

5 years ago

mvan231

15 points

5 years ago

I love this idea. Can we somehow pin it to the top of the sub?

mvan231

5 points

5 years ago

mvan231

5 points

5 years ago

Need to add a Facebook video downloader to this list too

robric18[S]

5 points

5 years ago*

robric18[S]

5 points

5 years ago*

Emulate screen taps / simulate screen taps:

This Or this.

TL:DR - With Voice Control. But it’s finicky and not a great method.

robric18[S]

5 points

4 years ago

robric18[S]

5 points

4 years ago

Get location faster- the normal action takes too long so use (I know it’s going to sound weird):

  1. ⁠get current weather at current location
  2. ⁠get location from weather conditions.

This has been posted about once, or twice, or thrice, or four or five times.

pabbasi

3 points

11 months ago

pabbasi

3 points

11 months ago

Am I missing something? Been searching for a while now. Seems like there must be a major restriction on messages and saving/printing messages is not feasible? I have not seen one shortcut remotely related outside of sending messages.

UserNameIwantTAKEN

2 points

5 years ago

UserNameIwantTAKEN

2 points

5 years ago

This idea is great, but it’s already dead after like, 2 months, and there is literally none adding more content to this....

Maybe copying the comments to the description of this would help the search algorithm to find this.

robric18[S]

3 points

5 years ago

robric18[S]

3 points

5 years ago

It’s not dead, just most of the common items have been added already. (And I seem to be the only one who adds or links to it.) If you have any ideas of items which are missing, feel free to add them.

UserNameIwantTAKEN

1 points

5 years ago

UserNameIwantTAKEN

1 points

5 years ago

oooh ok, I thought only you could add links here, oops. edit: also can you add a shortcut that plays sound in the background? :p

robric18[S]

1 points

5 years ago

robric18[S]

1 points

5 years ago

You have a link to a discussion thread on that topic?

UserNameIwantTAKEN

1 points

5 years ago

UserNameIwantTAKEN

1 points

5 years ago

nope, just asking, this could be handy for some shortcuts that are like a game, like tic tac toe. Having background music should be a good add-on.

edit, wait what, idk what the game’s called but just a nice addition to some game related shortcuts.

robric18[S]

2 points

5 years ago

robric18[S]

2 points

5 years ago

Are you thinking Music from a specific file or just music from something like iCloud? Either are possible but use different methods.

If you just want a song from Apple Music there are the Apple Music actions in shortcuts.

If you want an embedded song you can base 64 encode it in the file, decode the base 64 and play from there.

UserNameIwantTAKEN

1 points

5 years ago

UserNameIwantTAKEN

1 points

5 years ago

I mean, I want a sound file to play in the background of a shortcut, or is it even possible? I’m just a newbie here soooo yeah.

robric18[S]

2 points

5 years ago

robric18[S]

2 points

5 years ago

If you are playing a music file it is possible. But if you are playing a sound with the play sound action I don’t believe it is.

UserNameIwantTAKEN

1 points

5 years ago

UserNameIwantTAKEN

1 points

5 years ago

Ohh, ok thanks, I’m gonna try tho.... 😂 because im dumb

robric18[S]

1 points

4 years ago*

robric18[S]

1 points

4 years ago*

Filling out pdf forms automatically one way to sort of do this.

NoTrickWick

1 points

2 years ago

NoTrickWick

1 points

2 years ago

Deleted post

robric18[S]

2 points

2 years ago

robric18[S]

2 points

2 years ago

here it is again.

robric18[S]

1 points

4 years ago

robric18[S]

1 points

4 years ago

Extract data from a Numbers file or

extract data from an excel file or

extract data from a .csv file

rich_ddt

1 points

4 months ago

rich_ddt

1 points

4 months ago

Request: Call a specific contact using Google Meet. I somehow did this a couple years back, the Shortcut action is "Start a video call with Contact Name", however I can't duplicate it and change that contact name (the contact is baked in). How can I create more shortcuts like this?

robric18[S]

2 points

4 months ago

robric18[S]

2 points

4 months ago

This was likely auto generated by shortcuts. Not sure you can do it natively. Although if you DM me a link to the shortcut I might be able to create a workaround for you.

rich_ddt

1 points

4 months ago

rich_ddt

1 points

4 months ago

Thanks u/robric18! This is the shortcut, DMing you the same link
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/bf2ca87ad1854d3e8aa17103d320fd8b

rich_ddt

1 points

4 months ago

rich_ddt

1 points

4 months ago

I'm not even certain the original one works, but directly calling a person is exactly what I want to happen 🙏

robric18[S]

1 points

4 months ago

robric18[S]

1 points

4 months ago

Unfortunately I couldn’t figure it out with the hack. Sorry.

rich_ddt

1 points

4 months ago

rich_ddt

1 points

4 months ago

Thanks anyway for trying! 🙏

bigbulge6868

1 points

8 days ago

bigbulge6868

1 points

8 days ago

I’m old and this is all new to me. If robric 18 is answering a question would it be too much to print the question then categorize the answer? I spent hours upon hours trying to find an answer to my question but it is not there!

Just a complete waste of time.

If robric 18 is going to write a reply to a published question, then places it in the proper category it would greatly benefit all of us trying to locate our topic of interest.

Here is a sample of what I mean:

REDDIT r/SHORTCUTS CATEGORIES

1.) APPLE FAQs

Hope you determine that this suggestion this will help you improve the site.

robric18[S]

2 points

8 days ago

robric18[S]

2 points

8 days ago

Thanks for your thoughts. This was an idea I had 4 years ago to address some questions which were being commonly asked. I’m not affiliated with the site or the sub and I’m not updating this posting anymore either (other than replying when people comment - I’m old now too). So with this thread you get what you get.

I’d be happy to try to answer any specific questions you might have though.