r/shortcuts 9h ago

Help How can I automate a shortcut to run once per day at a random time between 10am and 8pm?

8 Upvotes

I made a personal daily affirmation shortcut that I am going to put in my girlfriend’s phone. It’s a randomized list of around 50 personal messages that she will love to receive daily.
I want to automate it so that it will send one affirmation per day during her usual “active” hours. I want her to be surprised when it shows up, and not be able to expect it based on what time it comes every day.

How can I set up an automation so it activates a certain shortcut once per day between a set time frame? Please explain like I’m 12; I’m not great at coding stuff and some of the shortcuts settings get confusing


r/shortcuts 9h ago

Help Is there any way to change the way my shortcut widget looks on the lock screen.

4 Upvotes

Totally new to the shortcut widget. My shortcut widget takes me to the Liverpool window in an app called Sofascore. I created a home screen icon with Liverpool’s badge and it looks really cool, I wanted to know if i could make a shortcut that had a similar icon that would go on my lock screen. Would love to know all your insights.


r/shortcuts 5h ago

Help (Mac) Folder Based Automation Not Triggering

3 Upvotes

This shortcut works perfectly when I run it manually or as a quick action, but it doesn't trigger when a files are updated in the folder. What am I doing wrong!?

Edit: I'm on MacOS27


r/shortcuts 13h ago

OS 27 beta Made a screen time shortcut in iOS 27

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3 Upvotes

This shortcut will ask you for a date range. If you want the current week pick Sunday at midnight to the current time right now or the whole month or just the current day. Select one or multiple apps pick a font and it will combine all apps into a single image with the app logos and screen time.


r/shortcuts 13h ago

Shortcut Sharing Made a Shortcut to save Word of the Day to Apple Notes

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3 Upvotes

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It fetches Merriam Webster’s Word of the Day, summarizes it with LLM into a short format with pronunciation, meaning and an example, then appends it to a single Apple Notes note automatically.

Current format is something like:

Stalwart

(pronounced: STAWL-wert)

Meaning: …

Example: …


r/shortcuts 5h ago

Solved Can you make a shortcut which only triggers when you've selected text?

2 Upvotes

I want to replace the normal copy with action button copy, however my action button does something else when other triggers are available(like current app, focus etc). Can I make it so the the first thing my action button/shortcut does is to check where or not Ive selected text? This will also give bonuses like easier to make automatic clipboard, misclicking and then needing to selecct and so on


r/shortcuts 6h ago

Help Shortcut For Social Media Video to Gifs

2 Upvotes

I'm looking for a reliable shortcut to convert social media videos into GIFs (like in Twitter).

Does anyone have a favorite they use, or any tips on how to build one? I'd love something that works quickly and maintains decent quality.

Thanks in advance!


r/shortcuts 9h ago

Help Énoncer texte devient podcast

2 Upvotes

Bonjour, je souhaite pouvoir créer un podcast à partir du texte que j’aurais sélectionné ou copier dans le presse-papier. Est ce que cela est possible sans une autre application ?ou alors depuis le lecteur d’énoncé créé un audio qui sera mon podcast. Est ce quelqu’un comprend ce que je demande et peux m’aider please


r/shortcuts 20h ago

Shortcut Sharing Vector AI Agent- Version X.4

2 Upvotes

Vector AI Agent is an Apple shortcut that can do multi step actions on device , acting like a real agent with entirely free access to great models, rewriting personality, artifacts, and more. It is always evolving and is entirely free to use.

what did we add in this version-

the multiple models system was confusing, unstable, and frequently got time out errors. to prevent these issues, It now uses one stable model that is well balanced for any task you throw at it. free, fast, stable, and ready for anyone to use. License was also fixed.

Link: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/24957/

Enjoy, Please Enjoy!


r/shortcuts 2h ago

Help Raccourci calendrier

1 Upvotes

Je cherche un raccourci ou je puisse choisir la date, l’heure puis le texte pour inscrire dans mon calendrier apple tout en appuyant sur le bouton action si quelqu’un a ça je suis preneur.

J’ai vue ça ici mais pas simplifier y a des variantes avec des choses que je n’utilisais pas.

Merci d’avance.


r/shortcuts 4h ago

Request For weather, how do I get text of the time it will rain, with its percentage chance.

1 Upvotes

Either the time can match with a general chance of rain, or more complicated, find the highest chance of rain and match is corresponding time.


r/shortcuts 5h ago

Help Aide raccourci calendrier

1 Upvotes

Je cherche un raccourci Calendrier pour ajouter un nouvel événement rapidement depuis le bouton action pas celui proposer par l’app


r/shortcuts 8h ago

Help Live activity + AOD on?

1 Upvotes

I keep AOD on iPhone off, but I’d like for it to turned be on only when I’m running live activity widgets from FlightRadar24.
Does anyone have a shortcut for this?


r/shortcuts 13h ago

Help Shortcut that opens app when the phone is locked.

1 Upvotes

I know this has been asked before but I was curious if anyone has found a new work around. I want a shortcut to open an app when iOS is locked. Here is the scenario; I have a script that runs after I turn off my morning alarm. If it is a weekend it plays music, if it is a weekday, it plays the local morning news. Currently that local news is played through Apple Music Radio. But Apple Radio sucks. It plays ads at random in the middle of news articles and traffic updates. I want to have the iHeart app open so I don’t have this issue, but it will not work because of the app restrictions. Any thoughts on ways to deal with this?


r/shortcuts 16h ago

Request Shortcut to scan photo for contacts with AI and add contacts.

0 Upvotes

Basically, I would really appreciate it if someone could make or find a shortcut to select a previously scanned document. Then use ai to find contact information on it for multiple contacts, and add those contacts automatically. It should include phone numbers, emails, and notes to the contacts from the paper, in their respective contact fields.