17 NEW Shortcuts for Messages, Reminders, More!
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- Automate your iPhone with 17 powerful new Shortcuts! Send automated messages when leaving or arriving home, create smart reminders from texts, and set up personalized automations for your daily activities.
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Random Morning Texts
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Send Map Location and ETA
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Message to Reminder
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Speak Today’s Tasks
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Speak Reminder with Location Alert
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Share Image to Reminder
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Morning Routine
www.icloud.com/shortcuts/aa96...
Find Highest Temp of Day
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Weekday Automation Formatting
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Chapters ➡
00:00 Introduction
00:18 Auto Leaving Text
01:39 Arriving Home Text
03:46 Auto Text at Time
04:06 Random Text at Time
05:29 Send Map and ETA
07:47 Add Text to Reminder
09:41 Speak Upcoming Reminders
10:35 Remind at Location
11:36 Add Image to Reminder
13:02 Morning Report Shortcut
14:24 Need Help Focusing
16:35 Focus Mode on App Open
17:15 Send Money Actions
17:54 Resume Last Podcast
18:46 Conditional Muting Device
20:10 Automating by Time of Day
21:17 Weather High and Low
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Steve as a lifelong Android Samsung user and always using flagship Samsung phones. I'll be making the switch over to Apple 16 pro Max. Started subscribing to you a few months ago when I found you, glad that I did,, learning everything I can and I'm finding everything that you are doing not only beneficial to me but I'm sure it's very helpful to everybody else, even Apple users who don't know much of what you show from time to time. My thanks just wanted to acknowledge your efforts, keep up the great work :-)
Wow, that means a lot. Thanks for sharing and I look forward to doing more tutorial when the iPhone 16 comes out!
Can you create a shortcut where when connected to car play, take location from Apple calendar and insert it as destination location and enter starting location as current location
Oh that's a good one, will do in the next video!
Hey Stephen, Great video! I would love to see you expand a bit more on the morning summary shortcut in a future video, as you mentioned. Thanks!
Will do! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Stephen I really enjoy your Shortcuts tutorials. It still amazes me how people with iPhones still aren’t using Shortcuts more… Anyhow, could you show some Shortcuts app ideas you have heard of for using the Numbers app too? Thanks. Keep it going!
it took me a while to get the random text to work, I couldn't figure out how to change the time to send it, I wanted it at night. So, I had to follow you and create it myself instead of downloading the action. Worked like a charm. Thank you
Great work customizing it though!
Thanks for sharing these shortcuts. Blessings on your day.
Glad you like them!
Amazing going tru the playlist
Appreciate it!
Hey Stephen I just stumbled onto your channel this week and it’s been so helpful getting my shortcuts and automations up and running. Keep up the great work!!
Here’s how I set up my weekday/weekend automations. (I spent way too much time figuring this out last night but I feel like it’s a little cleaner.)
* Current Date
* Format Date - set time format to “none” and date format to “custom”… the format string should be “EEEEE” (5 E’s) this will give a single letter output for each day of the week (M,T, W, etc. )
* Next up add an “If” block and set it to “Formatted Date” “is not” “S”
This will make your automation trigger on weekdays. If you want the automation to trigger only on the weekend change “is not” to “is”.
Oh that's a great idea! Thanks for sharing, will put in the next video.
Very cool way to do this. Thanks for sharing!
@@beardfm Awesome!
Great video with some inspiration for new ideas too! Love these
Appreciate it!
Thank you for the inside about the audio problem, it help 👌
Oh great!
Txs a lot, learnt more on shortcuts based on yours. Thanks for sharing
Glad they're helpful!
I am looking for a shortcut to copy the transcript of a podcast into an Apple note. I don’t see a way to get the transcript text. Am I missing something?
There's no action for that yet, but I'll see what I can do to get around it
Thank You. You are a life saver
Glad to help!
Great stuff! Would like to see a shortcut that copies the contents of an existing Note (a template) to a new note and gives the new note a title of today’s date in the format 05-15 Wed. I currently do this manually every day - doesn’t take long, but sure would be nice to automate it. Thanks in advance.
Could you show how to make a shortcut/automation to auto UNPause an iWatch WALKING (or hiking) workout? The iwatch9 will automatically pause, but I continually forget to unpause when I start walking again.😢. Sure would be nice to have a a way to do an auto unpause! Thanks!
That reminder shortcut
How can I add so that it speaks at a specific time or multiple times in a day?
Thankyou
Wow wow wow. GREAT STUFF. So happy I found your channel. Please keep up the great work. Thank you
Appreciate that! Glad you found the channel too!
@@beardfm forgot to mention your podcast too.
Would like to see more of the morning routine and adding other shortcuts to it.
Will do!
I like the morning routine! I’d like it to instead soak it, copy and paste it to a new Quick Note.
Please make a clip on how to use numbers form filling with shortcuts
hello Stephen. big fan of these. Question for you. Is it possible to create short cut where I can switch between focus modes but password protect one focus? exemple: if I want to create simple mode for senior, and hit a button to go to advance mode to help fix issues. Hope that makes sense!
Hm, that's curious. Will experiment and see what's possible!
Hi Stephen, i really like your shortcut videos, thank you! Is there a way to integrate the new Check in function of Messages, to a Shortcut? I want to send someone my check in info, when I leave a place.
Appreciate it! And I don't see any Actions for that Messages Check-In feature right now. Will keep an eye out if any are added!
Hi Stephen, love the videos. Can you think of a way to convert wind direction from degrees to points on a compass? Say 345 degrees to 15 degrees as ‘northerly’ ?
Oh wow, not sure how to do it but will try!
Stephen is the best out there. It’s not even close.
He’s the most genuine, sincere & thorough human that’s ever done these - or at least that I’ve ever found (and I’ve done TONS of digging for a’lotta years!
That means a lot, appreciate the kind words and will keep the videos coming!
I’ve managed to make so many amazing shortcuts based on your videos. Thank you very much for sharing. The only question is - in morning shortcut it gives all upcoming events regardless of the date. Is there a way to specify it for today’s events only?
That means a lot to hear, thanks for sharing! And yes, you expand and just set it to get "today's events". You may need to put a "get current date" action above it and then choose that variable in the events action.
stephen is rocking!
Appreciate that!
You’re doing an amazing job Stephen 🫶
Appreciate it!
Amazing Shortcuts video Stephen! Quite lengthy! I wonder if your significant other watches these and especially the one that runs random messages! lol ! Thanks. Keep them coming! 🙂
Haha I don't think she watches these, but I don't have that random text automation set, personally 😏
Hey dude! Great vids. I need a shortcut or automation that will play a radio station on my HomePod at home for the dog to listen to while I’m gone.
These videos are very helpful as I enjoy creating shortcuts. Btw is there a shortcut to play all your podcasts in the Up Next listing, one after the other? I know there is a shortcut script online but it doesn’t always work for me.
I wish, but I haven't found anything like that.
Great video as always! Can you do a shortcut video regarding Apple Notes? Append to note, quick notes, append a note using formatting or bullets etc.
As many note shortcuts you can create is good with me!!
Appreciate that! I've covered a couple things like this: ua-cam.com/video/JFb1xODsbYc/v-deo.html&si=c5TLwgoEM0_pILri but will do a standalone video soon!
I have an issue with a location based shortcut. I have different workout options displayed when pressing the action button on my Apple Watch Ultra based on my location. However, when I’m in the park where I have a weak Wi-Fi signal the Apple Watch is not able to determine my location and run the shortcut . I have to toggle airplane mode off and on in order for it to work. Any suggestions?
13:51 Hey Stephen love the video. I downloaded and modified the morning report but I would like for it to play on my HomePod Mini in my office. I added a handoff routine but the weather and calendar events play on my phone then the podcast plays on the HP mini. I moved the handoff around but same outcome. Any suggestions? Thanks!!!
If you ask the HomePod directly by saying the title of the Shortcut, like "Hey Siri, Morning Routine" it should speak it all from the HomePod!
Your videos just keep getting better and better the more I watch.
Question: I want to close an app (a radio station app) automatically when I disconnect from my truck's bluetooth. I have it where it will open the app automatically when it connects, but can't find a way to close it. Any suggestions? Keep up the great work!
Appreciate that! I don't think there's an action to close an app, but I'll check the third party Shortcuts actions too!
@@beardfm That would be awesome. Thank you. You’re the best!
Hi Stephen, can you make an automation tutorial on how to play music on a homepod and set the volume of it when you’re arriving home?
Great one! Will cover in my next Shortcuts video
Great video. Is there a way to build sending a "check in" message so my son could send me that message and it would alert me when he makes it to school? I can't seem how to get to that specific type of iMessage. Thanks
Yes! Start with an automation trigger of "arrives at location", choose the school address, then "New blank automation" and "send message"
hi, can you please include in your next video "how to forward an SMS message when a specific sender sends that SMS, to another person on whatsapp as whatsapp message" in SHORCUTS app on iphone? thank you.
Can you create a shortcut to send messages in WhatsApp to a group instead single recipient!!!!
Thanks for your helpful videos
Is it possible to make a shortcut to restart your phone or power it off
Hey Stephen, is there a way to create an automation to pop -up a microsoft teams message if from a certain person, and not for another person, during a certain period? Like for a release week you want messages to pop up on your phone and watch if its the release manager but not from the training manager for example?
unfortunately Teams doesn't have actions like that available in Shortcuts.
is there a way to send texts to a group/conversation? I have made a text conversation group, and i have to send a reminder text every month. I can't seem to find a way to select a group in the recipients tab.
I need a shortcut which helps me to route my downloaded shortcut to specific shortcut folder not the default one ….
Could you create a shortcut that tells me I need to go to the store when I get within a certain distance of my local store, but only if my shopping list has something on it and I'm connected to CarPlay?
Oh that's interesting, will work on that!
How can I reproduce the Mourning Routine text directly from my HomePod not from the iPhone?
Please tell me how to send the message though what’s ap, i.e. as a what’s ap message.
Hey Stephen, tried downloading and using the high temp of the day and I seem to be only getting the temp in the current hour. I didn’t make any changes to it, is there a line that should be changed to correct this?
I have an updated Shortcut for that coming soon! Try this one: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/10683050092342c28de77fbda7b00f2a
Could you please show us how to get a list of calendar events/tasks and display them as a number. For example, I’d love it if I could just see/hear that I have 10 events today, etc.
Good one, will do in the next requests video!
Hi , how can get a message sent to my iPhone from ipad when my ipad is charged to 80% , Thank You
Great video! I love watching these shortcut videos! Quick question, when I try to run the “Send location with ETA” it seems to get hung up at the end when sending the text and doesn’t do anything. How can I fix that?
Hey! Are you sending with the stock message app? And is it to an iMessage user or plain SMS?
@@beardfm I saved the shortcut you shared to my phone and have it using the messages app. Yes it will be to an iMessages user.
@@beardfm wait! It’s working now! Idk why it didn’t work before but now it is!
I was unable to find a way to add a time to the Morning shortcut. Can you link the video and time that i can find that? Also is there a way to pick calendars cause i don't want all my calendars to be read just some?
What do you mean add a time? Did you want it to read you something based on a time or something else?
@@beardfm I have alarm or something that's on my phone. I like the phone to tell me what time it is on the hour. The Good Morning Shortcut should go off at a specific time. However, I got it working. I found the Current Date field, added the calendars individually cause I have like 10 calendars (lol), then created an Automation that at 9am daily the phone will tell me Good Morning and whats happening. Thank you for showing me how to do this and can't wait to do more. If you know an easier way, please let me know?
Hey Stephen! Is there any way to add the Morning Report to a scene/automation that can be triggered by voice on a HomePod? I did some tests here but couldn’t figure it out
For that, I would recommend making the Shortcut name your HomePod command, and then running a HomeKit scene as the first action in the Shortcut!
How to create a shortcut for creating a alarm after 8 hours i.e when we run the shortcut, it automatically create alarm after 8 hours
I need an explanation on how the last shortcut works!
So for the Arriving home shortcut, can we set an if to check if the partner is home then do this shortcut? Only want to run it if the partner is home when I'm arriving.
Unfortunately there's no Find My or Contact location actions to program in automations like that yet.
Jumping in these comments to ask a quick question as regards tasks shortcut. I have a shortcut menu dedicated to my action button. One of these items is adding a task. I very often use it to remind me to do something when I arrive somewhere (mostly work or home). After choosing the location it asks for that radius and by default it’s at 1000pi which makes no sense for me (French, using metrics…). Is there any way to change the default to say 10meters for example ? Thanks a lot for all your very useful videos 🙏🏻
Hey there! If you're using the Reminders action to create a new task, you can set the radius manually when you expand the menu, is that what you mean?
@@beardfm Hey thx for reverting to me :)
I use what I believe is the Reminders action. When I expand in the shortcuts app I have this action :
"Add to with "
Right below this when expanding I have :
Priority
Flag
URL
Images
Parent reminder
Tags
Notes
When I press the action button it opens then menu. One of the items is TASK and when I click I have the following :
Text -> List -> Alert and then At a time OR When I arrive OR When I leave OR When I send a message.
If I choose options two or three I can choose or enter an address and then it asks for the radius with the default 1000pi.
I'm not sure this is all very clear but if you have any way (and time :D) for me to shoot a screenshot or screen recording I can do this. I don't use X but Bluesky, don't know if you're there.
Anyway, thanks a lot for your answer no matter what :)
Happy to help 👍🏻
Thanks again!
Thanks to both of you. Sadly it’s not quite working correctly and give the wrong results which can be seen when checking the weather in Apple Weather for the day. I appreciate the effort though.
@@GT-ho6co how so? I can see if I can make it better
@@BlakeFealyit returns the temperature for the wrong hour. Which was where mine was failing too. If the shortcut is run later in the afternoon it appears correct but if it’s run in the early morning or later at night you will see the problem
@@BlakeFealythe problem seems to be how 9 is interpreted to be higher than 17 as numbers beginning with 1 are sorted lower. I haven’t worked out how to format and sort in a way that works.
It returning the current hour
How about whether it will rain and what time it will rain? Thanks
Oh that's a good one, will check.
Hello Stephen, I don't know if you have talked about this, I tried searching but couldn't find anything, is there a way to create an automation that when I connect a Backbone game controller, or any other for that matter, that the iPhone opens up the App folder where I have all my games that can be used with the controller? The closest I've got is to have the home screen go to the page where that folder is.
I would like to have that automation, together with some notifications turned off.
Appreciate any help you can give.
Will look into that, does it connect via bluetooth at all or is it a hard connection?
@@beardfm hard connection, it is a Backbone One that uses USB-C, thanks for taking the time to look into this
Hi
My device is always on silent as a lawyer
I have a car tracking program Gypsum and it only gives an alert when the car is turned on
Is it possible to create a shortcut that gives me a sound when the car is turned on
Thank you for your understanding
Is there a shortcut available to close open apps say when charger is disconnected
There's actually a "Go to Home Screen" action, and a "Lock Screen" action that you can use in an automation for "When charger is disconnected", would that work? curious the use case as I'd like to mention in a future video!
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Need a shortcut to sync up my iPhone 13's Silent Mode status with my Apple watch SE2
Whenever I put my phone on silent, my apple watch also should go on silent mode and when I put phone on Ringing, Apple watch also should go on ringing mode.
This would be possible with the iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max, but no other models. The reason being, only they have a Shortcut action to change the silent mode. So you could make a toggle that changes both to silent or on, but it won’t work for older iPhones
Is it possible for a shortcut to change focus when somthing is playing. Like muziek or a video and that I can still close the app and that the focus stays until I stop playing the muziek
Sure! Do you want the focus to enable when you start playing music, or open the music app?
Any notification trigger?
Unfortunately you can't trigger an automation based on an app notification.
Can’t lie. Some of these aren’t useful at all. Very niche. But I guess for those it helps, it really helps.
Is it possible to create a shortcut that I can use to send my location in reply to an SMS message? (I know iPhone users can just use "request location" but not everyone has or remembers to use that feature) I have a shortcut that can send it to a contact, but I lead a walking group and not everyone is in my contacts list.
Are you sending it to the same group message every time or choosing recipients each time?
@@beardfm What usually happens is someone messages me to ask where we are, so it's a reply to an individual message from someone not in my Contacts
Is there a way to create a shortcut to hide my recent 1 photo? I can’t seem to find a way to move my most recent photo to my “hidden” folder. Thanks!
When did you want that to happen? When closing the camera, closing photos, or just to happen in the background periodically? Will try to work something up.
@@beardfm just periodically in the background. What I was thinking as the use case was let’s say I took a picture or screenshot so it’s the most recent in my camera roll. Simply being able to say “make the picture hidden” to Siri and it would hide the last photo in my camera roll. Going into each photo to do it is such a hassle.
I love the idea of time of highest temp but it always gives me the temp of the previous top of the hour 😢
I have another one, built by another viewer that works! Will share in the next Shortcuts video.
This shortcuts series is a great idea. Caused me to sub. Is it possible to make a shortcut to download a podcast episode of my choice and add it to queue and then play? Seems difficult to me
I'm the opposite. I don't like videos like this. For me it's boring, tedious, no enthusiasm. I try to watch them through sheer effort. Sometimes I skip. I'm not a fan of shortcuts on iOS. Only use a few.
@@Oleg__Damn, it must suck not having any other videos from which to choose. If only we lived in a country where we had the freedom to watch whatever videos give us joy. We should all contact UA-cam and demand they offer more than one channel! If we all do our part they’ll have to add other content creators eventually! C’mon, who’s with me?!?!?!? #Freedom #MakeAnotherGuyAvailable
Glad you enjoy them! Unfortunately podcasts doesn't have that granular control like that. You can set it to play the latest episode of a specific podcast, but that's about it.
I want a shortcut that sends an automated birthday message to people based on the calendar event.
Oh shoot, that's an interesting idea. Let me try and work that out.
Request: Every time something is copied to clipboard, that can be saved to a note in Apple notes app in Clipboard folder.
I actually did that here! ua-cam.com/video/JFb1xODsbYc/v-deo.html&si=Qt8iD22_L_WHq0qm
Nice! Is it possible to automate this shortcut?
If I send a text blast, how can I skip a text without having the whole simulation cancel
Can you explain more of what you’re looking for?
Hey, how can I convert a WhatsApp voice message into text?
Unfortunately WhatsApp doesn't offer any Shortcuts actions.
@@beardfm what about copy the vice msg to clipboard and then transcript? I tried but it seems I don't know enough to overcome tech limitations
Single men are going to be using the "Random text at a time" shortcut to text their GF's and women of interest and they are going to think "awww, he thinks of me first thing in the morning every day", only to find out he just set up an automation to text her the same time every morning 🙂.
Hence the disclaimer 😬
@@beardfm haha paused the video to type my comment, and then heard your disclaimer... too funny. If they are smart, they will create multiple automations but only set them for one day of the week, create 7 separate ones, put different messages in the list for each one, and then boom, problem solved as the pattern would be harder to recognize 🙂
Not every one is a power user. How bout some content that will help me use my thousand dollar phone in a mor productive way instead of shortcuts that in reality are not that easy or stable.
You can find other content creators who do that. It's clear Stephen loves his shortcuts, as many of us do.
not with that kind of attitude though😂
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