Oooh, that sunset one with extra info is cool. I just had it tell me the sunset would be in half an hour, but knowing the cloud cover and visibility is awesome. Thanks for the water logging shortcut!
one refinement to the today's water intake shortcut: "Group by Day" will give you the full amount so far, and "fill missing" needs to be toggled off. Otherwise you get a long list for each time you drank water, but no total for the day. :)
This is a great series! Learning a lot. Can you do a shortcut for when I connect to CarPlay, phone audio goes to the car instead of the iPhone speaker? (On my iPhone I have calls answered automatically on speaker)
5:01 the combining photos part, I added the option so it asks if I want to delete the pictures I used or do I want to keep them. It’s very handy when you are just screenshotting random stuff to combine, very useful.
Hi Stephen! I followed all your steps for creating the sunset shortcut but for some reason, it is not working. I never received any notification about time of sunset. What do you think might be the issue?
@@beardfm yes. I set it up to run immediately without notification and to run daily 30 min before sunset. I have a feeling the issue might be related to location services in regards to shortcuts app.
its basically the same Shortcut only the volume levels for unmute are not zero. So you can Duplicate and Rename the mute one and set the unmute volumes to your own liking.
Love these shortcut videos thank you so much!!! Here is my request that i am no smart enough to achieve!! I am trying to create an alarm for Islamic prayer times based on my location. Alarms need to be setup everyone and deleted everyday then automated again to set up early in the day then delete all alarms after the final alarm goes off for the day. So basically before Fajr (1st prayer) sets up all alarms and after Isha prayer (last 5th prayer of the day) deletes all alarms and repeats for next day 😅
I´ve got a few more 😬: 1- An automation that sets the “display zoom” to “larger text” every time I open waze app. 2- A toggle shortcut to turn on/off “show my caller ID”. 3- A shortcut to scan a document and automatically: create a pdf file and send it to a specific contact via whatsapp. 4- A toggle on/off shortcut that sets the speed of whatever is “now playing” to 1.5x, even if the app from which it is playing doesn´t have a speed option, as if it where an accessibility feature, or an iOS override.
Thank you so much Stephen for all the shortcuts you provide! My iPhone 15 Pro Max is super powerful and minimalistic! May I kindly ask you if there is an automation/shortcut to empty the email trash. I tried to create it by myself but I'm not smart enough and I don't understand if it's even possibile. I would loooooove if you know how to do that - maybe setting a specific time (for example empty the email trash every evening at 11 PM). I cannot believe that we should do it manually considering how complex and versatile are shortcuts/automation. Thank you very muuch in advance and for your amazing contents! Cheers from Italy
Appreciate the kind words! Unfortunately, tempting Mail trash isn't an action Shortcuts can do right now. Has to be a manual process. Sorry about that!
@@beardfm Thank you Stephen for your swift response! You are super duper kind ☺️. I guess I will keep doing manually 😅. Again, a lot of thanks for all the shortcuts/automation you teach us! I have been learning a lot thanks to you and I do have a lot them! You are my favourite ❤️
Stephen can you make a custom alarm in shortcuts? If my battery level is above 20% then play a specific playlist on shuffle. Here is where I’m getting stuck. I want for the volume to gradually get louder every minute. start at 2% media volume and every min it goes up a couple percentage points. Until I turn it off. Love your videos!
Thanks! And that kind of gradual volume increase is tough. You can add *WAIT* actions and then another adjust volume action, but that many wait commands tends to fail.
For the currency converter that’s a premium option in Toolbox Pro not part of the free items. Did I hear that iOS 18 will have a currency converter shortcut option built in? Thanks for the shortcut videos though and keep them coming very helpful 👍🏼
great shortcuts man! any idea how can i make a custom sound when someone ringing my doorbell (aqara g4) i got a lot of notification, and i miss when some one at the door
Getting a new curiosity. How do you manage to organize all these shortcuts? Just starting but other than the shortcuts that you remember and can run in Siri,, along with those organized to be at the top or in widgets, there are potentially still a lot to find.
I have a seemingly simple one that I’ve been struggling with: I have a shortcut that can play a playlist selected from a list, and I have one that can play a specific song from a specific playlist, but I can’t seem to do both. How can we Select a Playlist -> Select a song from that playlist -> Play that song first, and add the rest of the playlist to the up next queue (ideally shuffled). (and don’t worry at all about duplication of the selected song)
Can we get an automation that automatically takes news photos taken every day and puts them into a specific photo album? This album could be like and inbox, and it would hold all new photos taken there until you move them to a dedicated photo album.
Do you have a shortcut to track time to keep track of time spent on a project and have a stop time if there is an interruption, so you're able to stop and start again?
could you create a shortcut that blocks the last unkown caller? I mean a shortcut that can take a look at the few most recent incoming calls, and identify whithin those the most recent caller that is not on my contact list, and then block that number
hi.. i need help with a shortcut / automation idea that involves Aqara products.. basically, I am using an Aqara G3 camera hub. I use the privacy mode settings in the same to flip and turn it off when I or my wife or both are home, and turn it back on, when we aren't. I have created these automations in Aqara and then exposed them as scenes to Home app. It's snappy and works great even with Apple TV remote. Now, since both of us have access to this scene automation to turn privacy mode on / off, I'd like to get a notification on my phone that the scene has run. This should happen even if I am not the one doing it. While there is an option in the Aqara app to add a sound, it is restricted only to the sounds coming out of the camera. I want this alert to be sent to mine and my wife's phone. A workaround that could possibly work is adding this as a Siri Shortcut but not the most efficient way, and i'd like both of us to be notified, irrespective of who's changed the privacy mode.. anyway to do this?
I tried to create a short cut to turn off and turn on car play. (Need to do this when it disconnects while driving) All I can do is get to the the CarPlay screen, I can not get to the next screen that list the car. I’m trying to create a routine to turn off Mazda listed in the CarPlay and turn it back on after a short time maybe 10 sec. That always reconnects it for me.
Can you make a shortcut that will start scanning for new wifi connection when my connection goes below 80% and then connect to the strongest wifi cannection avaliable and can U make it so the 80% can be manually changed?
I am trying to build a shortcut to copy multiple items to a note. Sometime I get the following error: The web content could not be loaded because your privacy settings do not allow this shortcut to load external web content. You can change this in the Privacy tab of the shortcut's settings. I've looked at the privacy settings for the shortcut but can't seem to find a setting that will fix this. Do you have any suggestions?
I love the Sunset shortcut but I wanted to setup an automation that spoke the (sunset time - 30 minutes). Why is scripting with time so difficult? I feel like I need to watch an entire episode on just scripting with time. Getting, formatting, calculating, and editing time is my biggest hurdle.
I need a shortcut every time it’s connecting to Apple car play, when someone rings me or if i ring, should put automatically on speaker instead of cars stereo
Can you please make a shortcut that notifies me via my iPhone the battery level of my watch? I am able to track my battery kevel with an automation that tells me when my iPhone is at 40%, 70%, and 80%, but I can’t figure out how to do that with my watch. Please help! 😅
Don't know if you've done this before, but I'm looking for an Automation to run on the evening of the 30th of every month. I want it to take a screenshot of my iPhones cellular data usage statistics, save it to photos and then reset usage statistics. I want to verify that my cellular provider is correctly tallying my usage. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
That's a tough one. You *could* create a Shortcut that runs every day a 11pm and checks IF that day is the 30th of the month, but the other steps regarding cellular data aren't possible with Shortcuts just yet.
@@beardfm OMG I figured it out! I created a Personal Automation to run Monthly on the 30th at 11:59 pm that points to a Shortcut. I then created a Shortcut that starts with Open URL "prefs:root=MOBILE_DATA_SETTINGS_ID" that goes straight into Cellular Data settings page. Form there I just use the Take Screenshot and then "Save" screenshot to recents. Finally, use the "Reset the cellular data usage statistics" script. Teach a man to fish and all that jazz. Great channel and tutor. You don't have to fix everything for us.. just point the way.
Is there a way to have my phone send me a notification when my Bluetooth speaker battery is low because my speaker doesn't give any warnings when low and just turns off
I wanna start recording voice memo in apple watch ultra with action button.i tried it and it records but it cant save the recording.i enquired it from genius bar,but I got an answer it's impossible.do you have any idea
Log water intake is giving me list of water drank and not total water drank. For example You have drank 250 250 250 500 250 250ml of water today Can any one suggest the fix. Thank you
If you run the sunset notification 30 minutes before sunset, why do you need to then get the time of sunset from the weather - you can just add 30mins to the current time.
Here are two more: 1- Is it possible to set an automation to open an app every day at a certain time, wait a few seconds for it to load, then take a screenshot and save it to a specific folder in google drive? And can all of this take place with the phone locked? or if that´s not possible, could it automatically unlock the phone and proceed with the automation, without me taking it out of the pocket? 2- Could you set an automation or shortcut that if I am home does nothing, but if I am not home, when the battery level rises above 80%, it un-mutes the phone, and sets the volume at a certain level and sounds an alarm? There´s enough material to make next entire video with my requests only hahaha! Sorry for that!
That first one is tough, and I don't think it's possible at all with the phone locked but will try! Second one I can definitely include in the next video!
I would like a morning routine that says good morning Eric, today is date, the weather is, this mornings Bible verse of the day, reminder to take medicine
Thanks for creating my Shortcut request! 🎉
Wow thank you so much! Glad I could help!
@@beardfm You are most welcome! I appreciate your time and creativity! 🌟😃
Thanks again for the water logger! It works really nicely now.
Appreciate that so much!
Oooh, that sunset one with extra info is cool. I just had it tell me the sunset would be in half an hour, but knowing the cloud cover and visibility is awesome. Thanks for the water logging shortcut!
one refinement to the today's water intake shortcut: "Group by Day" will give you the full amount so far, and "fill missing" needs to be toggled off. Otherwise you get a long list for each time you drank water, but no total for the day. :)
This is a great series! Learning a lot. Can you do a shortcut for when I connect to CarPlay, phone audio goes to the car instead of the iPhone speaker? (On my iPhone I have calls answered automatically on speaker)
Thanks for sharing. Blessings on your day.
Thanks again for these shortcuts and the video on them and how to make em! Your awesome
Appreciate it!
5:01 the combining photos part, I added the option so it asks if I want to delete the pictures I used or do I want to keep them.
It’s very handy when you are just screenshotting random stuff to combine, very useful.
Good stuff!
Dude I just love your channel. I just became a supporter!
That means a ton, thank you! Will keep the videos coming 🙂
great as usual Sir, keep them coming.
Appreciate it!
Thank you so much for the Sunset shortcut! What an awesome shortcut you created 🙌🏼
Hi Stephen!
I followed all your steps for creating the sunset shortcut but for some reason, it is not working. I never received any notification about time of sunset. What do you think might be the issue?
Hey! Did you create the automation to run daily at the set time?
@@beardfm yes. I set it up to run immediately without notification and to run daily 30 min before sunset. I have a feeling the issue might be related to location services in regards to shortcuts app.
Global sunset is just what I needed! Thanks!
Welcome!
Logging the tango. 🎭 Love that.
Thanks for the water shortcut!
Welcome!
thank you for creating my shortcut!
Great suggestion!
Hey Stephen, LOVE your channel…Is the unmute shortcut somewhere? Did I miss it? Haha. Thank you!
I'm also lost! 🤣 can't find an unmute shortcut anywhere and if you run the super mute one it doesn't work
its basically the same Shortcut only the volume levels for unmute are not zero. So you can Duplicate and Rename the mute one and set the unmute volumes to your own liking.
Love these shortcut videos thank you so much!!! Here is my request that i am no smart enough to achieve!! I am trying to create an alarm for Islamic prayer times based on my location. Alarms need to be setup everyone and deleted everyday then automated again to set up early in the day then delete all alarms after the final alarm goes off for the day. So basically before Fajr (1st prayer) sets up all alarms and after Isha prayer (last 5th prayer of the day) deletes all alarms and repeats for next day 😅
I´ve got a few more 😬:
1- An automation that sets the “display zoom” to “larger text” every time I open waze app.
2- A toggle shortcut to turn on/off “show my caller ID”.
3- A shortcut to scan a document and automatically: create a pdf file and send it to a specific contact via whatsapp.
4- A toggle on/off shortcut that sets the speed of whatever is “now playing” to 1.5x, even if the app from which it is playing doesn´t have a speed option, as if it where an accessibility feature, or an iOS override.
Thank you so much Stephen for all the shortcuts you provide! My iPhone 15 Pro Max is super powerful and minimalistic! May I kindly ask you if there is an automation/shortcut to empty the email trash. I tried to create it by myself but I'm not smart enough and I don't understand if it's even possibile. I would loooooove if you know how to do that - maybe setting a specific time (for example empty the email trash every evening at 11 PM). I cannot believe that we should do it manually considering how complex and versatile are shortcuts/automation. Thank you very muuch in advance and for your amazing contents! Cheers from Italy
Appreciate the kind words! Unfortunately, tempting Mail trash isn't an action Shortcuts can do right now. Has to be a manual process. Sorry about that!
@@beardfm Thank you Stephen for your swift response! You are super duper kind ☺️. I guess I will keep doing manually 😅. Again, a lot of thanks for all the shortcuts/automation you teach us! I have been learning a lot thanks to you and I do have a lot them! You are my favourite ❤️
Stephen can you make a custom alarm in shortcuts? If my battery level is above 20% then play a specific playlist on shuffle. Here is where I’m getting stuck. I want for the volume to gradually get louder every minute. start at 2% media volume and every min it goes up a couple percentage points. Until I turn it off.
Love your videos!
Thanks! And that kind of gradual volume increase is tough. You can add *WAIT* actions and then another adjust volume action, but that many wait commands tends to fail.
Can you please share the snake feeding shortcut in the next video? I have a snake too, and I would love to have a way to keep track of feeding him
I got you here! ua-cam.com/video/LzzTBAwoc_w/v-deo.html&si=hQCbfdynM4EblhEu
For the currency converter that’s a premium option in Toolbox Pro not part of the free items.
Did I hear that iOS 18 will have a currency converter shortcut option built in?
Thanks for the shortcut videos though and keep them coming very helpful 👍🏼
Request: a shortcut that opens a specific album in photos. Thanks!
Good one! will do
great shortcuts man!
any idea how can i make a custom sound when someone ringing my doorbell (aqara g4) i got a lot of notification, and i miss when some one at the door
Getting a new curiosity. How do you manage to organize all these shortcuts? Just starting but other than the shortcuts that you remember and can run in Siri,, along with those organized to be at the top or in widgets, there are potentially still a lot to find.
I have a seemingly simple one that I’ve been struggling with: I have a shortcut that can play a playlist selected from a list, and I have one that can play a specific song from a specific playlist, but I can’t seem to do both. How can we Select a Playlist -> Select a song from that playlist -> Play that song first, and add the rest of the playlist to the up next queue (ideally shuffled). (and don’t worry at all about duplication of the selected song)
Can we get an automation that automatically takes news photos taken every day and puts them into a specific photo album? This album could be like and inbox, and it would hold all new photos taken there until you move them to a dedicated photo album.
Is there any way to send yearly happy birthday texts to contacts?
If you have a calendar setup with birthdays you can definitely do that! Will do in a future video.
Here's a question - if you have a shortcut that reads/speaks text, can you change the voice used?
could you please make shortcut to lock folder inside files application e.g (download folder)
That’s not possible right now, unfortunately.
Do you have a shortcut to track time to keep track of time spent on a project and have a stop time if there is an interruption, so you're able to stop and start again?
You have a time tracking one here! ua-cam.com/video/l3joH-T8zm8/v-deo.html&si=-SvQuS8tjX44VBtN
@@beardfm wil this one had a pause and resume option?
could you set an automation to notify me every day at 6pm if tomorrow will rain at a given location? 😎
Good one, will do next!
Can you make a shortcut that can skip youtube ads ??
Would love to see a shortcut that is similar to a check book register to add and subtract payments and purchases and keep a running total
Hm, would you want that in a spreadsheet? There *are* Numbers actions for something like that.
@@beardfm a numbers spreadsheet would be great if at all possible
could you create a shortcut that blocks the last unkown caller? I mean a shortcut that can take a look at the few most recent incoming calls, and identify whithin those the most recent caller that is not on my contact list, and then block that number
Oh that'd be great but there aren't actions available for that.
Hi, could you please tell me how can I find a shortcut that tells me "Cellular Data" is on or off?!
hi.. i need help with a shortcut / automation idea that involves Aqara products.. basically, I am using an Aqara G3 camera hub. I use the privacy mode settings in the same to flip and turn it off when I or my wife or both are home, and turn it back on, when we aren't. I have created these automations in Aqara and then exposed them as scenes to Home app. It's snappy and works great even with Apple TV remote. Now, since both of us have access to this scene automation to turn privacy mode on / off, I'd like to get a notification on my phone that the scene has run. This should happen even if I am not the one doing it. While there is an option in the Aqara app to add a sound, it is restricted only to the sounds coming out of the camera. I want this alert to be sent to mine and my wife's phone. A workaround that could possibly work is adding this as a Siri Shortcut but not the most efficient way, and i'd like both of us to be notified, irrespective of who's changed the privacy mode.. anyway to do this?
I tried to create a short cut to turn off and turn on car play. (Need to do this when it disconnects while driving) All I can do is get to the the CarPlay screen, I can not get to the next screen that list the car. I’m trying to create a routine to turn off Mazda listed in the CarPlay and turn it back on after a short time maybe 10 sec. That always reconnects it for me.
You can try to turn off Bluetooth and or disconnect from the car that way!
Can you make a shortcut that will start scanning for new wifi connection when my connection goes below 80% and then connect to the strongest wifi cannection avaliable and can U make it so the 80% can be manually changed?
That's pretty advanced, and I don't think there are actions to support it just yet.
I am trying to build a shortcut to copy multiple items to a note. Sometime I get the following error: The web content could not be loaded because your privacy settings do not allow this shortcut to load external web content. You can change this in the Privacy tab of the shortcut's settings.
I've looked at the privacy settings for the shortcut but can't seem to find a setting that will fix this. Do you have any suggestions?
I'm having difficulty with when I arrive mute shortcut. Where do I find it? Is it the super mute one again? I'm confused
I love the Sunset shortcut but I wanted to setup an automation that spoke the (sunset time - 30 minutes). Why is scripting with time so difficult? I feel like I need to watch an entire episode on just scripting with time. Getting, formatting, calculating, and editing time is my biggest hurdle.
Scripting the time is tough, but formatting date action, then using adjust date are the two you're looking for.
Does automations drains battery?
I don't find that's the case.
Eres un Duro 🫡
Is there a shortcut to toggle the “silence unknown callers” feature?
Yes! You can get it here: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/18e264d61353452d821b79df1758ab60
@@beardfm thank you so much ✨
I need a shortcut every time it’s connecting to Apple car play, when someone rings me or if i ring, should put automatically on speaker instead of cars stereo
Can you please make a shortcut that notifies me via my iPhone the battery level of my watch? I am able to track my battery kevel with an automation that tells me when my iPhone is at 40%, 70%, and 80%, but I can’t figure out how to do that with my watch. Please help! 😅
Hey! Unfortunately there are not actions for watch battery percentage at the moment. Sorry!
Don't know if you've done this before, but I'm looking for an Automation to run on the evening of the 30th of every month. I want it to take a screenshot of my iPhones cellular data usage statistics, save it to photos and then reset usage statistics. I want to verify that my cellular provider is correctly tallying my usage. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
That's a tough one. You *could* create a Shortcut that runs every day a 11pm and checks IF that day is the 30th of the month, but the other steps regarding cellular data aren't possible with Shortcuts just yet.
@@beardfm I’ll keep looking and post solution if I find one. Thanks for trying.
@@beardfm OMG I figured it out! I created a Personal Automation to run Monthly on the 30th at 11:59 pm that points to a Shortcut. I then created a Shortcut that starts with Open URL "prefs:root=MOBILE_DATA_SETTINGS_ID" that goes straight into Cellular Data settings page. Form there I just use the Take Screenshot and then "Save" screenshot to recents. Finally, use the "Reset the cellular data usage statistics" script. Teach a man to fish and all that jazz. Great channel and tutor. You don't have to fix everything for us.. just point the way.
Is there a way to have my phone send me a notification when my Bluetooth speaker battery is low because my speaker doesn't give any warnings when low and just turns off
Your speaker would need to have Shortcuts actions and unless it also has an iPhone app to manage it, I doubt it has actions.
I wanna start recording voice memo in apple watch ultra with action button.i tried it and it records but it cant save the recording.i enquired it from genius bar,but I got an answer it's impossible.do you have any idea
Log water intake is giving me list of water drank and not total water drank.
For example You have drank 250
250
250
500
250
250ml of water today
Can any one suggest the fix. Thank you
If you run the sunset notification 30 minutes before sunset, why do you need to then get the time of sunset from the weather - you can just add 30mins to the current time.
I found it visually and practically more streamlined to just add another weather action.
Here are two more:
1- Is it possible to set an automation to open an app every day at a certain time, wait a few seconds for it to load, then take a screenshot and save it to a specific folder in google drive? And can all of this take place with the phone locked? or if that´s not possible, could it automatically unlock the phone and proceed with the automation, without me taking it out of the pocket?
2- Could you set an automation or shortcut that if I am home does nothing, but if I am not home, when the battery level rises above 80%, it un-mutes the phone, and sets the volume at a certain level and sounds an alarm?
There´s enough material to make next entire video with my requests only hahaha! Sorry for that!
That first one is tough, and I don't think it's possible at all with the phone locked but will try! Second one I can definitely include in the next video!
I would like a morning routine that says good morning Eric, today is date, the weather is, this mornings Bible verse of the day, reminder to take medicine
Wait, does YouVersion expose its Bible API to the public?
I’ve tried various Bible APIs, and most of them lack a lot of versions in other languages.
Currency converter requires a paid app which is not so useful since one calculator or Google search will give result for free😅