I wanted a way to stitch scrolling screenshots without installing an app like PicSew or Tailor, so I made a shortcut that does the pixel matching itself.

Shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/23695c70178342c5b356a069f6194c4d

How to use it:

1. Take screenshots while scrolling, leaving some overlap between them
2. Run the Shortcut and select the images or select the images and run the Shortcut from the share sheet
3. When the result sheet opens, press and hold the image to save it to Photos

How it works:

Shortcuts can combine images but can't read pixels, so the shortcut builds a small HTML page with pixel matching logic written in JavaScript and opens it with "Show Web View" (requires permission on first run). Everything runs locally on your phone.

Limitations:

1. Images must be the same width
2. iOS Safari limits canvas size to about 13,000px tall at iPhone width, so roughly 5-6 screenshots.

Feedback welcome, especially if it fails on your device.

UPDATE: CHERRICUTS IS NOW OPEN FOR BETA TESTING! 🍒

Apple has finished verifying the initial TestFlight build, and the public beta link is now live! If you tried joining earlier and got the message that beta testing wasn’t accepting new testers, give it another try!

I’m looking for as many testers as possible to help exercise the app, uncover bugs, test edge cases, and identify compatibility issues across different devices and iOS versions. Unexpected behavior and constructive feedback are very welcome!

Thanks to everyone who’s shown interest so far. I really appreciate it! ❤️

Hey guys!

I've been building CherriApp, a native text-to-Shortcuts compiler and editor for iOS, and I'm opening up a public TestFlight beta today to get some real-world testing from automation power users.
What it does: CherriApp lets you write shortcuts as text using the Cherri language and compiles them directly into native .shortcut files that import straight into the Apple Shortcuts app.

What to Test:

Text-to-Shortcuts Compilation: Writing scripts and compiling them into native shortcut files.

Action Integration: Parsing and executing built-in actions, Scriptable integrations, and craft actions.

Export Pipeline: Exporting compiled scripts smoothly into the native Shortcuts app.

Join the Public Beta: Check the comments below for the TestFlight link! (Note: The link will become fully active as soon as Apple's initial Beta App Review clears).
Please drop any parser errors, compilation bugs, or feedback either through TestFlight feedback or right here in the thread.

Thanks for checking it out! 🍒🔨

I like this easy popup “Call Favorites” shortcut that comes up under Get Started in the picker for lock screen widgets, but that shortcut in the app (Shortcuts > Apps > Phone) isn’t editable or add-able, and even though its icon is already a phone it just shows a generic shortcuts thing. Any way to change it?

I keep getting "The output of the shortcut could not be processed". I've copied the steps from online tutorials - what might be going wrong? Thanks

Most shortcuts I open via the Icloud link at the moment come back as ‘Not found’. When trying to export a shortcut, especially as a file, I get various NSURLErrorDomain errors and the process fails.

Is it just me?

I usually check the shortcuts and even modify the language, but sometimes when reviewing them, I touch an action and accidentally move it to another place and I don't remember if it was up or down.

Or I touch a value and it changes me.

Shortcuts does not have the option to save when editing, it is simply saved automatically and there is no option to go back or undo what I have done or if I have tried something.

I have to look for it and reinstall it, now I also usually make a copy of each shot, in case something happens.

There should be an option to undo.

How do you do it when you make a mistake?

Thank you.

I think I have figured out a solution that someone might find useful.

iPhone action button can be configured to run shortcut of your choice. Unfortunately, there is no “toggle mode” here so you can toggle things on and off only if there is and explicit toggle-like action you place in the shortcut (eg toggle Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, some accessibility features).

Now there is stored content feature so it can be used to store state of something and enable toggle-like behaviour of other actions - good use case is to switch between noise cancelation and transparency mode (noise control mode action can't be toggled) - but you can switch whatever you want. 😃

Hey! I'm the developer of Laundry Lens, and I've just released the beta of version 3.0.

Laundry Lens is an app for scanning laundry symbols, keeping track of your clothes, and organizing laundry. I've added a bunch of Shortcuts actions in this update, and I'd love some feedback from people who actually use Shortcuts.

Here's some of what you can do:

• Get Symbols from Image reads a care label from a photo without opening the app. You can also turn the symbols into text.
• Find Garments lets you filter clothes by wardrobe, color, last washed date, wash count, and more.
• Manage your laundry by adding clothes to the Basket, completing washing or drying steps, and logging washes. Actions return their results so you can chain them together.
• Siri support for things like "Scan with Laundry Lens" or "Open the Basket in Laundry Lens".

I'm curious whether the actions feel intuitive, work as expected with Siri, and if there's anything missing that you'd find useful.

The beta requires iOS 27. Siri and Shortcuts will stay free when the app launches.

If you come up with an interesting shortcut or run into something that doesn't work, I'd love to hear about it!

I often start timers from control centre and I liked the UI before iOS 27. But the new one is horrible in my opinion.

I made this shortcut, add it to control centre (1x1 size) and start my timers from there.

Ask for time input, convert it to minutes, start a timer.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d85f0c6d8ace46599f1f858cad5b1ff1

Has anyone made a shortcut that would select a random album within the Discogs App?

Discogs has a “Random item from collection” button that’s quite handy if you aren’t sure what to play. I was thinking it would be cool to have an NFC chip by my record player that would play that function but do know have the know-how to make myself. Can anyone steer me in the right direction? TIA

I always forget bday gift ideas throughout the year, and then panic when I have to remember what my kids or partner said they wanted. So I built Gift Genie, a shortcut that tracks gift ideas and creates a reminder 30 days before their birthdate.

Features:
🎂 Save birthdays for friends and family
🎁 Stores gift ideas in Apple Notes
🔔 Automatically create reminders 30 days before birthdays
📝 Review saved ideas in one place

Recommended: iPhone running iOS 27.

Download Gift Genie:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/3f40d58d4988450a89a5019c8f90b099

there is two modes, when you edit the shortcut, there will be instructions on how to toggle between modes. anyways here is the link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ec4cd1b1690f4196b1e39494277f8f82

I like to read using the Kindle app on my phone and when I do I want to reduce interruptions. I'm able to setup a couple of automations for this:

1. When I open the Kindle app, turn on Reduce Interruptions focus.

2. When I close the Kindle app, turn off Reduce Interruptions focus.

Feels pretty straightforward, but here's the issue that I'm running into. If I'm reading and I lock the phone, automation 2 correctly runs to turn off Reduce Interruptions (this is good, I want this). The problem is that when I unlock it directly into the Kindle app it stays off. Is there a way to fix this?

Screenshots of automations included if that's helpful.

Hi, I know nothing about shortcuts but there’s a situation where it could be useful in my life.

When parking somewhere we often forget to end the parking (stop it in an app or send an ending message) and it results in a higher parking fee than it should be.
So a shortcut would be really useful what sends a reminder “stop parking” when I get into the car and i’m not at home or my parents home (and a few more locations).
How to build this? Thank you for your help.

The Shortcuts I’ve created through the past five years have comprised of like half of my use of my iPhone. This morning I went to use one and got a pop-up message. Shortcuts corrupted only giving me the option to reset once I touched the reset my Shortcuts file instantly went back to 2021. How do I retrieve the Shortcuts so which took time to make and to optimize?

***Update: So in continuing to go about my morning despite my inner panic on this, I returned to my Shortcuts app and to my relief, all my shortcuts and automations have come back. Despite this, I am a bit curious as to what happened. I appreciate everyone’s information on things to do in the event of this happening as I will be making a priority of exploring what to do when this happens.

I believe this is pretty self explanatory. Why wouldn’t this work?

iOS 27 has gone wild with shortcuts, share your best one you have made so far.

For some reason in the "choose from menu" action I cant delete menu options. It deletes the content when I try to but the option stays. This is issue appears in every shortcut I have, even completely new ones. The only way to delete it is with siri ai, but now I get an error "this shortcut has configuration issue. Use the editor too fix it". It only on this shortcut but I have no idea what causes it to appear and Im not rebuilding it(Its my action button shortcut which just has a menu which is used to run other shortcuts with the "run shortcut action"). I dont use siri ai anyway so I dont care about this part but this was the only way I could remove a menu option because again, its bugged. I swipe to delete it, click the red button, it open window to confirm, I hit delete and it just deletes the content of that menu option but the menu option stays. Doing it again does nothing

Has anyone encountered this issue? Even a full erase phone doesnt work and I had this issue since ios 26(but then I didnt have any menu option shortcuts. I started using this action recently) and after ios 27 arrived I did a full wipe out of my phone

So I managed to use Apple Intelligence to create a short where I have data of 10 pairs of running shoes.
Each time I run the shortcut it suggests what I should wear today for my run, then saves it to Apple Notes with date and shoes information.

What I lack is I want to create a list of shoes with possibilities of different makes as and when I upgrade or change as a list in the shortcut background so it can be manually edited time to time.

I’m not an expert at both the prompts and creative side so I kept making requests to tweak and adjust accordingly, but now I’m stuck with this request which isn’t happening.

Sharing the shortcut if anyone can help me out

Thanks in advance.

Shoe Rotation Data

Hola.
Llevo días intentando hacer un atajo que encienda el Bluetooth y conecte la barra de sonido Samsung para que posteriormente reproduzca una emisora determinada.
Consigo encender el Bluetooth y la emisora se reproduce, pero en el teléfono, no consigo que se reproduzca en la barra de sonido. Manualmente sin problema, llevo haciéndolo años. La barra de sonido por supuesto está siempre conectada a la corriente. Alguna idea de que puede fallar? Gracias de antemano
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