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

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

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! 🍒🔨

Note: Build 13 is currently processing in Apple's Beta App Review. The TestFlight link will activate automatically the moment review completes!

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 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.

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. 😃

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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
Desde el iPhone

Hi, I’m new to using the shortcuts app and I wanted to make some custom app icons using the “open app” function under shortcuts. But with it being a shortcut so far I’m not able to see my notifications # bubble that’s usually on the app icon.

What I wanted to know was, is there a way to use the “open app” shortcut and still see my notifications for that app?

I’m also wondering how sharing of a short cut works when using specific data like addresses.

What is the most minimal way to configure an app’s settings and still have it trigger automations? It seems to be hit or miss with having notifications enabled, but turning off banners, lock screen, and Notification Center.

I can get it to work reliably with temporary banners, but I’m wondering if there’s a way to have the original app notifications be any less intrusive and still trigger.

I'm trying to get a list of prices in a website game I play but you need to login how to get the content

so i want to create a playlist from another playlist, basically sorting it after last time played; oldest, limit it to 50 songs and then either create a new playlist with those songs or fill an existing empty list.

Filling the list was my first try and it worked perfectly, except that the content of the list wouldn't sync to the cloud. attempts to kick of the sync manually by manually adding a song always leads to the removal of all the other songs and the manually added one being the only one left.

the setup was

1. Get songs from playlist A

2. Filter A (last played date; oldest first) with limit at 50 items

3. Filter Music (random)

4. Add to playlist B

works great except for the syncing and the songs played from that list seemingly also don't add playcounts or update the "last date played" stat.

tried creating a new list with "create playlist" at 4, which creates the list but doesn't add the songs.

also tried to add add songs to playlist but it doesn't have a playlist to point at so i added a "wait" after create and always ask as the variable for the target... which works, but still doesn't sync the content of the list.

yes, the songs are all added to my library, the sync option is activated, it's all the same accounts, i even use the webapp to check this to rule out the problem lies with the mac...

anyone any ideas?
or is this simply an issue with no fix?

Hello, this is kind of silly but I’m trying to make halloween apps and I’m running into this problem with literally every picture of Minecraft jack o lantern I use. As in I’ve used several different images of it from different places and it does the same thing every time and blacks out like that. Does anyone know why it might be doing that? Every other picture I use of other things work perfectly fine it’s just the Minecraft texture.