I’ve been using Google Translate in Shortcuts to quickly launch camera translation from one language to another. Since recently, there are 0 shortcuts available to add for Google Translate anymore, and the previous one I had just launches the app. Anyone knows what’s up?

I have get time between dates and show. How do I get the widget to display this number?

Hi! I'm Gleb, an independent developer from Austria. I wanted a less boring way to learn German, so I made GlossPage.

Assign the shortcut to your Action Button (finally a good reason to use it) or Back Tap. It grabs the screen and opens it in GlossPage with the translation on the page. Cheat in Duolingo. I know you want to.

You can also read both languages next to each other in bilingual mode.

That's how I learn German, by the way, reading r/ich_iel

15 shortcut runs/day are free. Local can be bought once for lifetime access, unlimited local use and bilingual mode. Pro is a subscription for online translation with a weekly allowance - I pay for those services per request :0)

You get a free welcome week, no need to subscribe / register / anything. Just try it yourself.

Get the shortcut · Website

I'd love to hear what breaks or how you'd use it in your shortcuts.

So after updating my phone, all my automations that are triggered by connecting/disconnecting from a bluetooth device no longer work. I tried remaking them from scratch, but they still no longer automatically trigger.

ShortSQL is a full SQL database that lives inside Shortcuts. There's no app or server, and it works offline. I built it with my own tool.

Features

• Real SQL: tables, joins, GROUP BY, subqueries, transactions, 60+ functions
• Encrypted databases (AES-256), private databases, and backup & restore to a single file
• A console with menus, query history and light/dark result pages
• An API, so your own shortcuts can use it as a database with one Run Shortcut action

What it accesses

• Files: databases are saved in iCloud Drive › Shortcuts › ShortSQL. Nothing is uploaded.
• Internet (optional): when online, it checks for updates and opens the What's new page. Everything else works fully offline.

Requirements

• iCloud Drive turned on for Shortcuts
• Keep the shortcut named ShortSQL so other shortcuts can call it

Download: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/26893/

Feedback and bug reports welcome.

Hey there, looking for some troubleshooting help as I'm just starting to get into Apple Automations (I'm familiar with the overall concept through platforms like Airtable and Make).

I've got two different smart light platforms that don't play nice with HomeKit, but do "integrate" with Siri by exporting scene commands to shortcuts. Specifically I'm using Feit Electric outdoor switches and Govee V1 Outdoor Lights (which aren't HomeKit enabled). After making a command inside their respective apps to turn them on, you can "export" them to Shortcuts to enable them with a Siri command. Instead of that I'd like automate them.

I've tried this two different ways, neither of which has worked successfully for me.... First I made a shortcut that was supposed to directly trigger the actions, and when that wouldn't work right I kept the two original shortcuts and tried to instead chain the shortcuts (so when trigger, run shortcut 1 and run shortcut 2). I've attached a screenshot of how I have the master shortcut currently constructed.

The issue seems to be in the trigger, as it doesn't run on it's own. If I manually activate the shortcut, both actions fire just fine.

Actually typing this out, I'm wondering if the issue is that I'm not defining the location for the sunset time? That said, yesterday I switched it to a specific time (6:30PM) and it still didn't fire until I manually clicked the shortcut...

It's so funny to me that I have decent experience with automation building but I can't quite grasp Apple's implementation... anywho, appreciate any insight y'all can provide!

I've been messing with shortcut files for a while and got annoyed that importing

one always meant finding a Mac or using a signing service. So I made ShortSign.

It runs on the phone. Pick an unsigned .shortcut/plist, or an already-signed one

and it'll pull the workflow out and sign it again. There's batch signing, a URL

box, and it shows up in Files' "Open with" so you can send a file straight to it.

After signing, the share sheet opens by itself. That's the part I use most.

No jailbreak, it's just a normal app you sideload.

The catch is it's not Apple signing. Shortcuts only imports the result if you

install the app's root cert and turn on full trust in Settings. That's fine for

my own phone, but it's not a public signing service. If you want to share a

shortcut with other people, import it first and then copy an iCloud link from

Shortcuts. Apple re-signs that copy, so it works normally for them.

The IPA is unsigned, so you'll need SideStore/AltStore/whatever. iOS 17+.

Source and IPA: https://github.com/dan1165/shortsign

There's a demo GIF on the page. I also had to fix a bug in libshortcutsign where

the AEA checksums weren't written, which is why my first builds kept failing

with "Failed to extract shortcut data" when importing. That took a minute.

Only tested it on my own phone, so if something breaks on your iOS version let

me know. And don't install the cert on a device you don't own. The signing key is

in the repo.

With the midterms approaching, I’m sure y’all are drowning in spam fundraising texts like I am, so I created this to automatically reply “stop” to all those messages. It is incredibly satisfying to see a message come in followed immediately by the acknowledgment that you've blocked them from further messages by replying “stop” without having to lift a finger.

This automation (requires iOS 27) is set to run on any message that contains the word “stop”, “quit”, or “end”, which catches 100% of political spam texts in my experience. This obviously causes false positives, which it deals with in two ways:

1. It does not send this reply to anyone that’s in your contacts list.
2. It keeps track of what numbers/email addresses it’s replied to and will not reply to anyone more than once.

If this automation runs for an automated text you wanted to receive, simply reply “unstop” or “start” to resume receiving texts from that sender and it will not run again for them. If it runs for a real person that’s not in your contacts, just, uh, apologize I guess.

If you’d like to see all the numbers you’ve blocked with this shortcut, I created one to show you that as well right here.

So I was wondering if somebody have ideas to make a shortcut to show the classic Jurassic park “Ah ah ah, you didn’t say the magic word“…
I know that failing a password can’t be a trigger. But what do you think may be a funny trigger to display the notification, a gif and the sound?

Using the new Store Content and Get Stored Content actions alongside a state-driven hierarchical menu system, this Shortcut lets you select whether its menus rely on vCards or standard Shortcuts menus.

This Shortcut is primarily meant as a model or source of ideas for other developers. The optional vCard menu example is somewhat lengthy, but its flow and logic should hopefully be straightforward to follow. Please feel free to ask questions or share feedback.

Shortcut
(Requires iOS 27+)

NASA is moving to a new API
This shortcut simply gets the latest image.
It can easily be adapted to do more...

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/7c36c4f3f154428d967376d91db260d7

I need help figuring out what is going on with this shortcut I built. I'm wanting it to run every night at midnight and do four things.

1. If a reminder has a due date that is tomorrow then apply a "Tomorrow" tag.
   
2. If a reminder has a due date that is today remove the "Tomorrow" tag and apply a "Today" tag.
   
3. If a reminder has a due date in the past remove the "Today" tag and apply an "Overdue" tag.
   
4. Once a reminder has been marked as completed remove all tags.

It seems to skip everything except for the overdue task section of the shortcut which does seem to be working properly.

The other weird thing is when I run the shortcut towards the end it is asking me for input but I don't have that configured anywhere.

Help!! Anything you can do to help me get this figured out would be greatly appreciated.

iCloud Link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/fc17991699f142d1baaf6f047cc6aa3e

P.S. This is my first time posting on this sub. I think I followed all of the rules but let me know if something needs to be edited.

can someone PLS leave a comment with whatever phrase they use with Siri AI in shortcuts to get her to delete a "choose from menu" field

because i have to PERSIST in getting her to actually do it, despite rephrasing my demand & even renaming the menu field itself- over and over and over again

Side note, as someone who is heavily menu based with shortcuts this is making me wanna drink & stare out into the void- inspiration dies pretty quick with this kind of thing and imma need apple to hurry up in fixing it

Earlier this week I shared a shortcut I made that saves the images from Reddit comments in full quality, since the app doesn’t let us do this. It wasn’t working for everyone so I deleted the post. Here’s an updated version that should resolve the issues people had.

Just press the share button on a comment and tap the shortcut. First time will require allowing (all) for it to access Reddit. It may take longer on the first run because it’s missing the cookie it needs, but it should automatically try again to complete and then after that it’ll work quickly each time.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2f176b6dafc846a5bb8ebcbf3b0e4760

I don’t know how to word this so the best way I can describe it is by referencing a meme. Have you guys ever seen that one video where it’s like "pov a kid asks to use my phone" and they use a shortcut to change their entire phone layout (the meme version is when they unlock their iPhone , it’s a horror background 😭)

BUT do you guys get what I’m saying?? I’m super huge into jojos and if you’re into jjba , you’d understand it’s basically impossible to have ONE favorite. I really want to have multiple home screens dedicated to one character and I swear someone used shortcuts for it.

Also , just to be clear , it changed EVERYTHING. It wasn’t just their background , it also changed the apps and widgets they had. I’m feining to learn how to do this ☹️☹️ and yes I’m sure it wasn’t an android !!

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d15d8d61a3e44960a6aad6f1433f0bd6

V1: https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/1kcde66/block_opening_an_addictive_app_until_youve_burned/

iOS 27 broke automations feeding into shortcut inputs by putting it into the shortcut definition, so I had to add a numeric filter before the ShortCut input feeder text to set calorie limit overrides. You can also set different default limits depending on which app you’re opening now (as each app passes its name into shortcut input).

Unfortunately, you’ll have to add your own addictive apps to the list at the top now. I’m not sure what happens when you import a shortcut when you don’t have the app installed. Lemme know if how it looks imported (I have mine configured to YouTube, Nebula, and NYTGames - if it’s super broken on import when you don’t have any of them installed, I can update the default to include safari or some other Standard app in the list).

I made Open Habit, a free, open-source habit tracker for iPhone and iPad, and added four actions to Shortcuts: Add Completions, Remove Completions, Get Today's Progress, and Set Day Note.

The point is to let a habit check-in sit inside a routine you already run. For example, you could add a completion at the end of a reading Shortcut, then use Get Today's Progress to decide what happens next.

Here's a short clip showing where the actions appear in Shortcuts. If you build routines this way, which habit action would you want next?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/open-habit-daily-tracker/id6808947599

Website: https://getopenhabit.com/

Source: https://github.com/zamai/open-habit

What they do. Two shortcuts, one action each, for the Rydger app (a free maintenance and cost-per-km tracker for bikes and cars, mine):

• Rydger · Start ride: runs the app's Start Ride App Intent. Starts recording a ride's distance with GPS in the background. No other actions, no messages, no network calls from the shortcut itself.
• Rydger · Stop ride: runs Stop Ride. Closes the ride and adds its distance to the vehicle's odometer.
• Optional Rydger · Ride toggle: a Choose-from-Menu with those two actions, for the Action button or a Siri phrase.

The Vehicle parameter is left empty on purpose: the intent resolves it from your garage (one vehicle → silent; several → a picker, or the one with an open ride for Stop).

How to use them. They are meant as the Do step of two Personal Automations per vehicle: Bluetooth device (the bike's own unit, or CarPlay) Connected → Run Immediately → Start ride; Disconnected → Stop ride. Run Immediately is required or nothing fires with the phone locked. The app needs Location "Always" granted once from inside it.

Things we learned building this, in case they help your own automations: a Bluetooth trigger also fires for a paired intercom or headset, so pick the vehicle's unit; a fuel stop looks like two rides unless the app merges a Stop/Start inside a rest window (ours is 30 min, adjustable); and iOS gives apps no way to create or read Personal Automations, so the pairing step is always manual.

Links

• Start ride: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/26879/ (iCloud: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/8c79c9f3eaf54340a5c187d9e5395e80)
• Stop ride: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/26880/ (iCloud: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b94475d6b63e425686af8e37ead1fa05)
• Ride toggle: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/26881/ (iCloud: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0e836518e359413eae9bf471545cc8c5)
• Setup guide with screenshots: https://www.rydger.com/en/guides/automatic-tracking

Requires the Rydger app (free for one vehicle, iOS 17+). Feedback on the App Intents side or the automation is welcome in the comments.

How do I make a shortcut to get a reminder to take meds 12 hours after last logged taken meds in Health app?

I suck at making shortcuts.

Trying to create one for my action button that toggles flashlight typically but when connected to my AirPods it instead cycles my listening mode. Is that even possible?

I have no idea how to approach this.

Can someone help make a shortcut that goes and auto adds every Amex benefit? It’s so annoying that you only get them if you manually add them (obviously by design) but curious if there is a way to automate this.

I’ve been trying countless shortcuts that claim to work with SoundCloud but none have been working and been giving me constant errors. Is there anyone that has an actual working one today?

You know that moment when you’re reading an interesting article, browsing something you want to try, or working on something — and you think, “I’ll come back to this later” 🙈

And then you forget what this even was.
I wanted to solve that with Siri, Apple Shortcuts, and AI.

The idea is simple: just say, “Siri, remind me about this later.” 🗣️

🌟 The shortcut aims to turn that vague request into a useful, context-aware reminder:
📝 A meaningful title generated by AI
🧠 A short description of what I was doing
🔗 A link back to the original content, whenever available

⏰ A reminder scheduled for the time I specify, without inventing a time when I only say “later”

The most interesting part is capturing the context. The goal is to preserve enough information about what I was doing so I can pick up right where I left off, instead of trying to remember everything myself.

Of course, iOS has its limitations. It can’t access every app or screen, and the available context depends on what Shortcuts can actually receive. Still, combining native Shortcuts actions, variables, and AI made this a fun automation project to build.

Less manual input. More context. Fewer forgotten things.

I’ve built a working version and am sharing it here for anyone who wants to try it out or build on the idea.

🔗 Try the shortcut:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/9633ee73c6ee4062b04ff773e3f76423

Feel free to adapt it, improve it, and build your own version.

Hi guys.

For a while I’ve been trying to figure out if there’s a way to play your songs/playlists on Spotify through automation. I know a lot of people on this reddit have come across this issue and it’s generally recommended to use Siri or paste the playlist link, but I think I’ve found a way that’s much easier.

FYI, this has only worked for liked songs which is what I use anyways. No luck with playlists, podcasts, etc.

Firstly, you are going to create a shortcut. Look up ‘Spotify’ and click the app in the search results. Scroll to the bottom and select ‘Play Liked Songs’.

Then, you are going to create an automation. Search “Shortcuts” and select ‘Run Shortcut’. Then choose the shortcut you created for playing your liked songs. Whatever the automation is, it will start playing.

I used mine to play when I connect to my car’s bluetooth.

I don’t know if this is part of their new update, but I hope this helps.