Hey everyone! My brother and I built an app called Tael. We wanted our spending tracked without typing in every coffee or linking a bank account, and Shortcuts got us most of the way there.

The catch is that Wallet’s Transaction trigger only fires on NFC taps. If you pay with Apple Pay inside an app, like Uber or food delivery, the automation never runs. On iOS 27, though, Shortcuts can run on Wallet’s payment notification, which fires for in-app and online payments too. Its fields map pretty cleanly: Title = card, Subtitle = merchant, Body = amount.

Tael uses one shortcut that handles all of this:

• Logs Apple Pay payments silently from the Wallet notification on iOS 27, or from the Transaction trigger on iOS 18–26
• When you run it from the Action button, Siri or a widget, asks for the amount, card and shop, for cash or anything Apple Pay can’t see
• Sorts charges automatically once you’ve tagged a shop
• Contains no network actions or hidden Run Shortcut steps, so you can read every step

If you’d rather not use an app, the three notification fields above are all you need to build your own logger, and I’m happy to help in the comments. I’d also like to know if the Title/Subtitle/Body order is different for your bank or region.

The app is free, and Pro is a one-time purchase with no subscription.

Links

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/hk/app/tael-expense-tracker/id6800013881?l=en-GB

Shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a0d1cb8796b24383b4a9824f86795468 

Here are some codes to unlock Pro with unlimited categorisation rules, exports and other customisations: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OpxVVDYguJprFGjOSEB2nhwbyq2l4zUcFV11aC_v-ic/edit?usp=sharing

There are:

• 5 free lifetime codes
• 5 codes for 50% off for life
• 5 codes for 35% off for life

The free lifetime codes are mixed in randomly, so good luck! If you grab one, please take only one, so more people get a shot.

If you enjoy Tael, a review on the App Store would mean a lot. Thanks!

Availability: Tael is currently on the App Store in 51 countries and regions, including the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brazil, Mexico and the UAE. It’s not yet available in the UK, the EU, India or mainland China, but we’re working on expanding. If you’re somewhere we’re not yet, let us know in the comments so we know where to go next!

Shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d3f42cab3c704da39c7ca8ad158c1979

I had a drive through the mountains with no signal coming up, and I wanted my favorite station (Freeform Radio on iHeartRadio) along for the ride. It turns out iHeartRadio publishes everything a station plays, so I built a playlist from the last 250 songs, in the station's play order.

What the shortcut does:

1. Get Clipboard: expects a list of songs, one per line, "Artist Title"

2. Split Text by new lines

3. Repeat with Each

4. Search iTunes Store for the Repeat Item

5. Add to Playlist

6. Show Notification with the Repeat Index and song, so you can watch it count up (video)

Then download the playlist and you're set offline.

Where the song list comes from: a short Python script I built with AI that pulls the station's recent plays. If you want to try it with your station, this is the prompt I started with:

> I'd like your help building playlists for [Apple Music or Spotify] based on my preferences. I'm not finding any tools online that I like, and I don't like the AI built into the music apps. There are radio stations I like, and I'd like you to try to pull their playlists. The first one I'd like to target is [YOUR STATION NAME HERE], and the goal is to create a playlist I can import, listen to and download while I'm traveling without internet access.

Gotcha: I couldn't find a clean way to clear the existing playlist in the Shortcut itself, so I delete and re-add the playlist before each run.

Future improvement: Include the download script directly in the Shortcut as a step

Full write-up: workings.blog/radio-playlist

Forgive my ignorance but I have not had my apple products for very long. I like to wear my Apple Watch at night and I was wondering if there was a way to make a shortcut that at a certain time my watch turns off the display setting “wake on wrist raise”. Every night I manually turn off that setting and every morning I manually turn it on but sometimes I forget. It’s a pain to wake up in the middle of the night to the bright light. Really this is just out of pure annoyance but if someone is able to help that would be great!

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/af42c938c8ec48549e7e7e04e435deb5

I find it not really convenient to wait for external browser to open just to look up etymology of a word, so I decided to create a shortcut that automatically opens Wiktionary. And this might be useful for some "language nerds" like me.

Just simply enter a word you want to look up, choose a specific language (if there's multiple languages using this term), and it opens a web view of Wiktionary.

Keep in mind that I used "Show Web View" action instead of "Open URL" as it will open too many tabs and make your browser seems overcrowded.

Happy exploring!

My shortcuts have stopped working one by one over the past few days, and I had to reassign the actions in the app.

Anyone else having this issue?
Also, is it happening with automations as well, and if yes, is there any way (apart from screenshots) to recover the action tree?

Stitch Screenshot v1.8g

(Alternative solution to the recently shared "GREAT" idea for useful shortcut. Includes fixes for the issues I was having as well as expanded capabilities). Curious if there are issues anyone has.

Combine overlapping screenshots into one continuous image—ideal for conversations, articles, instructions, and long web pages.

Get the Shortcut

How to use

1. Add the Shortcut to Apple Shortcuts.
2. In Photos, select two or more overlapping screenshots, tap Share, and choose Stitch Screenshot. Alternatively, run the Shortcut directly and select your images.
3. Wait for the stitched preview.
4. Tap Share / Save image, then choose Save Image or share to another app. If sharing is unavailable, touch and hold the image for saving options.
5. If multiple groups appear, save each result separately. Tap Done when finished.

Images are not saved automatically.

Features

• Joins overlapping screenshots vertically.
• Handles forward and reverse selection order.
• Finds separate matching groups when the selection contains multiple sequences.
• Keeps screenshots separate when a reliable join cannot be verified.
• Accounts for stationary interface controls, such as message-entry bars, during overlap verification.
• Detects incoming image formats and exports stitched results as PNG.
• Includes processing times, format information, and join diagnostics in Details.
• Supports light and dark appearance.
• Processes images locally in the Shortcut’s web view, without an image-upload service.

Tips and limitations

Use screenshots with the same orientation, zoom level, and text size. Leave a generous overlap between consecutive captures.

This Shortcut is designed for scrolling screenshots, rather than photographic panoramas. Notifications captured in the source images may remain in the output.

Tested devices and formats

Primarily tested on iPhone 18 Pro Max, with additional testing on iPhone 17. Both devices were running iOS 27.0.1.

Testing covered:

• Light- and dark-mode screenshots.
• Forward and reverse selections.
• Multiple matching groups.
• Mixed JPEG/PNG inputs.
• Sets of up to 19 screenshots.
• Launching through the Photos share sheet and directly from Shortcuts.

HEIF screenshots captured with HDR enabled also worked through the tested Photos/Shortcuts workflow. These reached the page as PNG representations. HDR preservation in the exported PNG has not been verified.

Other devices and iOS versions have not yet been verified. Let me know what works and what doesn't. There should be diagnostics at the end of combined screenshots.

I have a shortcut that asks for the note but then it add that date to the note and each day is a new line
what I'm asking is can I say add the note today and then later add more to that note

So edit the note I've already taken without adding a new line with a date

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2f8d3d1a4ae840a48f1abb238dcaf0e8

I’m current “upgrading” my action button to allow for multiple orientation and app dependent actions and one I was trying to add was a way to quickly skip or play previous song and I was wondering if anyone has made a way to detect maybe via the gyro or movement data that you can get from third party shortcut apps to determine wether u shook to the left or to the right to do different actions as stated

And help would be appreciated thank you!

Is there a shortcut action that just displays a quick message and then goes away? Kind of like the ‘show alert’ action, but with no buttons for ‘cancel’ and ‘okay’

Want a weather shortcut on iOS that basically gives one the current conditions for the day. When the notification is clicked/expanded, it gives the weather summary for the day (with glyphs a temperatures throughout the day as in the iOS weather app) like an expanded notification picture. Would appreciate it if someone could help me with making it. Thanks!

Purpose: I want this specifically since I don’t want the weather consuming battery all the time by accessing my location. Additionally, the days weather during the morning would be sufficient for me

I have an e-bike that connects to my iPhone via Bluetooth when I turns on. My goal is to have that connection trigger a switch to a Focus Mode and launch specific apps.

The native “when [device] is connected” action does not give me the option to select the bike, so my thought was to have it run the automation whenever any Bluetooth device is connected.

(Note, the third-party “is Bluetooth device connected” only works with BLE, but the bike does connect via BLE.)

When I connect the bike, the device shows as connected, but the automation does not run.

What could I be missing here?

I'm building a small "cartridge" music player: a 3D-printed holder for my iPhone where an album cartridge with an NFC tag slides in, and a personal NFC automation (Run Immediately) starts that album.

How it works:

• When the holder is empty, a "Pause music" tag sits at the iPhone's reader position.
• When I insert a cartridge, the pause tag is pushed ~7 cm lower and the cartridge's "Play album" tag takes its place at the reader.

The problem: if I swap the tags quickly, the second tag is often not read. With a gap of about 3 seconds between removing one tag and presenting the next, it works roughly 90% of the time. It's not fully deterministic, and I can't see a clear pattern. I also tried putting a strong metal sheet between the two tags; it mostly didn't help (maybe sometimes).

What I couldn't find in docs or forums is any description of this behavior. I'm not sure whether it's:

1. a hold-off / re-arm time in iOS after a tag is read,
2. something about the previous tag staying in the field for a long time (it can sit there for hours),
3. residual coupling or detuning between the tags or from the metal, or
4. just marginal, unreliable reads.

Questions:

• Has anyone measured or noticed a minimum gap between two different tags in Shortcuts NFC automations?
• Does it depend on how long the previous tag was in the field, or on whether it's the same or a different tag?
• Any patterns with tag type or size, ferrite backing, or exact position along the top edge that improved reliability?
• Any known workarounds (other than adding a mechanical delay)?

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Setup: iPhone Air, iOS 27.2, NTAG215 25 mm adhesive coins (13.56 MHz, ISO 14443A, 504 B user memory), no ferrite/anti-metal layer.

Shortcuts NFC trigger (UID-based), Run Immediately.

Happy to share test results if useful.

Salut,

Attention à vos raccourci crées ou modifiés sur iOS 27 et partagés à d’autres utilisateurs sur iOS 18 ou iOS 26

Sur les anciennes versions, l’application raccourci bloquera le raccourci et demandera une mise à jour.

La raison :
Apple a récemment modifié la version minimum du moteur de raccourci. Ce moteur est utilisé pour traiter toutes les actions.

La version minimum du moteur demandée est actuellement 5001.

"WFWorkflowMinimumClientVersionString": "5001",
"WFWorkflowMinimumClientVersion": 5001

La version minimum précédente demandée etait 3010 :

"WFWorkflowMinimumClientVersionString": "3010",
"WFWorkflowMinimumClientVersion": 3010

Solution :
1) Convertir le raccourci en json et remplacer les 2 valeurs 5001 par 3010.
2) Compiler et signer le raccourci.

Le raccourci fonctionnera sur iOS 18 et 26.

Ceci n’est pas définitif. Si vous modifiez votre raccourci sur iOS 27 il remplacera automatiquement 3010 par 5001. 😔

Have a Nice Day.

I have a video i want to save into my photos app but it keeps saying error so i wanna know if there is a shortcut to fix this

I've been building a free, open-source macOS tool called Mac MCP. One thing I kept noticing was how often I'd ask an AI agent to perform the same series of actions: open an app, find something, do a few steps, then check whether it actually worked.

So I added a Recipes system. A Recipe is a saved sequence of actions with inputs. You can run it again with different values, or have a scheduled task run it, without using a model to decide the steps all over again. It still goes through the same permissions and execution checks as an interactive run.

The Shortcuts-related part is a native 'Run Mac MCP Recipe' action for macOS Shortcuts and Siri. You choose a saved Recipe and launch it from a Shortcut instead of needing a shell command or writing a new AI prompt. There was a surprisingly mundane gotcha: App Intents need the app signed with a development team. With an ad-hoc build, the action can be present but unable to list or run the Recipes, so that's an actual setup limitation.

I'm the maintainer; source if you're curious about the implementation: https://github.com/bulutarkan/mac-mcp

For people who combine Shortcuts with agent tools, would you rather have one flexible action that runs a named Recipe, or a lot of small actions for each individual Mac tool? I'm leaning toward the former because it's easier to review what will happen.