Shortcuts

Name: Shortcuts
Rating: 4.32924 (13285 reviews)

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The idea of this app has always seemed potentially awesome, but then I open the app and there is just no where to begin. I want to create a shortcut to something, but there is no option to create a shortcut. The Shortcuts app, whose entire purpose is to create shortcuts, has no option to create a shortcut. It's like it starts in the middle instead of at the beginning, giving you options, but options for what? You haven't even created anything yet... And the most obvious potential of this app is to create literal shortcuts, to say a music playlist, so you don't have to open the music app, go to playlists, scroll through the playlists, find your playlist, and finally play it. You could just have a shortcut directly on your home screen. Or the millions of version of this experience, a long news article you've been slowly reading your way through, the new AppleTV show you just discovered, a specific document you're working on. To cut through all the navigation and waiting for each page of each step to load, you just cut straight to it, you take a shortcut.

AlanHughes, Feb 08, 2022

Please Help!

There’s a bug with the shortcut to add a song to a playlist and/or how the shortcuts app interacts with Apple Music. I’m using the shortcut from the gallery on my iPhone 13 running iOS 15.4. The shortcut initially works and adds the song to the playlist as intended, but for some reason the added song doesn’t sync (over iCloud) to to version of the same playlist on my Mac. Further, when the playlist syncs to my Mac, it wipes all songs from the same playlist on my phone that we’re added with the shortcut. However it doesn’t wipe any songs added to the same playlist that we’re added using the ‘add to playlist’ selection on songs contextual menu in Apple Music app. These added songs sync with no issues.Initially I was very happy with this shortcut until I found that all the songs I’d added to various playlists were being lost the entire time. At this point the only way I can save these songs is to constantly save these particular playlists as new playlists and then re-save the new playlist’s contents back to the original playlists. As you can imagine, this is anything but a time saver and if I miss saving an updated playlist before it syncs to my Mac, the updated songs are lost… Please Help!

another someone, May 17, 2022

Absolutely fantastic

The more I use this app the more I learn. I’m constantly adding functions such as “Choose from menu”, “Ask”, “IF” to create combinations of task. I also love that I can create Shortcuts for one action functions, and use Apple Schemes to navigate to directories. Plus it has Automation functions like start my playlist when my phone connects to Bluetooth in my car. And they have a folder structure with icon selection to stay organized. I recently created a Shortcut that run an OpenAI API question and answer session. I keep adding functions to this Shortcut. Now when ran it starts by asking “What would you like to know?l” then it asked if you want to save to the Notes app. If yes it adds the question, answer, and a tag (because I added them as variables) and allows you to save it. If no it asks if you want it to stop asking to save. If yes it runs another similar Shortcut that only rotates the Q&A without asking the other options. If no it starts the same session over.

Davethanaman, Feb 25, 2023

Hard to use and half baked

This is supposed to Apple’s response to enthusiasts’ demand for more customization. But it is a really hard scripting language to write. For instance, getting some data in a variable is require you to add a block then drop the block in the right place. You can’t remove the block for getting input from the user after adding it. Then a lot of things you simply can’t do. For example, you can set the cellular data state, but you cannot get the state. Same with WiFi. So after doing a toggle, you can’t display a prompt to say “ data set to active”. You can’t toggle location. You can’t get whether “reduce white points” was enabled. So many limitations. I have some simple advice: if you can set something, you should be able to get it. If you can navigate to the settings to change, you should be able to toggle it in shortcuts.

iSheep X, May 08, 2022

Pretty cool, but has limitations

I really like using this app and you can make it do some pretty neat stuff. It has an ask before running in most cases, but I noticed for receiving an iMessage message you have to tap the notification which makes this automation practically useless. Why would I make an “automation” if it’s not actually automatic when I have to tap twice to get it to do what I want to do. I frequently lose my phone around and wanted it to turn the volume up and play a song when my wife would send me a certain message. It would be easier than having her log into my account or me log into a computer to make it beep on Find my iPhone. So maybe let us be able to choose if we want it to run automatically and integrate Find My iPhone in Shortcuts. If the “ask to run” isn’t there because of “security”, enough with all this “security” stuff and let us choose how we want to run our phone and how secure it is. Thanks!

JNH, Dec 16, 2021

Great Potential, But Please Stop The Banners

I love the potential of this app. Customization and organization are very important to me. But the constant notification banners that pop down every time you open an app are absolutely maddening (a common complaint, from what I've seen.) I scoured forums and found a way to disable them for when I open a single app (although I really think there needs to be a simple, permanent option that doesn't require screen time and running an automation) but I still get a banner every time I select an app option from a menu. (Especially frustrating considering I'd like to pair multiple camera apps in a menu together under one icon, but the banner freezes the camera screen for a full few seconds making it impossible to snap a quick photo.) Also, it would be great if we could choose custom photos for shortcuts added to widgets like we can for shortcuts added to the home screen. Lastly, if possible, it would be lovely to have notification badges display on the shortcut icons like they do on the originals, so I can customize my mail and messages apps and still be able to see the number of new emails and texts. Thank you for taking the time to read this and (hopefully) take this into consideration for future updates!

Kaite Chase, May 27, 2022

Not working on the Apple Watch

I love Shortcuts, I have been using it since it was Workflow. I liked Workflow better because you really learned to program with it from the ground up. Apple has really dumbed down Shortcuts in these latest versions for the masses in respect to really programming shortcuts from the ground up. However, I’m deeply disappointed, I bought an Apple Watch with the sole excitement of using Shortcuts on my Apple Watch and I have never been able to use Shortcuts on the actual Watch, “THEY WILL NOT SHOW UP ON THE WATCH” or under the actual Watch App list on the iPhone. This a known issue what gives? Each update, I’m hopeful this issue will be resolved and nope the Shortcuts Apps will not show up as an option to select in the Watch App and the Apple Watch keeps saying,No shortcuts you can add them in the Shortcuts App on your iphone, which are listed and designated for the Apple Watch, but don’t show up. There is a disconnect between the iPhone Shortcut App and the Watch App not letting the Shortcut App appear as a selection to be on the watch and the actual Apple Watch Shortcuts App. Just works- nah, It just doesn’t, please fix it Apple.

Mel C5, Jul 09, 2023

HATE THE UGLY NEW COLORS!!!

WHAT THE HECK, APPLE?! Why change the vibrant colors from iOS 15.4.1 to the ugly, dull colors in iOS 15.5 (or w/e the newest update is). Thank God my iPhone didn’t update; my iPad, however, sadly did. I JUST discovered the power of shortcuts and dedicated at least 30 hours to color coding my screen’s layout, going from 7 pages of apps, to 2, by using color-coded glyphs. Some open just one app, some open multiple, some start Apple Music playlists, some trigger the smart lights in my house, in my car, etc.Automation feature is dope, too, but as others have mentioned, the fact that you occasionally have to give them permission to run DEFEATS the purpose of an automation. Apple, “DON’T BE SORRY. BE BETTER.” Change back to non-hideous colors and please make turning off or at least controlling Notifications for the Shortcuts app. I am so annoyed I have to design shortcuts from my tiny iPhone 12 instead of using my beautiful iPad 9, with a Logitech Touch keyboard case. PLEASE LISTEN TO YOUR CONSUMERS. Colors are hideous and you’re gonna have people switching to Androids or jail breaking as Shortcuts seems to get worse with each iOS update…

Ryryspy, Jun 04, 2022

Very Buggy

The idea for this app is pretty good, but the numerous bugs make this almost unusable (I am on iPhone SE2020). If the bugs were fixed, I would happily update my review to 5 stars. Here are some of the bugs I’ve seen: 1) Opening a modified link from the clipboard (or shared screen) is quick at first, but over time it gets slower and slower to open until shortcuts will simply show me the banner (which tells me it’s opening the modified link) but it never does. This is sometimes fixed if I turn the phone off all the way 2) Adding and removing commands to new shortcuts is super buggy. If I want to duplicate and modify an existing shortcut, often it is easier to just make a new shortcut from scratch since the bugs slow me down a lot. For example, sometimes you cannot change the first command in a shortcut under any circumstances (I fear that this is not a “bug”, but a “feature”, example: I cannot delete the first action if it is “Receive _ from _”). 3) Newly created Share-tray shortcuts will often not show up in the share screen. I need to mess with the app a bunch to get them to show up (this might be specific to iPhone SE 2020) Also, there are missing features that really should be present (like the ability to open links in a specific tab group or private browsing in safari).

Sdfhhvd, May 04, 2022

I love using this app!!! A couple of big problems though…

I love to use this app, but I have 2 really big problems. When scrolling through shortcuts with many scripts, there is a lot of lag. I’m unsure if it’s a hardware problem or if it’s the software. Second of all, the app randomly freezes but doesn’t crash. There isn’t a black screen or visual glitches. I’m 99% sure that it has nothing to do with the display, because my device works fine and will shut off like normal. It just stays paused on the frame before it freezes and will not work unless I close it and wait several minutes before opening it again. This is a pretty annoying bug, but everything works fine otherwise! It’s pretty cool to program and use your device in unique ways using it! I will continue to use Shortcuts (as I enjoy making these types of programs) but will contact the devs of the Shortcuts app if anything else goes wrong. Welp, that’s all I gotta say! I’m gonna go finish making a jumpscare prank on here!

spycaks, Oct 04, 2022

Description

Shortcuts delivers a quicker way to get things done with just a tap or hands-free with Siri and automations. Start from hundreds of examples in the Gallery, or drag and drop to create your own unique shortcuts. Shortcuts includes over 300 built-in actions and works with Contacts, Calendar, Maps, Music, Photos, Camera, Reminders, Safari, Health and any app that supports App Intents.

Use the Shortcuts app to: • Get directions home, send your ETA and start listening to the news, hands-free with Siri • Add a Home Screen icon that calls a loved one • Make animated GIFs • Make PDFs from Safari or any app with a share sheet • Get directions to the nearest coffee shop in one tap • Tweet the song you're listening to • Get all of the images on a web page • Send a message including the last screenshot you took • And so much more... Shortcuts can be launched from widgets, when searching with Spotlight, or hands-free with Siri. You can even add an app icon to your Home Screen for your favorite shortcuts. Shortcuts opens up incredible possibilities to automate things you do regularly on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.