Randomize wallpaper
Pulls random photos from your Home Screen and Lock Screen albums, then sets them as your wallpaper accordingly.
Set my wallpaper
Asks you to pick a photo and sets it to your Lock Screen and Home Screen background.
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Encode wallpaper
Prompts you to choose an image from Photos or Files, then encodes the result with base64 into a large text string.
Create wallpaper albums
Generates albums for saving wallpapers for every device type Apple offers.
Change the current wallpaper
Pick a photo or file, then set it as your Lock Screen, Home Screen, or both.
Set my default wallpaper
Takes a base64-encoded image of your favorite background and decodes it before passing it into Set Wallpaper for your Home Screen.
Set my Focus Wallpaper
Turns the appearance dark, turns on Do Not Disturb, and sets an embedded wallpaper.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Set%20my%20wallpaper
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Set%20my%20wallpaper
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Set my wallpaper”
end tell
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Set up Emergency SOS
Opens the deep link into the Settings app to the Emergency SOS feature.
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Presents a list of categories from Apple’s developer pages, then reformats the option of your choosing into the URL for that category and opens it.
Show the Shortcuts tag on MacStories
Opens the tag page on the MacStories website for stories marked with “Shortcuts.”
Open links from Reminders
Looks for incomplete reminders that contain URLs, then lets you pick from the list and open the links in Safari.
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