iPad

Edit Universal Control preferences

Opens into Settings > Display on iOS and System Settings > Displays on macOS so you can arrange your Mac or iPad displays accordingly.

Actions Used

Control Flow, Scripting

Tests if a condition is true, and if so, runs the actions inside. Otherwise, the actions under “Otherwise” are run.

Control Flow, Scripting

Stop shortcut

Stops execution of the current shortcut and dismisses the shortcut on screen. No more actions will be run after this action.

URLs, Web

URL

Passes the specified URL to the next action.

Safari, Web

Open URLs

Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).

Extra Details

Run Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Edit%20Universal%20Control%20preferences

Open Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Edit%20Universal%20Control%20preferences

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Edit Universal Control preferences” end tell

Membership

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