Message Mom and Dad

Keep up with the folks in your family using group chats in Shortcuts.

Contacts

Passes the specified contacts to the next action.

Send Message

Sends an iMessage or SMS. Pass images, videos, or other files as input to include attachments.

Run Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Message%20Mom%20and%20Dad

Open Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Message%20Mom%20and%20Dad

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Message Mom and Dad” end tell

Opens an action from Messages into a group chat. To make your own, open the group chat in Messages, then search for it in Messages.

Presents the family group chat in a Messages popover.

Presents a menu of your family members, then presents a Messages window to that person.

Starts dictation and captures after a pause, copying the result to the clipboard so you can paste it.

Searches for an app and downloads the artwork, plus optionally masks it as an icon.

Openes the Routines folder where your daily checklists are stored.

Opens the “Ad Locations” page for the latest episode of your Transistor podcast.

Starts a new continuous conversation with ChatGPT, asking you to pick which model before starting the chat.

Gets the base64-encoded text for the Shame sound from Game of Thrones, decodes it, and plays it twice at 75% volume with a short break in between.

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