Display and Brightness

Control appearance

Presents a menu for various times of the day, then changes the device settings to make the screen easier to read depending on that time.

Actions Used

Control Flow, Scripting

Choose from Menu

Presents a menu and runs different actions based on which menu item was chosen.

Device, Scripting

Set Brightness

Sets the device brightness.

Device, Scripting

Set Appearance

Changes system appearance (between Light/Dark).

Apps, Settings

Set Increase Contrast

Increase color contrast between app foreground and background colors

Apps, Settings

Set White Point

White point reduces the intensity of bright colors.

Extra Details

Run Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Control%20appearance

Open Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Control%20appearance

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Control appearance” end tell

Membership

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Open Appearance preferences

Opens the deep link into the Displays > Device Appearance settings on iOS and the Appearance pane on macOS.

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Toggle dark mode

Gets the current appearance, and if Dark Mode is on, switches to Light (and vice versa). Add additional customizations per condition as desired.

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How many nits?

Change the Number to the correct amount of nits for your device’s display if you don’t have an iPad Pro – look it up with “[device name] display nits” online.

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Turn screen black and white

Toggles the Color Filters feature from Accessibility settings to remove color from the display and turn everything black and white.

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Opens into Settings > Accessibility > Zoom to let you toggle the feature on or off to magnify the entire screen with a double tap, three-finger drag, and double tap three fingers, as well as features like Follow Focus, Smart Typing, Keyboard Shortcuts, Zoom Controller, Zoom Region, Zoom Filter, Show while Mirroring, and Maximum Zoom Level.

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