Add game to Home Screen
Using my folder of Xbox games shortcuts, this automatically adds any new games I choose to the Home Screen using my preferred short title style and icons created using my xCloud folder of shortcuts.
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Add to Home Screen from Files
Asks you to choose from your Shortcuts folders and repeats through the shortcuts for that folder, letting you choose a custom title, then choose from Files for the icon before adding it to the Home Screen.
Batch-create shortcuts with phrase
Asks you to open an existing folder in Shortcuts, then asks you to enter a list of shortcut names with text prepended or appended before creating those shortcuts in the folder.
Batch-create Home Screen shortcuts
Asks you to pick a folder from Shortcuts and opens it, then asks you to enter a list of names for Home Screen shortcuts and creates them in that folder.
Batch-add to Home Screen from folder
Asks you to choose a folder from Files or Finder containing your icons, then a folder from Shortcuts containing your shortcuts, then repeats through each adding a custom icon corresponding to the repeat index in the icon folder – icon-1.png for shortcut-1.shortcut (and so on).
Open Home Screen settings
Opens the deep link in Settings to the Home Screen and App Library customizations.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Add%20game%20to%20Home%20Screen
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Add%20game%20to%20Home%20Screen
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Add game to Home Screen”
end tell
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