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.
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).
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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.
Open Home Screen settings
Opens the deep link in Settings to the Home Screen and App Library customizations.
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-create shortcuts in new folder
Asks you to enter a folder title and creates it, then for a list of shortcut names (with any text prepended or appended), then creates those shortcuts in the folder – designed for quickly making Home Screen shortcuts.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Batch-add%20to%20Home%20Screen%20from%20folder
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Batch-add%20to%20Home%20Screen%20from%20folder
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Batch-add to Home Screen from folder”
end tell
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