Use the “”Repeat Item”” variable inside the repeat aera for the individual item in the current loop, and the Repeat Index counts each loop and increases by one every time. Both are found *only* in the variable bar and not via Select Magic Variables.

Very, very useful. One of the best ways to harness the power of Shortcuts – batch tasks.

Works Well With

Apps, Contacts

Get Details of Contacts

Extract information from contacts including first, middle, and last name, phone number, email address, street address, URL, birthday, contact photo, prefix, suffix, nickname, phonetic first, middle, and last names, company, job title, department, notes, & more.

Items, Scripting

Count

Counts the number of items, characters, words, sentences, or lines passed as input. Note (from Apple, for real) This is just like the Count in Sesame Street, but instead of a vampire, it’s a Shortcuts action.

App Store, Media

Get Details of App Store App

Extracts information about an App Store app, including artist, price, currency code, formatted price, release date, category, description, the overall rating, the total number of ratings, the current rating, the number of ratings for this version, the version, the date it was last updated, the latest release notes, the content rating, the minimum OS version, whether it’s a universal app, the supported devices, supported languages, screenshot URLs, iPad screenshot URLs, download size, store ID, store URL, artwork, artwork URL, name, & more.

Archives, Documents

Extract Archive

Extracts files from the archive passed as input. Many archive formats are supported, including zip, rar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar, gzip, cpio, cab, and iso archives.

Articles, Web

Get Article using Safari Reader

Gets article details, including body text, author, publish date, and more, from every URL passed into the action. Input URLs Result Article Note Use a Get Details of Article action immediately after this action to get specific details about the article. This action only supports getting one article from each URL.

Apps, Calendar

Find Calendar Events

Searches for the calendar events in your library that match the given criteria. Allows for sorting, changing the order, and limiting the number passed as a result.

Apps, Calendar

Get Details of Calendar Events

Extracts information from calendar events, including start date, end date, whether it’s an all day event, the calendar it belongs to, the location, whether it has alarms, the event duration, the organizer, the attendees, the URL, the title, the notes, & more.

Apps, Calendar

Get Details of Event Attendees

Extract information from event attendees, including their name, whether “Is Me” is true, their role, or status in regards to the meeting.

Apps, Calendar

Add New Event

Creates a new event and adds it to the selected calendar.

Apps, Contacts

Select Contact

Prompts to pick a person from your contacts and passes the selection to the next action.

Documents, File storage

Append to Text File

Adds the text passed as input to the end of the specified file. Requires the name or path of the file to retrieve. For example, if you are appending a file called “notes.txt” in a folder called “Public”, use “/Public/notes.txt”.

GIFs, Media

Make GIF

Creates an animated GIF from the images or video passed into the action.

Documents, Text Editing

Combine Text

Joins text together, inserting the separator between each join.

Documents, Text Editing

Replace Text

Replaces some text passed into the action with other text.

Documents, Text Editing

Split Text

Separates text passed into the action into a list.

Documents, Text

Text

Passes the specified text to the next action.

Media, Photos

Select Photos

Prompts to choose photos and videos from your photo library.

Apps, Reminders

Edit Reminder

Sets a specific field of the reminder passed into the action. Detail The property of the reminder to edit. Edit The operation to perform on the selected property of the reminder.