From Stephen Robles on YouTube:
Stephen’s set of YouTube shortcuts are great, taking advantage of YouTube’s web URL to redirect across the app. Plus, the RSS feed ones go even further for creators.
Author: Matthew Cassinelli
Apple has posted a behind-the-scenes video to YouTube for yesterday’s Mac keynote, which was entirely filmed on an iPhone 15 Pro Max:
The video demonstrates the breadth of potential for iPhone as a primary camera, especially when supplemented with all the normal filmmaking gear that’s used to accompany every other “real” camera when shooting.
I think this line from the video sums up the point: “One of the most exciting and interesting things to see is how not different it’s been on set” – definitely me want to integrate the iPhone more thoroughly in my own video setup.
On Thursday, September 28, I had the pleasure of joining Tim Chaten as a guest on iPad Pros to talk about:
Matthew Cassinelli is back for our 6th annual catchup on what’s new with Shortcuts! Shortcuts 7 is now available for iPadOS 17, iOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS Sonoma! If you want to listen to our past episodes; check out episodes 41, 42, 58, 90, 91, 122, 149, and 151.
Check out iPad Pros in Apple Podcasts or listen to the episode below:
From the Mac App Store:
By letting you automate frequent or cumbersome tasks, Shortcuts has become a productivity favorite on Mac.
Send a stock response in Mail, open every note with a specific tag in Notes, or switch on your smart light bulbs. You can also automate across multiple apps to, say, batch-edit photos, move text from your writing app into a page-layout app, or open every app and document you need to start your workday. You can even choose how each window is rearranged. […]
And with desktop widgets in macOS Sonoma, you can add any shortcut—or folder of shortcuts-to your desktop for instant access. Just click a shortcut in a widget to run it!
Later, in a section titled “Access your shortcuts everywhere”:
For quick access to any shortcut in macOS Sonoma, add a Shortcuts widget to your desktop: Control-click anywhere on the desktop and choose Edit Widgets; then drag a Shortcuts widget to the desired location.
I’m seriously loving widgets on the desktop so far.
This weekend, the customizable Action button on the iPhone 15 Pro has driven Apple fans to the web to share their best Shortcuts ideas, from more advanced workflows to some that are perhaps more juvenile. Regardless, if you’ve got an iPhone 15 Pro, you’re probably looking for shortcuts to use with it.
To help folks with their decision, I asked across Threads, Twitter, and Mastodon for everyone’s best ideas, promising to collect them in a post – this is that post!
Check out the list of 30+ ideas below – plus, stay tuned for my extra-special Action button idea coming very soon (and subscribe to my newsletter to get that delivered straight to your inbox).
Threads
- Google Assistant (via Mithun Patel / MKHBD):
As @mkbhd suggested – Google Assistant
- Shazam (via Dan Stransky):
Shazam!
[My reply: There are cool Shazam actions in Shortcuts, so you could have it jump straight to a music video for the current song!]
- Action Jackson (via John Gruber):
Since publishing my review, I’ve tweaked my Action button shortcut to work this way:
— If the device orientation is face down or portrait upside-down, toggle Silent mode. (And when turning Silent mode from off to on, vibrate the phone.)
— Otherwise launch Camera.Screenshot of the main shortcut, and the helper that toggles Silent mode with vibration for turning it on:
- Add new item in Things (via Parker Ortolani):
Currently have it set to create a new item in Things !
Post by @parkerortolaniView on Threads - Add new item in Fantastical (via Hobie Henning):
Oh neat!!!! I would have that mapped to Fantastical 👀 Damn it, now I’m wanting to upgrade
- Time-sensitive/location-sensitive (via Ben P):
Occurs to me it might be good to have a time-sensitive or location-sensitive Shortcut
Show my train times in the morning, launch my todo list at work, launch my Journal app at home in the evening
- At home conditions (via Gabriel Sharp):
If connected to home WiFi:
& Before noon
→ open bedroom blinds
Else if after noon
→ open TV remote
Else if not connected to WiFi:
If Shopping focus mode (Location based)
→ open Shopping list
Else
→ Open Camera - Drafts (via Ben Pickering):
Launch Drafts
- Check for Focus Mode (via Eric Hamilton):
I made a shortcut that checks the current focus mode and adapts the action to the current focus (Sleep – Flashlight, Travel – Flighty, Work – Add Reminder, etc.)
- Ask ChatGPT (via Kevin Ridsdale):
ChatGPT with my api key to use v4. Never use Siri for questions again. zdnet.com/googl…
- Keep in touch (via Michael Fisher):
One-touch FaceTime call to my long-distance gf!
(Scrub to 1:08) youtu.be/f9GI… - FaceTime your partner (via Michael Ferrari):
The “girlfriend button”. Hit it and it FaceTimes your partner
- Quick Note (via Parker Ortolani):
Action button as a note taking shortcut is dope
Post by @parkerortolaniView on Threads
- Open Current Book (via Adrian Eves):
I’m probably going to have it open the Books app much like the action button on the watch is mapped to the workout app
- Choose From Menu (via Stephen Robles):
I’ll be running this Shortcut with the Action Button! Most of the time I’m not in a focus mode, so it will display a menu of options.
When in a Focus Mode, it defaults to opening the camera. May try to change based on specific Focus Mode later.
icloud.com - Ask ChatGPT for action button ideas (via Ben Lovejoy):
Trigger it to ask ChatGPT to create a list of the best Action Button shortcut ideas
- Lock/unlock your car (via Kevin):
Lock/Unlock Tesla
- Open Halide/ @HalideCamera (via Kris Lord):
Simple
- Change Text Size (via Daniel Kašaj):
Gave “Change Text Size” a go for a bit. Went back to Camera. Analysis paralysis!
- Where we droppin’ (via SENTINELITE / yours truly):
Dude I just realized we have a “Where we droppin?” button for the iPhone now lol
- Tweet button (via Ian Zelbo):
But does your phone have a tweet button?
- Nothing (via Gregory McFadden):
Setting my action button to nothing.
- Screenshot and crop (via Tom Bielecki):
This will be my iPhone action button:
Screenshot -> Manual Crop (Toolbox Pro) -> Extract text -> New Draft (Drafts)
Gives me full control of selection area and post-processing steps for on-screen text content regardless of what app I’m in
- Open the front door (via Mark’s Tech):
Okay this is actually super sweet … [Video: Using the iPhone 15 Pro “Action Button” as a key to my front door]
- Shazam to music service (via Marco Dengel):
Mine is starting Shazam → detecting the current song (while watching the fantastic new animation in iOS 17) → search and open it in the music app of your choice*.(* Shazam, Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, Amazon Music, YouTube, YouTube Music or Deezer)
- Speak Screen (via Sasha G):
To display the “speak screen” control panel.I want there to be a widget for this.
- Credit card rewards (via Emmanuel Crouvisier):
Start a shopping live activity, head out for your errands, and your Lock Screen will update automatically with which card to use.
Mastodon
- Opening the garage door (via Devin Davies):
Opening the garage door with the action button feels like a super power. [Video]
- Fart sound (via Rafa / Kyle):
This is it, the best use case for the Action Button (sound on) [Video]
- Drum break (via Rafa):
You can even press it with your phone still in your pocket. Your dad jokes will never be the same “badum tss” [Video]
- Laugh track (via Rafa):
Oooh that’s clever! [Video]
- Rick Roll (via Jeff Kelley):
Made a shortcut that opens the Never Gonna Give You Up music video
- Read Later & Watch Later (via iBanks):
Save web articles and YouTube videos for later
- Purchase later (via iBanks):
List of items to purchase later with running total of overall costs of all items in the list
- ShortShot (via iBanks):
Move screenshots of your favorite apps into its own album based off that apps name
- myApps (via iBanks):
Dynamic app launcher that displays your apps as one single list or you can select a app from a list of app categories
- Focused Apps (via iBanks):
Dynamic app launcher stemmed from my myApps – A Dynamic App Launcher but allows you to select from a specified list of apps based on the current focus mode your device is in
- Massive 30-shortcut conditional (via Jimmy Little):
I have a Shortcut that I’ve been running for years. First as an icon, then as Triple-Back-Tap, and now I’ll move it to the Action Button.
It’s a bunch of Choose-From-Menus that launch other shortcuts. I can’t include it here, because it’s really about 30 Shortcuts. But here’s how it works:
First, is an IF block. If I’m on my watch, it shows one menu. If I’m on my phone, another (much larger) menu. From there, it’s a LOT… But It so nice.
If you want more Shortcuts ideas, check out my expansive Shortcuts Library – and sign up for my Shortcuts newsletter if you haven’t already.
Apple has posted release notes for Shortcuts for the initial iOS 17 release, covering iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS changes with new actions, updated actions, new Personal Automations, and updated Personal Automations.
Plus, some new functions for widgets, Listen to Page, and special considerations for iPhone 15 Pro were not included, which I’ve detailed below.
New Actions
As I covered earlier this summer during the beta cycles, iOS 17 features a set of useful new actions for Shortcuts – including a new Transcribe Audio action that was introduced in the final developer beta.
Here’s the full list from Apple – the actions for Freeform and Switch Between Wallpaper are not mentioned, and the beta actions for Books, Select Person, Tips have since been removed:
- Transcribe Audio generates text from an audio file
- Delete Alarms removes specified alarms from Clock
- Edit Sleep Alarm skips the next sleep alarm, or reactivates a skipped sleep alarm
- Open Camera opens the Camera app into a specific capture mode, such as “Selfie”
- Open Collection navigates to a specific section of the Photos app, such as “Places”
- Show Passwords navigates to Passwords in Settings on iOS and System Settings on macOS
- End Workout completes your current workout session on iOS and watchOS
- Scan Document captures an image and saves it to the Files app on iOS
- Get Current Timer, Pause Timer, Resume Timer, and Cancel Timer are now supported on iOS
- Start Stopwatch, Lap Stopwatch, Stop the Stopwatch, and Reset Stopwatch are now supported on iOS
- Set Hotspot Password and Get Hotspot Password are now supported on iOS
- Toggle Cellular Plan, Set Default Line, Set Data Roaming, Find Cellular Plan, and Reset Cellular Data Statistics are now supported on iOS
- Start Time Machine Backup starts or stops backing up your data with Time Machine on macOS
- Move Window, Resize Window, Find Windows, Find Displays, and Find Apps are now supported on macOS
Updated Actions
In the Updated Actions section, Apple also detailed subtle changes to existing actions that are easy to go unnoticed – one in particular to note is that Set Timer now works with multiple timers, a new feature of iOS 17; I also missed the additions to the Health Samples actions, which I’ll have to explore further:
For those building custom shortcuts, some actions have been updated:
- Set Timer can now start a new timer even if there’s already one running
- Find Alarm now replaces Get All Alarms, retrieving all alarms or only those which match filter criteria
- Set Volume can now adjust either the Media volume or the Ringtone volume
- Health Samples now support more data types, like sleep, mood, and appetite changes
- Event Attendees for Calendar now include a Type attribute, to distinguish people, groups, and rooms
- Get Network Details now includes more options, such as channel number, hardware MAC address, and rate information
- Take Photo is now more reliable when taking multiple photos in a row
Personal Automations
Apple has also updated the Automations tab of the Shortcuts app with significant changes, including a redesign to focus on Personal Automations over Home Automations, new Automation types, and updating all of the Automations to “Run Immediately”:
New Personal Automations
- Transaction automations can run when a Wallet transaction is made on iOS and watchOS
- Stage Manager automations can run when Stage Manager is turned on or off on iPadOS
- Display automations can run when an external display is connected or disconnected on iPadOS
Updated Personal Automations
- Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Arrive, and Leave automations now have the option to run immediately
Not included, but still new
A handful of new features were also not mentioned in the release notes – changes for widget sizes, the app redesign, changes to App Shortcuts, a new Listen to Page action, and the Toggle Silent Mode action for iPhone 15 Pro (or the Action button functionality at all, for that matter).
Shortcuts now has a small size to go with the single shortcut option that shows two shortcuts from a folder in a dual “pill” shape, which works great in a Stack to put up to 20 shortcuts in the place of 4 apps.
There’s also an extra-large size now available for the iPad and Mac, which holds up to 16 shortcuts from a single folder. On iPad, this adds deep functionality across Home Screen setups, and on the Mac brings forward Shortcuts onto your desktop with the new widget experience for macOS Sonoma.
Inside the Shortcuts app, the primary interface has also been redesigned along with the Spotlight experience, bringing forward App Shortcuts from your apps in highly-colorful sections for each app. Plus, App Shortcuts have expanded to Apple Watch and HomePod, creating a wide array of functionality and devices for triggering Shortcuts with Siri.
Further, the new “Hey Siri, read this” functionality for speaking webpages out loud functionality is extended into Shortcuts with a “Listen to page” action, which works with any article that’s currently open.
And last but not least, the iPhone 15 Pro has support for a dedicated Action button, with one of the main functions being the option to run a shortcut and including a special Shortcuts-specific experience.
Along with this, iPhone 15 Pro users will have a new Toggle Silent Mode action that can be used to replicate the previously-dedicated button’s functionality within any shortcut, giving users access to that setting from the Home Screen, widget, Siri, or everywhere else you can run a shortcut.
I have a detailed walkthrough of all the Shortcuts updates to be released alongside macOS Sonoma’s update on September 25th, so stay tuned for my full review and screenshots of all these features and Shortcuts in iOS 17 as a whole – I’ll share links to the stories in the next issue of my newsletter if you want to have those delivered to your email inbox.
View the article on the Apple Support website.
Apple’s iOS 17 is here and, while working on my upcoming Shortcuts updates to be released alongside macOS Sonoma, I spent the rest of my day sharing posts from developers on Mastodon with their app updates.
From that list, plus more apps that mentioned iOS 17 in their app update description (and a few from these replies), I ended up with over 150 apps.
Using some Shortcuts wizardry, I scraped all the App Store links, prices, and app icons to make the following list below, as well as the image for the blog post (I’ll be sharing how I did this all for my membership soon) – enjoy:
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- Glucomate glucose tracker – (Free on the App Store)
- Sequel entertainment media tracker – (Free on the App Store)
- Movie Tracker what to watch – (Free on the App Store)
Today, Apple unveiled the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro lines, with the Pro devices including a special Action button similar to the one found on the Apple Watch Ultra – and this version includes a special setup screen to let you choose its functionality, among which Shortcuts is a prominent choice.
Action button options
Apple lists multiple options you can choose from change the Action button’s functionality from the default Silent mode trigger – you can set a Focus mode, activate the camera, record a voice memo, turn on the flashlight, Translate text, use the Magnifier or other Accessibility features, and, of course, set a shortcut.
Apple’s prompt on the Action button setup page for Shortcuts reads “Open an app or run your favorite shortcut,” partially referencing the most common use case for Shortcuts with its Add to Home Screen functionality allowing users to customize their app icons – now you can use the Action button to immediately open any app via Shortcuts.
Selecting a shortcut
In the actual Shortcuts selection screen, there are a few areas that show up – a Search field, a “Get Started” view, “My Shortcuts,” and a scrollable list of apps with keywords for possible actions.
Apple’s recommendations in “Get Started” are Open App…, Call Favorites, Recently Played (for Music), Set Timer, New Note, and Recognize Music (with Shazam). Once you select Open App, you’ll then be able to pick which app to open.
In “My Shortcuts,” the options include Show Folder, plus three sample shortcuts for Open Snapchat, Meditation Time, and Get Lyft. Once you select Show Folder, you’ll likely be able to select a folder from your Shortcuts collection to open every time – an option I love to see built-in instead of requiring someone to set this up on their own separately.
In the unlabeled apps list, Books, Caviar, and Clock are shown, and we can assume this list scrolls with all the options available from your apps. Possible actions for each app are shown in labels underneath, and once you tap on the cell area you’ll likely be able to choose from one of those actions to assign to the Action button.
Plus, with Search at the top, you’ll be able to find anything from your shortcuts or this app list using keywords – this may be more helpful if you use descriptive titles for your shortcuts.
Shortcuts as an iPhone feature
Overall, it’s truly excellent to see such deep integration with the iPhone Pro line and Shortcuts – years after Shortcuts’ introduction, it just became a headline feature for the new iPhone and received prominent attention in Apple’s biggest keynote of the year, something the app-by-acquisition hasn’t had the luxury of receiving since it was Workflow.
For pro users, this may be the best use case for Shortcuts, with truly a single press to activate anything you can do on your phone. Hopefully, the continued prominence of Shortcuts as a major feature introduces the service to the larger public, as well as encourages app developers to integrate deeper – adopting Shortcuts gives any app access on the Action button now.
Plus, for innovative Apple users, they can now program a physical button on their device to do anything, and have control over exactly how it works – this is just a supremely cool way to make use of Shortcuts and the iPhone together.
If you’re looking for ideas on which shortcuts to run on your Action button, check out my Shortcuts Library with over 1,000 options from you can browse.
From Tim Hardwick at MacRumors:
If “Use with Ask Siri” is enabled for a particular app, you can manually choose it each time you ask the voice assistant to send a message. Here’s how.
- Activate Siri by saying “Hey Siri” or just “Siri,” or by pressing and holding the Side button on your iPhone until the Siri orb appears on the screen.
- Ask Siri to send a message to one of your contacts.
- In the message card that appears at the top of the screen, tap the Messages icon next to the person’s name.
- Tap another compatible messaging app in the dropdown to select it.
- Type your message in the input field, then tap Send
Nice – I’m surprised at how well-integrated this is into the Siri UI.
Today, September 6th, the much-anticipated Starfield for Xbox launches in full – and with it, the game includes a tribute to the late Alex Hay, a Starfield superfan and developer of Shortcuts apps.
Before his passing earlier this year, Alex had made waves on the Starfield subreddit by expressing his remorse that he wouldn’t be able to play the game due to his cancer diagnosis. And as the game neared launch the community continued to remember him in response to his passing, suggesting folks name their ships to honor Alex.
Over the weekend, during prerelease of the game, someone on Reddit discovered that the developers at Bethesda included a heartfelt note in the game from Alex with the following message:
To all my friends and fellow explorers,
I’m always with you, out there in the starfield.
Love always,
Alex Hay
It’s wonderful to see Alex’s legacy honored so well these last few weeks, and now he’s memorialized forever among the stars.
Update: For any players, apparently it’s “[f]ound on the Eye, on the right when you enter.”
From 9to5Mac, covering a report from The Information:
According to the report, we should expect to see Siri gain deeper integration with Apple’s automation tool Shortcuts as part of iOS 18.
The Information says Apple’s Siri team “plans to incorporate language models to let users of the voice assistant automate complex tasks in ways they currently cannot,” like turning the last five photos taken into a GIF with a voice command.
“The new capability is related to Apple’s Shortcuts app, which lets users manually program a series of actions using different apps and is expected to be released alongside a new version of the iPhone’s operating system next year,” per The Information.
Interesting, might check this Shortcuts stuff out.
From Jay Robinson on Threads:
This is a great idea.
How to Switch to Threads Whenever You Open Twitter
1. Open Shortcuts app on iPhone
2. Tap the Automation tab
3. Tap the plus button top-right
4. You want a Personal Automation, so start by searching “app” for “When app is opened”
5. Choose X/Twitter app and select “Run Immediately”
6. In the next step, choose “New Blank Automation”
7. Choose “Open App” as the next action
8. Tap the blue word “App” and choose Threads
9. Tap “Done”
Read the full article or see the post below:
Post by @jayrobinsonView on Threads
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What’s New in Shortcuts – Issue 100
From Issue 100 of my Shortcuts newsletter:
Welcome to Issue 100 of What’s New in Shortcuts!!
Since the last issue mid-August, things have slowed down as developers gear up for iOS 17 and the betas stabilize a bit more.
We have some good news around Alex Hay’s apps, a new release of Obscura, and I’m ramping up podcasting again with Clockwise and my second members-only show – I talk about a lot of updates coming soon in that episode.
Otherwise, I wanted to thank you for your support as a reader of my newsletter – here’s to the next 100 issues!
Until next time, here’s what’s new in Shortcuts:
From episode 2 of my new members-only podcast:
Covering July 17 through August 31, this second member episode recaps everything I’ve shared this summer – and includes teasers for my in-progress workflows coming to the Catalog soon.
To follow the show, sign up to become a member and get your custom URL to add to your podcast player of choice.
Or, listen to the full episode below:
This content is marked as members-only – you’ll need a membership to access it.
In his blog post on Six Colors about Moving Audio Hijack recordings to a folder in the cloud, Dan Moren shared a tip for using Audio Hijack’s automations feature to trigger a post-recording script – his autotomation fires off a command to run a shortcut, after which the shortcut handles the rest of the process with the file.
I’m just getting started with Audio Hijack and I haven’t had a chance to use this yet, so here’s the section for my own reference later:
First, I added a new automation that runs on Session Stop called Copy File to Dropbox. This is a one-line script—app.runShortcut(‘Recording Copy’)—that in turn calls a Shortcut I’ve created.
I’ll be moving my membership podcast files from my Mac over to my iPad after each episode so I can edit in Ferrite, so I may use this same end point as Dan for my purposes.
Today, developer Ben McCarthy announced version 4 of Obscura, their camera app for iPhone that provides Pro controls for photographers. I’ve been testing Obscura for a while now, and here are a few quick impressions.
Modes
One of Obscura’s personal benefits to me as a Camera-replacement app is full support for the main modes I want to use most often: Auto, Manual, Portrait, Live Photo, and, importantly, Video.
With other photography-focused apps, video is often left out – but that means anytime I want to quickly capture a clip, I have to switch away; with Obscura, it has everything in one app.Otherwise, the only downside is having a dedicated Live Photo mode, which I do like to use often – however, I believe that’s a technical limitation, not a design choice.
Features
Beyond that, Obscura is packed full of camera features like focus modes, white balance control, and exposure and zoom dials that operate with excellent swipe gesture wheels.
Plus, there’s extra on-screen controls for Settings, photo mode, EV lock, and a great on-screen Help menu.
Design
Ben also puts lots of thought and care into how the app feels as you’re using it, so I recommend playing around with the app and paying attention to things like how the camera controls rotate as you rotate the device, or the fluid shift when you switch between modes, or how the entire camera animates away as you swipe into the Library view.
Beyond the camera view, the Library makes it easy to view any of your photos, flag or rate them, and see detailed EXIF information, along with the dedicated Obscura album a swipe away.
Extras
Finally, Obscura integrates nicely with your devices, the app ecosystem, and even hardware controls.
Obscura comes with an Apple Watch app to take photos remotely, plus a Lock Screen widget for quickly accessing the app.
When viewing a photo in the Filters view, you can open the image into the Darkroom photo editor and edit it there, which is great for cleaning up a shot or stylizing it as needed.
And finally, Obscura integrates with the Fjorden camera grip, a piece of hardware that mounts onto your iPhone and gives you physical camera controls – very cool.
Shortcuts
While Obscura doesn’t officially support Shortcuts—yet?!—the app’s support for video makes it one of the few that actually works as a proper replacement for the Camera app (aside from Time Lapses and Panoramas).
And that means it qualifies for an App Automation that can automatically redirect you from that special gesture on the Lock Screen into Obscura instead of the Camera each time.
Summary
Overall, I’ve long been a fan of Obscura – even before I met Ben at WWDC and found out they are a great person as well.
For me, Obscura 4 fits nicely into the space in between my real camera and the iPhone camera app – it gives me the controls I’d expect in a way that lets me also understand what’s happening in a balanced design. Other apps are either too pro or over-simplify the features I still understand how to use, and often lack the library experience that’s been fully built-out in Obscura.
Plus, Obscura’s design metaphors match how my camera works, but with natural gestures for a touch-based device. And, since it’s a multi-modal photo and video app, not just a photography app, I don’t have to switch back-and-forth for a major part of the camera experience.
Further, I didn’t even cover some new features like iPad support and the recent photos gestures – this app is packed full of features.
Finally, a great benefit of v4 is that Obscura is now free up-front with free trial and an in-app purchase to unlock the full app – previously, Obscura was paid up-front, which prevented users from testing the interface before purchasing. After the trial, Obscura 4 is available for $7.99 at launch and then $9.99 annually – if you purchased Obscura 3, all the existing features are unlocked, and the optional new features are $4.99 the first year and $9.99 after that.
Now if Apple would just let us customize that Lock Screen camera control…
From Sandro Pennisi on Mastodon:
Fuoco is probably my least successful app, but i love it and use it all the time for portrait mode photos. Tapping to set the focus and you can adjust it etc and of course it’s mostly #SwiftUI too. #indiedev
Give Sandro’s app some love – only $4.
From Tomás Martins on Mastodon in early August:
I’ve just released a new update for AirScrobble, which brings the vast majority of services provided by Last.fm’s API into the Shortcuts app for the first time on an iOS app!
Now you can leverage the data from your Last.fm profile and website in your automations through over 35 easy-to-use and customizable actions, complete with instructions to help you get started. With more than 35 available actions, you can fetch info from songs, artists, charts, and profiles!
Great set of actions – I do hope Tomás considers grouping some of these actions under similar functions, however, as 35 is a bit hard to process.
From Automadon on Mastodon, back at the end of July:
Automadon is live in the App Store!
Unlock the power of Mastodon with custom Shortcuts actions. Explore the in-app gallery of sample shortcuts to get started and let us know what shortcuts you come up with!
Automadon has tons of actions for things like Posts, Timelines, Lists, Accounts, and Attachments – the set looks full of promising functionality similar to what I’ve partially built off the Mastodon API. However, I much prefer third-party developers build out dedicated actions rather than having to do all this work myself – I’m looking forward to trying these out.
If anyone wants to tackle Airtable for me next…
From Pedro José Periera Vieito on Mastodon last month:
Introducing OverPicture for iOS & iPadOS!
It supports all the features from the macOS version:
• Play any web video in Picture-In-Picture mode.
• Custom button in players like YouTube.
• Keyboard shortcut support!
Available on App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/overpicture-for-safari/id1188020834
Great little extension that lives right in your Safari toolbar on both desktop and mobile, and inside the YouTube player on web – you can also control it by pressing P while watching a video. Only $4.00 (at the time of writing).