Complex shortcuts

These shortcuts take advantage of advanced actions and involve intricate programming concepts that work together to solve a very specific need.

Some of these do one thing very well, while others may do lots of things as one single shortcut.

Either way, there’s likely a lot of actions and the whole thing might be hard to understand at first glance – your best bet is reading the comments and testing it out with a trial run.

Open work YouTube playlists

If you don’t want the Grab YouTube playlist ID shortcut installed, delete the Run Shortcut action above and the URL action below.

However, the shortcut won’t work with links from videos inside playlists anymore.

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Search Apple Maps

Asks for your search query, encodes the text, then opens the deep link into Apple Music.

Reference: https: or or developer.apple.com or library or archive or featuredarticles or iPhoneURLScheme_Reference or MapLinks or MapLinks.html

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