Picture in Picture

Activate picture-in-picture

Presents a menu of apps compatible with picture-in-picture, waits 30 seconds for you to pick a video, then goes to the Home Screen to pop out the video.

Scripting Actions

Control Flow, Scripting

Choose from Menu

Presents a menu and runs different actions based on which menu item was chosen.

Scripting, Shortcuts

Run Shortcut

Run an shortcut from your shortcut.

Apps, Scripting

Open App

Opens the specified app.

Control Flow, Scripting

Wait to Return

Pauses execution until you leave the Shortcuts app and return to it. This action might be useful after an action that switches apps, to pause execution until you return to the Shortcuts app.

Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Activate%20picture-in-picture

Link to Open Shortcut

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Activate%20picture-in-picture

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Activate picture-in-picture” end tell

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