Contacts

Add a birthday

Choose a contact and insert their birthday.

Scripting Actions

Apps, Contacts

Select Contact

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

Notification, Scripting

Ask for Input

Prompts the user to enter a piece of information.

Apps, Contacts

Edit Contact

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

Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Add%20a%20birthday

Link to Open Shortcut

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Add%20a%20birthday

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Add a birthday” end tell

Membership

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