Select Contact
Prompts to pick a person from your contacts and passes the selection to the next action.
Add a birthday
Choose a contact and insert their birthday.
Actions Used
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
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Add%20a%20birthday
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Add%20a%20birthday
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Add a birthday”
end tell
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