Add a birthday

Choose a contact and insert their birthday.

Actions Used

Select Contact
Prompts to pick a person from your contacts and passes the selection to the next action.
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Ask for Input
Prompts the user to enter a piece of information.
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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