Add to Home Screen from Files

Asks you to choose from your Shortcuts folders and repeats through the shortcuts for that folder, letting you choose a custom title, then choose from Files for the icon before adding it to the Home Screen.

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Using my folder of Xbox games shortcuts, this automatically adds any new games I choose to the Home Screen using my preferred short title style and icons created using my xCloud folder of shortcuts.

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Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Add%20to%20Home%20Screen%20from%20Files
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Add%20to%20Home%20Screen%20from%20Files
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Add to Home Screen from Files” end tell

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