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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Batch-add to Home Screen from folder

Asks you to choose a folder from Files or Finder containing your icons, then a folder from Shortcuts containing your shortcuts, then repeats through each adding a custom icon corresponding to the repeat index in the icon folder – icon-1.png for shortcut-1.shortcut (and so on).

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Add to Home Screen from Photos

Asks you to pick from your Shortcuts folders, then repeats through the shortcuts from that folder asking you for a custom title and image from Photos before adding it to the Home Screen with a custom icon.

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Add game to Home Screen

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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Set up ChatGPT

Opens the ChatGPT app for Mac, resizes it to a default 980×658 dimensions, then moves it to the middle left (with 18px of padding against the edge of the screen).

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Open Switch Control preferences

Opens the deep link into the Accessibility settings for Switch Control, which allows you to use your iPhone by sequentially highlighting items on the screen that can be activated through an adaptive accesssory. Other options include settings for Switches, Recipe, Scanning Style, Auto Scanning Time, Pause on First Item, Loops, Move Repeat, Long Press, Tap Behavior, Focused Item After Tap, and keyboard, switch stabilization, point scanning, audio, and menu items controls.

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