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

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For a given contact, asks you to enter a payment amount (which is then divided by 2), then asks for a description, and sends the split total as a payment to the contact.

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Open Hearing Devices preferences

Opens the deep link into Settings > Accessibility > Hearing Devices where you can pair Made for iPhone hearing aids and sound processors, plus toggle Hearing Aid Compatibility to improve audio quality on some devi

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