Choose from Menu
Presents a menu and runs different actions based on which menu item was chosen.
Control appearance
Presents a menu for various times of the day, then changes the device settings to make the screen easier to read depending on that time.
Actions Used
Set Increase Contrast
Increase color contrast between app foreground and background colors
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Control%20appearance
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Control%20appearance
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Control appearance”
end tell
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Toggle dark mode
Gets the current appearance, and if Dark Mode is on, switches to Light (and vice versa). Add additional customizations per condition as desired.
Turn screen black and white
Toggles the Color Filters feature from Accessibility settings to remove color from the display and turn everything black and white.
Open Appearance preferences
Opens the deep link into the Displays > Device Appearance settings on iOS and the Appearance pane on macOS.
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Take photo of parked car
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How far did I walk today?
Looks at the Health app for total steps and distance for today, then formats the information to display in an alert or be spoken back from Siri.
Open Apple TV home
Opens the main Home tab of the TV app where you can view and add content to your Up Next queue.
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