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.
How many nits?
Change the Number to the correct amount of nits for your device’s display if you don’t have an iPad Pro – look it up with “[device name] display nits” online.
Open Appearance preferences
Opens the deep link into the Displays > Device Appearance settings on iOS and the Appearance pane on macOS.
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.
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Stores your API key for Perplexity. Store the result as base64-encoded text so it’s not readable as plain text, which is then decoded as this is run.
Open History
Opens the Safari app and shows the History tab of previously-visited sites.
Check battery level
Gets the current battery state, checking for connection or charging status and showing the total battery level as a percentage.
Log mileage
Asks for the current mileage, then logs the date, time, and value into a .CSV file in iCloud Drive.
Open Callsheet instead of IMDB
Simple shortcut for an App Automation for the IMDB app to instead open Callsheet – this name will appear as the title of your automation.
First word that comes to mind
Dictates text to let you speak, then stops after a short pause.
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