Set my wallpaper
Asks you to pick a photo and sets it to your Lock Screen and Home Screen background.
Encode wallpaper
Prompts you to choose an image from Photos or Files, then encodes the result with base64 into a large text string.
Matthew's Score
4/5
Total Actions
8
Shortcut Information
Use this to store a photo or image as a text string identifiable by computers and decoded back into that image – works well for storing images in text areas where they’d normally not work.
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Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Encode%20wallpaper
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Encode%20wallpaper
AppleScript
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Encode wallpaper”
end tell
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Set my default wallpaper
Takes a base64-encoded image of your favorite background and decodes it before passing it into Set Wallpaper for your Home Screen.
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