Phone shortcuts

Shortcuts that take advantage of the various URL schemes that open the Phone app, plus shortcuts for making Calls using the Contacts actions.

Open recent calls

Opens the deep link into the Recents section of the Phone app to see your incoming and outgoing calls, plus any missed calls (mobilephone-recents://).

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Get my number

Gets the first phone number from your preselected contact card, copies it to the clipboard, and shows it to you in a dialog. Use to quickly show to or share with someone else.

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Extra Details

Open Folder shortcut
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Open a folder in Shortcuts
Opens a Shortcuts folder of your choosing; accepts the name of a folder as input as well.
Link to Open Folder with Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20a%20folder%20in%20Shortcuts&input=text&text=Phone

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