Open Photos Recents
Opens the “Recents” collection in Photos, which shows photos and videos, plus imported graphics that don’t appear in the main Library view.
Photos shortcuts
Shortcuts for interacting with the core experience of the Photos app.
Use these shortcuts to share photos based on type, create and update photo albums, and put yourself into the photography mindset.
Open Favorites in Photos
Opens the collection of photos and videos that you’ve favorited using the heart icon in Photos.
Open One Year Ago in Photos
Opens the Photos collection that shows you media from One Year Ago.
Open Places in Photos
Opens the Places collection in Photos to show the map or grid of where you’ve taken all your photos and videos.
Stack vertically
Takes two photos and combines them on top of each other with 150px in between.
Crop the subject out
Removes the background of a photo, cropping the remaining subject to remove blank space.
Share my photos
Prompts you to pick between Recents, Portraits, Selfies, and Panoramas to send via the Share sheet.
Outfit of the Day
Removes the background of a photo before appending it to an ongoing note so you can look back at past outfits.
Resize and rename PNG
Takes PNGs from input, resizes them to 2048px wide, appends a number for each image found, and asks you where to save it in Files.
Create photo album
Asks you to enter a title, then creates an album in the Photos app.
Save this week’s photos
Looks for photos taken in the last week, lets you pick which ones to save, then presents a list of your albums to choose where to save them.
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Open Folder shortcut
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=Photos
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