Activate Sound Recognition
Tells your device to start listening for any sounds you’ve chosen.
Sound recognition shortcuts
Reset Sound Recognition
Turns off all the sound recognizer options, while leaving Sound Recognition active.
Pause Sound Recognition
Pauses the Sound Recognition feature (rather than fully disabling it).
Monitor The House
Activates sound recognition for smoke alarms, cats or dogs, appliances, door bells, knocking, glass reaking, kettles, and water running.
Stop Monitoring The House
Pauses Sound Recogntion and disables the option to listen for home lifestyle sounds.
Monitor The Office
Activates Sound Recognition and listens for fire alarms, sirens, smoke alarms, glass breaking, and shouting – anything you’d definitely want to know about in a work environment.
Stop Monitoring The Office
Pauses Sound Recognition and turns off listenign for Sirens, Fire Alarms, Smoke Alarms, and Shouting.
Listen for coughing
Activates Sound Recognition and turns on the option to listen for coughing.
More From The Library
View custom date time formats
Previews a local webpage copy of Unicode Technical Standard #35 for Locale Data Markup Language, letting you see all the custom date format strings you can use in Shortcuts.
Play Perplexity Discover
Immediately starts a Live Activity session for Perplexity Discover, using stories drawn from the Discover feed and spoken by ElevenLab’s voices.
Play a station
Asks you to pick from your Stations in Podcasts and plays it right away.
Browse The Catalog
Action Directory
Discover endless possibilities by combining the building blocks for Shortcuts.
Shortcuts Membership
Enhance your experience with bonus shortcuts, folder bundles, and exclusive perks.