Set default device settings
Sets appearance, Night Shift, True Ton, brightness, and volume to your preset choices – including options for daytime or evening.
Lock The Screen
Locks the screen of the current device, requring authentication for another user to sign in.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Lock%20The%20Screen
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Lock%20The%20Screen
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Lock The Screen”
end tell
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Check battery level
Gets the current battery state, checking for connection or charging status and showing the total battery level as a percentage.
Toggle Night Shift
Turns Night Shift on or off depending on the current state, removing the blue light accordin
Put Display to Sleep
Puts the current display to sleep (while still keeping the device awake)
Change volume
Quickly change your device’s system volume by picking a numeric value from a list. Customize the list to contain your favorite volume presets, which support decimal values.
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Rewrite with ChatGPT
Accepts text from the shortcut input, asks you to type out your preferred style, then asks ChatGPT-4 to update your text, returning only the summary.
Face Swap
Gets shortcuts from an “Apple Watch faces” folder, presents the list, and swaps to your chosen face.
Open Apple TV settings
Opens the Settings app on Apple TV where you can tweak your preferences.
Play my Replay 2016
Plays the preselected Replay 2016 playlist on Shuffle. My top tracks of the year—not even joking—were Burn The Witch, Can’t Keep Checking My Phone, Daydreaming, Better Strange, and Bored to Death. Uncanny.
Open the Perplexity API reference
Opens the Perplexity API website to the API reference, starting with Chat Completions, you can test your commands against the API and see what’s working.
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