Message Mom and Dad

Keep up with the folks in your family using group chats in Shortcuts.

Contacts

Passes the specified contacts to the next action.

Send Message

Sends an iMessage or SMS. Pass images, videos, or other files as input to include attachments.

Run Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Message%20Mom%20and%20Dad

Open Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Message%20Mom%20and%20Dad

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Message Mom and Dad” end tell

Presents a menu of your family members, then presents a Messages window to that person.

Presents the family group chat in a Messages popover.

Opens an action from Messages into a group chat. To make your own, open the group chat in Messages, then search for it in Messages.

Opens the “Animated” album to show any GIFs you’ve saved to Photos.

Immediately starts a Live Activity session for Perplexity Discover, using stories drawn from the Discover feed and spoken by ElevenLab’s voices.

Opens the Spectre app made by the folks from Halide to take a long exposure photo.

Hides Control Center and goes back to the current app or Home Screen.

Gets a YouTube video from your channel RSS feed, isolates the ID, and opens the live chat pop-out window.

Opens the deep link to the Phone app (mobilephone://).

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