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.

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.

Presents the family group chat in a Messages popover.

Prompts you to enter a query and then searches for it in the Files app.

Opens the YouTube Shorts feed in the iOS and iPad apps, or the YouTube Shorts page on web.

Opens the My Sample section of the Books app to show books that you’ve downloaded previews for.

Asks you to pick an event, name the project, and generates a blank meeting note template for you to fill out.

Write down good lines from a podcast and save a link back to that episode.

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