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.

Opens the Search page in the TV app, letting you quickly type out a query or pick from their curated categories.

Prompts you to enter a total time, then starts a timer for that length.

Opens the editor page in Apple Music for Soulection radio, a laid-back show that airs on Sunday nights.

Gets a URL from input, expands the short URL, and outputs the original link – works well for turning a Flipboard link into the source U

Using your Bluesky username, opens the link to the list of people you are Following.

Opens the deep link into the TV app to The Office episodes. If you’re watching the series, prompts you to resume the latest or next episode.

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