Siri Shortcuts, apps, and technology tips

Open One Year Ago in Photos

Opens the Photos collection that shows you media from One Year Ago.

Tests if a condition is true, and if so, runs the actions inside. Otherwise, the actions under “Otherwise” are run.

Run Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20One%20Year%20Ago%20in%20Photos

Open Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20One%20Year%20Ago%20in%20Photos

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Open One Year Ago in Photos” end tell

Opens the “Recents” collection in Photos, which shows photos and videos, plus imported graphics that don’t appear in the main Library view.

Opens the collection of photos and videos that you’ve favorited using the heart icon in Photos.

Opens the Places collection in Photos to show the map or grid of where you’ve taken all your photos and videos.

Takes two photos and combines them side-by-side with 150px in between.

Takes two photos and combines them on top of each other with 150px in between.

Removes the background of a photo, cropping the remaining subject to remove blank space.