Siri Shortcuts, apps, and technology tips

Open Photos Recents

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

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%20Photos%20Recents

Open Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20Photos%20Recents

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Open Photos Recents” end tell

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

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

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.