Find Contacts
Searches for the contacts in your library that match the given criteria.
Phone a friend
Looks for contacts added to a “Friends” group and asks you to pick one before calling them.
Scripting Actions
Choose from List
Presents a menu of the items passed as input to the action and outputs the user’s selection.
Prompt
The instruction provided when the list is presented.
Select Multiple
When enabled, multiple items may be chosen from the list.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Phone%20a%20friend
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Phone%20a%20friend
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Phone a friend”
end tell
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Call a coworker
Looks for contacts from a given company name (added on input), then asks you to choose which contact and calls them.
Open recent calls
Opens the deep link into the Recents section of the Phone app to see your incoming and outgoing calls, plus any missed calls (mobilephone-recents://).
Get my number
Gets the first phone number from your preselected contact card, copies it to the clipboard, and shows it to you in a dialog. Use to quickly show to or share with someone else.
Call a contact
Presents your list of contacts, then calls the person you select. If they have multiple numbers, asks you which one to dial.
Open Favorites
Opens the deep link to the Favorites tab in the Phone app (mobilephone-favorites//).
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Open a conversation
Prompts you to choose from all your conversations in Messages, listed in chronological order from recent to oldest, then opens your choice.
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Turn on the fireplace
Turns on the Apple TV and opens the Fireplace app, plus shows the remote.
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