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.
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.
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Dial a number
Prompts you to enter a phone number, then asks you to confirm before calling.
Activate noise control
Opens the deep link to the phone app, then sets playback to AirPods and turns on Noise Cancellation.
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://).
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.
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 my voicemail
Opens the deep link into the Voicemail section of the Phone app (vmshow://).
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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Embed a podcast episode player
Gets the latest episode from your Transistor podcast and scrapes out the ID for the media URL and pastes it into the episode embed player.
Open Screenshots folder
Opens a custom “Screenshots” folder located in the Shortcuts folder in iCloud Drive.
Open Subtitles and Captioning preferences
Opens the deep link into Settings > Accessibility > Subtitles and Captioning where you can enable or disable Closed Captions + SDH. Also includes options for the Style, and whether to Show Audio Transcriptions for announcements from HomePod.
Mark off items from my list
Asks you to pick from incomplete grocery reminders, then marks them as complete.
Open my shortcuts
Opens the “My Shortcuts” view to show only your custom shortcuts and no App Shortcuts.
Open from Pages folder
Gets the contents of the Pages folder in iCloud Drive, presents the options, and opens your document of choice.
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