Phone a friend

Looks for contacts added to a “Friends” group and asks you to pick one before calling them.

Actions Used

Call
Calls the phone number passed in as input.
Find Contacts
Searches for the contacts in your library that match the given criteria.
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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

Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Phone%20a%20friend
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Phone%20a%20friend
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Phone a friend” end tell

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