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.
Open Favorites
Opens the deep link to the Favorites tab in the Phone app (mobilephone-favorites//).
Open my voicemail
Opens the deep link into the Voicemail section of the Phone app (vmshow://).
Call a coworker
Looks for contacts from a given company name (added on input), then asks you to choose which contact and calls them.
Activate noise control
Opens the deep link to the phone app, then sets playback to AirPods and turns on Noise Cancellation.
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.
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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Show my 2-factor passwords
Searches Passwords for a manually-added keyword “auth” on your logins so you can find all your 2-factor codes right away.
Show my personal passwords
Uses your personal email added on import and searches Passwords for all matching logins.
Seek to time
Asks you to enter a timestamp, then calculates the total seconds and skips forward that far.
Check miles logged
Opens the Milage Log of QuickBooks Self-Employed so you can track how many miles you’ve travelled as business expenses.
Open livestreams for this channel
Takes a YouTube video URL, scrapes the profile URL, and opens the /live link to the channel’s current or recent streams.
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