Phone

Phone a friend

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

Scripting Actions

Apps, Contacts

Find Contacts

Searches for the contacts in your library that match the given criteria.

Lists, Scripting

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.

Apps, Contacts

Call

Calls the phone number passed in as input.

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

Public

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Prompts you to enter a phone number, then asks you to confirm before calling.

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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.

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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.

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Open the Phone app

Opens the deep link to the Phone app (mobilephone://).

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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://).

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