Pinned messages

Presents a menu of your family members, then presents a Messages window to that person.

Actions Used

Contacts
Passes the specified contacts to the next action.
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Choose from Menu
Presents a menu and runs different actions based on which menu item was chosen.
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Send Message
Sends an iMessage or SMS. Pass images, videos, or other files as input to include attachments.

Extra Details

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

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