Find Photos
Searches for the photos in your library that match the given criteria. Allows for sorting, changing the order, and limiting the number passed as a result.
Save this week’s photos
Looks for photos taken in the last week, lets you pick which ones to save, then presents a list of your albums to choose where to save 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.
Save to Photo Album
Adds the photos and video passed as input to the specified photo album. This action is required if you want images, photos, or videos in Shortcuts to be saved into the Photos app.
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Open One Year Ago in Photos
Opens the Photos collection that shows you media from One Year Ago.
Outfit of the Day
Removes the background of a photo before appending it to an ongoing note so you can look back at past outfits.
Share my photos
Prompts you to pick between Recents, Portraits, Selfies, and Panoramas to send via the Share sheet.
Open Places in Photos
Opens the Places collection in Photos to show the map or grid of where you’ve taken all your photos and videos.
Resize and rename PNG
Takes PNGs from input, resizes them to 2048px wide, appends a number for each image found, and asks you where to save it in Files.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Save%20this%20week%E2%80%99s%20photos
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Save%20this%20week%E2%80%99s%20photos
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Save this week’s photos”
end tell
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Add to my TV watchlist
Accepts a list of TV shows or movies, scrapes the results from Apple’s Marketing Toolbox, and lets you pick where to send the media – with options to open into the TV app, add to your Watchlist, send to Reminders, or copy the links.
Things project template
Creates a detailed project with headings, tasks, and tags for everything.
Open Bluesky settings
Opens Bluesky to the Settings tab, letting you manage multiple accounts, change basic settings, and adjust advanced account settings.
Open Perplexity Library
Opens the Library section of Perplexity, where you can see Threads and Pages around searches you’ve performed.
Show my Comics library
Opens the Kindle library on the web to the Comics tab where you can see your full list of comics available to read.
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