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.
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.
Open Photos Recents
Opens the “Recents” collection in Photos, which shows photos and videos, plus imported graphics that don’t appear in the main Library view.
Create photo album
Asks you to enter a title, then creates an album in the Photos app.
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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Play Perplexity Discover
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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.
Encode text for a URL
Asks you to enter text, then lets you encode or decode it to work properly in URLs.
Open my Bluesky followers
Using your Bluesky username, opens the link to your Followers list.
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