Find Contacts
Searches for the contacts in your library that match the given criteria.
Send birthday messages
Checks for anyone whose birthday is today and starts a message to wish them a happy birthday.
Actions
Repeat with Each
Takes a list of items as input, and runs the contained actions once for each item in the list.
Send Message
Sends an iMessage or SMS. Pass images, videos, or other files as input to include attachments.
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Show previous birthdays
Check for contacts whose birthdays are in the next two weeks and displays their name and the date.
Capture contact info
Presents a series of prompts for contact information, then generates a .VCF and asks you how you want to share it.
Batch-send file to a group
Asks you to pick a file, then a Contact Group, then sends that file to each person in the group one-by-one.
Extract email addresses
Looks through the input text for email addresses and copies them to the clipboard.
Create follow-up tasks
Asks you to select a Contact Group, then creates reminders to follow up with each person in that group.
Edit gaming contact
Prompts you to enter first, last, and nickname details for a contact before adding them to a pre-programmed group. Useful for gaming friends over Discord.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Send%20birthday%20messages
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Send%20birthday%20messages
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Send birthday messages”
end tell
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Show my Clinical Vitals records
Opens into the Health app to the Clinical Vitals section of your Health Records where you can “connect to your providers to see your health records and get updates when there’s a new entry.”
Open Books library
Changes the Books app view to the Library tab to show all your Books, PDFs, Samples, and more.
Organize my Share Sheet shortcuts
Opens the Share Sheet folder in Shortcuts so you can add, remove, or sort included shortcuts.
Activate Voice Search
Opens Arc Search and activates the voice search mode (available by long-pressing on the + button in the app).
Open my voicemail
Opens the deep link into the Voicemail section of the Phone app (vmshow://).
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