Detect people
Opens the Magnifier app and activates the Detect Items feature set to detect People in the Camera view.
Start point and speak
Opens the Magnifier app and activates the Point and Speak feature that will detect text near your finger.
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Start Magnifier
Opens the Mangifier app with without any preset activity; resets anything currently set.
Start saved activity
Asks you to pick from your Saved Activity list from the Magnifier app and activates your choice.
Open Reader
Opens the Magnifier app and activates the Reader mode, which scans text and speaks it out loud
Detect furniture
Opens the Magnifier app and activates the Detect Items feature set to detect Furniture in the Camera view.
Describe this
Opens the Magnifier app and activates the “Describe This” feature that “provides a description of what’s in the camera view.”
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Start%20point%20and%20speak
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Start%20point%20and%20speak
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Start point and speak”
end tell
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Open Audio/Visual preferences
Opens the Audio or Visual section of Accessibility settings where you can adjust Headphone Accomations, Background Sounds, Mono Audio, Power On and Off Sounds, Headphone Notifications, Balance, and LED Flash for Alerts.
Join my next meeting
Looks for the URL in your next meeting and asks if you want to open it.
Copy the time across time zones
Input a time, then calculate and copy the values for a prefilled list of time zones and corresponding emoji.
Play Perplexity Discover
Immediately starts a Live Activity session for Perplexity Discover, using stories drawn from the Discover feed and spoken by ElevenLab’s voices.
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