Start SharePlay session

Asks you to select a contact and starts FaceTime, then presents a menu of SharePlay apps and opens your choice.

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Actions Used

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Open App
Opens the specified app.
Select Contact
Prompts to pick a person from your contacts and passes the selection to the next action.
FaceTime
Calls the contact passed in as input using FaceTime.
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Split Text
Separates text passed into the action into a list.
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Text
Passes the specified text to the next action.
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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.

Extra Details

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

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