How many nits?
Change the Number to the correct amount of nits for your device’s display if you don’t have an iPad Pro – look it up with “[device name] display nits” online.
Turn screen black and white
Toggles the Color Filters feature from Accessibility settings to remove color from the display and turn everything black and white.
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Control appearance
Presents a menu for various times of the day, then changes the device settings to make the screen easier to read depending on that time.
Open Appearance preferences
Opens the deep link into the Displays > Device Appearance settings on iOS and the Appearance pane on macOS.
Toggle dark mode
Gets the current appearance, and if Dark Mode is on, switches to Light (and vice versa). Add additional customizations per condition as desired.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Turn%20screen%20black%20and%20white
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Turn%20screen%20black%20and%20white
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Turn screen black and white”
end tell
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Show my Activity data
Opens the Health app to the Activity section to display Rings and Workouts data gathered by Apple Watch.
Rewrite with ChatGPT
Accepts text from the shortcut input, asks you to type out your preferred style, then asks ChatGPT-4 to update your text, returning only the summary.
Find my ticket
Shows your recent movie ticket to be scanned by the ticket taker – or tap to open your ticket details.
Open Things project
Asks you to pick an area, then project from that area, then opens it in Things.
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