Open Appearance preferences
Opens the deep link into the Displays > Device Appearance settings on iOS and the Appearance pane on macOS.
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.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Turn%20screen%20black%20and%20white
Open Shortcut deep link
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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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.
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.
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.
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Takes any files shared as input or, if none are present, presents a Document Picker to select them manually, then shares those files using iCloud Drive – the resulting URL is copied to the clipboard to be shared with others for easy access.
Leave for theater
Checks for a movie calendar event (automatically added via Gmail when you purchase tickets) and presents the total travel time estimates, then opens Apple Maps to get directions.
NATO Alphabet
Asks for text, then converts it to the NATO Alphabet to read out “Apple” like “Alfa Papa Papa Lima Echo.”
YouTube Playlist Dictionary
Complete dictionary of YouTube playlists in your collection, grouped by Personal or Work, then subgroups by category.
When is Golden Hour?
Pull the data for the best light around sunset and sunrise tomorrow morning.
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