Wish your friends a merry christmas

Asks you to pick from contacts in your friends group and individually message them for the holidays.

Preview

Actions

Apps, Contacts

Find Contacts

Searches for the contacts in your library that match the given criteria.

Lists, Scripting

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.

Control Flow, Scripting

Repeat with Each

Takes a list of items as input, and runs the contained actions once for each item in the list.

Messaging, Sharing

Send Message

Sends an iMessage or SMS. Pass images, videos, or other files as input to include attachments.

Shortcuts

New in the Shortcuts Library: Christmas shortcuts

Check out my collection of Christmas shortcuts, including automations for playing holiday music to smart home setups, checking for snow to counting the days down.

Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Wish%20your%20friends%20a%20merry%20christmas

Link to Open Shortcut

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Wish%20your%20friends%20a%20merry%20christmas

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Wish your friends a merry christmas” end tell

Public, Shortcuts, Siri Shortcuts

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