Convert Live Photo into Video or GIF
Asks you to choose from recent live photos and converts them into videos or GIFs.
Hello and welcome to the Shortcuts Catalog!
This is a public resource to help people get started with Siri Shortcuts and the Shortcuts app.
It’s made up of three main sections below:
- the Shortcuts Library, a collection of starter shortcuts full of menus with hundreds of different ways to use them
- my Member Shortcuts, my advanced collection of shortcuts for folks subscribed to my membership (more below)
- the Action Directory, a documentation of the 300 built-in actions in Shortcuts available to browse outside the app
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- New shortcuts as they’re added to the catalog & membership
- Shortcuts updates and new actions discovered in betas
- Stories from the community and links to related material
The following are the latest additions to my Shortcuts Library.
Check out the variety of shortcuts to get ideas of how you can utilize them in different areas of daily life, then add any you might use:
Play new music I haven’t listened to
FInd songs with 0 plays and released in the last 3 months, picks 25 at random, then shuffles them.
Show transit directions to work
Opens Apple Maps directions to a specified address showing public transit options instead of driving, walking, or biking.
Join my next meeting
Looks for the URL in your next meeting and asks if you want to open it.
Search TV Forecast
Asks you to enter a query, then asks you to pick from a type of search before opening the URL scheme into TV Forecast.
Search TV Forecast for a person
Asks you for a person (actor, director, etc), then encodes the result and opens the URL scheme into TV Forecast.
Search for a show
Asks you for a show, then passes the term into the URL scheme for TV Forecast to open into search results.
Open Threads desktop
Opens the Threads web app (after using Add to Dock) and resizes it to 700px wide to show the controls. Run from the Menu Bar, a keyboard shortcut, or Shortcuts’ own “Add to Dock” feature.
Open Threads
Opens the Threads app from Instagram/Meta. If run from iPad, activates Stage Manager so the app works as a standalone window; on iPhone, use with a custom icon and Add to Home Screen. On Mac, opens Threads.net.
Scrape Threads post
Accepts a Thread link as input, extracts the username and excerpt, and formats it with multiple link types into a JSON dictionary shared as output.
OCR Thread
Accepts a Thread link, scrapes the data, then opens the link, waits for it to load, takes a screenshot, extracts text from the screenshot, then prompts you to delete the extra text before replacing the excerpt in the Thread JSON dictionary.
Member shortcuts 🔐
Below are the latest of the members-only shortcuts – these are more advanced and cover more specific workflows.
Look for new member shortcuts every week.
Click here to sign in if you’re already a member – learn more here if you’re not.
Open Home Screen settings
Opens the deep link in Settings to the Home Screen and App Library customizations.
Open Appearance preferences
Opens the deep link into the Displays > Device Appearance settings on iOS and the Appearance pane on macOS.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Change Control Center
Opens the deep link into Settings > Control Center so you can add, remove, or rearrange features.
Open Desktop and Dock preferences
Opens the Dock preference pane for macOS so you can customize features like widgets.
Organize CarPlay
Opens the deep link into the Settings app to CarPlay settings so you can organize the arrangement of your apps.
Open driving settings
Opens into the Settings app to the Driving section for the Maps app, where you can toggle settings like avoiding tolls or highways, or showing the compass or speed limit while navigating.
Open Driving Focus
Opens to the general Focus settings page so you can customize Driving settings like Auto-Reply or the Turn On Automatically settings like When Connected to CarPlay or Activate With CarPlay.
The following is a documentation of the 300+ actions available in the Shortcuts app.
Browse by the main categories, or dive into a subcategory to see only those actions.
Make sure to check out Related Shortcuts for each action too.