What’s New in Shortcuts in iOS and iPadOS 16.4, macOS 13.3, and watchOS 9.4 »

Apple has posted updated notes for the new actions added in iOS 16.4 – here's the full release quoted.

March 28, 2023
12:00 pm

This update includes new actions, enhancements to existing actions, and reliability improvements to the Shortcuts editor. A new option in the Shortcut editor allows selecting an app icon as an alternative to selecting a color and glyph for the shortcut.

New Actions

Find Books searches your library for books or PDFs matching a given title, author, genre, purchase date, or content type on iOS and macOS

Intercom broadcasts announcements to your home on iOS and watchOS

Set VPN connects, disconnects, or sets the On Demand setting for any VPN on iOS and macOS

Set AirDrop Receiving sets the AirDrop Receiving preference to Everyone, Contacts Only, or Nobody on iOS and macOS

Set Stage Manager enables or disables and changes the settings for Stage Manager on iPadOS and macOS

Set Announce Notifications toggles the Announce Notifications setting on iOS and watchOS

Set Silence Unknown Callers toggles the Silence Unknown Callers setting on iOS

Set Night Shift and Set True Tone toggle the display settings on iOS and macOS

Set Always-On Display toggles the Always-On Display on supported iOS devices

Find Apps finds and filters apps installed on macOS

Find Displays finds and filters displays on macOS

Shut Down, Restart, and Lock Display are now available on iOS and macOS

Log Out, Sleep and Put Display to Sleep are now available on macOS

Updated Actions

For those building custom shortcuts, some actions have been updated:

Move Window now allows moving a window to a display on macOS

Ask for Input has a new “Allow Multiple Lines” option, which can be disabled for single-line text input

Find Photos can now find screen recordings

Find Contacts now filters by birthday more accurately

Get Device Details can now get the OS build number

Get Device Details now rounds numbers, including the current battery level, volume, and brightness, to remove unnecessary decimal digits

Set Playback Destination now works when run from Siri

Play Music once again resumes currently playing music if no music is passed as input

Run AppleScript can now produce dictionaries as output from AppleScript records

Nothing now produces a variable with zero items, instead of producing no variable at all

Repeat can now be set to run 0 times

View the full release notes on Apple.com.

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