Shortcuts User Guide

• Welcome
• What’s new in Shortcuts
  • What’s new in Shortcuts 15.5
  • What’s new in Shortcuts 15.4
• Shortcuts basics
  • Intro to Shortcuts
  • Discover shortcuts in the Gallery
  • Run shortcuts
    • Run a shortcut from the app
    • Run shortcuts with Siri
    • Run suggested shortcuts
    • Run shortcuts from the Home Screen widget
    • Run shortcuts from the Search screen
    • Add a shortcut to the Home Screen
    • Run shortcuts when Sleep Focus is active
    • Launch a shortcut from another app
    • Run shortcuts from Apple Watch
    • Run shortcuts by tapping the back of your iPhone
  • Adjust privacy settings
  • How shortcuts work
    • Intro to how shortcuts work
    • The flow of content
    • Action connections
    • Control the flow of actions
    • Shortcut completion
    • The Content Graph engine
• Create custom shortcuts
  • Create a custom shortcut
  • Ideas for custom shortcuts
  • Work with actions in Shortcuts
    • Navigate the action list
    • Order of actions
    • Get actions
    • Transform actions
    • Share actions
    • Test your actions
    • About actions in complicated shortcuts
• Edit shortcuts
  • Intro to editing shortcuts
  • Organise shortcuts in folders
  • Reorder shortcuts
  • Rename shortcuts
  • Modify shortcut icons
  • Duplicate shortcuts
  • Delete shortcuts
  • Sync shortcuts
  • Share shortcuts
  • Add import questions to shared shortcuts
  • Add a shortcut to Reminders using Siri
• Personal automation
  • Intro to personal automation
  • Create a new personal automation
  • Enable or disable a personal automation
  • Delete a personal automation
  • Personal automation triggers
    • Event triggers
    • Travel triggers
    • Communication triggers
    • Setting triggers
• Home automation
  • Intro to home automation
  • Create a new home automation
  • Enable or disable a home automation
  • Delete a home automation
  • Home automation triggers
• Advanced shortcuts
  • Use variables
    • Intro to variables
    • Variable types
    • Use variables
    • Adjust variables
  • Use list actions
  • Use the Choose from Menu action
  • Use If actions
  • Use Repeat actions
  • Use Find and Filter actions
    • Intro to Find and Filter actions
    • Add filter parameters
  • Show prompts in a shortcut
    • Intro to using prompts
    • Use the Ask for Input action
    • Use the Ask Each Time variable
    • Use the Show Alert action
    • Use the Show Notification action
  • Input types
  • Limit the input for a shortcut
  • Receive what’s onscreen
  • Advanced Shortcuts settings
  • Run JavaScript on a web page
    • Intro to the Run JavaScript on Web Page action
    • Use the Run JavaScript on Web Page action
  • Use URL schemes
    • Intro to URL schemes
    • Open, create and run a shortcut
    • Run a shortcut from a URL
    • Open or search the Gallery from a URL
    • Use x-callback-url
    • Use another app’s URL scheme
  • Use Web APIs in Shortcuts
    • Intro to web APIs
    • Get started with web APIs
      • What’s an API?
      • Request your first API
    • Work with JSON
      • Intro to using JSON
      • Parsing JSON
      • Handling lists
      • Get Dictionary Value action
      • Create contacts
    • Further exploration with APIs
      • API limitations
      • Format Date timestamps
      • Dictionaries
    • Date and time formatting
      • About date and time formatting
      • Date and time formats
      • Dates as written language
      • Technical standards
      • Custom date formats