Year calendar as locked wallpaper A clean, customizable annual calendar for your lock screen background routinehub.co/shortcut/247... This #shortcut generates a visual annual calendar and sets it as the device’s lock screen wallpaper It is extremely configurable and it runs even in Airplane mode

Exciting hidden #ShortcutsApp actions are being found* this weekend! For example, this #shortcut obtains the identifier of an action that you copy to the clipboard, which then can be used to detect if its app is installed in the device: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/75... (1/2)

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

There are noticeable differences between the symbols (glyphs) available in the #ShortcutsApp depending on whether you’re using #iOS or #macOS 😬

I’ve just updated “Identify Device”: routinehub.co/shortcut/220... This #shortcut identifies the device where it’s run using a system plist in #iOS and ioreg in #macOS. New in version 2.0: - Updated with new devices. - Compatible with macOS. - Optional API query. - New data source: appledb.dev

My "Frame Screenshots" #shortcut is ready to beautify all those #iOS26 screenshots next week. Even it they're from #iPhone17, #iPhoneAir, #iPhone17Pro, or #iPhone17ProMax 😎 routinehub.co/shortcut/7923/

If you want to show #shortcut icons in web pages, you may be interested in my "Shortcut Icons" CSS sprite library github.com/atnbueno/sho... I've just updated it with #iOS26 100+ new icons! Live demo at www.atnbueno.com/shortcut-ico...

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

From the 12 #bug reports about #Shortcuts I submitted in June, only FB18148105 ("Shortcuts: Can’t move the cursor normally when renaming a #shortcut") has been fully fixed. And FB18152978 ("Shortcuts: Errors using a triple tap while editing text") is only partially fixed. bsky.app/profile/atnb...

This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.

It's a bit disheartening to receive a “Works as currently designed” verdict on feedback report FB18152648: In #Shortcuts, the expression "min(99,100)" results in a "Math error", but "min(100,99)", "min(99,98)", and "min(98,99)" do not. Demo #shortcut for easy access: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/55...

Troubleshooting walkthrough: Cascade Into Darkness This is a real issue I solved in Windows, the hurdles I faced, and what I'd do differently. 🐥🐥YOU CAN MUTE JUST THIS CONVERSATION THREAD🐥🐥 It starts with the user editing "HKLM\HARDWARE" and misunderstanding an instruction and breaking Windows.

You can now export #AppleFeedback reports from iOS, iPadOS, or macOS! A #userscript adds a JSON download link to reports on the #Feedback web app. This #shortcut converts them to Markdown using a customizable template. Works with iOS Safari & Violentmonkey on macOS: routinehub.co/shortcut/143...

It was about them all! 200,000 fans have spoken, and we're not stopping. We'll keep fighting to #SaveWOT until The Wheel of Time returns. Join the movement 👉 savewot.com#SaveWOT #TheWheelOfTime

I am excited to announce that AT Toolbox is now live on the App Store! 🎉 Create Bluesky posts, update your profile, manually create records, read them, and more, all from iOS Shortcut actions!

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

#iOS26 #Shortcuts bug report sprint 😅 FB18146124 (I can only write positive integer numbers in a Dictionary action) FB18146547 (Choosing from a Dictionary only shows the values, not the keys) FB18146999 (“Run JavaScript on Web Page” waits more than 10 seconds to run the script) 1/4

In iOS 26, the clear icons would make more sense if they used each app's accent colour. My mockup isn't perfect, but it's kind of what i mean. The clear variant has almost no utility? I haven't used the _actual_ accent colours here. If i did, it'd be very blue. #WWDC #iconDesign #Design #iOS26

Another iOS beta season, another attempt to get Apple to fix the iso8601 date time parser fixed in shortcuts. I think this is my fourth time filing this feedback? Feedback ID: FB18018110 (ISO8601 DateTimes parsed incorrectly)

View Current Page Source 2.0 routinehub.co/shortcut/4267/ This #shortcut shows a web page's HTML source with syntax highlighting (via Prism.js). Runs from Safari's share sheet. - Uses the page already loaded in Safari - Light and dark mode - Line numbers - Absolute URLs become clickable links

100,000 voices! One incredible story that deserves to be told. Thank you to everyone who worked, signed, and shared to help save The Wheel of Time. #SaveWOT #TheWheelOfTime Take action. Sign the petition 👉 savewot.com

New version of my "Open URL in Another Browser" #shortcut: routinehub.co/shortcut/164... It opens URLs in a particular browser, regardless of your system's default In v2.0 the browser menu is easier to customize, the shortcut speaks all of iOS' languages and dialects, and it supports 15 browsers

Huh. We've reached a point where ChatGPT correctly recommends a-Shell as a tool to write iOS Shortcuts (good idea) but hallucinates commands and provides completely wrong tips on writing Shortcuts with a-Shell (bad idea).

#renewWoT join us in the plea to renew WoT Season 4! @jeffbezos, @ajassy, @SPTV, @PrimeVideo, @AmazonMGMStudio, @SonyPictures, @TheWheelOfTime #ThankYouAmazon, #ThankYouSony The story did not end at this battle! I am so grateful that my favourite books are now a TV show.

Identify device This #shortcut determines which device the shortcut is being run on using four native actions—no third-party apps needed. It works on iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches. routinehub.co/shortcut/220...

I’ve made a TOTP generator (those 6-digit codes that change every 30 seconds, used for 2FA) #shortcut that gets the “secrets” from a locked note: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5c... It tries to match the current app and/or domain, letting the user pick if there is no match or if there are more than one

A #shortcut to pixelate specific areas of an image by painting over them using the Markup tool 🙂 routinehub.co/shortcut/217... Some image operations needed for this aren't available in the #ShortcutsApp but fortunately they can be implemented in JavaScript, so there are no external dependencies 😎

@maryrobinettekowal.com does great work narrating her Lady Astronaut series. And not, “Oh, how cute. The writer took at shot at narrating” work. I’m talking actual, legit, professional audiobook narrator work.

New actions in latest Actions update: - Get System Color - Get All System Colors - Format Text List - Is Location Services Enabled - Is Screen Saver Active - Send Distributed Notification - Wait for Distributed Notification - Get Device Motion Activity - Show Black Screen sindresorhus.com/actions

And here we are, a more formal write-up on the @scalzifamily.foundation's willingness to sponsor the Astounding Award if the sponsorship is not taken up by the new owners of Asimov's and Analog: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/02/26/a...

I've added black & white #iPhone16e frames to my "Frame Screenshots" #shortcut 😎 routinehub.co/shortcut/7923/ If you already have it, no update needed—just frame a 1170x2532 screenshot, and they’ll appear 🙂 Not seeing them? Delete or move any existing frame for that resolution and try again 😅

What's in a QR code? 🤔 This #shortcut lets you read the contents of a QR code from an image file, and it also tells you a lot of what's going on inside: routinehub.co/shortcut/215... With that data you can, for example, redraw the QR code with your own style, like the one shown in the image 😎

Have you noticed that the QR codes generated with the #ShortcutsApp are different from any other #QRcode generator? It turns out that their orientation is really wrong! 🙃 This #shortcut corrects that, turning and flipping them to match what the #ISO18004 specifies: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b0...

New app: Shortcutie Power up the Shortcuts app on Mac with lots of powerful extra actions sindresorhus.com/shortcutie

A #ShortcutsApp bug for half the world!! 😅 Do you live in a time zone between UTC-12 and UTC-1? If so, be careful adjusting your dates in ISO 8601 format. Two wrong dates come out of the Adjust Date action!! 😱 Demo #shortcut: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b4... Reported as FB16370679

Another screenshot framing #shortcut? routinehub.co/shortcut/7923/ Well, yes, but mine allows you to add your own frames without having to edit it 😎 And if you don't want to make your own, I've got you covered with more than 200 downloadable frames of devices, models and colors of Apple products 🙂

This morning I discovered by chance that iOS 18.2 #ShortcutsApp supports transparency in vCard menus but only some times. After a lot of experimentation it turns out that if the image is at least 25% opaque, the alpha channel isn’t destroyed as usual! Demo #shortcut: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d0...

It turns out that the #iOS18 transparency bug in the #ShortcutsApp described in www.macstories.net/ios/apple-fr..., is triggered by ANY ICC profile in the screenshots 😱 While the solution found by @viticci.macstories.net (working with everything at 16-bit per channel) works 👏🏼👏🏼 [...] (1/2)

“This I Foretell. Where there was once very few Elaida fans, soon there will be thousands. Pain and division over Elaida comes to the wheel of time fandom, and this casting stands at the heart of it. I obey the Queen,” Elaida whispered, “and speak it clearly.” #TheWheelOfTime

"Calculate expression" is a very useful action of the #ShortcutsApp. But it only works with decimal periods 😓 If you want your #shortcut to work around the world, use a "Replace text" just before it to replace commas by periods. And if you use fancy multi-parameter functions 😁 you can use a regex.

Someone¹ collected metadata about the #shortcuts in #RoutineHub back in 2022. I though it would be (my kind of) fun to plot what glyph/symbol people use in their shortcuts and it turns out that: 1) Defaults matter a lot! Many many people don't bother changing the default one [1/2]