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Shortcuts User Guide
Welcome
Shortcuts basics
Intro to Shortcuts
Discover shortcuts in the Gallery
Run shortcuts
Run a shortcut from the app
Run shortcuts with Siri
Run shortcuts from Control Centre
Run shortcuts with the Action button
Run shortcuts with Apple Pencil Pro
Run app shortcuts
Run shortcuts from the Home Screen widget
Run shortcuts from the Search screen
Add a shortcut to the Home Screen
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
Change the layout
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
Transaction trigger
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 onscreen items
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
Copyright and trademarks
By default, new shortcuts display a shortcut icon and one of 15 colours. You can customise the shortcut’s appearance (the rectangle in your shortcuts collection) by changing its colour and giving it an icon more representative of its task.
In the Shortcuts app on your iPhone or iPad, tap on the shortcut you want to modify.
Tap the icon next to the shortcut name, then do any of the following:
Change the shortcut’s colour: Tap a colour swatch.
Change the shortcut’s glyph (icon): Tap an icon.
To save your changes, tap Done.
Tip: When you add a shortcut to the Home Screen of your iOS or iPadOS device, you can also use a photo from your photo library as the icon. See Add a shortcut to the Home Screen on iPhone or iPad.
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on the shortcut you want to modify.