This Siri Shortcut, Open URL in Private Tab (Safari iOS), Opens a URL from Share Sheet or Clipboard in Private Safari Tab

Using this method can improve your chances of maintaining your privacy on your iPhone.

Seeking your feedback! My first shortcut on RoutineHub

Credit to unknown original author of an Open URL in Safari Shortcut

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Does this exist?

I would love to activate an iOS shortcut that instantly begins dictation, allows me to tap to stop dictation, and then pastes the transcript into a specified text field. For an added benefit, it would be great to view the live transcript to help maintain my train of thought.

I would like it to use the best available free offline transcription software (e.g. OpenAI Whisper) as well.

Inspirations include:

• Whisper shortcut by Giacomo Melzi - online, very inexpensive, but not offline/live. Requires OpenAI API key ($0.006 / minute, thirty-six cents an hour)

• Ecco Dictate app - offline (private!), but not live nor able to be opened and autostart via shortcut

(Here I’ll mention… If you have never used dictation beyond Apple’s built-in offering, it may be hard for you to imagine just how much you are missing 🙂 If Apple doesn’t catch up by iOS 18 I will send them such a firm yet polite piece of feedback!)

Note: Because my ideal solution is all but guaranteed to require an app and not just a shortcut, I’m mainly wondering if there is an app that supports shortcuts as described. Planning to reach out to the author of Ecco Dictate, perhaps after checking with you friendly folks.

Thank you!

UPDATE:

Near perfection found.

Free offline OpenAI Whisper transcription to clipboard for easy pasting in any app!

Aiko (link is to the shortcuts the developer provides)

(Apparently if you’re not on iOS 17.5 you need to use a workaround when launching these shortcuts using Siri by voice… Have to add Dismiss Siri And Continue + Open App action and have it Open Shortcuts.)

All that’s missing is live transcription, which is available with online/paid transcription apps but no offline apps I’ve found on iOS. (MacWhisper does feature live offline transcription in any field, but only on Mac for $30+.)

Is there a way to know which app triggered the shortcut call?

For instance, if I share files from the Files app, I could reference something to see “Files” or “iCloud Drive”. When it’s Mail, I’d see “Mail”. Etc.

I am trying to have one universal shortcut for file input but I need to specialize some actions depending on the app that provided the files.

I checked “Shortcut Input” but there aren’t a lot of choices to evaluate. “File Path” is inconsistent in what it will show: executing from the Shortcuts app and picking a file will shows “iCloudDrive/FolderName/Filename.ext” but sharing from the Files app will just show the filename.ext. Sharing from Mail shows the file content.

I found this nifty shortcut to backup all shortcuts. You can set it to an automation and do a rolling limited number of backups on a set schedule, like 10 zip files max, backed up weekly.

There’s a problem though. There’s an error on the Make Archive step.

I stripped the shortcut down to Get All Shortcuts, Make .zip of My Shortcuts. The error persists.

I’m not sure why it’s not working unless this is an existing Shortcuts bug at the moment.

Anyone know?

Anyone know how to tag an Apple Note with multiple tags?

I can create the note, append to it, and tag it with a variable or straight text but I cannot figure how to add multiple tags.

I tried a list, dictionary values, comma separated, new lines. I even tried looping over Add Tag action with a single tag but everything results in an error on trying to tag multiple times to the note.

Let me know if you’ve figured it out!

I made a shortcut that will tell me how many minutes i plyed the game and how much battery i spent for that playing sesion. Its wery usefull to me, so if someone is interested i can share it. I still dont know how to do it but i can find out if someone wants it.

Hii to all, im glad that comunity for this exists on lemmy, because thats just what i was searching for..

Question is: I want shortcut to recognise what app im curently using and to write down apps name, so i can make list of apps that are used in las hower for example.. Is there a way that shortcut can do something like that..? 🤔

When you copy the URL for sharing in YouTube, it adds a query parameter now, so=blah, for tracking the source. This removes that. It could of course be smarter and stop at either the end or the next parameter, but since I haven’t seen any extras, I just remove everything after.

Just wanted to remind the Lemmy community that you can enable and disable portrait mode on a per app basis so you don’t need to manually do it and open the control center each time.

MacRumors has a guide for those interested in doing this: Link

I created this Shortcut to address a long-present and costly need of my own: interlinked, visible task management per single files of all types. It has begun to assist me in slowing the accumulation of redundant/duplicate/forgotten/lost files across all of my various file systems.

Out of the box, this version requires Toolbox Pro for its whole function.

Video Demo

• HardLimit
• YouTube (Shorts)
• Imgur

Shown are two methods:

1. Running the Shortcut independently (which will show a file picker.)
2. Running the Shortcut from the Share Sheet.

Setup Steps

1. Choose native Apple Files tag(s) to attach to the input file. (Optional)
2. Customize behavior of the Change Case Action. (Optional)
3. Customize the output format of the File Size detail. (Optional)
4. Choose a List in Apple Reminders in which to add the Reminder result. (Optional)
5. Choose whether or not the Reminder result will include an Alert. (Required)
6. Choose the priority of the Reminder result. (Optional)
7. Choose whether or not the Reminder result will be flagged. (Required)
8. Choose tags (in Apple Reminders) to attach to the Reminder result. (Optional)

Yeah I know, this might be taking things too far. But I got tired of typing the same variations over and over, so I decided to generate it from a few custom snippets.

You can use this optional shortcut together with Pushcut to get a notification when it’s someone’s birthday. You can set it up to generate the message when tapping on the Pushcut notification.

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It currently works with WhatsApp or messages. It generates a message with three parts:

• "Happy birthday" (randomly selects a variation of it, you can customize these)
• "Tanja" (chooses the first name or nickname if you have one set for the contact)
• "🎂🤗" (also customizable ending, chooses randomly)

So the message here would be: "Happy birthday Tanja 🎂🤗". It will then open the chat app you picked and pre-fill the message. It’s not sending the message automatically.

I know some of you are trying to make Spotify autoplay through Shortcuts work, so I’d like to share my fairly simple solution. It helps me to autoplay the latest episode of a „daily news“ podcast (e. g. via lockscreen widget), but you could setup autoplay for any song, playlist or artist too.

Here comes the trick: Ask Siri through a voice command to play the desired song, podcast or playlist with Spotify. Then immediately open Shortcuts, and magic - you will find the result of your latest voice command as a shortcut action for the Spotify app.

Really hope this is useful!

The contents of "What's new in Shortcuts for iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS 14, and watchOS 10," reformatted with care applied.

New Actions

• Transcribe Audio generates text from an audio file
• Delete Alarms removes specified alarms from Clock
• Edit Sleep Alarm skips the next sleep alarm, or reactivates a skipped sleep alarm
• Open Camera opens the Camera app into a specific capture mode, such as "Selfie"
• Open Collection navigates to a specific section of the Photos app, such as "Places"
• Show Passwords navigates to Passwords in Settings on iOS and System Settings on macOS
• End Workout completes your current workout session on iOS and watchOS
• Scan Document captures an image and saves it to the Files app on iOS
• Get Current Timer, Pause Timer, Resume Timer, and Cancel Timer are now supported on iOS
• Start Stopwatch, Lap Stopwatch, Stop the Stopwatch, and Reset Stopwatch are now supported on iOS
• Set Hotspot Password and Get Hotspot Password are now supported on iOS
• Toggle Cellular Plan, Set Default Line, Set Data Roaming, Find Cellular Plan, and Reset Cellular Data Statistics are now supported on iOS
• Start Time Machine Backup starts or stops b1acking up your data with Time Machine on macOS
• Move Window, Resize Window, Find Windows, Find Displays, and Find Apps are now supported on macOS

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Updated Actions

• Set Timer can now start a new timer even if there's already one running
• Find Alarm now replaces Get All Alarms, retrieving all alarms or only those which match filter criteria
• Set Volume can now adjust either the Media volume or the Ringtone volume
• Health Samples now support more data types, like sleep, mood, and appetite changes
• Event Attendees for Calendar now include a Type attribute, to distinguish people, groups, and rooms
• Get Network Details now includes more options, such as channel number, hardware MAC address, and rate information
• Take Photo is now more reliable when taking multiple photos in a row

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New Personal Automations

• Transaction automations can run when a Wallet transaction is made on iOS and watchOS
• Stage Manager automations can run when Stage Manager is turned on or off on iPadOS
• Display automations can run when an external display is connected or disconnected on iPadOS

I’ve done it from scratch now, here it is: download. I’ve split it into two shortcuts, one takes a dictionary with the post info and makes a post. That one can be used for anything.

I also created a second shortcut to grab the title, url, and optionally generate a TL;DR via ChatGPT from any website. You can find it here.

I’d appreciate it if someone could try it out and let me know if everything works as it should :)

Edit: I’ve done it from scratch now, here’s the shortcut: download

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I’ve been thinking of creating a shortcut that shares an article to a specific community, with the title & url prefilled and a ChatGPT short summary of the article. I’d prefer not to start from scratch with authentication etc.

Has anyone come across a shortcut that lets me post to Lemmy that I can use as a starting point? I couldn’t find one yet.

Nothing special and there’s already plenty of these around. It’s a super simple shortcut with only a few actions. It goes like this:

> "Hey Siri, chat"

"Yes?"

(have a back and forth as often as you like. You’ll get concise answers.)

> "Stop"

Howdy folks!

Pretty straightforward ask: though Timery for Toggle new charting features + corresponding Shortcuts action are incredible and almost certainly all I'd ever need, I was wondering if anybody out there had ever taken the time to integrate Timery data with Charty via shortcuts actions.

Thanks!

Removes trackers and surrounding text

E.g.:

"Gerade bei #Kleinanzeigen gefunden. Wie findest du das? https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/tp-link-ax5400-archer-ax73/2541682018-168-1255?utm_source=copyToPasteboard&utm_campaign=socialbuttons&utm_medium=social&utm_content=app_ios"

becomes

"https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/tp-link-ax5400-archer-ax73/2541682018-168-1255"

Tracking part is from u/sharp-guru

Apologies in advance - I've tried searching but couldn't find anything in here.

I've joined a community that provide updates and documentation via Google Sheets, Docs, etc. but when I try to open them on the browser on my iPhone (either Safari or Brave), I can't edit them. As soon as I click on the Edit icon, I get a prompt to download the app.

I don't have a Google account, nor do I use any of their services (consciously), so would like a way to open the documents in the MS Office equivalent (Word, Excel, etc.) so I can edit the documents successfully.

TIA.

This shortcut lets you:

• Add transactions (works with Siri)
• Import bank files (csv/qif)
• Automatically create a transaction if you pay with your phone on iOS 17‘s (transaction automation)
• Add transactions automatically to Splitwise

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Each of these is optional ofc.

Setup

• Download Pythonista and open it once (sadly not free)
• Generate an access token for your account here: YNAB dev settings, copy it and paste it during the setup
• Run the shortcut and follow the instructions

I’m happy to help if you run into any issues :)

If so, what data have you been getting? I just tried it and it seems like the merchant was empty. I was trying to save presets per merchant in a dictionary and was getting a "no key was provided" error: image.

Also requires Imgur for iOS

If you’re like me there’s frequently a need to upload images to Imgur, since Lemmy allows uploading only small images and most iOS clients don’t support Imgur (or something similar) directly.

It’s a super simple shortcut, but it avoids having to open the app, giving it access to new photos (if you don’t want to give the app full access like me), selecting, and copying. It also means you have them uploaded via your account and can delete the images at any time.