Beginners Shortcuts Course

Learn to access the shortcuts app, create and edit shortcuts with the plus symbol, browse actions by category or app, and share via iCloud link.

Create new shortcuts by understanding actions and browsing by category or app. Rename your shortcut, add actions like get current weather and send message, then run it to automate tasks.

Learn how shortcuts use actions as building blocks, create a get latest photo workflow, present a choose from menu with WhatsApp, Twitter, and exit options, and send the latest photo.

Publish a shortcut to routine hub with a permanent iCloud link, enabling version control while you publish updates and refine the listing with title, description, and guidelines.

Explore the shortcuts gallery in the shortcuts app, download and configure utility-driven shortcuts by category, and learn to modify them as building blocks.

Explore Routine Hub, a community-driven platform for sharing, discovering, and downloading Apple Shortcuts, with category browsing, version history, and active user feedback that helps users personalize and boost iOS productivity.

Explore the Routine Hub Discord community, connect with routine hub users, and engage across channels like shortcuts help, website support, feedback and ideas, and the general channel.

Explore adjusting shortcut settings to control run behavior, naming, and icon color, then learn secure exporting and sharing, including iCloud links versus export files.

Explore Routine Hub Gallery to share and discover community shortcuts with version-controlled publishing, searchable listings, and browsable categories like music and Apple Health, plus trending and recently updated shortcuts.

Learn to create and test a get request in apple shortcuts, fetching a hello world message from a public API using get contents of URL and dictionary value.

Learn to send data to a server with a post request in a shortcut, using a form body with title and body and viewing the resulting post id.

Learn to enable inter-app communication by building a shortcuts workflow that opens a specific app profile via URL schemes, demonstrated with Twitter, and explore additional app schemes.

Learn to control shortcuts with Siri voice commands by creating a weather shortcut that shows the current weather using your location, with Hey Siri activation.

Turn your shortcuts into standalone apps by adding them to the home screen, customize icon and name, and quickly access API-driven tasks like daily revenue checks.

Learn to use Siri shortcuts with widgets on your home screen, assign a get request shortcut, and run it directly for quick access and productivity.

Explore Siri Shortcuts and extensions to automate saving web pages as PDFs; create a web page to PDF shortcut that opens URLs in Safari and saves to Books.

Master variables and conditional statements to make shortcuts interactive. Learn to ask for input, store it in a variable, and branch based on true or false conditions, including case-insensitive matches.

Learn to automate scheduling with Apple Calendar shortcuts by creating an add event shortcut that prompts for event name, date and time, and notifies you when scheduled.

Automate sending project updates by building a shortcut that prompts for a personalized email, uses Apple Mail by default, and sets the subject to 'project update' for your team.

Automate photo and video organization with shortcuts that automatically delete today’s screenshots, helping you clean your media library and control your collection.

Explore Apple shortcuts for maps and location to automatically navigate to your next calendar event, share your location, and open directions from your current position.

Create a shortcut called current song info that gets the current song from Apple Music, uses variables to ask each time, and shows album artwork and details with quick look.

Create a shortcut named Quick Contact to quickly add a new contact by asking for first name, last name, phone number, and email, then preview with Quick Look.

Automate the web with Apple's shortcuts by building a California Explorer shortcut that opens weather, news, and popular destinations through embedded web views.

Create a weather shortcut in Apple Shortcuts to get current location weather, fetch details, and show the temperature in a readable result with prompts to choose data.

Learn to create two shortcuts using clock and timer actions: a quick timer with seconds and a configurable alarm that asks for input, plus adding a home screen shortcut.

Create a unit converter shortcut using conversion actions to convert length, volume, mass, duration, and temperature, with ask each time and show result.

Explore app-based actions in shortcuts by browsing apps like Calendar and ChatGPT to build a daily routine, then show results for today’s events.

Learn how action donations in the Apple Shortcuts ecosystem let apps like WhatsApp donate actions to Shortcuts, enabling personalized automations and improved efficiency.

Learn to use dictation in Siri Shortcuts to capture thoughts hands-free, create daily reflections, and save them to notes or calendar for future review.

Build a text to speech shortcut that reads online articles aloud using Safari Reader, fetch content with get article, preview with quick look, and customize voice, speed, and volume.

Learn to declare and use variables in Apple Shortcuts, retrieve and display them, capture the current date and time, convert time zones from Los Angeles to London, and show results.

Use conditional statements to build shortcuts that decide actions based on conditions, such as a battery check below 10% triggering a charge reminder or a surge price protector.

Learn how to implement repeat blocks to automate repetitive tasks in shortcuts by looping through reminders, printing or speaking each item, and handling lists efficiently.

Learn to use shortcuts to fetch weather data and dates by selecting get current weather at location, capture the date, and show results within a simple weather shortcut.

Turn your iPhone into a Jarvis-like personal assistant using Apple Shortcuts and Siri, by dictating speech, applying an if condition, and speaking a joke.

Create a practical iPhone shortcut to toggle low power mode, extending battery life by turning off background features like mail fetch and app refresh, with visual cues indicating status.

Build a shortcut that finds your next calendar event labeled 'meeting', retrieves its location, and opens it in maps to display driving time, helping you decide between in-person or Zoom.

Learn to fetch an app's icon in a shortcuts workflow by getting App Store details, extracting artwork, and showing it with quick look for a visual reference and debugging.

Create a shortcut to move PDFs from downloads or Dropbox or cloud files into Apple Books, using a file picker and the add-to-books action for easy access.

Learn how to use Apple Shortcuts to automate focus mode, create a Do Not Disturb shortcut, ask for time, and turn focus on until a set time.

Learn to automate conference call reminders with Apple Shortcuts by finding the next calendar event. Adjust the time to ten minutes before start and create a reminder note.

learn to add location to calendar events with apple shortcuts, filter events, extract location details, and set the location with a map URL for punctual scheduling.

Automate actions across multiple apps using apple shortcuts to plan a dinner: choose a restaurant, create a calendar event, and send invitations via messages.

Build an expense tracker shortcut that logs date, description, and amount in USD into a Numbers spreadsheet called expenses log, enabling quick expense recording.

Build a date calculator shortcut that inputs two dates, lets you choose a unit, computes the time between them, and shows the difference.

Create a shortcut that captures the current date and time, formats it to an ISO timestamp, and copies it to the clipboard with a timestamp copied notification.

Build a translator shortcut in the Shortcuts app that asks for text input, translates with language detection, prompts you to choose a target language each time, and shows the result.

Create a shortcut that turns calendar events into a shareable PDF flyer, including title, start and end dates, location, duration, and notes, viewable on any device.

Design a shortcuts based home screen with the shortcuts app, creating a menu that runs get current weather, send message, play music, and open discord.

Back up, share, and use version control for your shortcuts in Routine Hub using iCloud links, get requests, and dictionary-based JSON, tracking changes with version history.

Explore the future of iOS automation and shortcuts as they deepen in apps and homes. See how evolving triggers and language integrations—JavaScript, Ruby, JellyCuts, and Swift—drive a mobile coding paradigm.

Learn how to share your shortcuts with others using Routine Hub and generate the iCloud URL. Send the shortcut via messages, AirDrop, or email and understand its public sharing options.

Organize shortcuts by creating folders and moving items into them to keep a growing library tidy. Learn to name folders and move shortcuts to the newest folder.

Learn to find and download premade shortcuts from the Apple Shortcuts Gallery and Routine Hub, then study tip calculator examples to borrow best practices and templates.

Navigate shortcuts issues such as could not run X action and invalid type, and learn to convert address strings to location using address actions and seek help on Routine Hub.

Explore tips and practices for creating efficient shortcuts, from actions and variables to automation and troubleshooting, with links to Routine Hub, Apple Developer documentation, Discord, Reddit, Stack Overflow, and YouTube.