iPhone Shortcuts Guide | Zero to Hero with the Shortcuts App

Describe the three-part shortcut cycle: input, action, output, focusing on get, transform, and share actions and how the Content Graph engine handles data type conversion.

Learn how import questions prompt for variables when receiving or sharing shortcuts, with the setup tab and adding new questions.

Create a change-case shortcut that receives text from the share sheet, prompts for the case, then copies the updated text to the clipboard.

Create automations in the shortcuts app using triggers from apps, time, location, messages, and device states. Run them automatically or with confirmation, test them, and manage by pausing or deleting.

Learn to set and get variables, transform values into an array, and build practical shortcuts with set variable, get variable, and add to variable actions.

Adjust variables at the moment they are passed to an action to tailor a shortcut, including choosing the data type, formatting dates, and printing the date in a notification.

Create and manipulate lists in shortcuts with the list action, add items, and view results; use get item from list to access first, last, random, index, or range.

Learn to filter and sort lists and dictionaries using the filter files action, sorting by name from A to Z, and filtering dictionaries by keys or values.

Explore the choose from menu and choose from list actions to prompt users, select date or time, format outputs with show alert, and display current date and time.

Learn to use loop actions in shortcuts, including repeat and repeat with each, to process items in a list or struct with repeat index and repeat item.

Create files in shortcuts by building a shortcut that saves a list of expenses as a single text file, with each item on a new line.

Learn to append expenses to an existing text file with an iPhone shortcut, including input, formatting as a dollar expense, and the .txt extension.

Open and read a file with the Shortcuts read file action, selecting the file path, then split the text by new lines to recover a list of expenses.

Learn practical debugging in the shortcuts app: display interim results with quick look, stop and return, check variable types, and use if tests to control flow.

Create automation that turns off wifi automatically when you leave any network, using a network left trigger and the wifi shortcut, and add a delay timer to handle reconnect failures.

Implement a Wi-Fi off timeout by waiting five seconds, checking the Wi-Fi network name, and turning off Wi-Fi when no network is detected, triggered by a Wi-Fi left automation.

Create an automation with shortcuts to automatically delete screenshots older than a week from the Photos app, filtering by type and date taken, running daily at 7 a.m.