Siri Shortcuts - The Complete Guide To iOS Automations

Create a new shortcut named i am rich, using a diamond png from iCloud drive. Save the file path to a variable, then retrieve the file and display the image.

Complete a business card shortcut by populating an HTML template with profile details, converting it to a PDF for viewing, and generating a website QR code to share the URL.

Learn to create a custom shortcuts menu with an icon, title, and subtitle using a text action, set name, and choose from list, with a base64 image workaround.

Explore the repeat action in Siri shortcuts, compare repeat and repeat with each, and see how they loop actions or list items with practical examples like notifications.

Create a custom shortcuts menu, map each chosen item to a sound with if statements, then fetch and encode image files to base64 before playing the corresponding sound.

Learn to implement sequential if statements to map sounds to index values, build a complete xylophone shortcut, handle privacy permissions, and explore a repeat-based optional challenge to extend playback.

Extract the file into the shortcuts folder, then read the egg timer JSON settings for soft, medium, and hard eggs and save them to a variable.

Create an Android share shortcut using a share sheet action. Open share drop dot io as a web page to enable fast peer to peer transfer between iPhone and Android.

Learn to build and modify a BMI shortcut that calculates BMI from weight and height, displays a notification, and logs the value to Apple Health with an optional date.

Finalize the prayer timings shortcut with midnight, fajr, zohar, asr, maghrib, isha, and sunset, and verify the empty reminders. Prepare for automations and a shortcut modification in the next lecture.

Create a shorten URL share sheet action using the Rebrandly API in Siri Shortcuts. Register an API key, review the API docs, and shorten long links for sharing.

create a mac control shortcut to remotely manage macs via ssh, enabling sleep, wake, display off, shutdown, and restart using the local hostname after enabling remote login and remote management.

Create a Safari dark mode shortcut that runs JavaScript on the active tab to apply a dark theme and white text across any web page, on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

Create and customize iOS icons using icons8 or Canva and Sketch, design at 512 by 512 pixels, export PNGs, and apply them as custom iPhone icons.

Create your own widgets in the vjy app by choosing sizes, layering images and text, configuring tap actions, and placing the widget on the home screen.

Discover how to create and customize focus modes on iPhone, tailor home and lock screens, enable smart activation, apply app and contact filters, and automate wallpaper changes with shortcuts.

Explore the Bettertouchtool interface and learn to build a custom Touch Bar button with stateful changes, haptic feedback, and configurable actions and icons.

Learn to configure the touch bar with Better Touch Tool, using modifier key based visibility to show or hide widgets and add a brightness slider triggered by specific keys.