15 Essential iPhone Shortcuts YOU Asked For!

Discover how to automate your iPhone with these 15 user-requested Shortcuts! From silencing unknown callers to creating a home ETA, saving clipboard content, and more, learn how to streamline your daily tasks. Downloadable links included below for easy setup!

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Connect to Wi-Fi and AirPlay Music

Home ETA Menu

Toggle Auto Brightness Setting

Send Video to TV

Save Clipboard to Note

Share Podcast Episode

Translation Dictation

Battery Health Settings

Create Wi-Fi QR Code

Make PDF from Files

🛜 Wi-Fi URL Scheme
(Replace NETWORK and PASSWORD with your info)

WIFI:S:NETWORK;T:WPA;P:PASSWORD;;

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🏠 Full List of Current Apple Home Devices

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction
00:31 Automate Silence Unknown Callers
01:42 Home ETA Menu
04:15 Saving Clipboard to Notes
06:23 Translate with Back Tap
07:48 Personal Hotspot Automation
08:40 Connect to Wi-Fi QR Code
09:45 Wi-Fi to HomePod AirPlay
11:07 Apple Podcasts Shortcuts
12:48 Automate Ringtone via Alarm
13:53 Auto-Brightness Setting
15:17 Auto-Mute Apps: Advanced!
17:19 Auto AirPlay Videos
18:05 Battery Automation with HomeKit
18:51 Battery Settings Shortcut
19:22 Combine Files to PDF

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[woffi]

Again - awesome video! I am a "classical" programmer, learned C, Pascal ... etc., and porgramming shortcuts always seems like talking to a drunken 3 year old. But by watching your videos I finally start to understand what that drunken toddler means ;)

[mikepeterman]

I just subscribed to your channel due to all the work you put forth in this video. Shortcuts can take time to figure out, so I appreciate your efforts!

[suzanner]

Some great shortcuts. I actually lifted your shortcut to mute the volume when I am on an app (safari where I view twitter). Well done. keep them coming.

[g-san]

Great content. I use my 15 Pro Max with 2 SIMs and I had the work SIM turn on and off automatically at preset times. This worked up to the last sw update. Now I need to select the SIM each time manually hence automation is gone. Apple support confirmed they had changed how it works but could not offer any workaround. Do you know if this feature will be restored or how I could get around manually selecting the desired SIM? Thanks.

[madnaniv]

Awesome! thanks for the detailed explaination !!

[rowanstrang]

Love it. Great stuff, more shortcuts videos please!!

[drumdover]

Excellent video, thanks for taking the time! Do you happen to know if there is a way to force notifications via automation when connected to CarPlay? For example, email notifications are silenced when CarPlay is connected, is there a way to play a sound when one is received?

[jackson]

The settings URLs are really cool. I still wish Apple would add more iOS settings to shortcuts for full automation but cool none the less.

[michaelgroves]

Great video! Is it possible to create a shortcut to disable multiple specific apps at once rather than having to go into setting and each individual app to turn off notifications? Thanks

[segorteclesmayer]

Great video. Thanks for sharing
I am no longer to set automation to change apple watch face based on time of the day … can you help?

[mfs]

Nice video, thanks for sharing all these tips! I have a quick question: i have an automation to turn off cellular data when any wifi connects and turn on when any wifi connects - the problem is the fact i have a wireless carplay, so it seems when carplay connects, a wifi is both connected AND disconnected at the same time, and i lose my cellular data.. this also happens even if my carplay is not connected - i.e. if my wife's iphone connects to carplay, mine gets out of the cellular.. i have done an automation related to carplay to try to correct this and give me cellular anyways, but it seems the wifi connection/disconnection of wireless carplay overrides (or it is 'stronger') than carplay automation

[ArjunGupta]

I am so glad I came across your video. This is amazing, looking forward to seeing more mind blowing shortcuts

[liching]

Love all your shortcusts. I am definitely gonna create translate shortcut for my parents' phone. Thanks SOOO much!

[bsl]

Oh my, I‘ve just been pulled into this rabbit hole and created a ton of automations. Kudos, very inspiring video.

[HexlGaming]

if one actually took the time to set up really good shortcuts that would genuinely improves ones life so much in so many subtle ways

[Ram-enzq]

Hello stephen. do u have a shortcut to display pdf form email to homescreen. My use case is that i want to display my lecture timetable on my homescreen

[chezchezchezchez]

Thanks for this!
I added the Shortcuts icon to the mac task bar. Now I can append the clipboard copies from the mac too!

[petersinkovics]

great video, included some of this in my today view especially the wifi qr code. i changed quick look to show result because i prefer show result more but these are the shortcuts i didnt know i needed! keep it up, i love your videos ❤

[AnilAtluriWord]

Hi Stephen, how does one silence unknown callers when the Focus mode is work / sleep? Can you please help? Thanks for your time.

[carloaloia]

I just started looking at Shortcuts yesterday but haven't found a way to do the following: I would like to open the Feedback app, select "Recent Activity", select "IOS & IPadOS 18 Beta 3", search for "Shortcuts", and display the Feedback screen at the point where "Shortcuts" was found. Within Automation I tried "When Feedback is opened", "next", and "New Blank Automation", but did not see any additional actions. I also tried a normal shortcut using "open app" but did not see a way to navigate to "Recent Activity". Obviously, I am going down the wrong path. Can you suggest where I should start? Thanks for any help you can provide...