15 iPhone Shortcuts YOU Requested: Auto-Texting, Alarms, Music, and More!

Learn how to build 15 iPhone Shortcuts, inspired by YOU. Automatically play music when an alarm is snoozed, schedule a text to auto-send, make your screenshots look pro, and more.

Apple Frames Shortcut

Toggle Background Sounds

Scan Document to Folder

Mute Ads

Check My Subscriptions

Edit Calendar Events

Battery Health Settings

Get Toolbox Pro

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Apple Subscriptions

Battery Health
prefs:root=BATTERY_USAGE&path=BATTERY_HEALTH

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00:00 Introduction
00:21 Alarm Automations
01:57 Auto Text at Time
02:50 Check Apple Subscriptions
03:13 Auto Rotate for Video
04:35 Mute Ads Automation
06:00 Scan Doc to Folder
07:50 Background Sounds
08:51 Apple Frames Shortcut
09:42 Apple Watch Automations
11:04 Play Song on HomePod
11:49 Toggle Cellular on Wi-Fi
12:48 Edit Calendar Events
13:58 Jump to Battery Health
14:22 De-Duplicate Action
15:07 Weather Report Help

My Gear:

[internet.story.teller.]

Been contemplating on whether I should switch back from Android to iPhone. By accidentally seeing your channel, now it's it a final YES for me. Damn. All thanks to you!

Been wanting to know how I can further push an iPhone for efficiency and convenience. Watched three of your videos already! They're all freaking useful! Thank youuu! Subscribed! Please keep these videos coming 🤓

[tiffanylovell]

Came across this video randomly, but some of these are absolutely life-changing. Thank you!

[BostonTerrierDad]

God bless you, my son! Making my life easier all the time!

[ghhesmt]

Thanks bud! Moving from Android to iOS after 10 years away in the next few days, these will come in useful.

[rohittrahim]

Thanks Stephen 🙏 the apple frames and the orientation shortcuts were so helpful 👌👌

[PauloRicardo-rxfp]

Another automation that I have created runs every time I connect to any WiFi network. It searches in an iCloud Drive folder containing two files: "trusted" and "untrusted" networks. If the network name is listed in the "trusted" JSON file, the shortcut ends. If the network name is found in the "untrusted" JSON file, the shortcut turns on the VPN. If the network name isn’t in either file, the shortcut prompts me to indicate whether the network I'm connecting to is trustworthy or not. It then adds the connection name to the corresponding file and executes the appropriate action, either turning on or off the VPN. The only downside is that Apple doesn't allow the disabling of execution notifications for WiFi automations, so every time I connect or disconnect from a WiFi network, it displays a notification.

[GT-hoco]

Thank you so much for trying to answer my shortcut request. I’m closer now and hope Matthew or one of the other shortcut experts have the answer. I really appreciate that you looked at this for me.
Keep up the great work. I love these shortcut videos 👍🏼

[ridvanonal]

What about a morning alarm where it wakes you up with siri speaking. Tells you the weather, rain if any, birthdays that day if any, speaks the reminders of the day and finally wishes you a nice day with siri speaking again?

[TakWorks]

Hey Stephen, This may help with your weather shortcut problem. I was able to get the High temp by doing a get 'Daily' forecast at 'Current Location', then Get 'High' from 'Weather Conditions'. When I do a Show 'High' in Quick Look I'm able to see today's High, but also each of the next 10 day Highs in the icon list. Hope that works for you also! Thanks for all the shortcut ideas as always.

[FadyRainier]

Your videos are very informative and inspiring! Thank you for taking the time to share them with us.
I wanted to ask if you can create a shortcut to send you notification before the sun sets on a daily basis. That way you can know what time the sunsets wherever you are. Also, more shortcuts automation for battery, if possible.

[maheAT]

There is a way to scan documents to a specific folder:

Use the File action to select the folder of your choice
Then use this as an input for the "Open File" action and afterwards use the "Scan document" action.

(My phone is set to German, so the action names are translated by me to English)

[willw]

Thanks for answering my request Stephen.

[woffi]

Hello Stephen, I can’t find it on your channel, so I’m writing here: I believe you presented a shortcut a while ago that allowed saving Apple Notes in a folder as PDFs. I set it up and tested it back then, and today it “saved my life” when I was able to retrieve a very important note from the backup - thank you! :)

One thing I noticed: if the title of a note contains a slash, like foo/bar, the backup folder creates a subfolder “foo” and stores the note as “bar.pdf” there. Understandable since a filename can’t contain “/”… not sure if it can be handled differently with reasonable effort?!

Anyway, keep on doing what you do - I learned a lot here!

[GamingPIPI]

3:13 I have a great suggestion for the rotation lock automation. Because sometimes when you are laying in bed or something you don’t want it to go horizontal. So if you add: get orientation>if>orientation is horizontal left>turn on orientation lock>otherwise>if orientation is NOT horizontal right>turn off orientation lock.

I didn’t do “if vertical>turn off orientation lock” because sometimes your phone is not 100% but also a little bit tilted forward and then it won’t work. So now it always work unless it’s completely horizontal (when you’re laying in bed). Especially handy when you’re in Safari.

[AndrewLoukas]

Hey Stephen. Love your videos! I was wondering if it is possible to make a ''Morning Summary'' shortcut where it will tell you the weather and calendar events for the day, as well as run homekit scenes. Thanks!

[GT-hoco]

Is there a way to make the Say Cheese shortcut take a 24mp photo in HEIF Max format on iPhone 15 Pro to match the camera settings instead of just a 12mp jpeg?

[AndrewLoukas]

I was also wondering if you could make a shortcut to track deliveries and tell you if any deliveries are arriving today

[JerryPoole-ihvb]

Great videos on shortcuts and HomeKit!!

[jermain]

Hallo there mu friend.
I like your videos.
One question, is it possible to create a shortcut to put my apple watch in low battery mode when the battery reaches 25%?

[Adrien-Drums]

Man! Lot of food for thoughts ! Thank you for sharing ! Do you know if it would be possible to turn an app (or functions) off on my Apple Watch when I go downstairs (underground level) ? I’m a drummer and when I go to my drum room and play, the watch thinks I’m walking or exercising and it messes up with my health data’s (like walking 38000 km/day) (Hope it make sense)