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Actions

Additional actions for the Shortcuts app

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The app provides lots of powerful extra actions for the Shortcuts app on macOS, iOS, and visionOS. These actions make it significantly easier to create shortcuts.

Restart your device if the actions do not show up in the Shortcuts app. Also try setting a different device language and then back. Learn more

If you have any questions about how to use the different actions or for what, try asking the Actions GPT bot. And if you want to feed your own AI, here is the source data.

Included actions

  • Add to List
  • Apply Capture Date
  • Ask for Duration
  • Ask for Text with Timeout
  • Authenticate
  • Blur Images
  • Boolean
  • Calculate with Soulver
  • Choose from List (Extended)
  • Clamp Number
  • Color
  • Combine Lists
  • Combine Videos
  • Convert Coordinates to Location
  • Convert Date to Unix Time
  • Convert Location to Geo URI
  • Convert Unix Time to Date
  • Create Color Image
  • Create Duration
  • Create Gradient Color Image
  • Create Menu Item
  • Create URL
  • Download File
  • Edit URL
  • Encrypt File
  • Encrypt Text
  • Filter List
  • Find Music Playlist (iOS-only)
  • Flash Screen (macOS-only)
  • Format Currency
  • Format Date Difference
  • Format Duration
  • Format Number as Ordinal
  • Format Number — Compact
  • Format Person Name
  • Format Text List ["A", "B", "C"] → A, B, and C
  • Generate CSV
  • Generate Haptic Feedback (iOS-only)
  • Generate Random Data
  • Generate Random Text
  • Generate UUID
  • Get All System Colors
  • Get Audio Playback Destination (iOS-only)
  • Get Average Color
  • Get Average Color of Image
  • Get Battery State
  • Get Bluetooth Device
  • Get Bluetooth Devices
  • Get Boolean from Input
  • Get Compass Heading (iOS-only)
  • Get Default Printer / Set Default Printer (macOS-only)
  • Get Device Details (Extended)
    • Uptime (not including sleep)
    • Uptime (including sleep)
    • Active processor count
    • Physical memory
    • Time zone
    • Hostname
    • Thermal state
    • Total storage capacity
    • Available storage capacity
    • Battery condition (macOS-only)
    • Battery health (macOS-only)
    • Serial number (macOS-only)
  • Get Device Motion Activity (stationary, walking, running, cycling, automotive, etc.)
  • Get Device Motion Data (iOS-only)
  • Get Device Orientation
  • Get Dominant Colors of Image
  • Get Elevation (iOS-only)
  • Get Emojis
  • Get File Icon (macOS-only)
  • Get File Path
  • Get High-Resolution Timestamp
  • Get Image Capture Date / Set Image Capture Date
  • Get Image Location / Set Image Location
  • Get Index of List Item
  • Get Map Image of Location
  • Get Modifier Key State (macOS-only)
  • Get Paragraphs from Text
  • Get Printers (macOS-only)
  • Get Query Item Value from URL
  • Get Query Items from URL
  • Get Query Items from URL as Dictionary
  • Get Random Boolean
  • Get Random Color
  • Get Random Date and Time
  • Get Random Emoticon
  • Get Random Floating-Point Number
  • Get Random Number from Seed
  • Get Related Words
  • Get Running Apps (macOS-only)
  • Get Sentences from Text
  • Get SF Symbol Image
  • Get System Color
  • Get Title of URL
  • Get Uniform Type Identifier / Set Uniform Type Identifier
  • Get User Details
    • Username (macOS-only)
    • Full Name
    • Given Name
    • Family Name
    • Initials
    • Shell
    • Language Code
    • Idle Time (macOS-only)
    • Administrator Status (macOS-only)
  • Get Values Using JSONPath
  • Global Variable
  • Hex Encode
  • Hide Shortcuts App
  • Invert Images
  • Is Accessibility Feature On
  • Is Audio Playing (iOS-only)
  • Is Bluetooth On
  • Is Call Active (iOS-only)
  • Is Camera On (macOS-only)
  • Is Cellular Data On
  • Is Cellular Low Data Mode On
  • Is Conforming to Uniform Type Identifier
  • Is Connected to VPN (iOS-only)
  • Is Dark Mode On
  • Is Day
  • Is Device Locked
  • Is Device Moving
  • Is Device Orientation
  • Is Host Reachable
  • Is Location Services Enabled
  • Is Low Power Mode On
  • Is Microphone On (macOS-only)
  • Is Online
  • Is Screen Locked (macOS-only)
  • Is Screen Saver Active
  • Is Shaking Device
  • Is Silent Mode On (iOS-only)
  • Is Time
  • Is Time In Range
  • Is Web Server Reachable
  • Is Wi-Fi On (macOS-only)
  • Join Wi-Fi (iOS-only)
  • Merge Dictionaries
  • Named Clipboard (macOS-only)
  • Open URLs with App (macOS-only)
  • Overwrite File
  • Parse CSV
  • Parse JSON5
  • Play Alert Sound (macOS-only)
  • Pretty Print Dictionaries
  • Remove Duplicate Lines
  • Remove Duplicates from List
  • Remove Emojis
  • Remove Empty Lines
  • Remove from List
  • Remove Non-Printable Characters
  • Reverse Lines
  • Reverse List
  • Round Number to Multiple
  • Sample Color from Screen (macOS-only)
  • Scan Documents (iOS-only)
  • Scan QR Codes in Image
  • Send Distributed Notification (macOS-only)
  • Set Creation and Modification Date of File
  • Show Black Screen (iOS-only)
  • Show Notification
  • Shuffle List
  • Sort List
  • Sort Months
  • Spell Out Number
  • Toggle Boolean
  • Transform Lists
  • Transform Text
    • Camel case
    • Pascal case
    • Snake case
    • Constant case
    • Dash case
    • Slugify
    • Strip punctuation
    • Strip quotation marks
    • Strip HTML
    • Strip diacritics
    • Transliterate to Latin
    • Transliterate Latin to Arabic
    • Transliterate Latin to Cyrillic
    • Transliterate Latin to Greek
    • Transliterate Latin to Hebrew
    • Transliterate Latin to Hangul
    • Transliterate Latin to Hiragana
    • Transliterate Latin to Thai
    • Transliterate Hiragana to Katakana
    • Transliterate Mandarin to Latin
  • Transform Text with JavaScript
  • Trim Whitespace
  • Truncate List
  • Truncate Number
  • Truncate Text
  • Wait for Distributed Notification (macOS-only)
  • Wait Milliseconds
  • Write or Edit Text

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Impossible actions

Some common actions requests that are not possible:

  • Orientation lock status
  • Flashlight status
  • Ambient sensor info
  • Flight mode status
  • Hotspot status
  • Hotspot connect/disconnect
  • CarPlay connection status
  • All audio playback destinations

Anything related to changing system features/settings or interacting with other apps is generally not possible.

For these, I recommend sending a feature request to Apple.

Frequently Asked Questions

I have a feature request, bug report, or some feedback

Click the feedback button in the app or send it here.

The actions don’t show up in the Shortcuts app

This is caused by a iOS/macOS bug.

Some things you could try:

  1. Restart your device.
  2. Change the device language to something else and back.
  3. Add this shortcut, run it once, relaunch Shortcuts, and see if the actions show up in the Shortcuts app after that.
  4. Add this shortcut, copy the action, paste it into a new shortcut, and relaunch Shortcuts.

Please don’t contact me about this issue. This is a problem with iOS/macOS and out of my control.

I get a “errorDomain error 2” error when running an action

Same solution as above.

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How can I prevent the app from being offloaded when I have “app offloading” enabled on iOS?

iOS does not have a way to prevent individual apps from being offloaded (even though it should!) and there is no way for apps to tell iOS not to offload them. I recommend sending feedback to Apple about this. You could try this workaround.

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Non-App Store Version

A special macOS version for users that cannot access the App Store. It won’t receive automatic updates. I will update it here once a year.

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