Shortcuts 101 - Building 7 Shortcuts for App Icons, Menus, QR Codes, & HomeKit Toggles

How to use siri to open garage door through myQ app, wifi enabled opener

How did you open the choose from menu shortcut from the home screen without it opening the shortcuts app?

Wow! I’ve not had this much fun since I bought my first laptop and a copy of DOS for Dummies and set about customising the appearance! Thank you x

I have a short cut to open an app. What I want to do is create a new shortcut to open this app and then when I press the volume button, a different app opens. How would I do this? BTW, thanks for this. I make QR codes quite often.

How to do you get the shortcuts to run silently without notifications popping up

Hey I need help; I wanted to create a shortcut that generated a QR and your instructions helped a lot thank you! But when I went to test it by clicking the icon it didn’t react at all. Do you have any idea why this happens?

waaw amazing

1:45 is there a way to open up both music and youtube in stage manager?

Stephen, please help me!

Where can I find debug mode in shortcuts?
When I run the shortcut, I don't see an email being sent via the Send Mail action.

Can anyone help Me with Create a iphone shortcut the detect if battery level below 25% to say "what does a phone has to do to get charged around here" and when is equal to 90% to say charged. Also to detect if connected to charger and battery level below 85% turn on smart plug and calculate the time to charge to 90% in minutes, if battery below 85% and not connected to charger do not turn on smart plug, if battery level equal to 90% turn off smart plug. Also then charging stop and anytime say "charging stop and the current battery %"

Hi stephen everytime i try to make icon shortcuts in my vivo y36 it always says i need to go to settings and allow the permission but what ever i do i cant find it plss help me

Thank you for creating such helpful videos.
Can you help me create a shortcut for my photos. What I want to do is - when I click a certain type of photos like an x-ray it should be added to my x-ray folder in the ascending order of creation date without being duplicated. Many thanks for helping out and looking forward to your guidance.

I have an insurance alarm in the morning(the one I need if I don’t wake up on time). When I do wake up on time and leave home for work, it always goes off in public because I forget to turn it off. Is there any automation that turns off alarms when I leave home?

How do I design the stuff with images?

I have the control button set to toggle between locking/unlocking in any app. It's soooo nice!

After toggling WiFi/Hotspot/Bluetooth on/off, is there a way to show the status? Otherwise I do not know if I have just turned it on or off.

thanks for the effort

Please can you send me link of this app shortcuts in can't find it please

U are awesome ❤❤❤Could please u make a new one about how to make QR codes with the new iPhone upgrade OS 18.1.1?

Your videos are amazing.. really useful. Need your help to create a shortcut for following scenario
- I have a dual sim and need to turn off one of the cellular line by single click of a shortcut .. possible?

You're the man, man, man! Thank you so much. You are so efficient. I love these short cut videos. I subscribed in a heart beat.

i am amazed that no one ever mentions where or how you backup your shortcuts. I have searched a bit and found some shortcuts that supposedly did this, but they did not work. A backup and restore would be really nice.

Is there any way to create a shortcut to turn on Apple TV then open a specific app in the Apple TV then have a few commands from the remote be executed in the app for example down, down then enter

Where did you get the icon for the Social Network shortcut?

Thank you sir

plz help .xlex and .docx fils not open auto from uptate ios 18 but .xle open normally

any file from whats app and notes

Just made a couple Shortcuts for my iPhone, one for pulling up My Radar (which is a weather app) on my home screen and also the Social Network shortcut is brilliant, I put a bunch of my most used apps on it now I can go to them with two clicks, one to open the menu and one more to pick what app. Thanks so much Stephen.

Tysm just what I was looking for

The best video on shortcut indeed!!

help please. for some reason when i choose open app, not all my apps are available only ios apps not the downloaded ones

Great video

If only there was a Shortcut to adjust the Ringer volume from your System/App volume. I say this with slight sarcasm as I still can't believe Apple haven't given us this ability !!! I should be able to have my ringer volume at a different level to the other sounds. The amount of chat forums I have seen people ask for this, and given the SAME advice which does not help. It just isn't there as an ability. Maybe JUST maybe IOS 18 would provide this?? but NO .. :( Apple Fanboy through and through .. but this one has been there for years and I wish they would sort it out. Maybe there will be some kind of workaround with something like shortcuts to overcome this. Thanks for the excellent videos and making me OBSESSED with Shortcuts since beginning of this week :)

Is it possible to open an app and login to an app automatically using shortcut? Please help

How to create shortcut to open desired app when open notification and how to make it automated

I made a shut down short cut its very usefull

Just found your videos and found them very useful, informative and easy to follow. Trying to figure out a sunset automation that plays some specific songs then plays other like artists. Had this set up before to play one certain song then like artists but that was a happy accident and accidentally deleted it. Help! 😊 BTW of course I subscribed to your channel!

I’ve never used shortcuts! Thanks for the explanation and examples!

Just found your channel searching for how to use Shortcuts and I’m so excited to find all of the shortcuts to be even more efficient. This video helped me solve the super minor yet so annoying thing with the orientation lock, I always want it locked except when I’m on YouTube 😎

Who uses threads?

I keep my Apple ID locked with a poss code via the pathway below, but it has multiple steps. Is it possible to create a shortcut that selects successive sub menus in settings app so it goes straight to the account changes option? (Eg.: settings > screen time > content & privacy restrictions > account changes )

loved the menu!!

You have made the shortcut process and convenient wow

Thank you for this video! Truly, thank you!!!!

Hi, as I see circle to search on S24 Ultra , can you help set something similar as circle to search by using shotcut app, then we could optimizing iPhone action button?

Need to set up a shortcut for my bus routes and schedules, I'm learning. In Safari my bus app is all I use on there, want to know how to setup the different directions north or south? Sometimes I'm at the bus stop and trying to look at my phone when I would like to just use Siri or make a shortcut? I know planning ahead or checking before I walk out there, even then I still would like to shorten the process? Think I'm on to something, I like this!

Great video, Stephen! Thank you. Is there a way to generate a QR code that deep links to Settings > Bluetooth?

Maybe I just havent seen them, but I feel like youtube is lacking in shortcut tutorials. This stuff is great. it definitely takes a bit to learn the logic behind creating shortcuts. im also going to check out that guys catalog. Sounds like a goldmine.

I really like your video. It is super useful. Thank you man :)

`Thank you. I used to have a shortcut that started voice memo without making any sounds simply by triple tapping the back of the phone and I can no longer do that. Is there a new way to do that?

Can you make a detailed step by step QR Code for wifi. Where specifically you enter the wifi info