Add a list of text or URLs to a List in Data Jar.

Automation is no longer just for advanced computer users! Apple’s Shortcuts app lets anyone with an iPhone, iPad, or Mac automate day-to-day tasks, from the simple to the complex. This book is a complete introduction to Shortcuts, covering every aspect of building, installing, debugging, running, syncing, and sharing shortcuts. It also includes step-by-step recipes for creating numerous useful shortcuts yourself.

Uses the camera to take photos.

You can change date and time formatting in Shortcuts.

In Shortcuts, you can create users from data.

JSON stores a lot of data, such as dictionaries, lists, keys and values.

Shortcuts offers two URL scheme options for interacting with the Gallery.

In Shortcuts, use list actions to create ordered lists of content.

In Shortcuts, you can place a variable, pass the variable’s contents to an input action, and replace an action’s parameter.

Use Shortcuts to create home automation

In Shortcuts, learn about setting triggers for personal automation.

In Shortcuts, learn about event triggers for personal automation.

In Shortcuts, delete a personal automation.

You can use Siri to add shortcuts to the Reminders app.

In Shortcuts, the Content Graph engine intelligently converts data into shortcut actions on the fly.

You can run a shortcut using the Back Tap Accessibility action on your phone.

You can add shortcuts to the Home Screen.

You can use your voice to run shortcuts.

You can run shortcuts from the Shortcuts app on iPhone or iPad.

Change settings for the Shortcuts app.

Receive onscreen content to use in a shortcut.

Apple has posted release notes for this year's updates to Shortcuts – in this post, I contextualize what's new, and what's missing from the release notes.

Apple’s Shortcuts app unlocks a lot of powerful automation capabilities on iOS. It mostly has the same integration options with Drafts that it’s predecessor Workflow had, but is missing one handy feature - the “Add to Drafts” option to create a Drafts action to call a shortcut. We’ve re-enabled that, with a few new options, using a sample shortcut available below. Drafts actions can call shortcuts in the Shortcuts app using the Run Shortcut action step. This step can be added to any action, a...

Makes an archive out of the files passed as input. Supports creating zip, tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar, gzip, cpio, or iso archives.

Converts the images passed into the action to the specified image format.

Shortcuts supports standard formats such as ISO 8601 and RFC 2822.

The How Long Ago/Until format is useful for gathering a simple description of how long ago or how far into the future a date is relative to now.