this seems so simple in theory, idk why I can’t get it to work

The placement of the power and volume buttons is a bit awkward on the iPhone Duo, especially when trying to take screenshots. Is there a workaround to use the Camera Control button or double press the volume up button to take a screenshot?
I’ve already tried Back Tap, but it’s too unreliable.

Looking for a way to utilise the “Transaction” shortcut to receive the values from an Apple Pay tap transaction and then input that into YNAB (budget app). Any ideas?

Shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ea2c2c1388de4238b70a9cec3225bb2c

My teenagers and my parents regularly send me things they "found" online. I wanted something they could call in for a quick second set of eyes, without needing a fact-checking habit.

If you’ve seen the Truth Finder shortcut here, this comes at the same problem from a different angle and more integration points. Instead of rating whether a claim is true, Second Look only looks at where it came from, and hands the judgment and research back to you. Example responses:

- Looks like a real source ("This link goes to cnn.com, CNN's own site.")

- Probably meant as a joke (self-labeled satire like The Onion)

- Worth a second look, plus one way to check ("A text from an unknown number asking for your email. Acting could risk money or personal data.")

How it works (31 actions, 6 of them comments):

1. Get what to check. If you shared a link, screenshot, or text, it uses that. Safari shares also bring the page's address. If nothing was shared, it takes a screenshot.

2. Turn it into text, labeled by how it arrived (a shared link is stronger evidence than a screenshot).

3. Ask Apple Intelligence once with Use Model, on Private Cloud Compute.

4. Show the answer, with a light haptic on iPhone.

The whole prompt is a plain-English Text action at the top, under "Edit me: the rules." Change the tone, add sources your family trusts, or switch the language. It answers in the language of the post, so Spanish posts get Spanish answers.

Where it can't know something, it asks you instead. Shortcuts can't tell which app you're in, so for a screenshot of a news article it asks whether you're reading it in the outlet's own app.

Setup: share sheet (works anywhere, no prompt), Action button, Back Tap, or Control Center. A shortcut can't close Control Center, so on that route it asks you to tap OK, then waits 3 seconds while you swipe it away before taking the screenshot.

Privacy: only the text (or the link you shared) goes to Apple's Private Cloud Compute. Links are never opened, and nothing is saved to Photos.

Known limits:

- Needs Apple Intelligence: iPhone 15 Pro or newer, or an M1-or-later iPad.

- Apple's safety filter occasionally refuses scam or money content. Running it again usually works.

- It reads text, not images, so it can't see verified badges or logos.

Level ups if you want to extend it: a Control Center launcher that skips the prompt on other routes, import questions for language and trusted sources (ala Truth Finder Shortcut), read-aloud for parents, or passing the screenshot image itself into Use Model.

Full write-up: workings.blog/second-look

Titolo: iOS 27.2 ha smesso di far funzionare il mio comando per ritrovare l’auto parcheggiata. Qualcuno può aiutarmi?
Ciao a tutti!
Ho creato un comando molto semplice con Comandi Rapidi che mi permette di sapere dove ho parcheggiato la macchina e di raggiungerla tramite Apple Mappe, avviando la navigazione fino alla posizione salvata.
Ha sempre funzionato perfettamente, ma dopo l’aggiornamento a iOS 27.2 ha smesso di funzionare correttamente.
Non ho modificato nulla nel comando, quindi mi chiedo se l’aggiornamento abbia cambiato qualcosa nel funzionamento di Comandi Rapidi, nei servizi di localizzazione o in Apple Mappe.
Qualcuno potrebbe dare un’occhiata al comando e aiutarmi a capire cosa bisogna correggere per farlo funzionare di nuovo?
Ecco il link per scaricare il comando e provarlo:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d64b9663d1db414a92aaff9dd0fd18bf
Grazie in anticipo a chiunque riesca ad aiutarmi!

It’s a nice feature and all, but I like to have ambient sounds playing while I sleep, so being able to automatically turn it off when I go to bed and on again when I wake up instead of having a bright blue night light blasting in my face would be cool.

Been using this shortcut for years, but now it refuses to change my focus mode.

Is there a way to set the new iPhone Duo desert wallpapers to switch between the light and dark versions when my phone automatically switches between dark and light mode?

I am using R-Download.
Its a video stating "120FPS".
Apple library doesnt show anything except file size.

Help.

Update on my post here for people who like to using URL schemes, but not the hassle of finding them.

It’s just something I made using Lovable AI this time for an updated, app-like list of iOS 26+ settings URL schemes.

https://ios-26-urlschemes.lovable.app

Hi all,

We have a client check in kiosk that is basically a waitlist via Google Forms and autopopulates a google sheet. We want to provide the clients with their own bar code with their Name + ID number, so they can scan it at the kiosk directly onto google forms when they check in instead of manually entering their name DOB and ID #. Basically the barcode will scan it into the Google Form as "ID # - Name - DOB." And that will be submitted to the google sheet with the timestamp to the left.

I'm wondering if there is a way to embed a hyperlink in the "ID # - Name - DOB" so when it shows up on our google sheet, we can click the hyperlink and it will take us to that client's activity spreadsheet (saved separately for each client as an xcl file on our Google Drive). Want to save the extra step of having to go on the search bar to manually search their spreadsheet and be able to directly access it from the waitlist. I hope that makes sense.

The barcode part is very easy. It's the embedding hyperlink in the text which is really the tricky part and I can't seem to find anything online.

Thanks all!

There are three actions I can't decide between for my action button, so I created a shortcuts folder with all three and set the action button to launch that folder.

It actually works perfectly when my phone is unlocked. I hold the action button, and the three options come down from the top of the screen in an animation that looks like the dynamic island.

However, if my phone is off, and I hold the action button, the dynamic island animation happens but just shows a picture of a folder. Then if I press and hold it again, the three options appear. This has nothing to do with permissions because it doesn't matter if my phone is still locked when I try a second time (if my sunglasses are on, my phone doesn't unlock).

Does anyone know what's going on here or how I can fix it?

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b29927804f9449f0b53d824fae4d7be6

I’m trying to make a quick action pothole reporter for my local council. I’ve just about perfect, with exact address, longitude and latitude. But I wouldn’t mind adding a direction of which direction the photo is taken.

If you have an extra idea, that would be great.

I want a screenshot from an app to automatically go to a specific album.

I have an automation that will for when connecting to wifi. In there I have created a list of known good networks that I don’t connect to my vpn on. I then have it ask do you want to add to that list. I have also created a second shortcut to make changes to that list but it seems as though they are not properly updating the stored data. It’s set to be global but still they don’t seem to work properly. Any help would be great. I’m hoping it’s something simple I missed or over looked. I think I removed all my debugging notifications from them if not sorry.
Edit
I am on iOS 27.0.1
This one updates the list
Another edit
I can remove a network from the list but when I join it acts as though it’s still on the list.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6911738fc59b4cc0af38d26a029f5cc2

This is the wifi connect automation.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6af68a0134e04fc0b93afbb829acf710

This is based on a previous screenshot renaming shortcut by u/Cost_Internal and u/iBanks3 and a date/time suffixer by u/pmarksen. Based on the discussion here, just deleting the original inputs didn't seem to work, so I had the idea to generate a list of timestamps to figure out how to get the original screenshot to be deleted from Cost_Internal's shortcut.

I've tried taking different numbers of screenshots at staggered times and it seems to be working so far. One issue is that iOS only 'completes' the screenshot process if you swipe the mini preview away or wait until it disappears, and the shortcut only runs after that. So if you switch apps before that, the app name will be whatever app you're on then. Or if you close the app too quickly the app name will be blank. If you have suggestions to improve this or other parts of the shortcut do share!

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/3aa6e4576e2c43f2b92009341cff5789

I saw a post of routine hub‘ falloff and wanted to see the other side of it. Everyone there said it was bad and stuff so I just wonder if people still think it’s good or should we switch to another site?

Hi - so would like to know if this is possible - I have a current shortcut that speaks a phrase when I plug in the iphone to charge, and now would like another shortcut that speaks "on battery" when the iphone loses its charging state. Is this possible? If so can someone smarter than me post it?

I can’t seem to get describing shortcut working on iOS 27.2. Anybody else have an issue?

Hey everyone!

I’m back with another shortcut I’ve been working on, and honestly, this might be one of my favorite projects yet.

Introducing Link Studio V1!

It’s an incredibly powerful shortcut that combines seven different website tools into one:

Website Inspector - Get webpage titles, links, and information, including links found within text.
Article Reader - Read webpage content in a cleaner format.
Media Finder - Find images and media from websites.
Link Library - Save, view, and delete links.
Link Extractor - Extract multiple links, copy them, save them, or turn them into PDFs.
Website Archiver - Save webpages as PDFs with automatic titles and dates.
Link Toolkit - Copy, open, inspect, and share URLs.

One thing I want to mention: I originally designed Link Studio to work when you have a link copied to your clipboard or shared directly to the shortcut. Because of that, you currently need a link to access the menu, even for features like viewing saved links or the About section.

It’s something I plan to improve in V2!

I’ve spent quite a bit of time putting this together, testing things, and figuring out what works. I’m genuinely proud of how it turned out.

I’d love to hear what you think! If you run into any issues or have suggestions, please let me know. I appreciate all the feedback and support.

Download Link Studio V1:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/58f61a4d24b14e5892a01a5efaa68bcc

Please upvote if you found this useful or interesting, and drop me a follow if you would like to keep up with any new shortcuts I drop.

Thanks for checking it out!

Over the weeekend all of my automations just disappeared. I had over 40 automations configured on my phone and now they are just gone, the shortcuts are still there thankfully. Has anybody else had this happen?

Edit: Based on when the last automation’s successfully ran it appears to have happened when I logged into my new MacBook. Is there possibly a bug where adding a Mac resets automations?

Edit 2: I’m not talking about the iOS 27 change where they merged automations with shortcuts. I updated as soon as iOS 27 was available and have had no issues until this weekend when all of my automations just stopped working. When I investigated it I found the automations folder under library is empty.

I have an automation that runs at 6am every morning and when I have traveled from the US to Europe the automation updated itself to 1PM.

I have never seen this before and I do t recall this happening when I e traveled in the past. Is this something new? Is it intended behavior?