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Monday November, 2025
My Swedish travel/commuting app just got shortcut support 🎉

I've added a bunch of shortcut actions so planning day-to-day trips can be fully automated without ever opening the app to search manually.

My favourite shortcut is a automation running every evening. It checks my calendar for when I start work the next day, searches a trip to arrive by …

Get episodes of podcast returns only limited number of episodes

I created a shortcut to retrieve cocktail recipes from a podcast I subscribe to. When it runs it works great but it only grabs 9 episodes of the podcast. Is there a way to ensure it grabs them all?

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/f7c78acca5b446639cee071413c9261d

Shortcut that won’t trigger again if it has been less than 6 minutes, find paid shortcut expert

Intention: Touch free automation that starts timer if any of 6 apps are opened, the timer opens my focus app when it expires. Timer app is “Just Timers”

Problems: 1. opening any of the six apps more than once, resets the timer, making it useless.

  1. I am impatient, have limited …
How to access nth array entry?

Suppose we're working with external JSON data:

json [ { "a": "b" }, { "c": "d" }, ... ]

How can I access the second entry ({ "c": "d" })? I know that if the array would be a value within an object, I could access like so: …

is there a free switch case action?

I’m working on a shortcut that has a long chain of if-else conditions, and it’s getting messy and hard to manage. Is there a switch-case-style action in Shortcuts? Or maybe an app that adds this feature? Ideally something free. Thanks in advance :)

Get Travel Time Issues

Does anyone one know how to solve this issue. I am getting a message that says “the map server was unable to return the desired information”

Although when I am using get distance it works fine

Email trigger not working at all

Hi,

Backstory :

I erased my old iPhone and put a new email account in it for anything and everything household related so that everyone could access that phone in case I couldn’t rather than everyone waiting for me to do whatever they wanted to do.

The problem :

I …

How to use Shortcuts to delete completed daily Reminders

I have a number of daily reminders that I mark as completed every day that I accomplish the daily associated task. The result is a trail of completed daily reminders that are of no further interest. It is in my interest to delete these--before their number becomes excessive--either manually or …

Shortcut for Sharing a link to telegram bot

i have a bot that download insta reels it needs the link to do so how i could make a share to icon like these three down here for the bot

HomeKit equipment is not available in shortcuts/automation

I trying to create an automation that does the following in my iPhone 17ProMax: When I manually set the focus on "go to sleep" it should check all my door sensors for the status closed. If everything is closed a message should be shown like "all doors are locked" when …

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