#ADDING SHORTCUTS TO IPHONE HOW TO#

You can find the shortcut below you should also listen to episode 83 of AppStories for a special link to a Shortcuts-related project I’ve been working on. Of course, I had to create a shortcut that simplifies this process and asks you how many times you’d like to repeat the invisible character in a text string. For information on customising the appearance of your new shortcut (the rectangle in your shortcuts collection), see Modify shortcut colours and icons on iPhone or iPad. There are some other options you can enable towards the. Hit 'Done' in the top-right corner if everything looks good. Hit the record button again at the end of your phrase to stop recording. Next, hit the record button and say the custom phrase that will trigger the shortcut. The shortcut is added to your shortcuts collection, in both the All Shortcuts and My Shortcuts categories. To trigger this shortcut using Siri, tap the 'Add to Siri' option. Tap the 'Selected Photo' tab, and from here select the 'Choose Photo' option. If you want to add a single photo, choose the 'Photo' option.

#ADDING SHORTCUTS TO IPHONE HOW TO#

Tap Add Action to choose what youd like the Shortcut to do. How to set up keyboard shortcuts in iOS Go to Settings > General > Keyboard. Here, youll see two options: Photo, and Photos in Album. 2 Create New Shortcut Open the Shortcuts app on your iPhone or iPad. Now, from the 'Style' tab, scroll down to the Custom section. The four grey shortcut separators I’m using in the widget are based on the same technique: they only contain an ‘Exit Shortcut’ action (so they do nothing if they’re accidentally pressed) and I used the invisible character to create their blank names.īecause the Shortcuts app doesn’t let you assign the same name to multiple shortcuts, you’ll have to paste the invisible character multiple times for each shortcut you want to have an invisible label on the home screen. When you’re finished adding actions to your workflow, tap Done. Once again, tap the widget preview from the middle of the screen.

You can tap on the app to open the site in Chrome. You will see an app on your home screen which is a bookmark shortcut.

Enter the name for your app and tap on Add. This is possible by using an invisible Unicode character as the name of a shortcut (a tip that was shared on the Cortex subreddit) while the Shortcuts app doesn’t let you name your shortcuts with spaces, you can use the character linked above to create shortcut icons that look like they don’t have a text label. A dialog box will appear, displaying the websites title and a suggested name for the shortcut. Then tap on Add to Home Screen option showing under Details tab. You may notice that I was able to add shortcuts to the home screen without displaying their names.

Adding shortcuts to iphone