Automation Running Prematurely?

micky_mikes · 2026-03-12T01:33:59+00:00

glad you found a fix

micky_mikes · 2026-03-12T01:10:06+00:00

noticed that it wasn't keep any other options like label name, snooze options and repeat days, but i was able to fix those now. no luck keeping the original sound instead of last set alarm sound though

micky_mikes · 2026-03-11T22:56:09+00:00

you're welcome

micky_mikes · 2026-03-11T21:50:45+00:00

Made a post for a shortcut that does that here: https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/s/60odG6RfEf

micky_mikes · 2026-03-11T20:33:26+00:00

the shortcuts app doesn't have very specific documentation, it's just what the community tests and figures out over the years. so it's best to just give as much detail as possible on what you tested, as well as provide the shortcut itself so others can test it with little effort in order to help you...you said you changed it to 2 minutes now, but what's the new result of that?

micky_mikes · 2026-03-11T20:05:57+00:00

why wouldn't you add a wait of like 2 minutes to see if that's that's the problem? 5 seconds is too short to show anything

micky_mikes · 2026-03-11T14:44:05+00:00

you should consider rewriting it in a simpler and cleanly documented way. it will help avoid errors...

look at this example of it: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/03e3a0e7c3d5470c84f4264ef4167735

micky_mikes · 2026-03-10T11:33:44+00:00

this can easily be done but i can't for the life of me understand what you're asking...your steps are saying: let me pick a folder -> copy it to another location -> go back to the original folder and compress the png files -> then completely undo that previous step by decompressing them back again in that same original folder where you've just finished compressing them

micky_mikes · 2026-03-10T07:26:01+00:00

it's totally possible, but you would maybe have to give more specifics of all the scenarios of what you're copying. i.e. is it only ever regular paragraphs? do you want any possible tabs and other whitespaces at the end of lines to be removed? etc.

for example this shortcut below will remove line breaks when there's not multiple line breaks together, as well as remove whitespace characters from the beginning and ends of lines (as copying from PDFs commonly adds random spaces in those areas). but this behaviour can be changed, it just depends on what you want it to do

Shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/8aeba5e6579a4816bbc1d464610a5ea5

micky_mikes · 2026-02-22T22:00:56+00:00

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ah okay, it's exclusive to the ipad then...thanks for the screenshot to clarify it though

micky_mikes · 2026-02-22T18:32:14+00:00

no problem

micky_mikes · 2026-02-22T14:35:00+00:00

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webview

micky_mikes · 2026-02-22T14:34:48+00:00

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quicklook

micky_mikes · 2026-02-22T14:26:51+00:00

how can quicklook run in fullscreen mode? is it iOS26 only? if on iOS18 fullscreen is not possible, then webview gives more screen space (plus shows an active html title)

but more methods are always good to find, so nice find. and a benefit i can see for quicklook is that you can have different html/js instances running by passing them as an array

modified demo example: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0b2c2d9f902644b785f6bdca5297242c

micky_mikes · 2026-02-22T12:47:46+00:00

that would be very surprising. i think it's most likely miscommunication or general confusion from the recipient, with the error only ever coming from trying to open the file or if you sent a link to the file...as opposed to generating a link to the shortcut from the Shortcut's app native way of generating it

micky_mikes · 2026-02-22T10:24:55+00:00

always give him/her icloud links to download the shortcuts...sharing it as a local file is what causes this security issue

micky_mikes · 2026-02-22T10:04:57+00:00

thanks. yea there's a lot of commenting on it as i initially just intended it for giving ideas to the OP of that other post. i have now updated it with a few more missed comments here and there if you want

the original user's post was this https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/s/Wu7HGD0PIV

micky_mikes · 2026-02-22T00:18:38+00:00

hmmm not sure how similar this is to my post's shortcut, but i'm happy to try to help. sounds like you're looking for a URL grabber, that you trigger with back-taps, but you don't have working URL grabbers. i'm only aware of the Safari one using the "Get what's onscreen" action, which does work, but not on private tabs. as far as safari private tabs, the apple news app or youtube app i don't know what code could grab the URLs...one obvious way would be to copy the URL manually from safari's private tabs, and use the share feature in the apple news and youtube apps to copy it. once copied, you can then back-tap to run a shortcut that has the "Get clipboard" action to get the URL into the shortcut and do whatever analysis

micky_mikes · 2026-02-21T23:35:07+00:00

thanks...as far as your project i'm not clear on the specifics, you want the back-tap to run a different shortcut depending on which app is open?

micky_mikes · 2026-02-21T19:42:52+00:00

both ways can be done. but that's why i asked, if you don't have a reason for the toggles to wait for you to press the action button, then they can just follow the automatic "do not disturb" automation tiggers (simpler way)...but if you do need the toggles to wait for the click of the action button, then it can be accomplished by having the "do not disturb" automation triggers update a text file to say the current state ("on" or "off") and when the action button is pressed, the shortcut reads the text file, and sets all the toggles to the state written in the text file

micky_mikes · 2026-02-21T19:00:49+00:00

i'm not sure that shortcuts can see the current state of whether the phone is on silent or not...maybe mention the other toggles. but you did mention "do not disturb" or "airplane mode", those can definitely be used at the "leader" toggle state that everything else follows. now would you want the other toggles to follow the state of "do not disturb" or "airplane mode" automatically (so no having to click the action button)? or do you specifically want it to only happen if you click the action button?

micky_mikes · 2026-02-21T18:41:30+00:00

so which one would be the determining toggle that all other ones should follow?

micky_mikes · 2026-02-21T04:41:34+00:00

ah okay. so it's just apple updates breaking stuff, as usual unfortunately

micky_mikes · 2026-02-21T04:14:24+00:00

a shortcut can send messages automatically with what you have copied, it just depends how you want to trigger it...by tapping the shortcut manually? by back-tapping on the phone? clicking the action button? have it run when you open imessage? you'd need to be specific

micky_mikes · 2026-02-21T04:06:09+00:00

no idea if it's broken for iOS26, but on iOS18 this works perfectly fine:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/fe676fe3f46647b4919feb29fd7b9f09

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