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Table of Contents
Welcome
What’s new in Shortcuts
What’s new in Shortcuts 12.4
What’s new in Shortcuts 12.3
Shortcuts basics
Intro to Shortcuts
Discover shortcuts in the Gallery
Run shortcuts
Run a shortcut from the app
Run shortcuts with Siri
Run a shortcut from Spotlight
Launch a shortcut from another app
Run shortcuts from Apple Watch
Adjust privacy settings
How shortcuts work
Intro to how shortcuts work
The flow of content
Action connections
Control the flow of actions
Shortcut completion
The Content Graph engine
Create custom shortcuts
Create a custom shortcut
Ideas for custom shortcuts
Work with actions in Shortcuts
Navigate the action list
Order of actions
Get actions
Transform actions
Share actions
Test your actions
Import shortcuts
Edit shortcuts
Intro to editing shortcuts
Organize shortcuts in folders
Reorder shortcuts
Rename shortcuts
Modify shortcut icons
Duplicate shortcuts
Delete shortcuts
Sync shortcuts
Share shortcuts
Add import questions to shared shortcuts
Advanced shortcuts
Use variables
Intro to variables
Variable types
Use variables
Adjust variables
Use list actions
Use the Choose from Menu action
Use If actions
Use Repeat actions
Use Find and Filter actions
Intro to Find and Filter actions
Add filter parameters
Show prompts in a shortcut
Intro to using prompts
Use the Ask for Input action
Use the Ask Each Time variable
Use the Show Alert action
Use the Show Notification action
Input types
Limit the input for a shortcut
Advanced Shortcuts settings
Run shortcuts from the command line
Run JavaScript on a webpage
Intro to the Run JavaScript on Webpage action
Use the Run JavaScript on Webpage action
Use URL schemes
Intro to URL schemes
Open, create, and run a shortcut
Run a shortcut from a URL
Open or search the Gallery from a URL
Use x-callback-url
Use another app’s URL scheme
Use Web APIs in Shortcuts
Intro to web APIs
Get started with web APIs
What’s an API?
Request your first API
Work with JSON
Intro to using JSON
Parsing JSON
Handling lists
Get Dictionary Value action
Create contacts
Further exploration with APIs
API limitations
Format Date timestamps
Dictionaries
Date and time formatting
About date and time formatting
Date and time formats
Dates as written language
Technical standards
Custom date formats