Shortcuts User Guide
- Welcome
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- Intro to Shortcuts
- Discover shortcuts in the Gallery
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- Run a shortcut from the app
- Run shortcuts with Siri
- Run suggested shortcuts
- Run app shortcuts
- Run shortcuts from the Home Screen widget
- Run shortcuts from the Search screen
- Add a shortcut to the Home Screen
- Launch a shortcut from another app
- Run shortcuts from Apple Watch
- Run shortcuts by tapping the back of your iPhone
- Adjust privacy settings
- Copyright
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Intro to how shortcuts work on iPhone and iPad
When you run a shortcut, each action in the list of actions runs in order from top to bottom. Each action plays a role in the task you want to accomplish, much like individual steps in a factory assembly line. For example, some actions fetch information either from your device or from the Internet. Some actions transform information — for example, resizing an image. Other actions share information to shared photo albums, to contacts using the Messages or Mail apps, or to other social media services.
![Shortcut editor showing the sequence of actions in a shortcut.](https://help.apple.com/assets/63A24242BFFB1C67B5512B26/63A24245BFFB1C67B5512B35/en_GB/e8e795cb555aca22ccbc54ba99af369f.png)
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