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Use the Show Notification action in a shortcut
The Show Notification action creates a system notification. Show Notification runs instantly and continues to the next action (unlike the Show Alert action, which pauses the shortcut).
Media that’s passed into the notification is displayed in a rich preview, such as an image or a Maps location.
![Show Notification action in the shortcut editor and iTunes Now Playing alert called by the Show Notification action.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5B9014F10946229C37C593B4/5B9014F50946229C37C593C7/en_GB/91d902e33a945b6c82749fa5afc895a3.png)
When the Current Track shortcut (shown above) is run, the title, artist, album name and album art of the currently playing artist are displayed in a notification.
![Notification showing song, artist, album and album artwork for currently-playing song.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5B9014F10946229C37C593B4/5B9014F50946229C37C593C7/en_GB/8146aeb0a179faedffb1defe25dda26e.png)
Note: To display album artwork in the notification, the song or album must be added to your music library.