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 shortcuts from Control Centre
- Run shortcuts with the Action button
- Run shortcuts with Apple Pencil Pro
- 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 and trademarks
Use another app’s URL scheme in Shortcuts on iPhone or iPad
Shortcuts also has the ability to integrate with other apps via their URL schemes. If you want to use an app that has URL schemes but isn’t currently supported with a built-in action, you can construct the URLs manually using the URL action and launch them using the Open URLs action or the Open X-Callback URL action.
Note: Many URL schemes can be hard to implement and debug. The schemes often include a variety of parameters and require text to be URL encoded, which can be difficult to read. That said, exploring URL schemes does provide a deeper range of customisation beyond the built-in apps included in Shortcuts.
Contact the developers of your favourite apps to see if they currently use an URL scheme, or ask them to implement URL schemes so you can automate their app in Shortcuts.