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Use the Show Notification action in a shortcut on Mac
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 Music Now Playing alert called by the Show Notification action.](https://help.apple.com/assets/645D5D228BE0233D28263F4B/645D5D248BE0233D28263F53/en_GB/bc18d974758b27b666c3abd48d0d88ea.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.
Note: To display album artwork in the notification, the song or album must be added to your music library.
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