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 Center
- 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
Receive onscreen items from other apps
The share sheet allows you to use content from an app as input. The Receive What’s On Screen option allows you to send content to a shortcut when using other ways of running a shortcut—such as Siri or back tap. When run, the shortcut can receive onscreen items from supported apps, such as Safari, Maps, or Photos. The items onscreen are passed into the first action of your shortcut.
In the Shortcuts app
on your iOS or iPadOS device, tap 
on a shortcut.The shortcut opens in the shortcut editor.
Tap
to open Details, then turn on Receive What’s On Screen.Tap Done.
A new action appears at the beginning of your workflow, defining inputs the shortcut will accept.
You can limit the input to the shortcut to allow only specific types of input—for example, if you have shortcut to process URLs and your screen has URLs and images on screen.
For more information about input types, see Understanding input types in Shortcuts on iPhone or iPad.