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The 11 craziest and most advanced Apple shortcuts I’ve ever seen

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The 11 craziest and most advanced Apple shortcuts I’ve ever seen

Treat these like mini-apps, not shortcuts

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11 min readJan 8
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This isn’t exaggeration, but Shortcuts is the most underrated app on the iPhone. It lets users create mini-apps that help automate their life and keep themselves more productive.

Best part, it even has the power to tweak and manipulate iOS system settings — which third-party apps cannot imagine doing.

It’s that powerful, sadly getting underused.

So here I explain you about 11 such complex & advanced shortcuts — most of which I regularly use.

#1. Auto Message

This shortcut helps schedule sending messages to your Contacts — something that the native Messages app doesn’t offer (Mail does).

How? Using Reminders.
Let me explain.

To start using the shortcut, you need to do this — Create a new list in your Reminders app. And register it in Auto Message so it’ll use it for its operations.

‘Auto Message’ reminder list

I’ve named it Auto Message (Screenshot by the author)

Now trigger the shortcut to find this: (works on iOS & macOS)

Auto Message

Screenshot by the author

Let’s try the first option — Scheduling sending a message to an individual contact.

As you click it, it prompts you to

  • choose a contact,
  • type a message (default: clipboard),
  • attach an image (Wow!),
  • select a date and time.

It creates a reminder for the selected time with all the details filled in:

Reminder created by Auto Message

Screenshot by the author

As you receive that reminder at the set time, simply tap the URL.

Then the shortcut will auto-retrieve the image, message, and will send it to the…


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