Save Time! How To Get Started With Apple Shortcuts

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The Apple Shortcuts app for iPhone and iPad is a powerful yet under-used and misunderstood app. In this video, I'll break down the fundamentals of the Shortcuts app for seniors and beginners and help you get started with a couple of sample shortcuts.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:47 Overview of Shortcuts app
3:07 Shortcut: Do Not Disturb Until I Leave
9:26 Shortcut: Photo Grid
12:14 Shortcut: Reminder to Charge
13:52 Use Automation to Run Reminder to Charge Shortcut
15:56 Bonus Shortcut: Keep Track of the Books You've Read
22:07 Delete Shortcuts
22:21 Sync Shortcuts across your devices
Download Sample Shortcuts:
Reminder to Charge: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/7c28...
Don't forget you must add the automation.
DND Until I Leave:www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a50f...
Photo Grid: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a50f...
Bonus Shortcut Books I've Read: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a992...
Don't forget to set up your Folders and Notes.
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@jbmanning 10 месяцев назад

I don’t know how her channel doesn’t have more subscribers. I’m only 36 years old, I am generally very tech capable, and I still watch her stuff because it’s so well explained. Thank you, Ellen!

@EllensTipsForiOS 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much JB!! It makes me happy to help people like you!

@jaestreets751 Месяц назад

Same here. This channel has also helped my mom a lot. 😁😅

@nickfletcher9667 17 часов назад

Thank you Ellen! I appreciate your calm and slow pace of your videos. However, I am still struggling to grasp the skill required in setting up a Shortcut. I do require to persevere and to keep watching your tutorials so I can feel less frustrated as I do currently.

@EllensTipsForiOS 16 часов назад

You can do it Nick! Hopefully iOS 18 will make it easier.😊

@davidphamusa 5 месяцев назад

Great tutor! Clear instructions make learning a breeze. Thank you, Ellen!

@EllensTipsForiOS 5 месяцев назад

Thanks so much David!

@Teresa-K Год назад

Hi Ellen, Thanks for the lesson to set up shortcuts for certain applications. I especially like the shortcut to remind you to charge your battery. Very useful applications. Always look forward to your practical and useful videos. Kindness, Teresa

@EllensTipsForiOS Год назад

You're very welcome Teresa! I appreciate you taking the time to comment.

@MarcP5267 Год назад

Wow thanks for this Ellen. Never used shortcuts until now.

@EllensTipsForiOS Год назад

You're so welcome Marc! Hope you have fun with Shortcuts.

@MarcP5267 Год назад

@@EllensTipsForiOS yea just added the do not disturb one you demonstrated in the video.

@EllensTipsForiOS Год назад

There are so many good Shortcuts!! Check out the Gallery in the Shortcuts app.

@zikkumzakkum5716 9 месяцев назад

Great explanation of Shortcuts…thank you!

@EllensTipsForiOS 9 месяцев назад

You’re welcome! Glad it was helpful and thanks for watching.

@abdulazizo.alsomali832 Год назад

great video as usual, personally i use it to track my daily habits. 👍🏽 like from KSA

@EllensTipsForiOS Год назад

Thanks for sharing and kind words Abdulaziz!

@deblabree4714 Год назад

Admittedly, these shortcuts are just way beyond my comprehension which is sad because I can see how useful they could be when used properly. TY for these vids.

@EllensTipsForiOS Год назад

Don’t give up on Shortcuts Deb!! Find a couple you can utilize and stick with them. Maybe try a basic Automation that will set a daily alarm on your iPhone. Let me know how I can help.

@patriciawirry818 Год назад

A friend and I have an Apple Watch and try to keep them charged to ensure most of our activities, including our sleep metrics, are logged. We should have our watches charged to at least 50% before going to bed. The Apple Watch gives you a warning when the battery dips to 10%, but if it does that right before bed there's not enough time to get it appropriately charged for that night's sleep. We were talking about this issue yesterday. How could we set reminders to charge our watches when the battery dipped below 50%. We didn't come up with a good solution. Until now. Thanks so much for showing the reminder to charge shortcut. That's exactly what we needed. I followed along with you and created the shortcut. I can't wait to tell my friend to watch your video so that she can create the shortcut too. Thanks so much for your great RU-vid channel.

@EllensTipsForiOS Год назад

I’m so glad to help Patricia! Thanks for sharing your story!

@leilanimr 10 месяцев назад

I dismissed Shortcuts because I thought they would be a bit over my head setting up. Thanks for this video, I believe I'll give it a go!

@EllensTipsForiOS 10 месяцев назад

Great!! Shortcuts can be really fun @leilanimr!

@DarrolandTracey 2 месяца назад

The photo grid link takes you to the DND shortcut. Great video, thanks!

@EllensTipsForiOS 2 месяца назад

Thanks for the info!

@KKLeung 2 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing your experience. How can you add a circle pointer to display and navigate the actions in the ipad.

@EllensTipsForiOS 2 месяца назад

I’m using a Bluetooth mouse attached to the iPad. Hope that helps.

@KKLeung 2 месяца назад

@@EllensTipsForiOS Hi Ellens, thanks for your reply. What is the brand of the mouse and does it work for IPhone? Thanks

@EllensTipsForiOS 2 месяца назад

KK it’s a Tecknet Bluetooth mouse very inexpensive and purchased from Amazon. Yes it works on my iPhone and iPad.

@KKLeung 2 месяца назад

@@EllensTipsForiOS thanks for your reply. I got it.👍

@EllensTipsForiOS 2 месяца назад

You’re welcome!!

@mohamdy8950 5 месяцев назад

How practical u r❤

@EllensTipsForiOS 5 месяцев назад

Thanks so much!!

@sf9530 Год назад

Another great video. On my iphone, I have shortcuts to dial my friend's numbers. How can I share these icons with a friend? Would air drop work? Thanks.

@EllensTipsForiOS Год назад

Thanks S F! You can share a shortcut by pushing and holding on the shortcut until the pop up menu appears. Choose share and then send it. The person receiving the shortcut would then have to configure the shortcut with the information they need to use it. Hope that helps.

@RobertSlockbower 2 месяца назад

God bless I could never do! If they are short cuts why do they take so long to explain

@EllensTipsForiOS 2 месяца назад

Well Robert once you take the time to set them up you will receive the benefits of the shortcut!

@carlcheng4151 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing this, Ellen. I was trying to create a shortcut to join a Zoom meeting. Even though I have the meeting ID and passcode in the action, it didn’t join the meeting when I ran it. I am new to this, so I didn’t know what I might have missed. Do you have any suggestions?

@EllensTipsForiOS 7 месяцев назад

Hi Carl without seeing your shortcut I’m not really sure what’s happening. Sorry!😞

@carlcheng4151 7 месяцев назад

@@EllensTipsForiOS Thanks for your quick reply. After seeing the error message, I figured it out. I needed to open Zoom first, then the shortcut would fill the meeting ID and passcode for me.

@MarkTriplett 6 месяцев назад

Hi Ellen! I setup the books I've read shortcut, but when the book info is written to my Apple Notes, it doesn't do it as a clickable URL, only just as text. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for a great video!

@EllensTipsForiOS 6 месяцев назад

Hi Mark! Mine is the same! It started with iOS 17. I’m hoping Apple will fix it with an update. For now I copy the URL and add it as a link. Although that really isn’t a shortcut is it!

@lorenz681 2 месяца назад

Is it possible to make a shortcut to toggle call forwarding to a prescribed number on and off?

@EllensTipsForiOS 2 месяца назад

Sorry as of now there doesn’t appear to be a shortcut for call forwarding.

@Trackhoe075 Месяц назад

So wait lemme see if I understand you need to make shortcuts to these manual tasks that let’s face it are super simple to do without this app manually? I’m sorry I just don’t see the point of this app! Maybe it helps with more complex tasks but to be honest who wants to sit there and try to develop all the steps to do the task when instead just do it manually! I am to busy for this dealing with everything else I do appreciate your efforts and it’s very well explained but I come from of a belief to “ keep it simple” This is just too frustrating for me ! I don’t need a automation to tell me the weather I just open the shades I’ll be able to figure it out pretty efficiently Your video was certainly very well done

@EllensTipsForiOS Месяц назад

Thanks for taking the time to comment! The key for me is setting it up once and then not having to do it again. I agree that it works much better for complex tasks. But beginners need a place to start.

@Trackhoe075 Месяц назад

@@EllensTipsForiOS absolutely!!! I just have difficulty logically figuring out the next steps so for me it’s a simple shortcut and then it becomes eh I’ll just do it manually the way I always have for 68 yrs

@EllensTipsForiOS Месяц назад

Don’t fix it if it isn’t broke!😊

@skoobygeek 7 месяцев назад

Was wondering if I could use the Books I read in DayOne instead of a note?

@EllensTipsForiOS 7 месяцев назад

Great question! See if you can alter the steps in the shortcut. I’m not sure if it’s possible. If I come up with a solution I’ll post it here.

@skoobygeek 7 месяцев назад

@@EllensTipsForiOS I will try it here at my end too

@ic7505 Год назад

Hi Ellen, I find the whole shortcuts thing overwhelming, as in I don’t know what I’d use them for, and when I look into it, it just seems 😱. However, after watching this video, I’ll have another look. I know you’re only an email away 🤩. I do appreciate how much work it is to do what you do, so thank you. Nope, still totally confused on how to run a shortcut. I looked at a preset ‘news’ shortcut, clicked the 3 dots, but don’t know how to make I show me news 🤷‍♀️🥵. I need help 🤣🤯

@EllensTipsForiOS Год назад

It can be overwhelming Isabel! Maybe try just a couple to start out with. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

@ic7505 Год назад

Ellen, I just updated my reply. I’m 🤯

@EllensTipsForiOS Год назад

Have you added the Shortcut to the Shortcuts app?? If you have you just need to tap on the Shortcut and you will be prompted to do something. You don’t need to tap on the three dots.

@ic7505 Год назад

@@EllensTipsForiOS Elle, I tried the low battery shortcut, for my Apple Watch. Chose device - watch - added automation and when run it says ‘time to charge watch NO’. Is that because my watch is currently fully charged or .?? I feel really stupid 🤦🏼‍♀️

@EllensTipsForiOS Год назад

Please Isabel you are far from stupid! If you setup the automation correctly it should trigger when the Watch drops below the battery level you set.

@earlbaron Год назад

the link to find “Books I’ve Read” doesn’t work and comes up with the message: The operation could not be completed. (NRSURLError domain error 400.) It is a shame because I wanted to give that shortcut a go as you described!

@EllensTipsForiOS Год назад

I’m not sure why you’re receiving this error. I checked on an iPad and iPhone and didn’t have a problem. What device are you using?

@sbeckas 11 месяцев назад

Many of use dark mode and when you show yellow text on a white background it is visually very challenging. Perhaps you could consider using black text?

@EllensTipsForiOS 11 месяцев назад

Hi sbeckas! I’m not sure what you’re talking about. I don’t use any yellow text. Let me know what you mean.

@sbeckas 11 месяцев назад

@@EllensTipsForiOS time stamp 17:17 Books I've read under folders yellow highlight box and yellow text on white background. I am on my Mac laptop using Ventura

@EllensTipsForiOS 11 месяцев назад

Now I understand!! So that’s the default highlight color in Apple Notes. You can’t change it on the iPhone or iPad but I can change it on my Mac and it will change it on the iPhone and iPad.

@sbeckas 10 месяцев назад

@@EllensTipsForiOS Thank you for listening to my feedback-visual challenges can be made easier sometimes by just color changes. Your videos are very helpful to many of us.

@EllensTipsForiOS 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the suggestion and for watching the videos.

@RobertSlockbower 2 месяца назад

I am deleting the app

@EllensTipsForiOS 2 месяца назад

You’re missing out on the best part of iOS!!

@misiy.01 Год назад

Thanks a lot ma’am, u ar gorgeous. But please make a videos about How to record this ipad like this. And how to edit videos. THANKS MA’AM 🤍🫶🏻🫶🏻

@EllensTipsForiOS Год назад

Sorry Zan! That’s not what my channel is about. I can tell you I film and edit in Screenflow. The iPad comes in as a camera and then I use a mock-up of on iPad so it looks like you’re seeing the device. Hope that helps.