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Activate Sound Recognition icon

Activate Sound Recognition

Tells your device to start listening for any sounds you’ve chosen.

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Balanced Noise icon

Balanced Noise

Toggles background sounds and sets it to Balanced Noise.

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Batch-create shortcuts with phrase icon

Batch-create shortcuts with phrase

Asks you to open an existing folder in Shortcuts, then asks you to enter a list of shortcut names wi...

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Change Control Center settings icon

Change Control Center settings

Opens the deep link into Settings > Control Center so you can change whether to access it within app...

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Check beta release notes icon

Check beta release notes

Presents a menu of platform types, then opens the corresponding release notes page on Apple’s websit...

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Clear listening history filter icon

Clear listening history filter

Asks you to pick a focus mode, then clears the Music Focus Filter and removes all settings for “Use...

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Dark Noise icon

Dark Noise

Toggles background sounds and changes it to Dark Noise.

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Dictate to Arc icon

Dictate to Arc

Starts dictation, then stops after you pause and passes your dictation to Arc Search as a query.

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Find a good reaction GIF icon

Find a good reaction GIF

Asks you to type in a search and finds the results on Giphy.

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Find Shortcuts release notes icon

Find Shortcuts release notes

Opens Apple.com search results for “Shortcuts release notes”

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Hardware Keyboard Settings icon

Hardware Keyboard Settings

Open the Hardware Keyboard section of the Settings app. Useful to tweak the brightness level of the...

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Learn about Apple betas icon

Learn about Apple betas

Opens the Apple Beta Software Program page where you can sign up for Apple’s public betas for iOS, i...

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Listen for coughing icon

Listen for coughing

Activates Sound Recognition and turns on the option to listen for coughing.

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Lock / Unlock icon

Lock / Unlock

Open the Display & Brightness page in the Settings app.

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Monitor The Office icon

Monitor The Office

Activates Sound Recognition and listens for fire alarms, sirens, smoke alarms, glass breaking, and s...

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MultiButton icon

MultiButton

Toggle between two shortcuts from the Action button. MultiButton will run a secondary shortcut if yo...

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Mute Switch icon

Mute Switch

Turns the volume down to 0%. If device is already muted, increases the volume to 35%.

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New chat with Meta AI icon

New chat with Meta AI

Opens the URL to a new chat with Meta AI, focusing on the keyboard so you can start typing your prom...

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Ocean Sounds icon

Ocean Sounds

Toggles background sounds and changes it to Ocean noises.

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Open any app icon

Open any app

Asks you to pick from a list of all available apps sorted in alphabetical order and opens your choic...

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Open MacStories on Flipboard icon

Open MacStories on Flipboard

Opens the MacStories account on Flipboard so you can read stories from Federico Viticci and friends.

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Open Settings icon

Open Settings

Open a specific page or sub-section of the Settings app. This shortcut contains over 120 Settings UR...

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Open Software Update icon

Open Software Update

Opens the Software Update section of Settings to see if new betas and updates are available.

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Pause Media icon

Pause Media

If media is playing, pause playback.

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