Save Media (without metadata)
It helps you to save a media file (image, video and even audio) without metadata
What this shortcut does
Version 2.0 is released: add support for audio files. FUNCTION: *SHORT DESCRIPTION: it helps you to save your downloaded media file (image or video) without its original metadata to the Photo app. With the new version 2.0, now it can also help you to save your downloaded audio file without its original metadata to the folder “Downloads” in the Files app. The shortcut can recognize whether the downloaded file is an image, video, or audio file to save it to the respective place. The original metadata (such as time taken) will be replaced by the time you downloaded the media file to your iPhone/iPad. In the Files app, the downloaded audio files will be saved to the folder “Downloads” in “On My iPhone” by default, but you can choose another path if you want. *LONG DESCRIPTION (why my shortcut is necessary, at least for me): I often downloaded interesting videos or good old songs (audio files) on Youtube with the shortcut “SW-DLT”. But the problem is the recently downloaded videos often get lost somewhere in the middle of the sea of thousands of videos. For example, this is the year 2023 but if I download a video/short uploaded to Youtube in 2021 then it will not show in the closest position but somewhere in the middle of thousands of videos, which is harder to find. I know I can go to the “recent” album to filter all the videos out but it takes extra steps every time I want to search/use/rewatch an interesting video. I have tried to save videos downloaded from Youtube to the Files app or other file manager apps but these apps can only sort videos by “date created”, not by “date added" Then I found out the solution to the above problem. With my shortcut, you can save the downloaded video as well as erase its metadata, so that the video always appears in the most recent position in the Video category list. This shortcut work with the image and audio files as well. IMPORTANT: When you download images or videos by other shortcuts (such as downloading youtube videos by the shortcut "SW-DLT") and then choose my shortcut to save your media file, you won't see the banner when my shortcut run. For example, after you downloaded a Youtube video by the shortcut "SW-DLT", you click the share icon, then choose this shortcut, then nothing happens. I repeat: nothing happens. After choosing the shortcut in the share sheet, only when you click "Done", then the shortcut can work, and the banner will appear. It is because ios cannot run two shortcuts at the same time, but one shortcut after another. => Advice: you can put my shortcut in the top position of your share sheet’s list of shortcuts so that you can choose this shortcut instantly the next time you use it without having to scroll down the list of shortcuts to find my shortcut. *Rant (no need to read): This shortcut is actually simple, one of my simplest shortcuts. However, it took me the longest time (several months) to create such a simple shortcut because of a bug in the Shortcut app: the shortcut can get the media type (image, video, or audio) of the file by using the action “get media type” but this action is somehow broken. It can only recognize if the downloaded file is “an image” or “not an image”, it cannot recognize whether the downloaded file is video or audio. I have to ask everywhere for solutions, and then I decided to use the “Filter Files” action to filter out videos or audio files. Now the shortcut can recognize image, video, or audio files to save them to their respective place.