How to find useful shortcuts for iPhone and iPAD

For a few months now we have been explaining the Shortcuts app on iPhone and iPad, as a way to perform various actions with a single touch.

Today we're going to look at some shortcuts created by other users that might be useful to you.

With the release of iOS 13, Apple introduced the Shortcuts app, adding tons of new features to iPhones and iPads.

Shortcuts have gotten some attention since their introduction and in iOS 14, adding widgets to your home screen was a real push to use, so this might be a good time to review some that have been released and that, aside from its usefulness, it can give us a better idea of ​​the power of this application and how it can help us make the most of our device.

• Foto Toolkit  - Photo ToolKit is an all-in-one shortcut that allows you to resize images, convert them to different formats, rotate them, combine them into a collage, create GIFs and more.
• Create PDF  - As the name suggests, the Create PDF link converts documents and web pages to PDF.
• Apple Frames  - Apple Frames adds frames to photos taken by iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch (snapshots) and makes them look better.
• This su note  - With Dictate on Notes, you can use voice dictation to create a note in the Notes app, which you can use to write thoughts or ideas without having to tap the keyboard to type.
• YouTube PiP  - If you want to watch YouTube using Picture in Picture (PiP) mode on iPhone, this is the shortcut for you. With an app called Scriptable, when you use PiP with YouTube via the sharing advantage, the YouTube video will open in a floating window.
• Music Finder  - To identify a song playing on the site you are on, you can use Shazam, but Shazam saves the results to Apple Music, which is not the best if you are a Spotify user. Music Finder identifies a song and saves it in the Spotify playlist.
• Imposta AirPlay  - Set up AirPlay makes it easy to switch from your iPhone to other AirPlay compatible devices, saving you a few taps if you want to switch devices quickly.
• Url Shortener  - URL Shortener converts long and unreadable URLs into a shorter one, useful if you need to share them. It's in the Share window, so you just need to select the Shorten URL option when visiting a page and it will generate a short URL with the last copied URL.
• Birthday today. It allows you to automatically send a text message to your contacts on their birthday

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You can find many shortcuts in the Shortcut Gallery and Routine Hub

Do you have a shortcut that you use a lot? Leave a comment and we'll make an article bringing them together.