Hi i'm new to swift/swiftui i want to my app shortcut to have the ability to take a photo within my AppIntent instead of having to configure a 'Take a photo' action in the Shortcuts app and then parsing that to my Appintent (for less human error). Is this possible? I read there's a protocol called CameraCaptureIntent but i think it's only used for a separate extension like for Control Center, Lock Screen, and Action buttons :(

I’m looking into activating my gate (has a dedicated app to it) while getting near home. i thought that a combination of Car bluetooth connection/Carplay connection as well as a 50 meter radius from home location would be nice to trigger the gate app. However, I find it hard to set these 2 parallel conditions in Shortcuts. I managed to set connection to car’s Bluetooth, but next screen would suggest the “do” action rather than offer additional conditions. i couldn‘t handle the “if” option. would like some help.

Is there a way using a shell script or AppleScript to add a custom icon to a desktop shortcut? I can create the shortcut in a script but I have to manually change the icon. thx much

Hi, we're having trouble implementing search through Siri voice commands. We already did it successfully for audio playback using INPlayMediaIntentHandling. For search, none of the available ways works. Both INSearchForMediaIntentHandling and ShowInAppSearchResultsIntent never open the App in the first place. We tried various commands, but e.g. "Search for " sometimes opens the Apple Music app and sometimes shows a Google search widget. Our app is never taken into consideration for providing any results. We implemented all steps mentioned in WWDC videos and documentation (e.g. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appintents/making-in-app-search-actions-available-to-siri-and-apple-intelligence), but nothing seems to work. We're mainly testing on iOS 18 currently. Any idea why this is not working?

Hello, I'm evaluating if it's worth to expose shortcuts from our app, it seems to be working fine on my machine - Apple Silicon, latest Tahoe beta, Xcode 26 beta. But if I compile the same code on our intel build agents which are running latest macOS 15 and Xcode 26 beta, once I install the bundle to /Applications on Tahoe I don't see any shortcuts. Only other difference is that CI build is signed with distribution DeveloperID certificate - I re-signed the build with my dev certificate and it has no effect. I found out that linkd is somehow involved in the discovery process and most relevant logs look like this: default (...) linkd Registry com.**** is not link enabled com.apple.appintents debug (...) linkd ApplicationService Created AppShortcutClient with bundleId: com.**** com.apple.appintents error (...) linkd AppService Unable to find AppShortcutProvider for com.**** com.apple.appintents Could you please advice where to look for the problem?

Hello, I have an AppIntent that uses the AudioPlaybackIntent to trigger my app to open and initiate an AVPlayer that plays back a media stream I control. When the phone is unlocked, everything works as I expect. The app opens and plays the audio. However, when the phone is locked, any attempt to invoke the intent causes a "Request Code" dialog to be displayed. This seems counter to what I would expect with the AudioPlaybackIntent usage. Am I able to accomplish what I'm after here with AppIntents? Does the fact that I'm using openAppWhenRun require me to have the phone unlocked somehow? import AppIntents import Foundation struct PlayStationAppIntent: AudioPlaybackIntent { static var title: LocalizedStringResource = "Play radio station" static var description: IntentDescription = .init("Play radio station") static var notification: Notification.Name = .init("playStation") static var openAppWhenRun: Bool = true init() {} func perform() async throws -> some IntentResult { AudioPlayerService.shared.play() return .result() } }

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a way to programmatically set the left/right audio balance to perfect center (50/50) using either a Terminal command or AppleScript. Background: The audio balance slider in System Settings > Sound > Output & Input works functionally, but I have difficulty determining when it's positioned at the exact center point. The visual nature of the slider makes it challenging for me to achieve the precision I need, and I end up adjusting it repeatedly trying to get it perfectly centered. What I'm looking for: A Terminal command that can set the audio balance to exact center An AppleScript that accomplishes the same thing Any other programmatic method to ensure perfect 50/50 balance I've tried searching through the defaults command documentation and Core Audio frameworks but haven't found the right approach yet. Has anyone successfully automated this setting before? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance, Dylan

Issue: CSV Headings Not Appearing in Shortcut-Generated File I'm using an iPhone 16 Pro with iOS 18.5 and the latest Shortcuts app to log expenses into a CSV file. The shortcut works fine, except the resulting file doesn't include the column headings. Here’s what I’ve done: Created a file called Expenses.csv with this single header line: Date,Price,Category,Store,Notes,Location Saved it to both /iCloud Drive and /iCloud Drive/Shortcuts (via iCloud on my Windows PC). My Shortcut builds the CSV line from inputs (date, price, category, etc.) and appends it to the file. I renamed the variables only in the final “Text” block, since renaming in earlier blocks seems no longer possible in this Shortcuts version. Despite this setup, the file doesn’t preserve the header row—it either doesn’t show up, or gets overwritten. Goal: Have a persistent CSV file with the correct headers once, and each new entry appended below the correct columns. Can anyone help me figure out what I’m doing wrong?

I'm soliciting you because I'm having a problem using the 3D short cut for my ios application in uikit in the AppDelegate file but it's impossible to redirect the route when the user has completely killed the application. It works as a background application. I'd like it to redirect to the searchPage search page when the application is fully closed and the user clicks on search with 3D touch. final class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate { lazy var window: UIWindow? = { return UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds) }() private let appDependencyContainer = Container() private let disposeBag = DisposeBag() var pendingDeeplink: String? private lazy var onboardingNavigationController: UINavigationController = { let navigationController = UINavigationController(nibName: nil, bundle: nil) navigationController.setNavigationBarHidden(true, animated: false) return navigationController }() private func handleShortcutItem(_ shortcutItem: UIApplicationShortcutItem) { guard let windowScene = UIApplication.shared.connectedScenes.first as? UIWindowScene, let window = windowScene.windows.first(where: { $0.isKeyWindow }), let rootVC = window.rootViewController else { DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 1.0) { [weak self] in self?.handleShortcutItem(shortcutItem) } return } if let presentedVC = rootVC.presentedViewController { presentedVC.dismiss(animated: !UIAccessibility.isReduceMotionEnabled) { [weak self] in self?.executeShortcutNavigation(shortcutItem) } } else { executeShortcutNavigation(shortcutItem) } } private func executeShortcutNavigation(_ shortcutItem: UIApplicationShortcutItem) { DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 0.1) { [weak self] in guard let self = self else { return } switch shortcutItem.type { case ShortcutType.searchAction.rawValue: self.mainRouter.drive(to: .searchPage(.show), origin: AppRoutingOrigin()) case ShortcutType.playAction.rawValue: self.mainRouter.drive(to: .live(channel: Channel(), appTabOrigin: AppTabOrigin.navigation.rawValue), origin: AppRoutingOrigin()) case ShortcutType.myListHistoryAction.rawValue: self.mainRouter.drive(to: .myList(.history), origin: AppRoutingOrigin()) default: break } } } What I've tried: Adding delays with DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter Checking for window availability and rootViewController Dismissing presented view controllers before navigation Environment: iOS 15+ Swift 6 Using custom router system (mainRouter) App supports both SwiftUI and UIKit Questions: What's the best practice for handling shortcuts on cold launch vs warm launch? How can I ensure the router is properly initialized before navigation?

I would like to have an AppEntity with a Property that is a Date, which is only the date, not the time. ie the equivalent of 09/14/2025, not 09/14/2025 09:00 UTC How would I model this? How would I create an EntityPropertyQuery for this? If I add QueryProperties they have the UI in Shortcuts pick a time too. Thanks!

I want to offer the user the opportunity to add more stuff to a list in AppIntents, but nothing I've tried "loops back" to the first Siri query. Checked several LLMs and they are suggest using "requestDialog" which doesn't exist, and calling recursively my AppIntent. Is this even possible?

I and many of my users observed the problem that the Shortcuts app seems to confuse and swap actions of different apps from the same developer. This happens after updating to iOS 26. This breaks many Shortcuts. Deleting one of the apps or re-adding the actions sometimes seems to help. Does anybody else observe this problem, or know how to handle this?

My phone turns or gets connected to Beats, Aipods max 2, and sometimes the Marshall Bluetooth device but it keeps triggering the automation for “When Connected To Bluetooth” - My Car tried deleting and recreating the automation and it’s still buggy.

Here's my AppleScript: tell application "Finder" activate open application file "Messages.app" of folder "Applications" of folder "System" of startup disk end tell I just need the step to send the message making the script automatically send the message which has already been created. This step opens the completed iMessage ready to send . I want to send it without and keyboard usage. All that is needed is the step to send

Is there a way to create a data roaming or cellular profile or shortcut so that we can turn data off for certain sets of apps when we travel (and turn them all back on when we're back)?

I am developing an app that allows the user to ask it to process the clipboard contents and do something with it. In developing a XC UI Test, I find the app stops while it waits for the user to give permission. That breaks the automation. I tried: let springboard = XCUIApplication(bundleIdentifier: "com.apple.springboard") let allowButton = springboard.buttons["Allow Paste"] But that does not work. Is there a way to tell the framework to automatically give the test permission to access the Paste clipboard (or to allow me to write tests to grant this)?

Hi, I am developing a music app. We are using siri media search functionality for a while. We recently had a case where siri would not provide keyword for a search. When user speaks "Play Kid songs" (in Turkish, çocuk şarkıları çal), when I debug I see mediaSearch.mediaName is nil. When user speaks "Play Kids" (in Turkish, çocuklar çal) a keyword is given and we can search and play related song. Normally I would think that siri is somehow censoring the word "Kid". But when i try the same voice search in Spotify, I get a children song search result. I've read documentations and searched web but couldnt find any similar experience. What would be the cause, is there an extra setting for this kind of behaviour. What would be the cause or a different capability that Spotify can get a keyword out of this voice search but not us?

I have a script that stop working since Tahoe migration. The script need to send a notification on the my mac. The issue is this line: osascript -e 'display notification "The task has been completed" with title "✅ My script"' It doesn't fail (return 0), nothing in outputs, but doesn't show anything. I check all my notification settings, but all seems to be right, I tested the configuration of iterm & script editor. And the global ettongs of the notifications:

Hello? Does anyone have a program to "Create Shortcuts" in Swift? With: Program Name: Program Path: Program Image:

I have recently added a SetFocusFilterIntent target extension to my app which is a system utility which goes into the menu bar(Application is agent = YES). I have followed the approach in the WWDC22 video introducing Focus Intent and I have created an App Groups to being able to make the Extension to communicate with my main app, however from when I did this sometimes when I run the app I do get this log line: Couldn't read values in CFPrefsPlistSource<0x97cd34700> (Domain: group.xxx.xxx.MyApp, User: kCFPreferencesAnyUser, ByHost: Yes, Container: (null), Contents Need Refresh: Yes): Using kCFPreferencesAnyUser with a container is only allowed for System Containers, detaching from cfprefsd Despite this the Focus mode integration is working correctly on my development Mac. However I used to Archive the app and then Copy the app to my MacBook but when I do that now my other Mac cannot open the app and it is giving me an error. If I revert this change then I can bring the app back to my other Mac as usual following the procedure: Product -> Archive. Then from the archiver: Distribute App -> Copy App. After that I copy the app generated to the App folder of my other MacBook but it doesn't open anymore. During the archival phase now I am even getting this warning: MyAppFocus.appex is an ExtensionKit extension and must be embedded in the parent app bundle's Extensions directory, but is embedded in the parent app bundle's ../../../BuildProductsPath/Release/MyApp.app/Contents/Extensions directory. How can I solve this issue? If I rollback the commit related to this SetFocusFilterIntent new feature the app can be Copied and moved to the other Mac as before. Is this related to the extension or to the fact that I had to use this new entitlement: com.apple.security.application-groups ?