Mark Van Alstine

I enjoy coding, Apple Shortcuts, spending time with my family, and learning new things.

Mark Van Alstinemvan231
2025-06-16

@stux good find. You could use something like this to at least get you to the setting

icloud.com/shortcuts/e93e3f73e

Or this one modified to take you back to current app or Home Screen depending on where you launch it from: icloud.com/shortcuts/4dc9c61bb

Mark Van Alstinemvan231
2025-06-16

@stux that's fair :)

Mark Van Alstinemvan231
2025-06-16

@stux indeed there is a setting to enable showing the arrow when system uses location but you can also disable all of those system location features if you wish

Mark Van Alstinemvan231
2025-06-16

@stux out of curiosity, why turn it on and off? You can limit app access to your location so only the app you want to have use it can

Mark Van Alstine boosted:
Manzanas EnfrentadasManzanasEnfrentadas@mas.to
2025-06-16

iOS26, ahora puedes agregar fácilmente archivos de audio como tono de 📞 llamada
Más vale tarde que nunca…
Gracias @aaronp613
#ios26 #iphone #apple

Mark Van Alstinemvan231
2025-06-16

@mage_of_dragons ah interesting. I thought this is a shortcut which would require entry, then acceptance of the entry before further action could be taken

Mark Van Alstinemvan231
2025-06-16

@mage_of_dragons ah so you're thinking it's just a menu/list that the user would choose a given letter rather than entering the letter manually?

Mark Van Alstinemvan231
2025-06-16

@mage_of_dragons but how do you enter the input to the shortcut?

Mark Van Alstinemvan231
2025-06-16

@TiKXI the correct answer is: all of the analytics

Mark Van Alstinemvan231
2025-06-16

@mage_of_dragons ahh I see. Interesting idea but I'm trying to understand how that might differ from just launching an app via spotlight

Mark Van Alstinemvan231
2025-06-16

@mage_of_dragons not quite sure I understand the idea

Mark Van Alstinemvan231
2025-06-15

Have you been looking for a clipboard manager on ?

I've been utilizing one I made for personal use for quite some time and published it to not long ago called "Clipper"

It's pretty simple but gets the job done. You run the shortcut and tell it to start clipping. When done you can exit the shortcut and run again to view the clipper file or edit it if you need to

routinehub.co/shortcut/22232/

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iBanksiBanks
2025-06-10

Whelp! Here we are in iOS26 Beta and I still can’t add shortcuts to Control Center or the Lock Screen. This bug has been present since about 18.0 Beta 2. Folks from the team reached out to me in regards, I provided the info and data they asked for and never heard back from them. This had to be at least 6 months ago. Just a shame that I’d have to do a hard reset and add each shortcut one by one to see which causes the issue. I have over 600. 😩

From: @iBanks
mastodon.social/@iBanks/113358

Mark Van Alstinemvan231
2025-06-10

If you play and are looking for some new custom courses to try, give these two a shot. They have great detail and thought put into every hole.

* Boulders at Jimson Resort

* Lake of the Woods

Mark Van Alstinemvan231
2025-05-30

@matthewcassinelli @gluebyte @routinehub it's been there for a bit already but most don't notice it. It's actually the reason why quite a few of us have put "Direct Download Link" inserts in the top of our shortcut pages because it avoided the need to have a login. There is a percentage chance you'll be required to sign up with the normal button but it's still a bit off putting.

Mark Van Alstine boosted:
2025-05-30

‘Shortcut Source Tool’ automatically detects corruption (unbalanced if/repeat/menu) and offers to repair. I have checked with some recent on RoutineHub, found 2 corrupted ones, and notified the developers🤟
routinehub.co/shortcut/5256/

Mark Van Alstinemvan231
2025-05-30

@vmbrasseur @joshdholtz truly a great option! I've gone another path recently with @iBanks 's Automation Control app
apps.apple.com/app/id6737158540

Mark Van Alstine boosted:
2025-05-30

Whim: “Gosh, it'd be handy to have crontab for running #Shortcuts on #iOS.”

Action: Do a quick web search

Result: Mind blown by a blog post from @joshdholtz.

joshholtz.com/blog/2021/06/23/

Mark Van Alstinemvan231
2025-05-19

@matthewcassinelli yeah that's the one.

I haven't really posted it anywhere official yet but feel free to take a look
icloud.com/shortcuts/db19f8b9c

Mark Van Alstinemvan231
2025-05-19

@matthewcassinelli did you see my folder system for shortcuts?

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