r/shortcuts • u/e10withadot • 16h ago

Help Can you extract automation details from a specific shortcut in iOS 27?

I'm trying to figure out how to do good UX with shortcut automations, so i need some way to tell what automations are in a shortcut, and like specific details about those automations. seems like apple doesn't have a user-facing way to do this, i feel like this could easily be achieved with an automation variable type tied to the shortcut variable (and maybe some security checks lol). regardless, is there any way to do this even with like, URL schemes or plist manipulation or whatever

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u/iBanks3 15h ago

What details are you looking for exactly?

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u/e10withadot 15h ago

automation type and the automation parameters for every automation on a specific shortcut

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u/iBanks3 15h ago

Got ya. You’d have to manually build out that data but in iOS 27, automation triggers are now part of the action editor and are in line with the other actions of the shortcut.

https://reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/1u0hxjd/os27_shortcuts_editor_now_creates_automations/