Shortcuts will move backwards and forwards through your previous steps, deleting or adding actions in the order you took. Once you're adding actions and moving them around, you might come across situations when you want to reverse your last few steps (or move back forward through them) – thankfully, Apple adopted Undo and Redo keyboard shortcuts to go along with the physical controls in the shortcut editor.įollowing industry standards here as well, Shortcuts uses Command + Z to 'Undo', plus adds in the Shift key as a modifier so you can press Command + Shift + Z to 'Redo' as well. I've even started to figure out which letters to type for which action, for when there's overlap in verbs used in the name of an action – for example, with 'Set Variable', searching 'Set' will return a lot of results, so maybe try 'Variable' or whatever other noun might be in the action name. Screenshot showing a new shortcut with no actions, but the Actions pane with search results for a “URL” query showing URL, Get Contents of URL, Open URLs in Chrome, and more.įor users building their own shortcuts, this keyboard shortcut can be quite useful to take advantage of – popping into Search and typing a few letters for just the right action you want next helps speed up the process and avoid reaching up over & over when they keyboard is attached or your iPad is mounted. Once you've found your shortcut and tapped on the '.' button to open it, you'll be inside the 'shortcut editor' where you can see all the included actions, add new ones, and open the Details view to change the shortcut's settings. Spotlight + Shortcuts search only takes one reach up from the keyboard-right at the end to run the shortcut-and creating a new shortcut takes you right into the editor, which has its own keyboard shortcuts too. From any app, pressing ⌘/Command + Space will open to the search field in Spotlight, so that you can type in 'Shortcuts', then use the arrow keys to navigate to & open the app, then quickly search and find just the right shortcut. While these are fairly simple, iPad users can use both well in combination with Spotlight search. (Note: Command+F to Search is also available in the Gallery view).Ĭreate Shortcut uses Command+N (available in iOS 13/iPadOS 13) to add a shortcut to the end of your shortcuts list (think 'new'), opening you into the shortcut editor immediately and giving it a name like 'New Shortcut' or 'New Shortcut 2' if you already have another unnamed shortcut. For iPad users, this allows you to avoid reaching up from an attached or external keyboard just to tap the Search field, which is always a plus when using a vertical screen. Search uses Command + F to immediately enter the search field so you can begin typing a query to filter down the results from My Shortcuts (think 'find').

Screenshot showing the keyboard shortcuts for the main My Shortcuts view.

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