Mac

Tap Add a Mac again for each Mac, and give each a Name. When you choose a Mac action, pick the Mac at the top of the list. Each step remembers its Mac; change it with the Mac row in the step. A step whose Mac you removed stops and asks you to choose another.

Wakes the display, then types the Password you give it and presses Return, as if you were at the keyboard. Needs Accessibility. It types wherever the keyboard is on the Mac: if the Mac is already awake and unlocked, your password goes into whatever is open, such as a chat, followed by Return, which sends it. Run it only when the Mac is at its lock screen. The Password field is masked, and Logs never show the password. It is saved in the action unless you bind it to a Shortcuts input or choose Ask, so it is asked for on each run.

Choose an Application from the list of apps on your Mac, add Modifiers such as Command or Shift, and enter Keys. Keys can be a letter, a few words to type, or one special key by name: Return, Space, Tab, Escape, Delete, Left Arrow, Right Arrow, Up Arrow or Down Arrow. For example, Music with Keys Space plays or pauses.

Records the whole screen for the number of Seconds you choose and returns a .mov File. Shortcuts gives an action about half a minute, so keep recordings short when you run them from a shortcut.

Lock Screen turns the display off. The Mac locks if System Settings → Lock Screen asks for a password when the display turns off. Sleep puts the whole Mac to sleep. Wake turns the display on.

Copies a file from your shortcut onto the Mac. Bind File to File 1 in Execute Action. A Destination ending in / is a folder, such as ~/Desktop/, and the file keeps its own name there. A file with the same name is replaced.

Check that Remote Login is on, that the address matches the one shown in Sharing, and that your iPhone is on the same network as the Mac. If you denied local network access, allow it in the iPhone’s Settings → Privacy & Security → Local Network → Shortcutify. To reach your Mac away from home, use a VPN such as Tailscale and enter the Mac’s Tailscale name as the address.

Check the user name and password. The user name is your Mac account name, shown in the Remote Login window, not your Apple Account email. If you use a key, run the Terminal line again on the Mac.

The result is shown as text by default, and for a file that text is its name and size. In Shortcuts, tap the Execute Action result where you use it, such as in the next block, and choose File. The screenshot or recording is attached there.

The display was asleep or the screen was locked. Add a Wake step first. A locked Mac shows its lock screen in the picture.

Allow the permission the message names on the Mac, as described under Mac permissions, then run the action again. If the Mac shows a prompt while the action waits, Shortcutify stops after 30 seconds; allow the prompt and run it again.

macOS doesn’t always prompt for remote sessions. Add the entry yourself: in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording, click +, press Command-Shift-G, enter /usr/libexec/sshd-keygen-wrapper, add it and make sure it’s on. Then tap Check Again.

A sleeping Mac answers only when it can wake for network access. Turn on Wake for network access in the Mac’s Energy or Battery settings. It works best on power.

Use Make a Key on This iPhone. It makes an Ed25519 key, which current Macs accept. Pasted RSA keys are refused by current versions of macOS, because Shortcutify signs them in an older way.

The computer at that address isn’t the one Shortcutify first connected to. If you replaced or reinstalled your Mac, open Services → Mac, choose that Mac, and tap Forget Server Identity, then Save and Test. Otherwise, don’t connect.