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Shortcuts FeatureRecently, Daring Fireball's John Gruber resurfaced an old tip that lets you quickly access the settings menu for the currently opened app on your iPhone. If you find it a hassle digging through the Settings app to find the associated app menu, this solution saves you the bother.

It uses a simple Shortcut – made conveniently downloadable courtesy of Quinn Nelson – that you can add to Control Center (or better yet the Action button) by using the "Run Shortcut" control. We couldn't not highlight it here because it's so useful.

Tag: Shortcuts

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InnocenceMyth Avatar
InnocenceMyth
2 weeks ago
I came to say this was a truly useful tip, and it's nice to see something that I don't think could possibly generate any snark in the comments...but I was too late.
Score: 28 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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sniffies
2 weeks ago
Great shortcut, but doesn't work with Camera app.

Here's a tweak to make it work with Camera app:





I'm still working on a tweak to make it work with Home app. Will update this post later.

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Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Jakol Avatar
Jakol
2 weeks ago

This is for the Iphone.
Oh ....



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daanodinot
2 weeks ago
Useful indeed, although it should probably be built-in.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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mihighil
2 weeks ago

Command plus comma is not good enough?
This is for the Iphone.
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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RemedyRabbit
2 weeks ago
That’s genuinely useful, thank you 🙌
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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