Putting together this shortcut turned out to be more challenging than I initially expected. If you’d rather keep the same format but still combine images, you can remove the ‘Crop Image’ action (shown above) and switch the final ‘Combine Images’ action to use the side-by-side setting. 1 The choice to make photos square was just a personal preference so I would end up with a grid where each image has the same size. You’ll also notice that, when dealing with multiple images that have to be combined in a grid, the shortcut will resize each photo to 800 pixels and crop it to a square format. At the end of the shortcut, you’ll be presented with a nice message that sums up how many photos were found along with the names of all the cities where the pictures were taken. Furthermore, while location metadata is optional, the shortcut is best experienced with photos that have embedded data for the original location where they were taken – most pictures taken on an iPhone do. First of all, this shortcut can only work if your photos have correct metadata for the ‘Date Taken’ parameter Shortcuts is trying to find photos that match a specific date, so if they lack a date altogether, or if the date is incorrect, the shortcut won’t work. I don’t want to get into a technical explanation of every single action of this shortcut, but there are a few high-level themes and key ideas I’d like to highlight. Or you can ignore both import questions and manually modify the Number actions to contain ‘Ask When Run’, which will prompt you to manually enter values every time you run the shortcut. You can enter values such as “15 years, 5 photos per day” or “3 years, 10 photos per day”, and the shortcut will continue to work.
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However, you’re also free to enter whatever you want, bearing in mind that the more years and photos per day you’ll ask Shortcuts to search and combine, the longer it’s going to take for the shortcut to complete. The two Number actions that control years and photos filtered by the Shortcuts app. You can even activate the shortcut from Siri if you want (though due to memory consumption, it’ll always have to execute in the Shortcuts app).Īs usual, let’s take a look at how this works in practice:
The shortcut was designed to scale from individual shots to entire collections of photos the final result will always be previewed in full-screen, and you can decide to save it to the Photos app or anywhere else with the share sheet. Feeling a bit more nostalgic and looking to assemble a collage of 5 photos for each “same day” from the past 10 years? This is also possible by tweaking two numbers. Want the shortcut to only show you a single photo taken on this day last year? Just add your preference at the beginning, and you’ll have a functional replica of dedicated “on this day” utilities from the App Store. My new custom shortcut is called ‘On This Day’, and it can be used to find any number of photos for any number of years in the past.
That seemed like a fun project that I could pick up again and improve for the Shortcuts app. The main idea was simple enough: given Workflow’s ability to read the contents of the photo library, the workflow would filter a photo taken on the same day in previous years and preview it with Quick Look. As I was browsing through my old Workflow articles, I came across an interesting workflow I created in early 2015 called Photo Flashbacks.
Affinity photo shortcuts archive#
I’m in the process of creating a complete archive of every workflow I ever created for the Workflow app and updating each one for Shortcuts.
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