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Livvie

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jun 29, 2021
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Wales
Hello,

I was hoping someone could help me. Is there anyway I can generate a link (and thus a QR) which when followed opens a specific app, or runs a shortcut to open that app?

Thank you.
 

Livvie

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jun 29, 2021
219
344
Wales

nicho

macrumors 601
Feb 15, 2008
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Hi thanks. I only seem to be able to make a url which opens the shortcut in the shortcuts app, not actually running the shortcut itself of opening the desired app. This is what I’m trying to open https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/7d8a784c02ac4c5ba6efbe2249bca94b

You can launch the app to a particular shortcut in your collection.
  • Open a URL with the following structure: shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=[name] and provide the name of the shortcut in the name parameter.
 
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