Shortcuts Focus: texting multiple recipients in separate messages

iOS 12 brought a novel Shortcuts app that makes it slow to chain diverse actions from multiple apps together together with execute them amongst a tap or a custom vocalism command. Creative people all over the the world are discovering around genuinely corking uses for iOS automation. Today, iDownloadBlog is highlighting the Mass Message shortcut yesteryear Reddit user “LastBrain”.

Mass Message: text multiple people at once

The Mass Message shortcut sends your custom text message to multiple recipients through the Messages app—but individually, inwards dissever messages. This solves ane of the biggest complaints nearly the stock Messages app which supports grouping chatting but won’t allow you lot text multiple recipients simultaneously via private messages.

To buy the farm the shortcut, catch the download page on iCloud on your iOS 12 device together with tap the bluish button Get Shortcut. If asked whether to opened upwardly the file inwards the Shortcuts app, tap Open.

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Here’s how to customize the shortcut to your liking.

Customizing the Mass Message shortcut

You tin terminate customize the shortcut correct after opening it inwards the Shortcuts app.

Or, burn upwardly the Shortcuts app later, tap the Library tab at the bottom, together with then tap the 3 dots inwards the upper-right corner of the Mass Message tile.

Be for certain to tap the 3 dots because tapping the tile really runs the shortcut.

What this shortcut does is direct maintain your text equally an input, together with then asks you lot to select multiple contacts earlier entering a loop inwards which it sends the same novel message to each soul individually.

You may pick whatever contact land to piece of job equally the message greeting

You tin terminate customize the next shortcut options to your liking:

• Question: Tap this land together with type out the query you’ll live greeted amongst upon executing the shortcut. By default, it invites you lot to furnish inwards a custom message text.


• Default Answer: Optionally, type a canned message or an excerpt amongst around parts left blank thus you lot tin terminate fill upwardly inwards the details at runtime similar a date, fourth dimension or identify name.


• Input Type: Instead of working amongst pure text, this activeness tin terminate live adjusted to instead direct maintain a custom number, URL or appointment provided at run time.


• Message greeting: The shortcut starts the message amongst the default “Hey [FIRST NAME]!” greeting. To customize it, teach inwards a desired message inwards the Send Message field.

I couldn’t detect an slow agency to proceed the selected recipients remembered across sessions.

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If you lot by together with large mass-message the same people, you lot must select them every fourth dimension you lot run the shortcut. You could build your life easier yesteryear hard-coding a custom recipient listing to avoid having to manually pick them, but that’s a theme for a whole novel tutorial.

Like amongst whatever other shortcut on your iPhone or iPad, you lot tin terminate easily conform a few handy global options for Mass Message yesteryear hitting that Settings push clit nigh the top-right corner.

You tin terminate straightaway alter the next features:

• Name: Enter a desired championship for this shortcut


• Icon: Select your Home concealment icon for this action. You tin terminate pick an existing ikon from your Photos library, direct maintain a build novel shot amongst your iOS device’s photographic television camera or browse a myriad of glyphs together with select ane to serve equally your icon graphic.
  
  
  
  • Color: Change the glyph color.
  
  
  • Glyph: Swipe to select a desired icon or tap Objects, People, Symbols or Services inwards the tab expanse at the bottom to chop-chop switch betwixt the icon sets. Tap Services if you’d similar to assign this shortcut an icon which represents ane of pop services similar Apple Music, Facebook, Dropbox together with others.
  
  
  • Image: Use a novel or existing ikon equally the shortcut’s Home scree icon.
  
  
  
  


• Add to Siri: Lets you lot execute this activeness via a custom vocalism command. Tap the Record push clit at the bottom together with reach something similar “Mass Message friends” together with hitting Done to piece of job this phrase equally a shortcut trigger (tap Re-Record Phrase to commencement over). This lets you lot execute the activeness yesteryear invoking Siri together with proverb “mass message friends”


• Show inwards Widget: Make the shortcut available via the Today screen’s Shortcuts widget.


• Show inwards Share Sheet: Access this activeness via iOS’s Share canvass inwards other apps.


• Add to Home Screen: Give the shortcut its ain Home concealment icon for quicker access.

Adding the shortcut to your Home screen

Adding the shortcut to your Home concealment volition mail a unique URL to Safari. From there, tap on the Share icon, select the option Add to Home Screen from the popup menu, furnish a custom name for the shortcut icon together with live tap on Add to direct maintain iOS position the icon on your Home screen.

Please proceed inwards heed that manually deleting the shortcut icon from the Home concealment similar you lot would whatever other app removes the icon but leaves the underlying shortcut intact. To permanently take the shortcut, delete it from inside the Shortcuts app.

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