Toolbox Pro for Shortcuts

Fix 'Authentication failed' errors in "Get what3words Address" action

- Slightly improve performance of Apple Music actions on slow connections

In 2023.1.3:
- Fix download link for "Quick Note" example.
- Fix description of parameters for "Input Text" tool.

In 2023.1.2:
- Fix "Is Premium Unlocked" always returning "yes".
- Fix "Play Haptic Feedback" on iOS 17. Unfortunately, we're now forced to open the app in order to trigger the haptic. This appears to be an intentional change by Apple that doesn't have a workaround.

In 2023.1.1:
- Fix tools using Reminders or Calendar displaying the error "Permission to access reminders denied by user", instead of asking for permission, on iOS 17.

In 2023.1:
- The original creator of Toolbox Pro, Alex Hay, tragically passed away earlier this year. We have been incredibly honoured to have been asked by Alex's family to continue his legacy and take over all his apps, including Toolbox Pro. You can read the full announcement at: https://snailedit.dev/alex-hay-apps
- Unfortunately, due to how user data was being stored, we've had to reset all global variables and bookmarks. We're incredibly sorry for the inconvenience this causes.
- Fix Apple Music actions failing due to an expired token
- Fix "Scan Document" sometimes returning to the shortcut before adding the image to the clipboard
- Fix "Get Location from what3words" failing with a 'quota exceeded' error
- Fix links to example shortcuts for Image Viewer and RSS Reader
- Fix Global Variables with values less than 30 characters not appearing in the app (but still appearing in Shortcuts)

In 2023.1.2:
- Fix "Is Premium Unlocked" always returning "yes".
- Fix "Play Haptic Feedback" on iOS 17. Unfortunately, we're now forced to open the app in order to trigger the haptic. This appears to be an intentional change by Apple that doesn't have a workaround.

In 2023.1.1:
- Fix tools using Reminders or Calendar displaying the error "Permission to access reminders denied by user", instead of asking for permission, on iOS 17.

In 2023.1:
- The original creator of Toolbox Pro, Alex Hay, tragically passed away earlier this year. We have been incredibly honoured to have been asked by Alex's family to continue his legacy and take over all his apps, including Toolbox Pro. You can read the full announcement at: https://snailedit.dev/alex-hay-apps
- Unfortunately, due to how user data was being stored, we've had to reset all global variables and bookmarks. We're incredibly sorry for the inconvenience this causes.
- Fix Apple Music actions failing due to an expired token
- Fix "Scan Document" sometimes returning to the shortcut before adding the image to the clipboard
- Fix "Get Location from what3words" failing with a 'quota exceeded' error
- Fix links to example shortcuts for Image Viewer and RSS Reader
- Fix Global Variables with values less than 30 characters not appearing in the app (but still appearing in Shortcuts)

In 2023.1.1:
- Fix tools using Reminders or Calendar displaying the error "Permission to access reminders denied by user", instead of asking for permission, on iOS 17.

In 2023.1:
- The original creator of Toolbox Pro, Alex Hay, tragically passed away earlier this year. We have been incredibly honoured to have been asked by Alex's family to continue his legacy and take over all his apps, including Toolbox Pro. You can read the full announcement at: https://snailedit.dev/alex-hay-apps
- Unfortunately, due to how user data was being stored, we've had to reset all global variables and bookmarks. We're incredibly sorry for the inconvenience this causes.
- Fix Apple Music actions failing due to an expired token
- Fix "Scan Document" sometimes returning to the shortcut before adding the image to the clipboard
- Fix "Get Location from what3words" failing with a 'quota exceeded' error
- Fix links to example shortcuts for Image Viewer and RSS Reader
- Fix Global Variables with values less than 30 characters not appearing in the app (but still appearing in Shortcuts)

- The original creator of Toolbox Pro, Alex Hay, tragically passed away earlier this year. We have been incredibly honoured to have been asked by Alex's family to continue his legacy and take over all his apps, including Toolbox Pro. You can read the full announcement at: https://snailedit.dev/alex-hay-apps
- Unfortunately, due to how user data was being stored, we've had to reset all global variables and bookmarks. We're incredibly sorry for the inconvenience this causes.
- Fix Apple Music actions failing due to an expired token
- Fix "Scan Document" sometimes returning to the shortcut before adding the image to the clipboard
- Fix "Get Location from what3words" failing with a 'quota exceeded' error
- Fix links to example shortcuts for Image Viewer and RSS Reader
- Fix Global Variables with values less than 30 characters not appearing in the app (but still appearing in Shortcuts)

Bug Fixes & Improvements
+ Fixed an issue that would cause some Apple Music actions to fail
+ The 'Add To List' tool now works with much larger lists of items
+ You can now generate much larger images using the 'Create Images From Text' tool

New Media Tools
• Find Games
• Find TV Shows
• Get TV Show Details
• Find Books

Tool Updates
• Find Movies - now shows thumbnail posters when using a Choose From List action. You can also filter by including or excluding multiple genres as well as providers currently hosting the movie in your region
• Get Movie Details - now includes details about which providers are currently hosting the movie
• Get Workouts - you can now return many times more workouts than the previous 300 limit
• Added ~1,000 new SF Symbols to use in menus and icons

Tool Bug Fixes
• Get Files From Bookmarked Folder - fixed an issue where only the first file in an array of paths would be retrieved
• Get Workouts - fixed an issue where timezones may not be have been correct in the workout's start end times

App Updates
• Improved accessibility labels in VoiceOver & Voice Control

New Media Tools
• Find Games
• Find TV Shows
• Get TV Show Details
• Find Books

Tool Updates
• Find Movies - now shows thumbnail posters when using a Choose From List action. You can also filter by including or excluding multiple genres as well as providers currently hosting the movie in your region
• Get Movie Details - now includes details about which providers are currently hosting the movie
• Get Workouts - you can now return many times more workouts than the previous 300 limit
• Added ~1,000 new SF Symbols to use in menus and icons

Tool Bug Fixes
• Get Files From Bookmarked Folder - fixed an issue where only the first file in an array of paths would be retrieved
• Get Workouts - fixed an issue where timezones may not be have been correct in the workout's start end times

App Updates
• Improved accessibility labels in VoiceOver & Voice Control

Many tools have redesigned to be more powerful on iOS14. 

'Filter Images', 'Get Text From Image', 'Create Icon', 'Detect Faces' and many other tools no longer require bouncing over to the Toolbox Pro app to function, making them easier to use and keeping your workflows right inside the Shortcuts app.

Saving, getting and listing the contents of bookmarked folders (outside of the Shortcuts sandbox folder) can now be done right inside Shortcuts *and* these tools are all now free to use!

Tools that manipulate lists like sorting, shuffling or removing duplicates can now handle many more items at once.

'Get Text From Audio' can now transcribe many more languages and can optionally perform more detailed recognition online (with a 1-minute limit).

Brand New Tools
+ Pick A Colour
+ Is Silent Mode On
+ Pluralise Words
+ Is Premium Unlocked
+ Find Pexel Photos & Videos
+ Get what3words Address
+ Format Number As Text
+ Build URLs (from components)

- All examples have been updated to take advantage of the new tools.
- The global variable editor now shows previews when storing base64 images.
- Bug fixes

NEW TOOLS
+ Calculate With Soulver
+ Bookmark Files & Folders
+ Edit Bookmarked File
+ Search Bookmarked Folder
+ Generate Thumbnails
+ Get File URL
+ Set Nested Dictionary Value

APP CHANGES
+ Brand new design
+ New app icons
+ Bookmark Folders in-app
+ Add variables and bookmarks from home screen quick actions
+ Faster to load

BUG FIXES
+ Fixed Music authentication
+ Menu item scaling

NEW TOOLS

• Get Photo Albums
Get information about albums in your Photo library

• Add Photo Album
Add a new album or folder to your photo library

• Get Audio Output Device
Get information about the connected audio device

• Tag Files
Add, remove or retrieve tags from the given files

• Query Server
Get the status of the chosen website

• Convert Currency
Convert from one currency to another using the European Central Bank's latest exchange rate

• Format Currency
Format an amount to the chosen currency


NEW EXAMPLES

• Colour Files
Tag the selected files with the chosen colours

• File Tagger
Bulk tag files with saved tags

• BabelFish
Full-featured text translator

• Icon Weights Example
How to change the weights of icons in the Quick Menu tool

• Font Awesome Example
How to use Font Awesome icons in the Quick Menu tool

• Currency Converter
View multiple conversions of the chosen currencies

• Emoji Menu Example
How to use emoji icons in the Quick Menu tool


TOOL CHANGES

• Quick Menu
You can now change the weight of SF Symbol icons by appending a weight to the end of the symbol name. You can also use Font Awesome icons as an alternative to SF Symbols, adding another 6,000 icons! Check the tool descriptions for details

• Create Reminder
You can now give the reminder a start date and due date (deadline)

• Edit Reminder
You can now edit both the alert date and due date

• Get Detail From Text
You can now get the lemma (stem) of the given words. You can also identify parts of speech and individual sentences or paragraphs

• Scale Image
You can now include an alpha channel in the output (saves as PNG instead of JPEG)

• Get Location From Text
If no location is found, nothing is returned instead of throwing an error

• Get Colours As Hex
You can now return all the colours as a dictionary

• Back In The Game
'Shuffle List', 'Is Dark Mode On' and 'Get Toolbox Pro Tools' have been reinstated after a short hiatus

• Edit List
You can now add a custom title to the edit list page

• Get Symbol Name
Font Awesome symbols are now listed as a category

• Edit Notifications
You can now remove individual notifications that have been delivered

• Get Text From Audio
The one minute restriction has been lifted, you can now transcribe audio of any duration. More languages have been added

• Create Icon
You can now use Font Awesome as well as SF Symbols for the icons. There's a new emoji mode which lets you generate an icon from an emoji and you can also adjust the scale of the icon within the frame

• Create Menu Item
You can now use Font Awesome as well as SF Symbols for the icons. There's a new emoji mode which lets you generate an icon from an emoji


TOOL BUG FIXES

• If Or
Fixed a bug that could mean the 'otherwise' text was never output

• Typos
Thanks to the eagle-eyed users who spotted them!

• Add To List
Adding an item to a list no longer displays a rogue prompt

• Find Movies
Genres are now returned correctly

• Quick Match
Matching between [special] characters is now {possible}

• Get Song Links
Improved error handling for invalid links


APP BUG FIXES

• Display Bug
Fixed an issue in 13.4 that caused the UI to overlap with the status bar

• Hey Siri
Tools should now work as expected when run through Siri

• Image Viewer
Fixed a bug that caused a crash when using the Image Viewer example shortcut

A hot-fix for a colour issue in the Quick Menu tool - Orange and Teal should now render as expected.

NEW TOOLS
• Quick Menu - building beautiful menus has never been faster!
• If Or - test multiple conditions

NEW EXAMPLES
• Natural Language Parser (If Or demo)
• Quick Menu Example

APP CHANGES
• You can now browse tools by category from the main screen

TOOL CHANGES
• You can now choose to remove blank lines and empty spaces when using the trim tool
• Create Menu Items is slightly faster and you can now use base64 as an image input
• You can now include or exclude items beginning or ending with a query when using the Filter List tool. No longer throws an error when the output is empty
• It turns out there's a limit of 100 shortcut actions per app… Who knew!? Hopefully this will change but in the mean time, I've had to remove 'Shuffle List', 'Get Toolbox Pro Tools' and 'Is Dark Mode On?'

APP BUG FIXES
• Fixed a layout padding bug and a split-view bug when presenting the What's New view pop up
• Removed health permissions section in the settings tab when using iPad
• Fixed an issue that caused the tool icons in example detail views to misalign

TOOL BUG FIXES
• Get Text From Audio: Fixed a bug that prevented any custom URLs being opened after transcribing audio in the tool
• Edit Reminder: Fixed a bug that threw an indecipherable error message if a wrong UUID was entered
• Get Workouts: Some workout types would incorrectly return all activities
• Create Event: Fixed an issue that sometimes meant all-day events were given start and end times
• Edit Reminder: Added error message when trying to move the list of a reminder with subtasks
• Show Notification: Fixed a bug that meant the ‘Open’ action set never worked

Some quick bug fixes:

EXAMPLE BUGS
• Activity Summaries: Fixed a bug that meant some goal icons weren't showing as green even though they were completed
• Love & Add Song: Fixed a bug that threw an error when ran

TOOL BUGS
• Get Toolbox Pro Tools: Fixed incorrect categories for some tools

APP BUGS
• Get Activity: Fixed tool description
• Typos! Thanks for reporting

Thanks for all the great feedback and supporting Toolbox Pro.

NEW TOOLS
* Show Notification
* Edit Notifications
* Get Workouts
* Get Activity
* Add Contact
* Add/Remove Contact Group
* Add Track To Playlist
* Seek Playback
* Scan QR Codes In Image

NEW EXAMPLES
* Activity Summaries
* Recent Workouts
* Message Reminder
* Drafts Notification
* Love & Add Song

APP TWEAKS
* You'll now get an alert to show what's new when tools have been added
* From the 'All Examples' page you can now choose to display only examples without premium tools
* Added a new Health & Fitness category to the examples page

TOOL CHANGES
* Haptic feedback now doesn't throw an error if the device isn't supported by default
* You can now long-press a map in a Preview window to open it in Maps, Google Maps or Street View

TOOL BUX FIXES
* Add To Global variable was adding a new line even when the option was deselected
* Fixed a bug where some artists wouldn't be returned and the action would time out
* Fixed a bug that meant console logging would need to be toggled from settings manually before the tool printed to console
* You can now create an empty playlist

NEW TOOL
• Create Images From Text - Style text and render it to an image to use in your shortcuts

NEW EXAMPLES
• Overlay Text On Image - Manually position the entered text on your chosen image
• Share Music To Instagram - Create a music poster from a song's artwork to share to instagram

TOOL BUG FIXES
• Apple Music Authorisation - When using tools that require access to your Apple Music Library (Rate Songs, Create Playlist, Add To Library) you will now be prompted for your Apple Music password just once.

• Create Events - Availability status is now set correctly. Also fixed a bug that could result in an event being added to the default calendar rather than the chosen one.

• Detect Faces - Tool no longer hands if no faces are found

• Edit Reminder - Fixed a bug that sometimes caused a reminder to not be marked as complete.

• Is App Installed - Fixed incorrect URL schemes for Amazon and Fantastical

Thanks for supporting Toolbox Pro!

NEW TOOLS
• First wave of Apple Music tools:
○ Add Music To library
○ Create Apple Music Playlist
○ Find Albums
○ Find Songs
○ Find Artists
○ Find Playlists
○ Get Playlists From Library
○ Play Music
○ Rate Music

• Is App Installed?
• Is VPN Connected?
• Add To List
• Remove From List
• Shuffle List
• Get Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)

NEW EXAMPLES
• Create Swatch
• Get List Of Installed Apps
• Get Playlists
• List To Playlist
• Music Search
• Create Thumbnails Of Faces

APP CHANGES
• New ‘Whats New’ section in the settings tab

TOOL CHANGES
• Detect Faces now outputs a tight and wide thumbnail of the face
• Home tool is sped up

TOOL BUG FIXES
• Create Events - sometimes event wouldn't create properly
• Create Menu Item - better error handling for invalid data
• Detect Faces - fixed bug that cause only a single face object to be returned
• Get Reminder UUID - You can now get the UUID of completed reminders too
• Haptic Feedback - After investigation it appears there is a bug in Shortcuts that causes the Haptic Feedback tool to stop working if you navigate from the Shortcuts editor view to the home screen or another app. Force-quitting Shortcuts resolves the issue.

NEW TOOLS
• Recognise Speech - transcribe speech from audio file, offline
• Create Calendar Event - add a new calendar event with options for URL, recurrence and availability
• Get Calendars - get list of calendar names and details
• Create Calendar - add a new calendar
• Relative Date Description - describes the relationship between two dates (e.g “two weeks ago”)
• Get Toolbox Pro Tools - meta-tool to get information about Toolbox Pro’s tools
• Get Colour As Hex - get a hex code from a list of colours
• Get Symbol Name - search for symbol names by category
• Return Home
• Generate UUID - outputs a unique RFC 4122 identifier

NEW EXAMPLES
• Tally - keep multiple running tallies, stored in Global Variables
• Random Icon Generator - Generate an icon with random background, foreground colours and icons.
• Photo From Day - See photos taken on the same day over the years
• Batch Move Calendar Events - move events from one calendar to another

APP CHANGES
• New ‘Whats New’ section in the settings tab

TOOL CHANGES
• You can now enter a custom URL to open when finished manually cropping

TOOL BUG FIXES
• Reminders created with the ‘Create Reminder’ tool were setting a due date instead of an alert which meant they wouldn’t show notifications when they were due
• The ‘no source’ error when creating new reminders lists *should• now be fixed - please let me know if it still happens
• Find Emoji is no longer case-sensitive
• Added better field validation to the reminders tools to show errors when missing/given invalid data
• Added description of how to circumvent Shortcuts variable-changing bug to ‘Create Menu Item’ tool

APP BUG FIXES
• Temporarily removed the ‘show all’ button from the Example tab’s navigation bar. Unfortunately this is due to a new SwiftUI bug causing a crash without a workaround at the moment
• Removed some padding-gone-awry on the ‘Add Variable’ button when there are no variables saved
• Replaced incorrect URL for Song Links example
• Typos

NEW TOOLS
• ‘Get Location From Coordinates’
• ‘Get Details Of Locations (Extended)’
• ‘Is The Sun Up’ - check if the sun has risen in a location

NEW EXAMPLES
• ‘NFC Scanner’ - read from & write to NFC tags
• ‘Change Date Of Reminders’ - batch edit the date of reminders
• ‘Complete Reminders List’ - mark a whole reminders list as complete
• ‘Packing List’ - create a packing list in Reminders with a saved template of items
• ‘Has Run Today’ - an example of how to check whether a shortcut has already run today

BUG FIXES
• Global variables with empty text values now show correctly in the global variable list
• You can now use ‘^’ or ‘**’ to get the power of a number in the 'Perform Calculation' tool
• You can now use ‘x’ as well as ‘*’ to multiply in the 'Perform Calculation' tool
• Fixed an NFC bug preventing it from returning to Shortcuts
• When setting a global variable, the output is now the variable that has been set
• Fixed an issue where the background of the ‘Input Text’ action wasn’t transparent
• Fixed a bug with long names overflowing in tool boxes in the examples pages
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Help menu from opening in the Global Variables view when there were no variables set

Thanks for supporting Toolbox Pro!

- Alex

• Added new actions to the 'Edit Reminder' tool
• Perform calculation no longer crashes if you use a "=" in your equation
• Temporarily removed the 'Create Swatch' example due to a bug in Shortcuts. Will be restored when 13.3 is released
• Changed output type of 'Check Internet Connection' tool to boolean
• Changed output type of 'Is Audio Playing' tool to boolean
• Tweaked the ‘View Map’ example shortcut to use the new location field
• Fixed a few typos