Action button Multibutton shortcut

By Ahmed H, 12 February, 2024

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iOS and iPadOS

Hi all,
So I'm currently using the action button on my new. iphone 15 pro max. I have listend to the podcast on customizing action button, and an interesting shortcut was called multibutton where you can assign more than 1 shortcut at the same time to the action button.
I downloaded the multibutton shortcut, but unfortunately not able to assign any shortcut. Although I have written the names of the shortcuts, it seems that there is another way of doing it. Has anyone tried it? or is there a tutorial that can be more clear to use it?

Thank you

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By Mister Kayne on Monday, November 10, 2025 - 06:16

After you have added the action Choose from Menu and have it set to prompt here is what you got to do where the list ends i.e. the prompt list below you will see the names of each item you have added. Now in the action search for the action you want to do if a menu item is selected and add it to the shortcut. Once you have done that, use the action button under that action item and select copy. Sighted people can drag and drop but we need to go back to the item names that are listed after the end list, say you have Music as the first item, focus on it and then under that you should have an action button press and search for paste below. This places the action under the item name. Similar procedure for all the items you have added.

It is complicated when you first try but works like a charm once set up

By Oliver on Monday, November 10, 2025 - 06:24

I think it's silly apple hasn't done this themselves, but, as we know, apple is silly. Designed for the lowest common denominator.

By Brian on Monday, November 10, 2025 - 15:38

You can alternatively create a shortcut, that will bring up a list of other shortcuts or actions, like in a context menu. And then have your action button set up to open that particular shortcut. So the end result would be when you press action button, a context menu would pop up, with your list of shortcuts/actions. I currently have an old shortcut, that I used to use for Seeing AI, when I activated the shortcut, a context menu opens, and gives me options to do things like scan money, scan a barcode, read short text, or scan a document.
So if I had an action button, or otherwise assigned the shortcut to a gesture, that is an alternative to the multi shortcut function mentioned above.

By Mister Kayne on Monday, November 10, 2025 - 15:46

Do you still have that shortcut around? I mean I created the shortcut that allows me to choose from applications, like a menu of those applications is listed. Since I do not have the action button yet, I am using back tap to run that shortcut. This is cool, did not like the remark by Oliver about apple but I get where he is coming from, how silly of apple when your side/ wake up button can do more than one thing compared to the action button 😦

By Brian on Monday, November 10, 2025 - 15:51

I will upload it momentarily. Just a tip, it doesn't look impressive, until you run it outside of the shortcuts app. When you run it from within the shortcuts app, it just acts like a typical app folder. Like if you were to go to your shortcuts, and look at all of your shortcuts under be my eyes, for example.
However, running outside of shortcuts, Like from your action button for example, is where this shortcut will truly shine.

By Mister Kayne on Monday, November 10, 2025 - 15:54

I am going to assign it to the back tap gesture, did you try the new accessibility feature where you can do actions with your face? Like wink to open an application etc. Forgot what it is called. I tried it, not able to get a hang of it with Voice Over. Need to spend more time on the experience. Have a good one!

By Brian on Monday, November 10, 2025 - 18:00

Have fun with it. 😊