In Action
The Beach Theme
✨ Themes ✨
Big Sur
Catalina
The Beach
The Cliffs
The Desert
The Lake
⚙ Current Features ⚙
✅ No manual setup for downloading any wallpapers.
✅ Auto download themes. So always be up to date without even updating the shortcut itself.
✅ Total 8 various views of a theme according to the time of the day
✅ Custom run supported to Skip current theme, Refresh, Check for theme update, Check for shortcut update and Reset
✅ Inbuilt MacBook’s Big Sur wallpapers
✅ Customizable to set your own choice of wallpapers too
✅ Works according to your time zone
✅ Changes theme without requiring any type of input or trigger from you throughout the day/night
Menu Options
⚙ Next Features ⚙
☑️ Select/Unselect specific themes
☑️ More themes
Steps
Get the shortcut. Dynamic Wallpapers Shortcut
Run the shortcut and select Refresh options and allow all required permissions.
Let’s setup one automation so you don’t need to trigger this shortcut to update your wallpaper.
- Go to Shortcuts app
- Go to Automation tab
- Tap “+” to create new automation
- Tap Create Personal Automation
- Tap Time of Day > Sunrise > 1 hour before sunrise > Done > Next
- Tap Add Action > Text > Type Automation
- Tap “+” to add another action > Find action called Run Shortcut > Select Dynamic Wallpapers shortcut > Next
- Turn off Ask Before Running
- Done
You should see one automation in the automation list.
“1 hour before sunrise, daily”
Now, repeat above steps to setup other 7 automations as mentioned below to run this through day/night at specific times.
— At sunrise, daily
— 1 hour after sunrise, daily
— 2 hours after sunrise, daily
— 2 hours before sunset, daily
— 1 hour before sunset, daily
— At sunset, daily
— 1 hour after sunset, daily
— At 2:00 AM, daily (This is to shuffle wallpaper set)
If you have followed correctly so far then you should see something similar to this.
Done. You should see updated theme periodically (early morning/morning/noon/evening/night)
Recommended (Optional)
Follow this if you are tired seeing lots of notifications from Shortcuts app.
Go to Settings > Screen Time > See All Activity
Find Shortcuts under Notifications section. If it’s not there then try to switch days and find it.
Turn of All Notifications.
Note: This step of turning off the notifications is required again if you restart your device.
FAQs
On first run, getting this prompt — “Which pattern should the text be matched against?”
Restart your device and try to run again.
Shortcuts is showing notifications even after turning them off.
Unfortunately, turning off notification step is required again after restarting the device.
