On This Day

COMMENT

Search your photo library for old photos taken on this day in previous years. The shortcut can look for photos from multiple years, with multiple photos per day. If more than one photo is found, photos are resized to square and combined in a grid.

COMMENT

How many years to look for old photos?

NUMBER

1.0

COMMENT

How many photos per year?

NUMBER

1.0

COMMENT

Check the number of years and use either the word "years" or "year" for the initial message.

VARIABLES

Get

Total Years

SCRIPTING

If

Input

Condition

TEXT

year

Otherwise

TEXT

years

End If

SCRIPTING

Show

Now looking for photos taken on this day over the past

Total Years

Year Word

. I'm going to open the app to continue...

SCRIPTING

Continue in Shortcuts app

COMMENT

For each year, start repeat block.

SCRIPTING

Repeat

Total Years

DATE

Current Date

CALENDAR

Add

0

seconds

from

Date

CALENDAR

Format

Date

Options Under Construction

CALENDAR

Format

Date

Options Under Construction

COMMENT

Find photos for the year the Repeat block is currently iterating upon. To remove certain albums from the search, add filters to exclude albums. Note that these filters will apply to every year.

PHOTOS

Find

All Photos

where

All the following are true

Date Taken

is

Now

Is a Screenshot

is

None

Sort by

Date Taken

Order

Oldest First

Limit

Files

Photos Per Year

VARIABLES

Set variable

Results

to

Input

COMMENT

Count photos found for each year used as filter.

SCRIPTING

Count

Items

in

Input

SCRIPTING

If

Input

Condition

VARIABLES

Get

Results

SCRIPTING

Repeat with each item in

Input

MEDIA

Get

Location

from

Image

LOCATION

Get

City

from

Location

VARIABLES

Get

Cities

SCRIPTING

If

Input

Condition

NOTHING

Nothing

Otherwise

VARIABLES

Get

Details of Locations

VARIABLES

Add

Input

to

Cities

End If

VARIABLES

Get

Repeat Item 2

MEDIA

Get

Date Taken

from

Image

CALENDAR

Format

Date

Options Under Construction

COMMENT

Create a group of years to display in a final message at the end. If the year is already contained in the variable, skip it.

VARIABLES

Get

Years

SCRIPTING

If

Input

Condition

NOTHING

Nothing

Otherwise

VARIABLES

Get

Formatted Date

VARIABLES

Add

Input

to

Years

End If

COMMENT

Start preparing the year overlay. The 80 number is the default value for each numeric character that later generates the Width value for Crop Image action.

VARIABLES

Get

Formatted Date

SCRIPTING

Count

Characters

in

Input

MATHS

Number

×

80.0

Options Under Construction

TEXT

<head> <style> h1 { font-family: -apple-system; font-weight: 800; } </style> <h1>

Formatted Date

</h1> </head>

DOCUMENTS

Make rich text from

HTML

DOCUMENTS

Make PDF from

Input

Include

All Pages

MEDIA

Get images from

Input

MEDIA

Crop

Image

Position

Top Left

Width

Calculation Result

Height

170.0

MEDIA

Mask

Input

with

Rounded Rectangle

Shape

Corner Radius

20.0

COMMENT

If searching for photos for 1 year and if the result is 1 photo, keep the original photo. Otherwise, resize and crop every photo to square to later assemble a grid.

VARIABLES

Get

Total Years

SCRIPTING

If

Input

Condition

VARIABLES

Get

Number of Photo Results

SCRIPTING

If

Input

Condition

VARIABLES

Get

Repeat Item 2

Otherwise

End If

Otherwise

VARIABLES

Get

Repeat Item 2

MEDIA

Resize

Image

to

800.0

x

Auto Height

COMMENT

Remove crop action below if you want to combine images side by side.

MEDIA

Crop

Image

Position

Top Left

Width

800.0

Height

800.0

End If

MEDIA

Overlay

Masked Image

on

Image

Show Image Editor

Position

Bottom Right

Width

100

Height

100

Opacity

100

VARIABLES

Add

Input

to

Edited

End Repeat

Otherwise

NOTHING

Nothing

End If

End Repeat

VARIABLES

Get

Years

TEXT

Split

Text

by

New Lines

TEXT

Combine

Text List

with

Custom

,

TEXT

Combined Text

Current Date

VARIABLES

Get

Edited

SCRIPTING

Count

Items

in

Input

COMMENT

Check the number of processed photos and use the word "photos" or "photo".

SCRIPTING

If

Input

Condition

TEXT

photo

Otherwise

TEXT

photos

End If

COMMENT

Check the number of processed photos and use the phrase "They were taken" or "It was taken".

VARIABLES

Get

Number of Processed Photos

SCRIPTING

If

Input

Condition

TEXT

It was taken

Otherwise

TEXT

They were taken

End If

COMMENT

Count locations fetched from photos and see if necessary to include a location phrase in the final Show Result action.

VARIABLES

Get

Cities