As of 8/30/2025, these are all the Settings Actions included in the iOS version of Apple's Shortcuts.
I did my best to adjust descriptions for better uniformity, so most of these will read differently in Shortcuts itself.
Settings:
- Auto-Answer Calls: Toggle whether calls are automatically answered.
- Change Background Sound: Change the sound to use when background sounds are playing.
- Find Cellular Plan
- Get Current Focus: Returns the currently active Focus.
- Get Device Details: Returns information about the current device.
- Get Hotspot Password: Returns your Hotspot password.
- Open Magnifier
- Reset Cellular Data Statistics: Resets the cellular data usage counters for the current Data line.
- Set AssistiveTouch
- Set Audio Descriptions
- Set Background Sounds: Toggle background sounds playback.
- Set Background Sounds Volume: Sets volume for background sounds.
- Set Classic Invert: Reverses the colors of the display.
- Set Closed Captions+SDH: Use closed captions for the deaf and hard of hearing.
- Set Color Filters
- Set Data Roaming: Sets the Data Roaming state setting for a specified cellular plan.
- Set Default Line: Sets the cellular plan used by default for voice calls or data.
- Set Hotspot Password: Sets the Personal Hotspot password.
- Set Increase Contrast: Increase color contrast between foreground and background colors.
- Set LED Flash: LED flashes for alerts.
- Set Left/Right Balance: Set Left/Right audio balance.
- -1.0 represents full Left balance and 1.0 represents full Right balance.
- Set Live Captions: Use on-device intelligence to automatically display captions.
- Set Mono Audio: Have left and right speakers play the same audio.
- Set Recognized Sound: Select which sound you'd like Sound Recognition to detect, when it's enabled.
- Set Reduce Motion: Reduce UI motion.
- Set Reduce Transparency: Reduce transparency and blur on some backgrounds.
- Set Smart Invert: Reverse colors except for images, media and some apps that use dark color styles.
- Set Sound Recognition
- Set Switch Control
- Set Switch Control Switch State: Toggles the state of any Switches that have been set up for Switch Control.
- Set Text Size: Use extended accessibility text sizes.
- Set Voice & Data: Sets the Voice & Data mode.
- Set Voice Control
- Set VoiceOver
- Set VPN: Connects, disconnects or changes the On Demand setting for a VPN.
- Set White Point: Lowers the intensity of bright colors.
- Set Zoom: Zoom magnifies the entire screen.
- Shut Down: Shuts down or restarts your device.
- Start Apple Watch Remote Screen
- Start Guided Access
- Start Speak Screen: Allows you to hear the content of the screen.
- Toggle Cellular Plan: Toggles state of a cellular plan on this iPhone.
Conclusion
You can view all of this yourself directly in shortcuts, by tapping on the information icon on the right end of each action in the gallery, or by tapping the icon on the left end of each action, and selecting Show Info from the menu that pops up.
I hope this list of settings actions for iOS Shortcuts provided you with what you were looking for. If you have any feedback, please leave a comment.
Credits
- Apple - The Featured Image, and Action descriptions.
