Automation Control

Name: Automation Control
Rating: 4.8 (11 reviews)
Author: Jerrod Banks

By: Jerrod Banks App

Control Shortcuts Automations

Overview

Version:

2.10

Last updated: 2026-04-06

Features & Capabilities

If you use the Shortcuts automations like I do, surely you can find it difficult to manage them. Automation Control works with the Shortcuts app to provide a better way to manage your Shortcuts automations. This app, in a nutshell, is a glorified IF statement that determines if your automations should run or not. By simply adding Automation Control's Get Status of Item action to your Shortcuts Automations or by using the Automation Control Template shortcut, you now have better control over enabling, disabling, pausing, or setting conditions for your automations unlike ever before. This does not replace your Shortcuts automations tab; you still need to do some setup there for this app to manage them. Originally a shortcut a few years ago, and now an app, and with it, here are some things that you can do...

Name your automations along with adding an icon and a description
Sort your automations in order of A-Z, Z-A, Status, or Manually
Quickly toggle on/off your items with a simple double tap and view its status right on the item row
Multiple indicator views to choose your favorite way of viewing the on and off status of your items
12-hour and 24-hour timing support
Backup and Restore
Log View to see a log of when your automations completed successfully
Send or Receive a text variable between Shortcuts and this app
Filter/Group automations based on status
Search bar to search for specific automations
Pin automations
Set timers on your automations
Multiple layouts
Set conditions such as Date & Time, Location, Focus Modes, Weather, and more...
More and more to come...

How to use:

Create an Automation Control item by tapping the + button in the top right.
Name, describe, and select an icon and, of course, enable it.
Leave it as a Controller item by simply saving the new item or tap the Controls button and set various conditions.
Download the Automation Control Template shortcut, rename it to the same name as the control item you’ve just created, and set up your actions.
Set up your automation via the Automation tab in the Shortcuts app and add a Run Shortcut action from the list of actions and select the shortcut you’ve just modified.

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User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Jerrod Banks

Rating:

4.80

(11)

Version:

2.10 Last updated: 2026-04-06

Version code:

884177771

Creation date:

2024-11-03

Compatible devices:

Size:

28.83MB

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-08-19

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 311,390 ▼ 111

Other rankings

#2 in automation keyword 37

#3 in automation template keyword 30

#4 in automation catalog keyword 21 ▼ 1

#9 in custom automations without code keyword 30

#44 in right click automations keyword 19

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Developed by:

Jerrod Banks

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/automation-control/id6737158540

User Reviews

This app has been a long work in progress and started as a shortcut initially but morphed into something better that combined multiple shortcuts into a more streamlined interface. If you use automations, this is a very handy tool to have on your side to assist in various tasks

by mv*****, 2025-02-17

The developer is just so innovative in improving and providing extra control features to manage my automations. It’s been an amazing jump from the original Automation Control app version to this version. I’m happy to have it and best of all I have never seen an app so well documented as this one. I‘m not sure which the developer spent more time on the app or the docs, impressive.