# Triggering a flow from iphone shortcuts

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/triggering-a-flow-from-iphone-shortcuts/136877>\
**Category:** Flows\
**Created:** [May 21, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/triggering-a-flow-from-iphone-shortcuts/136877 "2025-05-21T20:22:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Konstantin\_Vasilev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/konstantin_vasilev/32/134269_2.png) [@Konstantin\_Vasilev](https://community.homey.app/u/Konstantin_Vasilev)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/triggering-a-flow-from-iphone-shortcuts/136877/1 "2025-05-21T20:22:04Z")

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I wanted to trigger a Homey flow from an iphone shortcut, but when I select “start homey flow”, it doesn’t let me pick whicih flow to start. Instead it asks me which one to start when the shortcut is ran and doesn’t remember selection for future runs.  
I’m using the latest version of the Homey app and running ios 18.4.1

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**Author:** ![SunBeech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sunbeech/32/111391_2.png) [@SunBeech](https://community.homey.app/u/SunBeech)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/triggering-a-flow-from-iphone-shortcuts/136877/2 "2025-05-22T17:44:32Z")

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Maybe this helps: [No available flows in iOS widget - #13 by SunBeech](https://community.homey.app/t/no-available-flows-in-ios-widget/98480/13)

You should be able to select all manually startable flows in the Apple Shortcuts app.

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Flows that are not manually startable (so, which don’t have a blue play button in an Advanced Flow, or the ‘This flow is started’ WHEN card in a Standard Flow) are not available in Apple Shortcuts.

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**Author:** ![Konstantin\_Vasilev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/konstantin_vasilev/32/134269_2.png) [@Konstantin\_Vasilev](https://community.homey.app/u/Konstantin_Vasilev)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/triggering-a-flow-from-iphone-shortcuts/136877/3 "2025-05-27T12:16:57Z")

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Thank you, in my case I wanted to build an automation, and from that screen there is no way to select a homey flow. So instead I built a shortcut and ran that shortcut from the automation instead of trying to run the homey flow directly.