

Here’s what I mean: when you run Apple Frames from a helper shortcut using the ‘Run Shortcut’ action, that action produces an output variable called ‘Shortcut Result’.

Here’s the excerpt about version 3.1.1 of Apple Frames and the new passthrough mode:Īs I was researching this column for Weekly, I realized there was an obvious candidate for an output command I did not include in Apple Frames 3.1: a passthrough command to, well, pass framed images along as input for the next action of a shortcut. I wrote about this as part of my Extension column in MacStories Weekly today, where I also covered the ability to run Apple Frames from the command line on macOS. With this output command for the Apple Frames API, you’ll be able to generate a framed image (from whatever source you like) and simply pass its result to the next action in a shortcut as a native image variable. I just released a small update to Apple Frames 3.1, which came out earlier this week, with a new output command: &passthrough.

The ‘Shortcut Result’ variable, used as an image variable in a shortcut that calls Apple Frames.
