2022-11-20

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Here's how to Truncate or Shorten text in Apple Shortcuts. I needed it for generating teaser text for a news article shortcut I am building for websites.

1. Choose the "Match Text" action
2. For the pattern field add ".{44}" and change the number to how many characters you'd like.

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