Creating a shortcut to call an internal company extension results in an invalid contact error

I want to create a shortcut that calls a number whose last four digits I dictate. It’s for internal company calls, and the last four digits are the in-house extensions. However it ends up with a error message.



  1. Step - Dictate text - 1234
  2. Step - Text +420xxxxx Dictated Text
  3. Step - check Show Text: +420xxxxx1234
  4. Step - Get phone numbers from Text
  5. Step - check Show Phone Numbers: +420 xxx xx1 234
  6. Step - Get First Item from Phone Numbers
  7. Step - check Show Item From List: +420 xxx xx1 234
  8. Step - Call Item From List
  9. Step - Error message: Invalid Contact The value provided for the Contact in Call was invalid.


Replace xxxxx with a real phone number. I sent the post earlier, but the Apple staff instead of providing a clue, stamped the post invalid because it contained personal information, which is not true, because I used dummy phone number for the post anyway.


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Original Title: shortcut



iPhone 15, iOS 18

Posted on Jul 10, 2025 11:10 AM

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