How to set timer to stop music automatically in Shortcuts?

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How to set timer to stop music automatically in Shortcuts?

Can I control what I want the timer to do when it ends from within a shortcut?

Goal: During the day, default the timer (from within the clock app) to make a noise (ie cooking times).

In shortcut: have timer stop music.

Current shortcut: Play music, turn on sleep focus, set timer.

Then each time, I have to go into clock after this and make sure the timer stops playing upon completion. Otherwise my sleep music shortcut will end with an alarm.

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Original Title: Shortcuts: Control "When Timer ends" option

iPhone 16

Posted on Jul 15, 2025 08:03 AM

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Answer 1

Camelot

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Jul 15, 2025 10:14 AM in response to PleaseDontMovetheRays

Try changing the shortcut to use Wait instead of a timer.

Timer starts a countdown, but continues the rest of the shortcut actions. The Timer is independent of the rest of the shortcut actions.

In this case, it sounds like you want the shortcut to stop playing music after some period. In other words, you want the shortcut to wait until the timer expires, so you may be better off with:

Play Music
Wait <n> seconds
Pause Music

Now the music will play until the wait expires, then it will stop.

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Answer 2

Aug 24, 2025 06:52 PM in response to Camelot

Thank you so much for this! Totally something I wanted, I’ve been frustrated that I couldn’t directly control what the timer does at the end of a shortcut. Several times it has woken me up because it actually played a sound! (I use a shortcut to listen to certain music to fall asleep to).

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