New · Tap Twice, Done
Two taps on the back of your phone, and the menu comes to you.
Tap Twice, Done is one menu with four jobs behind it. Kid Info copies a student ID, a birthday, or an insurance number so you can paste it straight into the form in front of you. Calendar adds an appointment or shows you today. Remember This saves a reminder or puts something on the grocery list. Hand It Off sends one of the texts you type all the time.
It opens with Back Tap — two taps on the back of your iPhone, from whatever app you're already in.
You need: an iPhone 8 or later, and a list in Reminders for groceries.
Part one · get the shortcut
Open this page on your iPhone. Tap Download, then Add Shortcut. It lands in the Shortcuts app as Tap Twice, Done - The Family OS.
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Open it in Shortcuts, then tap Edit in the top right.
Part two · make it yours
Start with Kid Info. Under the yellow note that says Start here, there are three text boxes with example kids in them. Replace each example with one of yours. The name goes first, then each item as a label, a colon, and the value, with a comma between items — Kid 1, student ID: 48213, birthday: 3/14/2015, insurance ID: XYZ123. Leave the orange Kid 1, Kid 2 and Kid 3 variables where they are.
Scroll down to Remember This. Remind Me asks which list every time you use it. To send reminders to the same list every time, tap the blue List and pick one. Add to Grocery List goes to a list named Groceries — tap the blue list name and pick yours.
Each time you use Remind Me, it asks what to remember, then whether you want an alert. Say no and it just goes on the list. Say yes and you choose how it comes back — when you leave a place, when you arrive at one, when you're messaging someone, or at a date and time.
Scroll down to Hand It Off. Two texts are already in there: Do you need anything from the store? and When will you be home? To change one, retype it in the menu and again in the Send action underneath it. To send to the same person every time, tap Recipients and choose them. Left alone, it asks who each time.
Tap the play button at the bottom and try each of the four. The first time through, your phone asks permission for Calendar, Reminders and Messages, and it asks before it copies to your clipboard. Allow each one.
Part three · set up Back Tap
Open Settings. Tap Accessibility, then Touch.
Scroll to the bottom and tap Back Tap.
Tap Double Tap.
Tap Shortcuts, then tap Tap Twice, Done - The Family OS.
Go back to your home screen and tap the back of your phone twice, firmly, near the middle. The menu opens.
Pick Kid Info, pick a kid, pick the item. A banner tells you what was copied, and it's ready to paste.
Good to know
Commas are what separate one item from the next, so keep them out of the values. Write a birthday as 3/14/2015.
What gets copied is whatever comes after the last colon, so keep colons out of the values too. A pickup time goes in as 315, and a web address won't copy whole.
Fewer than three kids? Delete the extra text box and the Set variable under it, then delete that kid's orange variable from the list box below. More than three? Add a text box and a Set variable for each one, and add the new variable to the same list box.
If the menu opens when you set your phone down, switch it to Triple Tap. Same screen, one row down.
Back Tap works through most cases. If yours is thick and nothing happens, tap harder or try it with the case off.
Kid Info is saved inside the shortcut on your phone, readable by anyone holding it unlocked. Put in what you'd be comfortable having in your Notes app.