Once HighResArtwork is ready to go, you'll see the main menu where you can choose to look for artwork for an album, artist, music video, movie, TV show, app from the App Store, podcast, book, audiobook, Apple TV, music playlist, or radio station, as well as anything found at a URL stored in your clipboard. Some you may see include access to your microphone (to use Shazam), a website that hosts the images (e.g., ), (to find songs and artwork), and your photos (to save images on your device). We won't go over those anymore in the below steps since you won't see all of them if you're only using one or two of the shortcut's options. Just hit "OK" whenever you see those prompts. Scroll to the bottom of the preview and tap "Add Untrusted Shortcut" to add it to your library.ĭepending on how you use the shortcut from now on, you may be asked to give HighResArtwork permission to access other services. Tap on "Get Shortcut," and you'll be redirected to the Shortcuts app to view a preview of HighResArtwork and its actions.
Otherwise, you won't even be able to preview a shortcut's workflow in Shortcuts, let alone install it. If you haven't run any user-created shortcuts that you didn't build yourself, you'll also need to make sure "Allow Untrusted Shortcuts" is toggled on in Settings –> Shortcuts. It's already installed on your iPhone unless you deleted it, in which case you can reinstall it from the App Store.
To make sure you can use all of the new updates that have been compiled into the shortcut, make sure you're running iOS 14 or later.Īside from the shortcut, you'll also need to have the Shortcuts app, Apple's tool for building and using shortcuts and automation. The "HighResArtwork" shortcut began its life in iOS 13 but has since been updated for iOS 14.
No matter why you need a media's image - to use as a wallpaper, share on social media, make lists, manually adjust your collections, make an app icon, design a collage, etc. Now, with the help of a shortcut, it's as simple as can be.
Apple uses high-quality images, but it seems impossible to download cover art, posters, thumbnails, icons, and other images from within its apps on your iPhone. The internet is saturated with low-quality pictures, making it difficult to find a high-resolution image for specific albums, TV shows, movies, podcasts, music videos, apps, and books.