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Show a Canvas in a Shortcut

You can show a canvas directly inside a shortcut. Use this when you want a compact visual result without opening Canvases and without placing the canvas on the Home Screen.

Think of it as a designed result screen for a shortcut. The shortcut gathers or calculates something, Canvases turns it into a small visual summary, and Shortcuts shows it at the end.

You might use it to show a dashboard after gathering data, display a confirmation after a shortcut updates something, preview a canvas that is also used as a widget, or present a designed result instead of plain Shortcuts text.

A Show Canvas action displaying a canvas in the Shortcuts result sheet.
Add Show Canvas and choose the canvas you want to display.