a walkthrough of how i connected telegram bots with apple shortcuts to build a personal notification system that actually works the way i want.

telegram + shortcuts app

Apr 6, 2026

#tutorial

Telegram is a quite powerful cloud-based messaging app and it comes with many features that separate it from the competition. The telegram API can be used to create bots that can send and receive messages in order to perform certain action or creating automation workflows. One of the things that I use Telegram for is for the unlimited cloud storage they provide and to keep for instance my phone free of the thousend of screenshots that I take.

Automation workflows

I use telegram in order to