IOS shortcut for Youtube app?

Hi. I’m trying to create a shortcut to place on the home screen of my iPhone that would start to play the most recently playing or played video in the youtube app. Is there a way to do this? There does not seem to be shortcut support for the youtube app.

Shortcuts relies on apps supporting it to do anything, so in this case you’re probably SOL. If you really want to get into the weeds, it looks like YouTube has a pretty robust API and Shortcuts can do API calls. That might let you fetch the most recently watched video from your YouTube account, and then you could pull the video identifier and build a URL that launches the YouTube app to that video. Just some ideas that might help!

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