Share to sto.care from your iPhone

Build itEight steps in the Shortcuts app

Apple requires shortcuts to be signed, so instead of a download you assemble this one yourself — each step is a single action:

1. 1
   Create a new shortcutOpen the Shortcuts app and tap the + in the top-right corner to start a blank shortcut.
2. 2
   Enable the share sheetTap the info (i) panel and turn on “Show in Share Sheet”. In the “Receive input” box that appears at the top of your shortcut, limit the accepted types to Images and Media.
3. 3
   Add “Get Contents of URL”Search for the “Get Contents of URL” action and add it. Set the URL to https://ul.sto.care, expand Show More, set Method to PUT, set Request Body to File, and choose Shortcut Input as the file.
4. 4
   Add “Get Dictionary from Input”This parses the JSON response from the upload into a dictionary the next action can read.
5. 5
   Add “Get Dictionary Value”Set it to get the value for the key “url”.
6. 6
   Add “Copy to Clipboard”It copies the dictionary value from the previous step — your download link — to the clipboard.
7. 7
   (Optional) Add “Show Notification”Add a notification showing the link so you get visible confirmation the upload worked.
8. 8
   Name it and you’re doneRename the shortcut to “Share to sto.care” and tap Done. It now appears in the share sheet of every app.

Under the hood, step 3 is the whole trick: the shortcut makes the same request as curl -T against the open upload API, and the API answers with JSON:

PUT https://ul.sto.care
→ {"url":"https://dl.sto.care/xk92mq7p","expiresAt":"2026-07-27T09:14:07.000Z"}

How you use itPhotos → Share → done

Open any photo or video in the Photos app, tap Share, scroll down and tap Share to sto.care. A moment later the link is on your clipboard — paste it into iMessage, WhatsApp, email, Slack, anywhere. The recipient just taps it. No app on their end either.

The honest limits of the shortcut route:

• 100 MB per file. Enough for most phone videos, not for long 4K recordings.
• 10 uploads per day per IP address.
• Links live 72 hours, then the file is deleted.

Bigger file, or want the link to last longer? Open sto.care in Safari instead — the website takes files up to 5 GB and keeps links alive for 7 days. Still free, still no account.

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