System Dashboard turns your iPhone into a mini system monitor you can pull up with one tap. It reports free storage, battery condition, thermal state, uptime since the last reboot, and the Wi-Fi network you’re on. The whole thing is built around Back Tap and the Action Button, so a single gesture brings up everything you’d otherwise hunt through Settings for.

Inside the shortcut

When you trigger it, the shortcut gathers a handful of system metrics and shows them on a single readout. You get free and used storage, current thermal state, battery condition, time since the last reboot, and the SSID of the Wi-Fi network you’re connected to. Each value is color-coded so you can read it in a second: green means everything is in normal range, yellow flags a warning or a warm device, and red signals a critical or low value worth acting on.

What you’ll need

Toolbox Pro for Shortcuts — pulls system data that the Shortcuts app can’t reach on its own (paid app with a trial).
Actions by Sindre Sorhus — a free helper that handles the formatting and the rich output.

Installing it

Install Toolbox Pro for Shortcuts from the App Store and open it once so it can grant the needed permissions.
Then install Actions by Sindre Sorhus from the App Store.
Tap Add Shortcut on this page to open it in the Shortcuts app.
Review the actions in the Shortcuts app, then confirm with Add Shortcut.

Setting up a trigger

The shortcut is built to live behind a gesture, not on your Home Screen. Back Tap is the most universal option and works on iPhone 8 and later. If you have an iPhone 15 Pro or newer, the Action Button is a faster pick.

Open Settings on your iPhone.
Go to Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap.
Pick Double Tap (or Triple Tap).
Scroll to the Shortcuts section and select System Dashboard.

For iPhone 15 Pro and later, assign it under Settings > Action Button > Shortcut instead.

Putting it to work

Trigger the gesture whenever you want a quick health check: before a long video call, after a heavy gaming session, or when storage feels tight. The dashboard appears, you scan the colors, and you’re back to whatever you were doing. No app to open, no menus to walk through. It’s the kind of utility that earns its spot on a button.

Common questions

Do I really have to buy Toolbox Pro?

For the interesting metrics, yes. Apple won’t let plain Shortcuts read thermal state, battery condition, or the SSID you’re connected to. Toolbox Pro is the bridge that exposes that system data through a Shortcuts action.

My iPhone is too old for the Action Button. What now?

Back Tap is the better trigger anyway, and it goes all the way back to the iPhone 8. Wire it under Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap and a double tap on the back pulls the dashboard up.