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But that's actually kinda smart. I'll set up a similar one for heated situations
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But that's actually kinda smart. I'll set up a similar one for heated situations
This all seems way too complex to me, and I can't personally think of many uses for it.
Folks with smart homes are gonna go hog wild though.
Folks with smart homes are gonna go hog wild though.
That's because they're trying not to go out of business like every other news and media company. You're already blocking all their ads, how do you think they're going to make money without subscriptions? Sorry for putting you on blast, but come on man. If you really like that magazine/newspaper's content, support them. Quality independent journalism is more important than ever.
What exactly does this do, turn on the camera and record?
I'm also surprised Apple is even letting people post their own Shortcuts, considering they've wiped all community submissions from the app itself.
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Pause your music, lower screen brightness, text someone that you got pulled over, sends current location, opens the front camera and records, then when you stop it it saves to the camera roll and auto sends it to someone else. All texting is done in the background with no confirmation needed.
Honestly OP, you should put this in the OP as an example of a shortcut. The concept of shortcuts doesn't really "click" with people until they see how comprehensive and specific you can make them. I feel like you won't have anyone asking "wait but what can I do with this" once they see that example.
Thank you! This is so cool lol, just a right swipe and I can do so much shit
I want to use this to recreate the web receipts folder on my Mac. I want it to create a pdf, which I've found the shortcut for, and then automatically save it to the specific folder in iCloud.
Doable, right?
EDIT: holy shit I figured it out already. This is so awesome.
Doable, right?
EDIT: holy shit I figured it out already. This is so awesome.
WOW.
This is the the type of stuff I want to see. Somebody smarter than me make something I didn't know I needed.
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Good idea, done. Also added three more resources, the old Workflow subreddit, and the new Shortcuts and SiriShortcuts. Tons of examples in those locations.
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Hehe, thanks :) was interested in the gif one.
So shortcuts couldn't use locations, or? I'd like this to replace my IFTTT action for when I arrive & leave work.
Yeah. When you see how you can chain together a bunch of actions you get how powerful this can be. A lot of people (myself included) are thinking of shortcuts in terms of a single action, in which case you're saving maybe a single tap.
Not automatically at this point, no. Manually, sure.
Any location works fine for me using file save
Ah, looks like the share links are working now!
I'll post mine again:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5eb9d5fe67c44208951902f1ca38b12b
Gets your now playing song and copies a link to your clipboard so you can share the song with your friends over a tone of different services.
Anyone know if it's possible to make one that will get a playlist and start playing from say the bottom 10 songs?
I'll post mine again:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5eb9d5fe67c44208951902f1ca38b12b
Gets your now playing song and copies a link to your clipboard so you can share the song with your friends over a tone of different services.
Anyone know if it's possible to make one that will get a playlist and start playing from say the bottom 10 songs?
I don't want to share it or even view it. I'm trying to set it to automatically save to a pre-specified folder in iCloud.
Excellent idea, did the same stores websites as pdf to my recipes folder on my Dropbox. :D
That's really impressive. Apple needs to do some ads based around complex actions like this.
Minor annoyance, I can't click on a Shortcut link from my Mac and it'll install on my iOS devices, even though Shortcuts use CloudKit for syncing. It'd also be nice if they listed the actions the Shortcut uses on the share page, just so you know up front what you're getting yourself into.
I see where you're coming from now. Seems pre determined path is indeed tied to the shortcuts subfolder. That makes no sense when manual allows all
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I don't have iOS 12 yet, but I'm wondering...
Can I create a shortcut to connect my phone via Bluetooth to a specific Amazon Echo device?
And another one to disconnect?
It's way too annoying to do this through the Amazon Alexa app every time, it takes like 6 actions and ~30 seconds.
Can I create a shortcut to connect my phone via Bluetooth to a specific Amazon Echo device?
And another one to disconnect?
It's way too annoying to do this through the Amazon Alexa app every time, it takes like 6 actions and ~30 seconds.
Is there a way for shortcuts to interact within apps?
For example I'd like to:
Tell Siri to "Snooze Slack"
Open Slack
Open the menu to select "Snooze" option
Choose 24 hours
For example I'd like to:
Tell Siri to "Snooze Slack"
Open Slack
Open the menu to select "Snooze" option
Choose 24 hours
Stuff like that would be possible with an update to Slack. They'd have to enable it (I know Overcast added a bunch of features for this)
Slack would have to add support for that option but it's doable.
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I've been playing around with it. One of the things that I did was have text spoken back to me. One of the things that irks me is this:
Make shortcut named Joke
Add Siri phrase "Knock knock"
Input text to Who's there?
Speak text
What happens is when I say "Knock knock', Siri will say "Shortcut says: Who's there?"
Anyway for Siri to just respond without the "Shortcut says"?
Make shortcut named Joke
Add Siri phrase "Knock knock"
Input text to Who's there?
Speak text
What happens is when I say "Knock knock', Siri will say "Shortcut says: Who's there?"
Anyway for Siri to just respond without the "Shortcut says"?
Is there anyway to input something from the lock screen or get Siri to ask a question and input the response?
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Not yet, I would say that's the biggest limitation right now. Third party apps can't accept or pass variables, and Siri can't listen for an input and use it in the Shortcuts.
Some low hanging fruit I expect to be addressed next year.
Thanks. It's kinda weird because it's not really a security thing, you can still input text and dictate speech from the widget screen while the phone is locked. Looking forward to some updates.
How do you launch a shortcut? Do you have to invoke Siri or can you trigger by location? I'm trying to make a shortcut to automatically text my wife an ETA when I leave work but I don't see a location option.
Like I see "get location." And I see an option for if statements. But I don't see how to link my location to an if condition.
If activating shortcuts is really limited to those 6 methods laid out in the OP this doesn't as useful as it could be.
Like I see "get location." And I see an option for if statements. But I don't see how to link my location to an if condition.
If activating shortcuts is really limited to those 6 methods laid out in the OP this doesn't as useful as it could be.
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Currently Shortcuts cannot be run automatically. You would have to invoke it when you leave work, and the rest can be handled in the background
