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Re: Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

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I've been looking forward to this feature, but I must say I'm pretty disappointed that most of the personal automations still require a manual approval before they will execute. For example, I can schedule a particular shortcut to always run at a specific time. When that time comes, however, my phone will display a notification which I must physically tap to execute the automation. If I miss the notification, nothing…

I've heard quite a few times now that some of the reasons these automations aren't completely automatic is to avoid them being abused by people with bad intentions. Say for example someone setting one up on someone else's phone (without their knowledge) to run every X minutes and using it to track someone's location, without them ever knowing about it. I'm not entirely sure that's the real reason behind these notific…

I don't think it's so much a privacy concern (it certainly is), but more with regards to accidental triggers by actions that are passive and flaky.

Location accuracy isn't always the greatest, particularly indoors; in-and-out connections to wifi/bluetooth are possible when you're on the fringe of its range.

These issues need to be addressed in some form before _true_ automation is given to them.

Re: Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

#62

I've been looking forward to this feature, but I must say I'm pretty disappointed that most of the personal automations still require a manual approval before they will execute. For example, I can schedule a particular shortcut to always run at a specific time. When that time comes, however, my phone will display a notification which I must physically tap to execute the automation. If I miss the notification, nothing…

The failure mode for full automation that's set up by consumers and controlled by a third party via the web can be really bad.

Re: Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

#63

I've been looking forward to this feature, but I must say I'm pretty disappointed that most of the personal automations still require a manual approval before they will execute. For example, I can schedule a particular shortcut to always run at a specific time. When that time comes, however, my phone will display a notification which I must physically tap to execute the automation. If I miss the notification, nothing…

Can you at least approve them on the watch so you don't have to dig out your phone every time?

Re: Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

#65

I've been looking forward to this feature, but I must say I'm pretty disappointed that most of the personal automations still require a manual approval before they will execute. For example, I can schedule a particular shortcut to always run at a specific time. When that time comes, however, my phone will display a notification which I must physically tap to execute the automation. If I miss the notification, nothing…

Ah, just wrote a flattering post here on it, but wasn't aware it still had the manual approval issue which is unfortunate. I understand it for some things like When I arrive home, since otherwise when I'm outside running loops by house, each time I come by the house it would open the garage which wouldn't be good, but so many other cases where manual approval seems odd, and at least should be able to approve with wit…

They could implement to run automatically for the first time and them need approval in the next 30 mins to avoid spamming.

Re: Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

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Is it possible to write these in regular code? I am not a big fan of these visual tools. Seems they are quite clunky compared to code.

With an app like Scriptable, you can indeed! This one lets you write JavaScript code, and they added the feature to pass in parameters with iOS 13.1! https://scriptable.app

Pythonista 3 (currently on TestFlight) is another option. I like the custom keyboard shortcuts that it adds. It can also trigger shortcuts, I reckon.

Re: Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

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Cool! I'm on 12.4.1 and for a while now enjoying my simple accessibility shortcut > color filters to enable triple-click side button to toggle greyscale vs normal color mode. Less battery usage, helps keep the device less unnecessarily stimulating, doesn't interfere w/ sleep, and sometimes good for random conversation ("how'd you do that?"). :)

Re: Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

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Cool! I'm on 12.4.1 and for a while now enjoying my simple accessibility shortcut > color filters to enable triple-click side button to toggle greyscale vs normal color mode. Less battery usage, helps keep the device less unnecessarily stimulating, doesn't interfere w/ sleep, and sometimes good for random conversation ("how'd you do that?"). :)

> unnecessarily stimulating

Willie, remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms!

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