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Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

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Re: Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

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Post by onemoresoop »

otterley wrote: post #26
adamjcooper wrote: post #5

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…

My guess is that it's a security issue. Suppose your phone were confiscated and you had an automation that revealed some sensitive information to the possessor of the phone, or a compromised third party. You might not want to run the automation under such conditions.

Do you have to unlock the phone to confirm the automation popup?

Re: Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

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Post by cj »

GeekyBear wrote: post #100
cj wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just got Airpods. I had to sign up for Apple Music yesterday because offline support (when the watch isn't in bluetooth range of the phone) wasn't available with Spotify. Not sure if this is simply a feature Spotify decided not to implement, or if they can't implement it due to Apple Watch restrictions. I have similar questions with the Hulu Apple TV app. Results for content in Hulu aren't always included in Apple…

The new version of WatchOS makes audio streaming to the watch a public API. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/716/ Spotify can implement the feature any time they like. Similarly, Hulu has long been able to provide the search metadata needed to integrate into Apple's universal search system, if they choose to do so. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/508/

Perhaps one reason they don't choose to do so is that some subscribers have different levels of access depending on the subscription tier. At least that's my guess.

Re: Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

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Post by rackad »

onemoresoop wrote: post #101
otterley wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My guess is that it's a security issue. Suppose your phone were confiscated and you had an automation that revealed some sensitive information to the possessor of the phone, or a compromised third party. You might not want to run the automation under such conditions.

Do you have to unlock the phone to confirm the automation popup?

I have the same question. Can we run the automation while phone being locked?

Re: Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

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Post by GeekyBear »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #90
pfranz wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd love for someone to chime in with specifics, but I'm pretty sure it's both--depending on the feature. I remember reading a story where Spotify either bought or sued an app that allowed streaming to the Apple Watch (it may have been something specific like via LTE with no phone involved). Here's an article from June harping on Spotify not allowing offline playback on the Apple Watch [1]. Spotify launched https://w…

Spotify is hypocritical to say the least. They complain about Apple controlling their ecosystem too tightly and being too unfriendly to third parties while also refusing to provide a modern replacement for the deprecated and broken libspotify, removing playback capabilities from their other SDKs, breaking numerous Spotify-capable hardware devices, and shutting down third party devs trying to build on their platform.…

Spotify has previously complained that there was no API to transfer music to the local storage of the watch and play it back from there, but after the feature was added in last year's WatchOS update, they failed to add support for it.

Now that cellular music streaming has been added in this year's WatchOS update, we'll have to wait and see if they will update their app to support that feature.

Re: Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

#105

Post by vxNsr »

n1000 wrote: post #64

Will this finally allow me to switch WiFi and Bluetooth off (instead of just disconnect for 24h) from the control centre?

You can access bluetooth settings from the control center now.

And you can create a shortcut that will turn off wifi/bluetooth if you put shortcuts on your homescreen or homerow and make that shortcut one of the first 4 you can access it with force touch.

Re: Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

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Post by [deleted] »

mikestew wrote: post #53
TechRemarker wrote: post #8

So exciting. When Shortcuts was first announced I was thrilled since I could think of hundreds of flows that would be amazing for my daily life to simplify things. But quickly realized there were many limitations such as it couldn't be run automatically at a set time, and nearly every flow I wanted it was missing a few actions to make them fully possible. As such I used a couple but overall didn't use it at all. With…

I think personal automation is what will finally make Shortcuts useful. Like you, I've got a ton of flows that could benefit, but without triggers a lot of the shortcuts were just saving me a few button presses. To me, that's just not worth cluttering the Shortcuts UI and having one more thing to maintain. As you point out, there's unmet potential. So many times I go to create a shortcut, "surely they have an action…

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Re: Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

#109

Post by snotrockets »

chrischen wrote: post #81

I tried to have it launch spotify when Airpods were connected, but found only Apple music supported. I’ve always wondered, is the lack of Spotify support in Siri, Shortcuts, due to Spotify or due to Apple blocking them?

Search for "Launch", choose "Open App" in the actions category, pick Spotify.

Re: Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

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Post by ianmobbs »

conradev wrote: post #72
ianmobbs wrote: post #71

Congrats, they invented Activator[0]! [0] https://cydia-app.com/activator/

Ryan was a fantastic mentor to me and a lot of people in the jailbreak community. His work set a high bar for what tweaks could be, and Activator in particular spawned a small ecosystem of quick actions. I’m honored by the comparison :) (context: I work on Shortcuts)

That's awesome to hear! Sorry if my comment came off as snarky. I was pretty involved in the jailbreak scene back in my iPod Touch days (years and years ago), and I'm really happy to see some of the functionality I loved then coming to life now (in a much more polished way :))
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