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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)
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I'm using IFTTT for similar functionality on my Android phone and I've never had a problem with a task bouncing in and out of a specific location. In fact, the location selection process only allows you to zoom in so far on the map to prevent you from getting to specific with your geofence. Obviously you're not going to be able to write a GPS specific enough to detect which room you're in, but that's expected.
Considering the lack of accuracy in GPS, I can envision problems. Sometimes GPS thinks I'm in my neighbor's front yard across the street, or in my neighbor's backyard behind me, even if I'm in my bedroom. If I stop at my neighbor's house on the way home, it could trigger an action in my house, for example.
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The NFC automation is tied to specific tags. So the thief would have to be in your house tapping a specific tag you setup.
Yes, but what if the NFC tag was on your keychain with your phone, which the attacker also had? That seems far more likely than being able to spoof a Bluetooth device that your phone had already paired with in the past (yet that one is in the list of "not automatic" choices)
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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…
Apple watch is a great idea! I wish they had a shortcuts app on the watch too. Hopefully they'll have the notifications there, if they don't already.
Kind of neat that the way these are shared is a PNG file with appended data. The PNG file is the icon for the Shortcut :) Example: https://cvws.icloud-content.com/B/AZc9tIA45EozUwn3Zs0zZEJSUY...
Oh wow! Can this finally solve the “play the first song in Music App when CarPlay is connected” issue?
I don't know if shortcuts included ssh key support before this update, but I just noticed that it does now! ed25519 appears to be the default key type. Now I can run Terraform automatically when I get home to provision some tea! /s
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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 would be perfectly happy to receive a popup that an automation had just run. Also, Apple has been pushing for self-adjusting notification preferences. Imagine a popup like: "The shortcut 'Foo' wants to run. Do you want to allow it? - Never - Not this time - Run once - Always" Put an icon next to each shortcut showing whether it's always (or never) allowed, and it seems like the problem would be largely solved witho…
Has anyone found any of these useful? I'm racking my brain for something that would benefit me, but nothing comes to mind... but I feel like I'm just lacking creativity here.
I say "Siri, record my weight" and the iPad response "Sure, how much do you weigh?" I say the number and it gets appended to a Google Docs spreadsheet with the current date.
The next step that I never finished was to have Google Docs generate a graph and mail it to me every month.
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.
It's a hack, but it works pretty well.
There's also a lot of work been done in iOS 13 to reduce the number of steps required to do a thing. There's info about that here: https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-and-ipados-13-the-mac...