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Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts
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#72Congrats, 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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#73Has 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 sorta feel the same. But I did make one that I’m using a lot. It’s a typical “read later” workflow but it adds the site to both safari reading list and pinboard at the same time.
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#74I'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 think battery usage could be a primary concern here. Yes, this should continue to improve. Imagine coming home and all your blinds open automatically, lights turn on etc.
> Imagine coming home and all your blinds open automatically, lights turn on etc.
Try home assistant. Open source. Integrates with nearly everything, including apple homekit stuff.
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#75I'd been trying to figure out why they required a user interaction for some of these. 5 out of 6 of these can be explained by debouncing. • "Wi-Fi" and "Bluetooth" connection triggers are extremely susceptible to bouncing on and off with variable radio conditions • "Arrive", "Leave", and "Before I Leave" are all susceptible to bouncing in and out; they combine a fuzzy location of variable precision with a point and r…
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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#76Has 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.
Checkout Federico Viticci at MacStories - he's been using Shortcuts and Workflow before it to automate his entire iPad based life. Some of the stuff he gets it to do is amazing.
Any links? Googling seems to just give me a list of random shortcuts rather than any discussion on how he uses them
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#77Will this finally allow me to switch WiFi and Bluetooth off (instead of just disconnect for 24h) from the control centre?
From the control center? No. But you can do it from the shortcuts widget when you swipe left from the homescreen
WiFi - https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a92a26177fae4bafb9c8a7b369e...
Bluetooth - https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/7b367448c4a04b1483af4af004a...
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shortcuts in general are nice, particularly now that they can be conversational. Hey Siri log... lets me easily log my weight, water and caffeine intake just by speaking. I already had shortcuts to do those through tapping, but the easier I can make things to do the more likely I'll do them. Another I have is "Hey Siri, heading home" which texts my wife my ETA and starts my last played podcast.
Question: how do you get your last played podcast in Shortcuts?
I use Overcast. If I just call "Play Overcast" from the shortcut, it starts playing the last podcast that was playing. I assume Apples Podcast app would do the same?
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#79When I updated to iOS 13, Shortcuts no longer listed actions for third-party apps. Has anyone else run into this?
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#80Oh wow! Can this finally solve the “play the first song in Music App when CarPlay is connected” issue?
Yes! I wrote an automation yesterday that simply says When Connected to Carplay Media > Pause. So far, it seems to do the trick. Doesn't require manual intervention.
I wonder if this works with older non-carplay car audio systems. Definitely going to try it out!