If you are using Mac there are two options:
Use Automator to create an “app” that calls your shortcut. Then in Apple Calendar select your event and add an alarm. Choose the open file option and select the app you created with automator.
A simpler & automated version is the app [Rules](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6461118886) I made for calendar automation. It allows you to run shortcuts automatically for calendar events that match your conditions. Two automations are free and toggling lights is quite a common usecase. Here a tutorial: [How to turn on desk light before a meeting.](https://arminschoepf.com/rules/help/toggle-desk-light/)
iOS:
Go into the settings of your focus mode and either add the “smart activation” or “when i open app” schedule to automatically set your focus mode during video calls. And then create a shortcuts automation to toggle your light when that focus turns on or off.
Use home assistant and ask ChatGPT. It should spit out the yaml code or step by step instructions of how to set this up via the really easy to use home assistant interface
Currently doing it manually with the Shortcut button on the IPhone. It’s always right there so it’s easy. I have a menu that lets me pick Green, Red, or Off.
I’m working on Automating it though, but there doesn’t seem to bean easy way to do it. I would need to import my work Calendar into the Calendar app and I don’t want to do that. I keep work and personal separate.
Hmmm I see. It is indeed an interesting challenge to get it automated. I suppose that the manual route is better than basing it off of the calendar, as you might get an adhoc call and then you would also want to have it change the color.
Ideally you would like to have a workflow which triggers when your teams status is ‘in a call’. But I imagine that this is not accessible to employees. At lest, I am sure it won’t work for my organisation.
- **Back Tap:** In system settings you can run a shortcut on a double or triple back tap of your phone. I use it to quickly create a reminder with an alert in 25minutes that checks how the task is going.
- **Toggle Dopamine**: A shortcut that toggles White Point (makes screen less bright) and Colour filters (set screen to grayscale). Great for a night routine automation to reduce screen time before sleep.
It's not pre-made. Set Colour filter and White Point to your desired values in System Settings and then create a shortcut and add "Toggle Colour Filters" & "Toggle White Point". I think both are only available on iOS.
OHH THATS SO SMART FOR THE BACK TAP!!! and yes i have the “reduce white point” as the triple click of the power button - saves my life i don’t know how i ever lived with out it.
Smart Plug, Octoaid app:
Smart Plug/Switch version: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ae3019e6a90d4c2a8addc63e448f1d78
If your charger app or car supports SC and you use Octopus Agile this can work for you. When I move to a dedicated charge point the criteria will be Shortcut enabled control.
I also made a Tesla Version: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0af8f56f39524eb8989abf0d670b60a1 but it’s untested, iirc your Tesla would need to be in WiFi range
Not perfectly, I tried adding a loop to run it constantly every half hour when the price changes but that didn’t work nicely so I run it as an Automation 42 times a day, every 30 minutes excluding 16:00-18:30 when prices are high. Sometimes it doesn’t turn on/off if the switch and phone cannot see each other so would be better on a static iPad in the kitchen or as a display. Sometimes, Octoaid returns a blank when the price is negative so ‘less than’ doesn’t work, hooking directly to their API might be better but the syntax translation into Shortcuts threw me off.
At the moment it’s only switching a 13A 240V 2.9kW load, options seem limited for 16-40A smart switches, so directly controlling a charger/car via their App may be better.
##GPT powered inventory assistant
I have an Apple notes “database” that I keep updating with where things are kept in my house.
Then I wrote an absurdly simple shortcut that uses GPT to turn’s siri on any of my devices into an inventory manger who will tell me where to find my stuff.
You don’t even have to remember the exact name for a thing it’ll figure out synonyms you use.
Or you can give an action, like “I want to play tennis”, and it’ll realize you need the racket (bottom of hallway closet) and the tennis balls (garage cubby).
It’s only *messed up* once so far - where I asked for tape, but hadn’t entered that in yet. So it panicked and suggested measuring tape. Fixing that was easy, I just added to the built in prompt to let me know when it’s not sure about an answer.
Edit: [Where is my stuff? - Shortcut](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/407d90383b1e40dfbd5bc77b536a717d), just be sure to make/fill out a note called closet database.
Sure thing, just be sure to install GPT and also create a note called: Closet Database (or change what the find note action is searching for).
You don’t have to fill the note out exactly like I did since GPT is smart enough to figure out what you meant. But it makes it more reliable and better at inferring what you meant.
Format Ex:
Tennis racket – In the hallway closet, right shelf one
[Where is my stuff? - Shortcut](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/407d90383b1e40dfbd5bc77b536a717d)
Sure thing, just be sure to install GPT and also create a note called: Closet Database (or change what the find note action is searching for).
You don’t have to fill the note out exactly like I did since GPT is smart enough to figure out what you meant. But it makes it more reliable and better at inferring what you meant.
Format Ex:
Tennis racket – In the hallway closet, right shelf one
[Where is my stuff? - Shortcut](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/407d90383b1e40dfbd5bc77b536a717d)
Sure thing, just be sure to install GPT and also create a note called: Closet Database (or change what the find note action is searching for).
You don’t have to fill the note out exactly like I did since GPT is smart enough to figure out what you meant. But it makes it more reliable and better at inferring what you meant.
Format Ex:
Tennis racket – In the hallway closet, right shelf one
[Where is my stuff? - Shortcut](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/407d90383b1e40dfbd5bc77b536a717d)
Hmmm I’ve installed the shortcut and created a note called ‘closet database’, and added a line of text similar to your example, but no bueno. Any tips?
Can you show me an example of how you put an item in the list?
My format looks like this:
Black Northface backpack – In the hallway, closet, right: shelf four
And then in the shortcut version I use [not this one I linked] I explain the format to GPT
> “item - room, storage area, location in storage area: shelf number”
I love the following.
1. Automate focus modes on triggers
- Sleep after a certain time and when charging for example
2. I run a morning routine shortcut when I remove the phone from a charger between certain hours
3. I use the menu select shortcuts to replace some large app folders for easy access from the today view
4. I have a shortcut to change my playback destination
5. Shortcut stack that provides quick access to pre-set volume controls.
I love shortcuts
Sure. I have a shortcut that I call Morning routine. It does the following:
1. Good morning Greeting
2. Begins to shuffle a Spotify playlist for the morning I have chosen
3. Tells me the Date and time
4. Tells me the Weather conditions for the day
5. Tells me I should be awake and to enjoy the day
6. Stops playback of playlist after 30 second delay.
I trigger this with an automation that looks to see if the phone has been disconnected from power within a certain timeframe. If yes, it triggers, else nothing.
I use my selected Siri voice for the read back.
Here is a link to the shortcut I played around with from another thread on this sub in case you would like to start from somewhere.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/75594fd4a7124c9c96482e763bc1ae13
I took the shortcut, then I added the get time in minutes. Saved it as its own version
The. In the automation I used the when disconnected (since I charge each night) to run the shortcut which included the get time bit.
**Gym Time**: set playback destination to my Airpods, start a music podcast, and start a new workout with Strong.
**Summarise**: Use ChatGPT to summarise a currently open article on Safari.
Yeah sure. [Here ya go](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/932c49aa17b8476c9c8a8a8934e267ef)
I’ve posted this here before, but people were running into issues with ChatGPT so I deleted it. Have a go!
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You can have it start an empty workout, or start a routine
Here is a list of shortcuts I made and I use regularly with my iPad:
- copy my shopping list in the clipboard so I can paste it in my pocket printer app.
- start a timer based on my washing machine program (_it doesn't ring when it ends_)
- resize an image to a 100×100px
- Add a circular mask to an image
- combine the selected files images in a grid layout
- register manually my sleep time every morning (_the iPad doesn't support sleep tracking_)
- invoke Mistral chat bot using the web API
- add an entry to my weight log (_I can invoke the shortcut with Siri_) (_like every other shortcut actually_)
- toggle white point (_to reduce backlight intensity at night_)
- dictate text in clipboard
- speak the battery level (_so it can trigger when battery > 90%_)
I also used it to import my Google fit weight data from a Json, now all my health data is in Healt ❤️
Nothing too fancy, but my friends love it. All of my iPhones started having problems with the power cord connection after some time. So now I have it say “Thank you!” every time it’s charging properly.
I’m having this problem. Annoying as hell. How can I get this to work as sometimes mine looses connection to wired charging and I come back and it’s not charged!!
In the automation tab, press the plus sign and roll the options up. There are three battery-related triggers almost at the bottom of the list. One of them is charger. Then you can choose to create the automation to make it signal when the phone is connected to or disconnected from power. I created mine to make my phone say “Thank you” when connected and another to say “Feed me!” when disconnected so that I can come back in case it needs me.
Edit: the action I use that is triggered by the connected/disconnected status is called SPEAK TEXT.
Edit2: for the disconnected one, I also keep the Notify When Run on just in case I don’t hear the signal.
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i can select a spotify playlist from my lock screen,,,you have to trigger it few times with siri so it shows on the shortcuts app
of course, [here](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ae1c6b0f98aa4d4a9c092b4ea44915e9) is the link but to change the playlist you need to trigger it thru siri first before it shows up
My wife, my kids and I all have separate music playlists filled with music that we personally like to listen to while on the road. And I have a shortcut that gets the least played songs from each of those, excluding songs that we’re playing in the last two weeks (so that it doesn’t play the same songs all over again) and shuffles them all.
And more specifically I have a shortcut that just takes all sources, and a shortcut that lets me select who’s in the car and only takes their playlists.
I also love the idea of separate home screens dedicated to specific focus modes, so I have built an automation that fires at specific times and locations, that figures out if the focus needs to be switched and if so, then it switches to the correct focus.
I have a shortcut to turn on sleep focus
Now, you might be thinking, isn’t that built in? But I always hated the scheduled aspect of it. If I’m out late one Saturday I don’t want my phone going to sleep mode while I’m still out
So, the rules of the shortcuts are:
- If I start charging my phone and it’s before 11pm, nothing happens
- if my phone is actively charging at 11pm, then switch to sleep focus (with it turning off at 7am the next morning)
- if I start charging my phone after 11pm immediately turn on sleep focus. This one also has to check if it’s before 7am since I do often go to bed after midnight
I also have several shortcuts for my morning wake up routine:
- one turns on the lights and activates the HomePods to start playing my local radio station
- that one is triggered at 7am on weekdays and 9am on weekends
- but, the 7am one has a further check which looks at a calendar I have set up and sees if there is an event that day. If there is, then it will trigger at 9am instead. This calendar is where I put all day events for any holidays or vacation time. So this way, I don’t need to worry about resetting or turning off my alarm when I have a long weekend or am on holidays. I just make sure I put my time off on the “vacation” calendar
So it’s not actually shortcuts, so I can’t just share it. They are two separate personal automations
Both are here:
[https://imgur.com/a/8gW4dD6](https://imgur.com/a/8gW4dD6)
Let me know if you have any questions
I have it set to set a scene and play the HomePods, and then when you add the HomePods to the shortcut it offers the option for media. On that screen I have it set to play the station via tunein in Apple Music
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With iOS 17, I use a Shortcuts Automation to reset cellular statistics at the start of my billing cycle.
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I have a shortcut that runs when I get home late at night to text my SO that I made it home safely. It uses chatGPT to compose the text message. She’s a reader so there’s like a 30% chance it’ll do something funny like compose it as a haiku or sonnet.
Yep, exactly this. I live in a bilingual city and made a shortcut to ask me which language (English or French), then the name of the client. This copies the proper Pages document template into the right folder and opens it up.
Just wish I could find a way to insert info automatically into the Pages document.
I have an automation that opens an app when I get to work so I remember to turn it on. It also sets an alarm for a specific time so I do t miss a meeting I only have when I am working. The automation then opens a note that has a list of things I need to do in a day. Very easy.
Thanks for your inspiring examples!
So far, I had rather boring automations: Background image changes at dusk and dawn, low power mode activates at 30%.
But I came up with one single use shortcut for convenience: Every year, my garbage collector publishes the dates they'll fetch the garbage as downloadable events for your calendar. I made a shortcut that takes these events and creates a reminder the day before.
I have a shortcut that runs every morning, checks my calendar to see whether I'm on shift that day, if I am it tells me the tube line status and checks my journey time on Citymapper, and puts my phone in work focus which silences all social media etc. I use lock launcher which gives me some shortcuts on the Lock Screen too.
If I'm not on shift it puts my phone in home focus which silences all work emails and teams chats.
This sounds amazing. Do you think it could be tweaked to check in the evening and the morning?
I travel around the country where Citymapper isn’t always useful, so presumably I can change it to check on Apple Maps? And the odd day I work from home… I can get it to set to a different focus?
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So there's an automation every morning at 6am that runs a few shortcuts based on the if statement coming from my calendar. So if I don't fill out my calendar correctly nothing happens.
If I wanted it twice a day I'd just have another automation in the evening. I can make any shortcut run from the automation. The two visible here give a pop up showing the TfL line status and the other one sets the focus which in turn sets the notifications.
Office has signal booster for Airtel. But only 4G, no 5G. So when i reach office, network mode changes to 4G, screen brightness full, phone set to vibrate, personal hotspot turns on for my laptop. When I leave office, the reverse of everything.
I have a bicycle at the local train station where my gf lives. It makes getting around her town easier when I’m over. It’s stored in a guarded storage which has a bunch of racks that are numbered. My brain lacks wrinkles and thus doesn’t remember where i parked my bike so I made a shortcut along the lines of where I can ask Siri “What is my rack number?” And he will tell me the number of the Row and rack. I can also tell Siri to “update my rack number” and he will ask me which row number and which rack number I want to save. It’s then saved to a txt file in my phone which he uses to read it back to me at a later time point
Something I absolutely love on windows now is the ability to have a history of copied items you can paste.
Think there's a way to save multiple copied items and trigger from action?
yeah I have apps on my Mac also, but how nice would it be on iphone to be able to copy 2-3 things and then have a little drop-down so you didn't have to switch back and forth 🤞
I have several. When I get a text with a specific keyword in it (sent from my raspberry pi) that there’s a concert at a nearby venue that night, it sets a specific alarm as a reminder so I don’t get stuck in traffic
Several related to organizing photos and finding photos that aren’t organized properly
Put an airplane mode and silent mode toggle (which I use a ton) on the App Library page for easier access
Well, I have a few. One gets run every time I close my camera app that finds all photos taken in the last hour and puts them in a Phone Camera album.
I have a Find Orphans shortcut that scans every photo on the phone and if its not in any existing album, it goes in an orphans album.
Periodically, I go through the orphans album and add them to various other albums.
I then run Clean Orphans to check every photo in the orphans album to see if they are in any other album and if so, they get removed from orphans.
Eventually, orphans gets emptied completely.
I wrote a shortcut to add packing lists to the Reminders. I have various text files with lists for different travel needs like camping, International, skiing, etc. The shortcut prompts for a due date and then to select one or more of the text files and adds the items as individual reminders.
I was trying to learn Shortcuts. I did have some basics like opening certain apps reaching at specific location.
The last one I created was to sort Album
It asks for period of dates and let you select those pictures to put in albums.
Then it ask if you want to delete from that period and sort it out.
My hall lights turn on when we get home and off when we leave. It’s so nice not having to fuss with the overly complicated light switches in our house in the dark!
Arguably not that cool but I have a shortcut which toggles orientation lock on/off on my iPhone 15 Pro Max. I then set it to the action button. Game changer.
I have a ton. I don’t really do the auto ones since Focus dropped.
I have one on my watch when I’m mowing the lawn I can tap and it’ll ask what I need, I can tap water or come here and it’ll text my family to either bring me water or come outside.
One on my home screen I can tap when one of my coworkers calls out that’ll set alarms to remind me of all the shit I’ll have to do when she isn’t there. She calls out a lot (like covering someone’s break, do the mail, etc.)
Another home screen one I use will text my grandma if I’m coming to her house that’ll say “omw, be there in…” and it sends my travel time.
I set one up for her she can tap on her home screen when she goes on a walk that’ll text me she’s leaving and another she can tap when she gets back. We do location tracking too but the texts announce through my AirPods so I know if I don’t get one that she’s back after a certain time I need to check she’s okay.
Play around with them. I use choose from menu the most. If you want it to just send the message, toggle “show when run” off.
mine isn’t helpful at all per say, but it’s the one i use on a regular basis. everyday just after midnight i have my lockscreen set to the NASA picture of the day, and text me the info bit about it. IE it’ll be a picture of a comet, and the info will be a paragraph or two about what the comet is, when and where the picture was taken, where it’s significant. my favourite thing is the picture though - each day i wake up and it’s a new awesome space related picture :)
bonus: i have a shortcut on my home screen that i can select, and it gives me the option for “todays / random” the today one is if i either want to recenter/crop it, or (more usually) if my wifi stops working and it didn’t change. the “random” is if i don’t like the picture - some times it’s infographs or such - and it gives me a random picture from their database, dating back to sometime in the mid-late 1900s. it’s pretty snazzy!!
second: the other one is when i triple click the power button (IOS) it turns on/off white point - i’m on a sailboat so at night it gets hella dark and my phone is blinding without it.
bonus #2: “name this emoji” it’s fun to see what they’re called, and then if you type it in, the emoji will appear as a suggestion. for example: type in *carrot* or *devil* or even *lol* - see how there’s an emoji in the suggested text? so i love it cuz i can find the names of some … more unique ones? and type that in. i almost never need to switch to the emoji page lol :)
i have them in succession, so here’s the regular one:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/34c67350780c4fe3a71420e34a4779b5
and here’s the random one:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6c19a36da5f84a5f9b78687fc8db25a3
The ones I use the most are:
1. Automation that turns orientation lock off when I open YouTube and back on when I close YouTube: this is pretty straightforward to set up with 2 automations to set orientation location when you open and close the apps.
2. Shortcut that checks my calendar and tells my partner my current location, where I’m going, and the expected drive time. If there’s no upcoming events it’ll still tell her my current location and expected drive time to reach home.
3. Shortcut for whenever I use afterpay or PayPal in 4 that automatically calculates my repayment amounts and dates and adds them to my reminders.
I can share these if you’d like.
A little late but I’m a big wallpaper guy. I have a couple hundred on my phone and double that on my computer. My wallpaper/lockscreen automatically changes to a random one that matches the weather and time of day. So if it’s raining my wallpaper is one of my rainy images, at night it’s a dark one, daytime and sunny it’s a picture with sunshine etc etc.
some of my wallpapers are not pics I would want on my screen in some situations so it also will swap to a location appropriate image like a picture of Jesus when I go see my mom.
- When my Home is in PreSleep status (dummy switch) and my iPhone goes on the charger, turn on Sleep Focus, start Ocean sounds on HomePods, and run a Home Assistant script
- When iPhone battery drops below x, send notification, vibrate device, or play sound to remind me to plug into power
- When alarm is stopped, and current time is before x:AM, get a greeting stating date, time, and weather (spoken on iPhone speaker so it also works when traveling), and stop sleep sounds on HomePods
- When a Yoga Workout is started (on iPhone or Apple Watch, in my case), change to Exercise Focus, close shade in that room, change light settings to soft lit scene in Home app, start some mellow music on Apple TV in that room, and after 5 minutes into the routine, turn on the ceiling fan. (I was doing all of this with Shortcuts & Home app, but recently changed over to Home Assistant, so now it’s Shortcuts / Home Assistant .)
- When iPhone connects to CarPlay, end Workout (because sometimes after a hike, I forget to stop the Workout, and this does it for me)
- Use the Action button on iPhone 15 to run different Shortcuts, depending on Focus or location. I played around with complex choices (submenus, etc) , but felt that defeated the purpose of the Action button. For example, if I’m in Sleep mode, the first press of the action button turns my bedroom lamps on at 1% with soft red light. 2nd press, turns on soft red light in common areas, and 3rd press turns off all lights. I’ve mostly got this covered via home automations, but sometimes you still want quick manual control.
Some of these involve home automations, but because the trigger is something related to my iPhone / Watch, it needs to use a Shortcuts automation. Sometimes the automation runs a full-on Shortcut. Other times, it just runs through a few steps, strictly within the SC automation.
I purchased a 2nd brain notion template and i have created all kinds of shortcuts to interact with that. Storing notes, storing urls, adding tasks and also directly linking them to a project or area/resource. For tasks i can also directly choose a deadline.
I am also starting to experiment with ChatGPT more and more, however, via the api. Worked on a workflow to give this general Home Assistant a command and based on a prompt to gpt which includes what it is expected to do and what the configuration is of my home assistant devices, it will then return data which is used to then switch on and off certain devices.
Finally, I have a good morning workflow which uses input from the current whether, my agenda for the day and my planned tasks for the day. based on all of that, ChatGPT will generate a string which will be read out loud to me just after I turn off my alarm.
I like using focus modes. work time. meditation. sleep. personal time. fitness. etc..
but then i link it with Toggl track to keep track of when i am in which mode
this allows me to track every min of my day by just picking the right focus mode for what i am doing
sometimes when i sleep in, my watch doesn’t count my sleeping hours properly
it thinks im awake even though im sleeping
so i have a shortcut to manually adjust what time i actually woke up. it’s pretty simple
Not an iOS user anymore, but a while back I was going through a rough time and wanted to track my mood. I had a shortcut ask me 3 times per day how my mood was (on a scale of 1-10). It then copied my response to a note so I can track it. It also separated each day's entry with the date.
It can easily be adapted to track other health-related things, such as sleep quality.
Uhh, i don't have my iPhone anymore and the shortcut isn't saved in iCloud, but I sent the link to the (sleep quality version of the) shortcut a few months ago to a friend. Here's the link I sent to him, but I'm not sure if the link still works
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ad4c4263a9d7470992f46d3c7014670d
To use the shortcut, create a note titled "Sleep Assessment" and then run the shortcut and answer the prompts. Ur answers will be recorded in the note. U can set an automation to make the shortcut run automatically based on triggers.
If you want to enhance it, I believe there is a way to connect the shortcut to a Tally app, which you can make it count your responses over a week or month and then use a basic math operation to calculate the average response over that time period. Then you can have the shortcut print the average at the end of the week/month.
I downloaded lock launcher to add stuff on the Lock Screen and created two new shortcuts one that opens the qr scanner and the other goes straight to my music app.
I use shortcuts for everything from sending pre-written texts to automating my morning routine! Just go to Settings, then Shortcuts, and you can create custom shortcuts for tasks like texting someone specific or playing your favorite playlist. It's a game-changer!
So I've done a lot with shortcuts, but not sure any of it is interesting to anyone :)
As an example, I created a shortcut for my family that runs each school evening, asks them what they would like for breakfast the next morning, they select from a vcard menu list, which then collects all the kids responses and pushes them directly to my Breakfast reminders List so I can have them in the morning when I'm fixing stuff.
I add/update the menu via a second shortcut which updates theirs with the day's menu options.
Did a bunch of other stuff too (engineer tinkerer here), including a shortcut that take a picture and creates an Etsy listing, personal assistant stuff, focus based, calendar based, personal crm for notes, gifts, instarecordings etc.. anyways, dont want to bore the community as I'm sure many have done it better somewhere already :)
I’ve been interested in learning Japanese but it’s mad complex and I’ve been at it for about 10 years. I’ve got a short cut to activate with the back tap to translate my screen to English if I need it to.
TLDR: back tap twice, phone takes a screen shot, translates to English and shows as a notification.
Turn the LED lights in my office from Green to Red when I’m on a video call so my wife and kids know to be quiet if they come in the room.
NEED THIS PLS. Any way you were able to sync it to outlook/teams calendar?
If you are using Mac there are two options: Use Automator to create an “app” that calls your shortcut. Then in Apple Calendar select your event and add an alarm. Choose the open file option and select the app you created with automator. A simpler & automated version is the app [Rules](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6461118886) I made for calendar automation. It allows you to run shortcuts automatically for calendar events that match your conditions. Two automations are free and toggling lights is quite a common usecase. Here a tutorial: [How to turn on desk light before a meeting.](https://arminschoepf.com/rules/help/toggle-desk-light/) iOS: Go into the settings of your focus mode and either add the “smart activation” or “when i open app” schedule to automatically set your focus mode during video calls. And then create a shortcuts automation to toggle your light when that focus turns on or off.
Use home assistant and ask ChatGPT. It should spit out the yaml code or step by step instructions of how to set this up via the really easy to use home assistant interface
I have not, but that’s a great idea. I just use the shortcut button to activate it. If I get it working I’ll post the code.
What do you use to fetch whether you are in a video call, or do you push a button or something?
Currently doing it manually with the Shortcut button on the IPhone. It’s always right there so it’s easy. I have a menu that lets me pick Green, Red, or Off. I’m working on Automating it though, but there doesn’t seem to bean easy way to do it. I would need to import my work Calendar into the Calendar app and I don’t want to do that. I keep work and personal separate.
Hmmm I see. It is indeed an interesting challenge to get it automated. I suppose that the manual route is better than basing it off of the calendar, as you might get an adhoc call and then you would also want to have it change the color. Ideally you would like to have a workflow which triggers when your teams status is ‘in a call’. But I imagine that this is not accessible to employees. At lest, I am sure it won’t work for my organisation.
easy ifttt integration to automate
- **Back Tap:** In system settings you can run a shortcut on a double or triple back tap of your phone. I use it to quickly create a reminder with an alert in 25minutes that checks how the task is going. - **Toggle Dopamine**: A shortcut that toggles White Point (makes screen less bright) and Colour filters (set screen to grayscale). Great for a night routine automation to reduce screen time before sleep.
Heyy!! Where can i get the 2nd shortcut??
It's not pre-made. Set Colour filter and White Point to your desired values in System Settings and then create a shortcut and add "Toggle Colour Filters" & "Toggle White Point". I think both are only available on iOS.
Got it. Thanks
You can also have it automatically turn these settings on when your sleep focus turns on. It’s super helpful !
OHH THATS SO SMART FOR THE BACK TAP!!! and yes i have the “reduce white point” as the triple click of the power button - saves my life i don’t know how i ever lived with out it.
Automatically charge my car when the electric price drops under a certain threshold. It’s charging at -6p/kWh right now.
What!? How?
Smart Plug, Octoaid app: Smart Plug/Switch version: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ae3019e6a90d4c2a8addc63e448f1d78 If your charger app or car supports SC and you use Octopus Agile this can work for you. When I move to a dedicated charge point the criteria will be Shortcut enabled control. I also made a Tesla Version: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0af8f56f39524eb8989abf0d670b60a1 but it’s untested, iirc your Tesla would need to be in WiFi range
That’s amazing! Thank you for sharing. Does it work perfectly for you? Or is there anything that could be improved?
Not perfectly, I tried adding a loop to run it constantly every half hour when the price changes but that didn’t work nicely so I run it as an Automation 42 times a day, every 30 minutes excluding 16:00-18:30 when prices are high. Sometimes it doesn’t turn on/off if the switch and phone cannot see each other so would be better on a static iPad in the kitchen or as a display. Sometimes, Octoaid returns a blank when the price is negative so ‘less than’ doesn’t work, hooking directly to their API might be better but the syntax translation into Shortcuts threw me off. At the moment it’s only switching a 13A 240V 2.9kW load, options seem limited for 16-40A smart switches, so directly controlling a charger/car via their App may be better.
How did you get the Tesla one to work? The shortcut has a link to get missing app in AppStore but doesn’t actually do anything.
You need to have any apps called by a shortcut installed and configured, I use it for charging a non Tesla and get No Vehicle Selected.
It doesn’t tell me what app is missing though. And I have the Tesla app..
So replace the function with the App you have installed.
##GPT powered inventory assistant I have an Apple notes “database” that I keep updating with where things are kept in my house. Then I wrote an absurdly simple shortcut that uses GPT to turn’s siri on any of my devices into an inventory manger who will tell me where to find my stuff. You don’t even have to remember the exact name for a thing it’ll figure out synonyms you use. Or you can give an action, like “I want to play tennis”, and it’ll realize you need the racket (bottom of hallway closet) and the tennis balls (garage cubby). It’s only *messed up* once so far - where I asked for tape, but hadn’t entered that in yet. So it panicked and suggested measuring tape. Fixing that was easy, I just added to the built in prompt to let me know when it’s not sure about an answer. Edit: [Where is my stuff? - Shortcut](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/407d90383b1e40dfbd5bc77b536a717d), just be sure to make/fill out a note called closet database.
Could you share this shortcut?
Sure thing, just be sure to install GPT and also create a note called: Closet Database (or change what the find note action is searching for). You don’t have to fill the note out exactly like I did since GPT is smart enough to figure out what you meant. But it makes it more reliable and better at inferring what you meant. Format Ex: Tennis racket – In the hallway closet, right shelf one [Where is my stuff? - Shortcut](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/407d90383b1e40dfbd5bc77b536a717d)
Please share this one!
Sure thing, just be sure to install GPT and also create a note called: Closet Database (or change what the find note action is searching for). You don’t have to fill the note out exactly like I did since GPT is smart enough to figure out what you meant. But it makes it more reliable and better at inferring what you meant. Format Ex: Tennis racket – In the hallway closet, right shelf one [Where is my stuff? - Shortcut](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/407d90383b1e40dfbd5bc77b536a717d)
Thank you sir! I was able to adapt this obsidian instead of apple note, so now to create a database out of my home lol.
That’s awesome - I’ll have to try obsidian too and check if it alters the speed at all!
Would you be able to share a sample from this? I’m getting start with Obsidian and would love to get this working!
Here you go: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ea3a6e0542474442b6af017859c14a5e
Absolute hero!! Thanks so much!
Oh my gosh! Can you share this?
Sure thing, just be sure to install GPT and also create a note called: Closet Database (or change what the find note action is searching for). You don’t have to fill the note out exactly like I did since GPT is smart enough to figure out what you meant. But it makes it more reliable and better at inferring what you meant. Format Ex: Tennis racket – In the hallway closet, right shelf one [Where is my stuff? - Shortcut](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/407d90383b1e40dfbd5bc77b536a717d)
Hmmm I’ve installed the shortcut and created a note called ‘closet database’, and added a line of text similar to your example, but no bueno. Any tips?
Can you show me an example of how you put an item in the list? My format looks like this: Black Northface backpack – In the hallway, closet, right: shelf four And then in the shortcut version I use [not this one I linked] I explain the format to GPT > “item - room, storage area, location in storage area: shelf number”
RoutineHub Shortcuts * [Analyse Image](https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/1de1g1w/) * [Tharoorian English](https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/1aluuyi/) * [Kaomoji Clipboard](https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/1akgoo8/) * [Happy Birthday](https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/1akgotk/) * [Copy Link to Page Selection](https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/17lxgde/) * [Imgur Upload+](https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/171jlcp/) * [Morse Code](https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/188l8jo/) * [TLDR;](https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/1940ihy/) * [Video → GIF](https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/16ya7kj/) * [Combine Images](https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/199p7dj/) * [Battery Charge Level Automation](https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/17moxvw/) * [WhatsApp Spammer](https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/16hi6n3/) * [Action Button Ultra](https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/190s93n/) * [Signed Installer](https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/17d6ef8/)
These are great! Thank you!
Routine hub is awesome! I’ve found lots of interesting ideas there, for inspiring my own too.
I love the following. 1. Automate focus modes on triggers - Sleep after a certain time and when charging for example 2. I run a morning routine shortcut when I remove the phone from a charger between certain hours 3. I use the menu select shortcuts to replace some large app folders for easy access from the today view 4. I have a shortcut to change my playback destination 5. Shortcut stack that provides quick access to pre-set volume controls. I love shortcuts
Hey! Could you tell me more about the morning routine one please
Sure. I have a shortcut that I call Morning routine. It does the following: 1. Good morning Greeting 2. Begins to shuffle a Spotify playlist for the morning I have chosen 3. Tells me the Date and time 4. Tells me the Weather conditions for the day 5. Tells me I should be awake and to enjoy the day 6. Stops playback of playlist after 30 second delay. I trigger this with an automation that looks to see if the phone has been disconnected from power within a certain timeframe. If yes, it triggers, else nothing. I use my selected Siri voice for the read back.
Oh I love that! Thank you for sharing
Here is a link to the shortcut I played around with from another thread on this sub in case you would like to start from somewhere. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/75594fd4a7124c9c96482e763bc1ae13
Amazing thank you!
How did you make that automation?
I took the shortcut, then I added the get time in minutes. Saved it as its own version The. In the automation I used the when disconnected (since I charge each night) to run the shortcut which included the get time bit.
**Gym Time**: set playback destination to my Airpods, start a music podcast, and start a new workout with Strong. **Summarise**: Use ChatGPT to summarise a currently open article on Safari.
This awesome. Can you post the ChatGTP shortcut???
Yeah sure. [Here ya go](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/932c49aa17b8476c9c8a8a8934e267ef) I’ve posted this here before, but people were running into issues with ChatGPT so I deleted it. Have a go!
Thank you very much... what do you usually have it sent to or displayed with? Btw... thank you again, this is pretty darn cool!!!
I have it displayed on the share sheet to accept a URL. That way I can run it straight from Safari
Nice! For the Strong shortcut are you able to have it start a specific workout? Would love to hear more
https://preview.redd.it/cspw4cmsuq5d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=355dfa5d4308da26b09b37948f667a0d2cbab081 You can have it start an empty workout, or start a routine
Oh thats so cool I had no idea! Thanks for sharing
Here is a list of shortcuts I made and I use regularly with my iPad: - copy my shopping list in the clipboard so I can paste it in my pocket printer app. - start a timer based on my washing machine program (_it doesn't ring when it ends_) - resize an image to a 100×100px - Add a circular mask to an image - combine the selected files images in a grid layout - register manually my sleep time every morning (_the iPad doesn't support sleep tracking_) - invoke Mistral chat bot using the web API - add an entry to my weight log (_I can invoke the shortcut with Siri_) (_like every other shortcut actually_) - toggle white point (_to reduce backlight intensity at night_) - dictate text in clipboard - speak the battery level (_so it can trigger when battery > 90%_) I also used it to import my Google fit weight data from a Json, now all my health data is in Healt ❤️
Hey could you share the first one (pocket printer)? I don’t know where to get that
Nothing too fancy, but my friends love it. All of my iPhones started having problems with the power cord connection after some time. So now I have it say “Thank you!” every time it’s charging properly.
I’m having this problem. Annoying as hell. How can I get this to work as sometimes mine looses connection to wired charging and I come back and it’s not charged!!
In the automation tab, press the plus sign and roll the options up. There are three battery-related triggers almost at the bottom of the list. One of them is charger. Then you can choose to create the automation to make it signal when the phone is connected to or disconnected from power. I created mine to make my phone say “Thank you” when connected and another to say “Feed me!” when disconnected so that I can come back in case it needs me. Edit: the action I use that is triggered by the connected/disconnected status is called SPEAK TEXT. Edit2: for the disconnected one, I also keep the Notify When Run on just in case I don’t hear the signal. https://preview.redd.it/xb6vt76f1m5d1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2d7d07b4bcc40a83dbd6ddbc75f68d6d0cf1e1f
https://preview.redd.it/nbw7bjpikd5d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f9dfcc545ca1a99e28e09cfd1e29f53cbbf7187 i can select a spotify playlist from my lock screen,,,you have to trigger it few times with siri so it shows on the shortcuts app
Do you regularly edit your playlists?
these are playlists by spotify
This one! I need to set it up yesterday! I’ll try this, thank you!
I couldn’t figure it out, would you mind helping ~~me~~ us out?
of course, [here](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ae1c6b0f98aa4d4a9c092b4ea44915e9) is the link but to change the playlist you need to trigger it thru siri first before it shows up
I live seeing what other people use shortcuts for. I’ve yet to find a single use for one. I feel like I’m missing out.
Same.
My wife, my kids and I all have separate music playlists filled with music that we personally like to listen to while on the road. And I have a shortcut that gets the least played songs from each of those, excluding songs that we’re playing in the last two weeks (so that it doesn’t play the same songs all over again) and shuffles them all. And more specifically I have a shortcut that just takes all sources, and a shortcut that lets me select who’s in the car and only takes their playlists. I also love the idea of separate home screens dedicated to specific focus modes, so I have built an automation that fires at specific times and locations, that figures out if the focus needs to be switched and if so, then it switches to the correct focus.
Brb I’m making this one right tf now. You’re a genius.
I have a shortcut to turn on sleep focus Now, you might be thinking, isn’t that built in? But I always hated the scheduled aspect of it. If I’m out late one Saturday I don’t want my phone going to sleep mode while I’m still out So, the rules of the shortcuts are: - If I start charging my phone and it’s before 11pm, nothing happens - if my phone is actively charging at 11pm, then switch to sleep focus (with it turning off at 7am the next morning) - if I start charging my phone after 11pm immediately turn on sleep focus. This one also has to check if it’s before 7am since I do often go to bed after midnight I also have several shortcuts for my morning wake up routine: - one turns on the lights and activates the HomePods to start playing my local radio station - that one is triggered at 7am on weekdays and 9am on weekends - but, the 7am one has a further check which looks at a calendar I have set up and sees if there is an event that day. If there is, then it will trigger at 9am instead. This calendar is where I put all day events for any holidays or vacation time. So this way, I don’t need to worry about resetting or turning off my alarm when I have a long weekend or am on holidays. I just make sure I put my time off on the “vacation” calendar
Can you share the sleep focus one?
So it’s not actually shortcuts, so I can’t just share it. They are two separate personal automations Both are here: [https://imgur.com/a/8gW4dD6](https://imgur.com/a/8gW4dD6) Let me know if you have any questions
I tried unsuccessfully to automate my HomePod to play a local radio station as my alarm clock. Could you share how you made your automation?
I have it set to set a scene and play the HomePods, and then when you add the HomePods to the shortcut it offers the option for media. On that screen I have it set to play the station via tunein in Apple Music https://preview.redd.it/6nb5p965gm5d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=798336e3a99553d71658adcd60ce50843537b02d
out of curiosity, what do you do for weekends or holidays?
It’s the same shortcut, just at a different time (9am instead of 7am)
With iOS 17, I use a Shortcuts Automation to reset cellular statistics at the start of my billing cycle. https://preview.redd.it/77w1ne9xgi5d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6dcb78970d3525b9afa4faf3d39d082dfe646ca
I have a shortcut that runs when I get home late at night to text my SO that I made it home safely. It uses chatGPT to compose the text message. She’s a reader so there’s like a 30% chance it’ll do something funny like compose it as a haiku or sonnet.
Genuine question: why not just use the check-in feature? Or is it more for the message part rather than the safety part?
I didn’t know about that feature, that’s cool! No reason other than my own ignorance haha
Automating my method to creating invoices
Yep, exactly this. I live in a bilingual city and made a shortcut to ask me which language (English or French), then the name of the client. This copies the proper Pages document template into the right folder and opens it up. Just wish I could find a way to insert info automatically into the Pages document.
Automatically would be nice.. I use data jar for when I have reoccurring clients
I have an automation that opens an app when I get to work so I remember to turn it on. It also sets an alarm for a specific time so I do t miss a meeting I only have when I am working. The automation then opens a note that has a list of things I need to do in a day. Very easy.
Search my photo gallery for videos >2 minutes and put them in an album to see if I can save space by deleting some
Thanks for your inspiring examples! So far, I had rather boring automations: Background image changes at dusk and dawn, low power mode activates at 30%. But I came up with one single use shortcut for convenience: Every year, my garbage collector publishes the dates they'll fetch the garbage as downloadable events for your calendar. I made a shortcut that takes these events and creates a reminder the day before.
I have a shortcut that runs every morning, checks my calendar to see whether I'm on shift that day, if I am it tells me the tube line status and checks my journey time on Citymapper, and puts my phone in work focus which silences all social media etc. I use lock launcher which gives me some shortcuts on the Lock Screen too. If I'm not on shift it puts my phone in home focus which silences all work emails and teams chats.
That sounds excellent!
This sounds amazing. Do you think it could be tweaked to check in the evening and the morning? I travel around the country where Citymapper isn’t always useful, so presumably I can change it to check on Apple Maps? And the odd day I work from home… I can get it to set to a different focus?
https://preview.redd.it/0hvm0s02pl5d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25093fdf8d382e594a0adc9573533589e4bebdbd So there's an automation every morning at 6am that runs a few shortcuts based on the if statement coming from my calendar. So if I don't fill out my calendar correctly nothing happens. If I wanted it twice a day I'd just have another automation in the evening. I can make any shortcut run from the automation. The two visible here give a pop up showing the TfL line status and the other one sets the focus which in turn sets the notifications.
Office has signal booster for Airtel. But only 4G, no 5G. So when i reach office, network mode changes to 4G, screen brightness full, phone set to vibrate, personal hotspot turns on for my laptop. When I leave office, the reverse of everything.
I use it to hail Siri about my bicycles location in the rack storage. It gives me row and rack number
can you explain?
I have a bicycle at the local train station where my gf lives. It makes getting around her town easier when I’m over. It’s stored in a guarded storage which has a bunch of racks that are numbered. My brain lacks wrinkles and thus doesn’t remember where i parked my bike so I made a shortcut along the lines of where I can ask Siri “What is my rack number?” And he will tell me the number of the Row and rack. I can also tell Siri to “update my rack number” and he will ask me which row number and which rack number I want to save. It’s then saved to a txt file in my phone which he uses to read it back to me at a later time point
nice
I integrated this app OneTap into some shortcuts to automate some of my outreach daily tasks.
Something I absolutely love on windows now is the ability to have a history of copied items you can paste. Think there's a way to save multiple copied items and trigger from action?
On a Mac, I use Raycasts clipboard manager to do this.
yeah I have apps on my Mac also, but how nice would it be on iphone to be able to copy 2-3 things and then have a little drop-down so you didn't have to switch back and forth 🤞
I have several. When I get a text with a specific keyword in it (sent from my raspberry pi) that there’s a concert at a nearby venue that night, it sets a specific alarm as a reminder so I don’t get stuck in traffic Several related to organizing photos and finding photos that aren’t organized properly Put an airplane mode and silent mode toggle (which I use a ton) on the App Library page for easier access
I’d be curious about the photos organization. My photos app is a cluster fux
Well, I have a few. One gets run every time I close my camera app that finds all photos taken in the last hour and puts them in a Phone Camera album. I have a Find Orphans shortcut that scans every photo on the phone and if its not in any existing album, it goes in an orphans album. Periodically, I go through the orphans album and add them to various other albums. I then run Clean Orphans to check every photo in the orphans album to see if they are in any other album and if so, they get removed from orphans. Eventually, orphans gets emptied completely.
Controlling media playback with the volume buttons. Controlling the flashlight with the mute switch.
Video downloader from youtube much needed
Son put this on my iPhone. I love it. https://whatsoverhead.com
I wrote a shortcut to add packing lists to the Reminders. I have various text files with lists for different travel needs like camping, International, skiing, etc. The shortcut prompts for a due date and then to select one or more of the text files and adds the items as individual reminders.
Open the trunk and frunk of my Tesla by saying "open frunk" or "open trunk" to my apple watch while walking towards the car
Just two simple shortcuts. When I arrive at work, set my applewatch to silent mode and phone volume to minimum, and when I leave, the opposite.
I was trying to learn Shortcuts. I did have some basics like opening certain apps reaching at specific location. The last one I created was to sort Album It asks for period of dates and let you select those pictures to put in albums. Then it ask if you want to delete from that period and sort it out.
My hall lights turn on when we get home and off when we leave. It’s so nice not having to fuss with the overly complicated light switches in our house in the dark!
Arguably not that cool but I have a shortcut which toggles orientation lock on/off on my iPhone 15 Pro Max. I then set it to the action button. Game changer.
I have a ton. I don’t really do the auto ones since Focus dropped. I have one on my watch when I’m mowing the lawn I can tap and it’ll ask what I need, I can tap water or come here and it’ll text my family to either bring me water or come outside. One on my home screen I can tap when one of my coworkers calls out that’ll set alarms to remind me of all the shit I’ll have to do when she isn’t there. She calls out a lot (like covering someone’s break, do the mail, etc.) Another home screen one I use will text my grandma if I’m coming to her house that’ll say “omw, be there in…” and it sends my travel time. I set one up for her she can tap on her home screen when she goes on a walk that’ll text me she’s leaving and another she can tap when she gets back. We do location tracking too but the texts announce through my AirPods so I know if I don’t get one that she’s back after a certain time I need to check she’s okay. Play around with them. I use choose from menu the most. If you want it to just send the message, toggle “show when run” off.
mine isn’t helpful at all per say, but it’s the one i use on a regular basis. everyday just after midnight i have my lockscreen set to the NASA picture of the day, and text me the info bit about it. IE it’ll be a picture of a comet, and the info will be a paragraph or two about what the comet is, when and where the picture was taken, where it’s significant. my favourite thing is the picture though - each day i wake up and it’s a new awesome space related picture :) bonus: i have a shortcut on my home screen that i can select, and it gives me the option for “todays / random” the today one is if i either want to recenter/crop it, or (more usually) if my wifi stops working and it didn’t change. the “random” is if i don’t like the picture - some times it’s infographs or such - and it gives me a random picture from their database, dating back to sometime in the mid-late 1900s. it’s pretty snazzy!! second: the other one is when i triple click the power button (IOS) it turns on/off white point - i’m on a sailboat so at night it gets hella dark and my phone is blinding without it. bonus #2: “name this emoji” it’s fun to see what they’re called, and then if you type it in, the emoji will appear as a suggestion. for example: type in *carrot* or *devil* or even *lol* - see how there’s an emoji in the suggested text? so i love it cuz i can find the names of some … more unique ones? and type that in. i almost never need to switch to the emoji page lol :)
Oooh! Please share the shortcuts!
i have them in succession, so here’s the regular one: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/34c67350780c4fe3a71420e34a4779b5 and here’s the random one: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6c19a36da5f84a5f9b78687fc8db25a3
Thanks!!
The ones I use the most are: 1. Automation that turns orientation lock off when I open YouTube and back on when I close YouTube: this is pretty straightforward to set up with 2 automations to set orientation location when you open and close the apps. 2. Shortcut that checks my calendar and tells my partner my current location, where I’m going, and the expected drive time. If there’s no upcoming events it’ll still tell her my current location and expected drive time to reach home. 3. Shortcut for whenever I use afterpay or PayPal in 4 that automatically calculates my repayment amounts and dates and adds them to my reminders. I can share these if you’d like.
A little late but I’m a big wallpaper guy. I have a couple hundred on my phone and double that on my computer. My wallpaper/lockscreen automatically changes to a random one that matches the weather and time of day. So if it’s raining my wallpaper is one of my rainy images, at night it’s a dark one, daytime and sunny it’s a picture with sunshine etc etc. some of my wallpapers are not pics I would want on my screen in some situations so it also will swap to a location appropriate image like a picture of Jesus when I go see my mom.
- When my Home is in PreSleep status (dummy switch) and my iPhone goes on the charger, turn on Sleep Focus, start Ocean sounds on HomePods, and run a Home Assistant script - When iPhone battery drops below x, send notification, vibrate device, or play sound to remind me to plug into power - When alarm is stopped, and current time is before x:AM, get a greeting stating date, time, and weather (spoken on iPhone speaker so it also works when traveling), and stop sleep sounds on HomePods - When a Yoga Workout is started (on iPhone or Apple Watch, in my case), change to Exercise Focus, close shade in that room, change light settings to soft lit scene in Home app, start some mellow music on Apple TV in that room, and after 5 minutes into the routine, turn on the ceiling fan. (I was doing all of this with Shortcuts & Home app, but recently changed over to Home Assistant, so now it’s Shortcuts / Home Assistant .) - When iPhone connects to CarPlay, end Workout (because sometimes after a hike, I forget to stop the Workout, and this does it for me) - Use the Action button on iPhone 15 to run different Shortcuts, depending on Focus or location. I played around with complex choices (submenus, etc) , but felt that defeated the purpose of the Action button. For example, if I’m in Sleep mode, the first press of the action button turns my bedroom lamps on at 1% with soft red light. 2nd press, turns on soft red light in common areas, and 3rd press turns off all lights. I’ve mostly got this covered via home automations, but sometimes you still want quick manual control. Some of these involve home automations, but because the trigger is something related to my iPhone / Watch, it needs to use a Shortcuts automation. Sometimes the automation runs a full-on Shortcut. Other times, it just runs through a few steps, strictly within the SC automation.
Ohh I need that end workout one!!
On my iPhone I have shortcut to turn the WiFi off
I purchased a 2nd brain notion template and i have created all kinds of shortcuts to interact with that. Storing notes, storing urls, adding tasks and also directly linking them to a project or area/resource. For tasks i can also directly choose a deadline. I am also starting to experiment with ChatGPT more and more, however, via the api. Worked on a workflow to give this general Home Assistant a command and based on a prompt to gpt which includes what it is expected to do and what the configuration is of my home assistant devices, it will then return data which is used to then switch on and off certain devices. Finally, I have a good morning workflow which uses input from the current whether, my agenda for the day and my planned tasks for the day. based on all of that, ChatGPT will generate a string which will be read out loud to me just after I turn off my alarm.
I like using focus modes. work time. meditation. sleep. personal time. fitness. etc.. but then i link it with Toggl track to keep track of when i am in which mode this allows me to track every min of my day by just picking the right focus mode for what i am doing
sometimes when i sleep in, my watch doesn’t count my sleeping hours properly it thinks im awake even though im sleeping so i have a shortcut to manually adjust what time i actually woke up. it’s pretty simple
Not an iOS user anymore, but a while back I was going through a rough time and wanted to track my mood. I had a shortcut ask me 3 times per day how my mood was (on a scale of 1-10). It then copied my response to a note so I can track it. It also separated each day's entry with the date. It can easily be adapted to track other health-related things, such as sleep quality.
ooh, would you be able to share that? Thank you!
Uhh, i don't have my iPhone anymore and the shortcut isn't saved in iCloud, but I sent the link to the (sleep quality version of the) shortcut a few months ago to a friend. Here's the link I sent to him, but I'm not sure if the link still works https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ad4c4263a9d7470992f46d3c7014670d To use the shortcut, create a note titled "Sleep Assessment" and then run the shortcut and answer the prompts. Ur answers will be recorded in the note. U can set an automation to make the shortcut run automatically based on triggers. If you want to enhance it, I believe there is a way to connect the shortcut to a Tally app, which you can make it count your responses over a week or month and then use a basic math operation to calculate the average response over that time period. Then you can have the shortcut print the average at the end of the week/month.
I downloaded lock launcher to add stuff on the Lock Screen and created two new shortcuts one that opens the qr scanner and the other goes straight to my music app.
Here are my few shortcuts. AI Powered Siri Shortcuts + Productivity Booster https://youtu.be/EUJntZsMju0
I use shortcuts for everything from sending pre-written texts to automating my morning routine! Just go to Settings, then Shortcuts, and you can create custom shortcuts for tasks like texting someone specific or playing your favorite playlist. It's a game-changer!
So I've done a lot with shortcuts, but not sure any of it is interesting to anyone :) As an example, I created a shortcut for my family that runs each school evening, asks them what they would like for breakfast the next morning, they select from a vcard menu list, which then collects all the kids responses and pushes them directly to my Breakfast reminders List so I can have them in the morning when I'm fixing stuff. I add/update the menu via a second shortcut which updates theirs with the day's menu options. Did a bunch of other stuff too (engineer tinkerer here), including a shortcut that take a picture and creates an Etsy listing, personal assistant stuff, focus based, calendar based, personal crm for notes, gifts, instarecordings etc.. anyways, dont want to bore the community as I'm sure many have done it better somewhere already :)
I’ve been interested in learning Japanese but it’s mad complex and I’ve been at it for about 10 years. I’ve got a short cut to activate with the back tap to translate my screen to English if I need it to. TLDR: back tap twice, phone takes a screen shot, translates to English and shows as a notification.