6 USEFUL Apple TV Siri Shortcut Ideas + How To Setup!

[@AdamsTechLife]

➡️ What Apple TV Siri Shortcuts do you use? For more ideas check out this playlist: geni.us/SiriShortcuts

[@therealgameonfunnn]

Wow. A modern tech guy that's main phone is an iPhone 7/8 respect bro

[@AdamsTechLife]

Haha, that's my "extra" phone I use sometimes as my extra camera. i use a 14 pro as my daily driver

[@dkgrant61]

I noticed that your apple remote has some type of cool cover on it? What is it? It seems to give in a little more heft. Thank you so much for your videos. I've learned so much and have began setting mine up. You are a rock star

[@AdamsTechLife]

Yeah, it's a case for the apple tv remote with support for an airtag. I got this before apple announced a find my feature for the apple tv remote and haven't gotten a new case yet but if you want it here's the link: geni.us/RemoteCaseAirTag and i'm glad you're finding my videos helpful and starting up your own smart home! that's awesome to hear!!

[@AlexManMe]

1:55 I have an old iPhone X laying around if I created a shortcut on that, would it work even if my main phone isn’t on the same network?

[@AdamsTechLife]

Yeah as long as the phone you’re creating the shortcut on is signed in as the same Apple ID as your Apple TVs it’ll work

[@AlexManMe]

@@AdamsTechLife Hmm, will that break my away automations? If my phone is always at home

[@barronhead]

Hi, nice video, thanks. I have a question, do you know if there is a shortcut to set the Apple TV off in a x time?

[@AdamsTechLife]

not really. there's a built in sleep timer in the Apple TV that may be what you're looking for instead.

[@myHomeKithome]

That morning briefing shortcut makes me rethink my HomePod morning briefing shortcut. Pretty sweet!

[@AdamsTechLife]

Glad you found a use for it :) it’s awesome!

[@VioletTheCamaro]

Very detailed information. When creating a shortcut is there a way to save the Apple TV name in a variable incase it changes or you can use 1 shortcut for all your devices. I don’t want it to ask every time as I use my main one 90% of the time.

[@AdamsTechLife]

You should be able to set the name as a variable though I haven't tried it so i can't say for certain.

[@DSGQR]

Why do a “Play/Pause” when you have direct access from Control Center?

[@AdamsTechLife]

more options :)

[@willwildwest31]

Is there a way to create a short cut that wakes up the apple tv, opens youtube, and plays a specific youtube video in it?

[@AdamsTechLife]

to wake apple tv and open youtube, yes, but not to play a specific video :/

[@AlexandreGiess]

Is it possible to create a morning briefing shortcut that automatically runs at a certain time every day? Currently, I have a HomeKit scene set up for my home that turns on the lights and Apple TV at 7:15 am. I was wonderingssible to have a weather app displayed on the TV after the scene if it's also po runs.

[@AdamsTechLife]

Yes, just add a new automation in the shortcuts app, choose time of day, and put in your actions from there.

[@kavehnazeri]

@AdamsTechLife Is there anyway to design a shortcut to mute an apple tv?

[@AdamsTechLife]

I wish

[@hemiedsel7665]

❤Thx bro, I have nanoleaf for backlight too, wondering how to set the 4D mirroring light after waking up TV😂 also I found myself couldn't set the light off after turning off TV 😢 any advice?

[@AdamsTechLife]

try adding a homekit action to control the nanoleaf lights when waking and sleeping the apple tv

[@esoel]

I appreciate your effort into trying to figure out useful things to do with the little tools that Apple provided but I don't see myself using any of these. I think they got so close to making something useful but stopped short of it. IMO the main problem is the inconsistencies between apps. Eg I tried to do a "what did they say" shortcut, to rewind a few secs and turn on the subs for a minute, but it didn't work on 3rd party players... I like the snack time one though, I just don't have enough lights automated yet, for it to be useful to me...

[@AdamsTechLife]

Thanks for watching though, glad you were able to find some value out of the video :)

[@DoItForMeSolutions]

Great info on all the shortcut functions for AppleTV. Is it still true that you can't have the AppleTV directly open a specific movie or video in a specific video app? E.G. creating a shortcut that will open Disney and immediately start playing an episode of the Mandalorian? I still see many people preferring to use the Roku streaming media player because it has an API that allows that level of integration and some smart home platforms fully support it. Interestingly, I noticed that Home Assistant stated that do support these kinds of "deep links" with AppleTV app and media content. Haven't tried it yet, but wondering why HA can do it but you can't do it with Apple's own Shortcut system? (I would be glad to learn if this is no longer true, but haven't found anything that shows how to do it directly with Apple Shortcuts at this time?)

[@AdamsTechLife]

This is true, the Apple TV can only open an app and not a show within that app, I meant to add that in. I have heard of Apple TV home assistants plugins but I haven’t tested anything yet but that’s a good idea. Thanks for watching! 😊

[@thomastevis8655]

Awesome videos sorry I’m so late

[@AdamsTechLife]

No problem 😊 Thanks for watching! 😊

[@0454ERHNT]

Muy interesante! Me guardó varios!

[@AdamsTechLife]

Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for watching! 😊

[@sarabradley919]

This is very informative!

[@AdamsTechLife]

Glad to hear! Thanks for watching! 😊

[@wongke]

Great video

[@AdamsTechLife]

Glad to hear you enjoyed the video and found it helpful. Thanks for watching! 😊

[@JuneHarle]

Thank you

[@AdamsTechLife]

Glad to hear you enjoyed the video and found it helpful. Thanks for watching! 😊

[@KingCharles-o6z]

I couldn’t get this to work for anything at all. Weird

[@AdamsTechLife]

that is weird

[@KingCharles-o6z]

@@AdamsTechLife wait wait wait. This does NOT activate the shortcut when you click the remote button…. Ohhhh