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[@jayeshuppal]

Another idea: USE 5G when battery rises above 30%. Use 4G when battery falls below 25%.

[@worldexplorer75]

The coolest automation I have setup is a "Heading Home" shortcut. Once activated via Siri, the automation will grab the driving time from my current location to my home, then send an iMessage to my wife that I will be home in approximately X amount of time, and finally pull up apple maps to with my home address filled in (useful to circumvent some traffic on the highway).

[@courtneypalmer2278]

How did you do that?

[@eleehoh]

From what I can see, you can make a shortcut first. 1. Look for "Get Travel Time" in Search for apps and actions 2. Choose your variables From here, you can send a message, and when you tap on the message, you can input the Travel Time. So just draft something like, 'hey I am on my way I will get there at 'Travel Time" be ready' That is just a shortcut, you can automate it for when you leave a location or something. @@courtneypalmer2278

[@palabradevictoria]

How

[@everton.leandro]

I use it as follows: I set the Work focus mode to automatically start on weekdays from 07:00 am to 6:00 pm. The trigger for my set of actions is this automatic activation of work focus mode. Then, when work focus mode activates, it starts automation with the following set of actions: 1. Go to the NASA website and set the iPhone Wallpaper with the image of the day; 2. Play for 30 seconds a random song from a Playlist I created (this is my alarm); 3. After 30 seconds, the music stops and Siri says: “Good morning Everton, today is” (date of the day); 4. Siri keeps saying: “today you have (my events in the work calendar)” OBS.: IF there is no event, it skips this step; 5. Siri keeps saying, “Remember (my work reminders)” NOTE: IF there is no event, it skips this step; 6. Send a good morning message to the work group on WhatsApp; 7. Search my work calendar if there is someone having a birthday, and if there is, send a message in the work group on WhatsApp a birthday message including the birthday person's name in the body of the message; NOTE: IF there is no event, it skips this step; 8. In addition to the birthday message, (IF there is a birthday person) search my Playlist for a song, extract the name of the song and artist, and send it along with the birthday message saying: “The song to pack your day today is (Name of music + artist). OBS.: I still haven't managed to make it possible to extract the song link and share it with the message.

[@Magenitech]

Can you give a link to the NASA wallpaper please?

[@everton.leandro]

@@Magenitech Yea! Here it is: apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss

[@everton.leandro]

@@Magenitech An important note: If you open the Shortcuts app and go to the Gallery section, you can search for: Picture of the Day. There, you will find part of the actions I used to search for the image, you just need to insert the rest of the actions to set the iPhone wallpaper with the extracted image. But it's super simple.

[@Magenitech]

@@everton.leandro Thank you!

[@Magenitech]

@@everton.leandro I'm having problems making the shortcut set the image to the wallpaper, so would you mind sharing a link to the actual shortcut?

[@matts_ego]

I enjoyed the different presentation in this video. I’ve set up a handful of automations/shortcuts myself, but I still consider myself a beginner. I do feel like there are still lots of things I can automate, but they just haven’t occurred to me. My most proud automation is one I created to turn on the light strip on the back of my TV only if the TV is on and it’s after sunset. It just saves me that annoying extra step of manually turning it on via voice activation or remote. That was the more tricky shortcut I’ve created, so to advanced shortcut people it may be basic, but I was proud of it and it works perfectly!

[@IrichB]

The send a message when you arrive at a location is great for your kids. School, home, moms/dads.

[@ialwaysshine.]

If you have a home kit smart plug you need to try the home automation that will automatically turn the plug off when your iPhone or iPad reaches 100%! It’s way better than battery optimization. You can also set the plug to come on at a certain time to make sure your phone is at 100% whenever you want.

[@ericsparkman3645]

This is a game changer, I’ve been doing this with my iPad/iPhone for awhile now

[@AB78]

Does this work for all smart plugs 🤔 I have the Eve , this would be awesome, thanks

[@ericsparkman3645]

@@AB78 yeah it should be the same for any brand of smart plug

[@pPstei]

if you still have manually confirm an "automation" every time it runs, as it's the case with location trigers, it's not an automation. That means, if I create a location-based automation to activate a focus (as shown in the video), it will ask for permission every time it runs. The better alternative is to go into Focus settings, and create a location based schedule. Only then it will run "automatically."

[@juanpabravo6868]

yeah ios 15 used to be true "Automatic". that changed with IOS 16 for whatever reason - it sucks

[@LifeORiley]

My favourite is combining focus with automation, including an auto reply for certain contacts so that they know I’m either asleep already, at work, or just generally unavailable at the moment.

[@igb2000]

You can set the Focus Mode not only based on the time, but also based on the location in Settings App. If you enter the add schedule button, you can set it based on the location. 🙂🙂 The Shortcut App for the automation for the location-based focus mode is actually unnecessary…😂😂 Despite, thank you for the other tips!! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@highfry]

I already have this setup and it works great,

[@peros550]

Some of these automations will not work as intended. For example, the BT or the location based automations will create a notification that will ask user to confirm whether they want to run. That's a huge limitation Apple created for their own reasons.

[@blackout0119]

Yep, tried it and saw the shortcut notification pop up too and was a bit disappointed its not fully automated

[@JorgeHernandezV93]

Dude I was looking for answers to fix this. Typical Apple L. I wanted to automate Wi-Fi turning on at home and 5G off and when I leave to automate the inverse but having to approve it each time I leave defeats the purpose of automation.

[@SmokeOnTheWater108]

You’d have to turn off “Ask Before Running” before you complete the automated shortcut. He didn’t mention that in this particular video. Try it out🙏🏾

[@bhuvaneshreddy847]

Yea u gotta turn off “ask before running” else it’ll ask u for permission every time the automation is to be run

[@peros550]

@@bhuvaneshreddy847 that toggle is not available for BT and WiFi based automations. That’s why this videos instructions are a bit misleading

[@aechb6560]

🐬 I set up 98% of these while watching your video! Awesome video and please create more of these!!!

[@9to5Mac]

Thank you! Will do!

[@NoBite2]

From your video I created an automation that runs when CarPlay connects. It checks if a certain SmartPlug is on (the plug my coffee maker is plugged in to) and verbally tells me the coffee pot is on if that plug is on! I would like to enhance this automation by having it run only when I am at my home address and CarPlay connects. How do I add the location variable to the automation? I’ve tried and I’m stumped! Thank you!

[@HeavyComponent]

So, the Wi-Fi shortcut is great BUT it's not automatic. The run notification comes up so you can run it to make it work. So, the shortcut is basically useless! Is there any way to make it run automatically so that the prompt to run it doesn't show up? To many comments to check if this was already answered. Thank you!

[@eckev001]

I’ve the same question too…in this way it’s useless

[@Oharsh0928]

Is there a way for the shortcut to automatically turn off wifi when I leave my house? When I set up the shortcut I received a notification asking to run the shortcut before it would turn off the wifi.

[@eleehoh]

this may have been updated, are you not able to see run immediately?

[@georgebarron7429]

Hi. Great tips as always. However - when I set up the automation to turn wifi off when I leave the house, I dont have the option to turn off ‘ask me’ - the button isn’t on the screen. Any ideas anyone??

[@saroonline]

Pal! How to recover deleted automations? How to backup automations? Thanks in Advance!

[@Oharsh0928]

Does it mess with accurate location information if Wi-Fi is off?

[@markmclean5651]

Is it possible to build one for weekly Sunday's, 9:00 to 12:05 ~ to just turn off all sounds then back on, rather than trying to remember to slide the side switch to silent? I tried Focus, it does have day and time but does not allow me to see if one call or text so that I may have the option then to respond.

[@IamVijaySharma]

I tried location based wifi on /off shortcut, but its not working. I get notification to start the shortcut, it is not running automatically. Also in this shortcut there is no “Ask Before Running ” toggle button Plz help

[@eleehoh]

Is this still the case?

[@eleehoh]

I made automation to text people requesting things like slideshows, pictures, and all that well before the weekend to prevent headaches and to bring receipts when I say no to their morning-of requests.

[@CdnMommy3]

Do you have a shortcuts video for beginners? It’s all so overwhelming.

[@I_love_food0]

3:43 it’s annoying because it keeps asking should i run this or not like why help I’m not blé to disable notify me

[@KrisCox]

My problem with the location-based triggers is that they will not work without asking me. By the time I’ve gotten out of the locus circle for a given location, my phone has already locked itself because it’s gone into Driving focus, and I ought not to be taking my attention from the road to unlock my phone and tap on the “Yes, I really DO want you to execute the action I told you to execute when I left this location!” button.

[@mddanishanwar7263]

Agree

[@RalfHundertmarko]

@@mddanishanwar7263 Have you found a way to also automate that step?

[@matthewsciarrotta2118]

Use the location setting for focus (Create a new focus “HOME”), and set location. Then you can set a script to run for when focus switches in to home, and focus switches away from home. Make sure you disable “ask before running”

[@KrisCox]

@@matthewsciarrotta2118 If I’m understanding this suggestion correctly, then when my phone would go into Sleep Focus, it would behave the same as if I were to physically leave home, because the phone would exit Home Focus. Am I missing something?

[@matthewsciarrotta2118]

Hi @Kris Cox - Each focus mode can have a discrete automation setting assigned to it for when it turns on and separately for when it turns off. You would have to negate any automations you wanted running in home but not in sleep at the beginning of entering the sleep focus and then revert for coming out of sleep, in to home.

[@BMar1andonly]

Shortcuts is one large reason Homekit trumps the rest. Welcome to the club. Simple one; I have my phone ping when CarPlay is disconnected. This way I don’t forget my phone in the car when I park.

[@chrisjackowski591]

Hey you guys, any tutorials on changing video aspect ratios with shortcuts feature?

[@lisettehernandez2896]

Hi, I like the calculate tip automation. Do you have a video on this? TIA

[@HuzanForbes]

Can I make a shortcut automation to do a specific action within an app?

[@vidpic8311]

Can you create a shortcut to connect to a specific Wi-Fi at home?

[@elvissantos5690]

Wow i LOVED this video! I did 6 automations from watching this video, thank you so much! 🙏🏽

[@jensstergaard5407]

Great tips and I’m tempted to use several of these. I have a question regarding the tip for switching off and on Wi-Fi based on location. My car is a BMW which connects to my iPhone over Wi-Fi. So if the Wi-Fi is off when you enter the car, I wonder whether the iPhone will be able to detect that you actually do enter the car e.g. through Bluetooth? I haven’t been able to work this out myself.

[@OfficialAaron]

Sir, unfortunately for precise location changes like entering the BMW to be something your phone can actively and effectively determine, especially while your leaving from your home for example, WiFi being on helps a lot. Maybe if you the BMW app could send a command to ‘turn on WiFi when iPhone connects via Bluetooth’ you’d be in luck, but I do not believe the BMW app currently does that- though I cannot say that last part with 100% certainty.

[@vyshnavvv6250]

I couldn’t find the music Apple while doing the same as you did for automaton into Bluetooth speaker. I hold Spotify as well Wynk musics. Mine is Xs 2019 brought.

[@ritwiksahoo536]

Great video! But wont the location based automations cause much battery drain through precise location?

[@eleehoh]

You can change it to when you connect to your car it turns off, this is somewhat the same as when you leave home no?

[@tbc_2024]

will the wifi on/off just work on my iPhone or does it impact my iPad as well. Can I add device check so it is specific to each device when it is home.

[@TheOnlyChifilo]

🐬 TYSM! Added 4 of my own renditions from this vid! (also LOVE that you said to add a dolphin my fave animal)

[@thieu714]

Thinking of switching to iPhone. Can you tell me if I'll be able to have my security camera app open automatically if let's say my garage door, or any door/window opens? Like for Android using tasker or macrodroid. I can interrupt any notifications and make it do something else. Thanks

[@davidodell6232]

Like the new format. Keep!

[@9to5Mac]

Glad to hear it! Might do one like this for iPad and Mac as well!

[@Steve-racer]

I like tutorials, it seems that no one does tutorials on Shortcuts, I look forward to more of the tutorials. I like the new layouts.

[@gurwinderutube]

Hi, is there any way to power ON iPhone with some pre set automation or settings if someone tries to power it OFF manually?

[@CdnMommy3]

The Wi-Fi on and off was an awesome and easy tip. Thanks!

[@ameydhore]

How we can do -- if we are at home, do not lock screen, if away from from lock screen after 30 seconds ?

[@JarradShaw]

That helped a lot. Chris has been showing off shortcuts for years but I always get confused by the detail of the automations he shows off. This was much simpler to digest and easy to adopt. Thanks!🐬

[@dgoullet1]

great video thanks, I tried to open a folder from OneDrive but it does not seam to let me any recomendations?

[@millennialmouse3450]

I've been using shortcuts since Apple acquired the app -- previously known as Workflow 😂 and I still learn new stuff everyday about it! 🐬

[@HelloNotMe9999]

So how do you run an automation when you leave whatever location you happen to be at? Trying to set it up so when I leave whatever movie theater I am at (there are several in my area that I go to) to turn off a custom focus...

[@philetaranma4918]

Is there anyway to exceed automation 2 minutes limit? automation will encounter an error; the operation was cancelled/the automation took too long to run.

[@info_9160]

The issue that no one is talking about regarding Apple and their Automation is that creating automation that turns off your wifi once you leave your house still requires you to run it by clicking the notification on the lock screen (what's the point of automation if we still need to interact with it)! Secondly, when using focus mode, you will not receive the shortcut notification (and the shortcut app doesn't exist in the list of apps you can allowlist)! I would like others to confirm just as a sanity check because I don't receive shortcut notifications when using the focus mode.

[@davidaanderson]

This is frustrating.

[@rusanyukaare179]

Thank you for this buddy, I am trying to add automation to turn on my personal hotspot when CarPlay is connected but I can’t see hotspot option on the list, how do you go about it? Thank you l.

[@TheGalvannyVEVO]

Ok you are giving examples of automation but I wanna learn how to use automation like setting conditionals that u never talked about

[@dmurdock909]

I was wanting to get my wifi to be off except for when I am at home or work and now I have it set! Thank you!

[@hajonor]

i got a Yale dor lok whit its own app, but it dosent support apple home. Is there some automation who make siri unlock my dor? I also like siri to play my favourite radio channel just by asking my HomePod ?

[@HeyNickJ]

Like the new format

[@danielveee]

Does Spotify still support this? I can’t get it to show up on mine.

[@ryaniglesias6381]

I Just discovered your channel ....... I love it. Thank you for doing this video as I was all confused about shortcuts but not anymore.

[@pavannikki]

Hi, Help Me Condition: If i am in my home, Everyday 8:00pm i need a speak text from my phone.. How to create this..

[@captainrizal67]

How to set to send daily “Good morning “ messages in Facebook messenger using Automation? I figured out how to do this in WhatsApp but very difficult in messenger.

[@BicycleFunk]

2:12 - this is not automatic, your phone prompts you to send a message, effectively negating the reason for the automation.

[@CraigSotelo]

How do you turn off the shortcut notification every time an automation runs ?

[@frankensteinarmy545]

I have set location based automation where my wifi and bluetooth will be switched off once i leave my house but it doesnt work at all. I have iphone 13 and i m on ios 16.6. Help?

[@nifthak4714]

My file app isn’t opening after I creating and deleted the personaI automation. It says no file to preview. Pls help me!!

[@courtneypalmer2278]

Thank you!

[@tantlyn3147]

Thank you very much. This is very helpful.🐬

[@TerrySitu]

Are you sure the message will be sent automatically? Last time I tried it still need confirmation from users.

[@peros550]

It won't. The location based trigger still lacks the "Ask before run" option, hence it always asks before run.

[@Tulunadu036]

@@peros550 Its problem with new update ios 16

[@SantragoPipian]

Did you solve that problem?

[@Tulunadu036]

@@SantragoPipian no unless ios 17 is relased

[@nigelgee3576]

I have two that I use al the time. One bedtime(send a message, open an sleep app and set focus to sleep mode) and one that changes the the Text size from large to Accessible Large if I do not have my glasses on so make it easier to read messages etc

[@DylanR2910]

*plane crashing above NYC* “Hey honey, I arrived in NYC”

[@Mehwhatevr]

You’re not alone. It’s only just starting to sink into me that I can do things like Set Orientation Lock with Siri via a shortcut. I like #6 🐬

[@michaelw6104]

How do you turn the run prompt off?

[@BowsettesFury]

Why isn’t the baked in screen sharing function in the shortcuts??? That makes ZERO sense. Had the idea today to try to make a function but can’t. Wanted to be able to say “Hey Siri start gaming” so it would open a game and automatically start screen mirroring. Screen mirroring is on the drop down menu and NO WHERE ELSE on the phone. How is that even a thing???

[@Cycle774]

Very nice! I have the wifi on/off shortcuts but they never work!

[@Cycle774]

For the wifi shortcuts, does Significant Locations have to be enabled? I have the on/off shortcuts set exactly as you do with Shortcuts location enabled. It still doesn’t turn on/off wifi. Any tips?

[@1csearle]

So I tried setting up turn off wifi when leaving home and turning on when arrive at home, however it keeps asking me to run how do avoid Siri asking me to run this automation?

[@aniketbharsakale2561]

There are 3 parts: Automation, When and Do. To avoid my iPhone from asking me for confirmations each time an automation has to be executed, check the Automation section & select “Run Immediately”

[@A.H_610]

The one with the Bluetooth automation for open an app just give me the notification to run the automation instead of just opening the app which is in my case is SoundCloud

[@creativepicnl]

Shortcuts have been around for quite some time so I’ve tried almost all of your solutions. It’s still pretty basic when it comes to automation, the apple watch shortcuts are very minimal and the apple watch ones often don’t activate on trigger which is pretty disappointing.

[@tio_cristiano7554]

Hope this new update fixes a bug no one is talking about here. My home automations stop working and I have been unable to find solution. Lot of other people have the same issue since installing iOS 16.

[@Hetacky]

how to add an automation on shortcut themselves

[@aeseljamesloreto8061]

2. Automated messaging does not properly work, it will always notify you to confirm sending the message which defeats the purpose…

[@dhruvrehan]

I need an automation to Log in and log off my working hour shifts in my Office Hr app. can anyone help me?

[@Nqrgaard]

I can’t find TIDAL or Spotify on my app list in Shortcuts

[@hungryalien]

spotify works on mine.

[@captainrizal67]

May they are not supported in the country you living in.

[@chandangowda3332]

Thank you for the content! Can you please help me with a shortcut which turns off the Bluetooth as soon as it gets disconnected from a device. This helps me to have a better battery life.

[@pankilpanchal1996]

I have created an automation which turns off and on all my alarms ⏰

[@ZishanAliMalik]

I can’t find that screenshot shortcut. Could you link it?

[@andrejstemmle606]

Ps: Shortcuts 1. Send last image (via iMessage) 2. Photos to GIF ( opens camera roll, then You can choose as many pics You want and ADD, You got Your own GIF) 3. Combine screenshots portrait mode like 1 big picture (opens camera roll You choose the pics You like, ADD enter a caption and save to files or save to photos, share it on the share sheet AND CHOOSE WHICH FILE-FORMAT like: JPEG, PNG or HEIF or print it. Switzerland says Good Morning

[@dpd128]

Thanks for the video. I learned some neat tricks. But, 179 phone notifications? It's triggering my anxiety. 😉

[@pedrodpadua]

The thing is the phone needs an input everytime you use location based triggers. So not that usefull

[@RichAesthetic]

You shared incorrect information about setting a focus mode based on location...

[@PaulPeelen]

Wrt #6: remember that CarPlay uses both WiFi and Bluetooth for the wireless version, if you turn off WiFi it might not connect or… it’ll reenable WiFi. Of course the wired CarPlay won’t be affected.

[@andrejstemmle606]

Ps: Shortcut: 1.Password Generator, 2.Water Eject (in the case Your iPhone went swimming) pushes the water out of the speaker, 3.Bring me back (opens Apple-Maps and shows You Your easy home either by 🚗 or Bus 🚎 or by foot (if it’s not too far) 4. Bluetooth on/off toggle same for WIFI, and cellular (but not until tomorrow more like in the settings) 5. Change Wallpaper for both Lockscreen and Homescreen or individual. Greetings from the Cheese 🧀 and Chocolate 🍫 Land Switzerland

[@KevinReyes-hr1wk]

If I got a message every time my wife got in a car I would go crazy.

[@brandonsmith6962]

I use them they are limited compared to android but I use them a lot

[@FemaleVillageElder]

Re: shortcuts. This is a foreign world to me. When last I was in school, they were no such things as computers. Much less automations in Shortcuts. What I would really like to have is a automation that would tell me when I first wake up in the morning by saying, Hey Siri, good morning (or something in that vein )it would give me the weather, my calendar events for the day, read my notifications( which, with a good news app that sent good notifications would make it unnecessary to get a full news update )read any messages I may have received since I last opened the message app the night before, and for those of us who are still working how much time it would get take to get to a certain location i.e. your job. This would be the most helpful automation yet. I have t seen it anywhere. Can you help?

[@pressrepeat2000]

The most ridiculous thing is that you need to confirm “Automation” shortcuts as they they triggered. For example, instead of turning off my WiFi when I leave home, the Automation asks me to click to confirm that I want to turn off the WiFi! That’s NOT automation.

[@jonk2600]

Doesn’t work #4 it not automatically open the app

[@originalmagneto]

I wouldn’t turn of wifi, it hinders your GPS and location automations…

[@Mentaculus42]

Great video, this video helps a lot to get past the intro to the basics and get the ball moving with automations.

[@Cali_Oasis_Garden]

This is not new for iOS 16 😢

[@martishans]

First Phase of AI Personal Assistance.

[@K77-e6r]

Automation 6 will not work! You see that there is no field „Ask before run“ because Apple doesnt want to control Wifi automaticly by automations! 😢

[@josealvarezn]

Actually yes, you can unmark "Ask Before Running" check on the automatization settings.

[@K77-e6r]

@@josealvarezn Try it, it will not work, because Apple restricted it.

[@DeutscheMark88]

You could add a shortcut that does exactly the same and in the personal automation say "Run shortcut", the checkmark will appear as Apple does not restrict the run of a shortcut no matter what's inside of it. That's the real trick here, a lot of the automations shown in the video won't work automatically as he said, only a notification will appear to ask you if you want to do it. 😉 Might be hacky and be restricted in future iOS versions, but for now that works like a charm for certain triggers. But I think arrival is not one of them, sorry.

[@andrejstemmle606]

Yep, shortcuts really ease Your life. I couldn’t imagine using my iPhone/iPad WITHOUT shortcuts or/and "Automations" For example, with the new possibility (iOS 16) of "Widgets" on the "Lockscreen". Here for instance an automation, if I leave the apartment for work, 1. Wifi Off 2. Cellular On 3. Bluetooth on to connect to TWS earbuds. Tap an automation-widget and voilà You are ready to watch a movie, or listen some music Greeting from ❤️ Switzerland

[@ActuallyAwesomeName]

Thanks Freddy Mercury

[@neverbefore68]

How to backup WhatsApp every night to a specific iCloud folder using an iOS shortcut?

[@wermhatt]

Yeah these wifi automations don’t work.

[@joelkdean]

Answer. Your. Phone. 😂