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I immediately subscribed after watching. Then I went to look for more automations on your channel but haven’t found any. Lol please make more. These shortcuts are underused mostly because the people that need them the most don’t focus long enough to work them out. Please help more 🙏🏼😂
I appreciate the encouragement, and I couldn’t agree more. I’ve got another shortcuts/automation video in the works. Anything in particular you’d like to see me tackle with shortcuts?
I know, right? I think it’s more helpful than people realize until they try it. You could also try opening a specific reminders list by using the shortcut action “Open Reminders List” :)
Not directly, since Google Calendar doesn’t integrate with shortcuts. One option is to use Apple Calendar (the app) but sign into your Google calendar account. That would still allow you to interact with your Google account (but using the Apple calendar app). This would make the whole thing start working as expected. I actually prefer the Apple calendar app myself. What do you think? The other related option (which I tested successfully) is to perform the above steps but then continue using Google calendar app as you are. This would provide a sort of “back door” option for shortcuts to read your calendar events through the Apple calendar app. The drawback is that you would be somewhat dependent on however long it takes for Apple calendars to refresh in the background. You can force a refresh manually, but that would require opening both apps whenever you add an event and would get quite cumbersome.
I’ve looked into this many times and unfortunately there isn’t a great way to do this. However here’s one option: you could have an automation that runs every 30 minutes and then it checks to see if you have a specific calendar event scheduled. If you do, then it could turn on do not disturb for the duration. That would be my basic idea, but it would really work best the relevant calendar events always lined up cleanly with the calendar (e.g. 10am, 10:30am, 11am, etc.). But I wonder, are the appointments are predictable in some way? At the same time, or location? Use the same title? Let’s say you’re tired of getting phone calls during a visit to a massage therapist. In that case you could set up a location-based schedule in the do not disturb focus mode that turns it on. And you can actually list multiple locations so that they all separately turn on your focus mode. That’s somewhat of a shot in the dark since I’m not sure of your specific use-case. Would anything like that make sense? Or do you think you’d need something different?
@ Thanks for the prompt reply! I have actually managed to make this work. It isn’t elegant - but I run a shortcut each morning that creates an alarm for each event on my calendar using a unique label. Then I have an automation setup when any alarm is triggered, if the label is the unique one I created, I turn on do not disturb and delete that alarm. It is working fairly well for events on my calendar that were scheduled in the morning when the alarms are created. It isn’t working so well *yet* for events created during the day. My need is that I am in a LOT of meetings during the day and I get so distracted by constant texts and emails. This is helping to limit my distractions!!
@@kutler100 Yes, in shortcuts you can add an "Adjust Date" action right before you create the alarm. Then create the alarm with the adjusted date. It's a bit confusing so I put together a separate shortcut that does exactly what you've requested, if you check it out you'll see it subtracts 30 minutes just before creating the alarm: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/87583bbbd21f4a4cb2696cca15d1eba7
For the first alarm shortcut, i feel its super useful at times , except there maybe a mistake i believe , being , you have to automate to everyday morning 5am or something cuz ; for a scenario uou have scheduled an event for next week and you added a notification , but since you have set it up to search event for next 24hours, it shall misses the event and if uou dont open the app for next 10days , you wont be notified.
Good catch, it would slip through the cracks in that case. I was originally considering someone who is already using their calendar frequently, but I like your idea of automating it to run every day at a set time each day. Another option is to trigger the automation to run after closing a few more apps (you can select more than one), so for example it may run when you close the calendar, but also whenever you close facebook and messages, etc. I'm currently working on my next video which will feature an updated version that works for events up to 7 days in advance. Thanks for the feedback!
Oh man. The "Calendar to Alarm" shortcut is very useful! Question: Is it possible to create the same shortcut, but create an alarm on the Apple Watch rather than on the iPhone?
Ok I’ve done some digging on this: you can’t use shortcuts to create alarms on the Apple Watch per se. There is a workaround but I think it could be a dealbreaker. Here it is: if you were to manually add an alarm to your phone but set the sound to “none”, the alarm will go off on your phone and watch, but it will only make a sound on your watch. You can use the same trick to set the haptics to none (on your phone) and you’ll find that the haptics still work on your watch when the alarm goes off. The end result is that the alarm is “going off” on both devices, and you can turn the alarm off from either your phone or your watch, but only the watch has sound/vibration. The REAL trick here is that any subsequent alarms you create will follow the same settings as the previous one you made. As a result, any alarms the shortcut/automation creates will also only sound/vibrate on your watch. I’m not sure what your use-case is, but *perhaps* that would do the trick. But like I said, to me that feels like a dealbreaker since now, by default, every future alarm created by you (or the automation) will now be silent on your phone. You can reverse this by using the same trick again: manually add another alarm with sound/haptics on your phone, and then any subsequent alarms will sound on your watch AND phone… does any of that make sense or did I lose you? lol I’m curious to hear what your use-case is in case there’s another solution altogether.
Thank you for the time you spend on this point. The fact is that I generally prefer alerts and alarms to sound on my watch rather than on the phone. I'm going to give this solution a try, as it suits my needs.
I beg you to make an automation that can be triggered with a focus mode that lets you track sleep at variable times throughout the day. As a non apple watch user it drives me crazy that my 15 pro doesn't track the correct time in bed when I go to sleep outsite of my set sleep-times. Idk why Apple made this feature so annoying... sleep and tracking it is so essential for people with ADHD. Amazing video, earned yourself a sub!
Oooo, yes I’ll do this. Great idea. Do you want it to log straight into the health app as sleep? Or just keep a running log of sleep sessions somewhere else? Tell me more!
@@spencerhealey Definitely in the Health App as i'm also tracking steps etc. in there. I just want to have an overview of how much I've really slept per day / avg week / avg month. On the other hand, having the data in a format that can be exported in some kind of way would also be beneficial. I've read that there are some 3rd party apps for the Apple watch for this general problem, but had no luck finding something that works "native" on the iPhone via shortcuts Looked it up in r/shortcuts but couldn't find the right thing at glance. I just maybe want to trigger a Focus mode manually e.g. taking a nap after work, or when finally going to bed in the evening (or morning LOL) after a unplanned longer study session. Hurdle would be to remember activating the mode every time hahahaha. Btw is there a way to easily {get} the screen time (just on/off) from iOS? I've just found this, but way beyond my current skills: felixkohlhas.com/projects/screentime/ - could be a workaround to at least get some estimations during the night because checking your phone is oftentimes the last thing in the evening and the first thing in the morning. As the iPhone might not be able to detect REM phases and when exactly you're falling asleep, it would maybe be useful to just build in a delay of around 15 minutes until it really starts tracking the time "asleep". This delay would be prolonged when using the phone again whilst/after that delay is running (if possible). Also for now I have no idea if its even possible to get a number thats useful and reliable for calculating "quality" of sleep, as I don't know which metrics are needed. As I'm going to bad at very random times, I often use the site sleepopolis.com/calculators/sleep/ to calculate when to wake up, depending on full 90 minute sleep cycles. Maybe its possible to integrate a calculator that uses getCurrentTime, add 15min+90min*5 (for 7,5h of sleep) , set my alarm/s to the calculated result. What do you think?
Oooo, fantastic question. As it stands it would set an alarm for 12am (i.e. the beginning of the day). In the original build the idea was just to help you move from designing your plan for the day to executing on that plan (i.e. remembering to do certain things at certain times), but I'd be curious to know more about your use-case. What you would want to happen? For instance, it could always set alarms for all-day event alarms at 9am (or another fixed time), or it could prompt you to choose the time (though then it starts to feel like less of an automation). Any thoughts?
@@spencerhealey I know in the IOS calendar settings their is an option of what time "your day starts"- I set mine at 8am. So for an all day event, the alarm would go off at my "day start time" - 8am. Instead of waking me up when Im sleeping at 12am lol
Hi, I am new to looking in to using shortcuts. This video is great and I can see the the Calendar event / alarm shortcut working quite well for me, one question I have as seem to be getting stuck for my use case, can this shortcut also work for reminders that you have linked to your Calendar? I am trying to add 'Alarm' as a location on my reminder but it will not accept it? thanks
Hey thanks Steve, and great question. It won’t currently do that because even though they are visible in your calendar those are really only just reminders. However I’ll be releasing an updated version of this in an upcoming video and I think I’ll take a shot at working in some reminders integration for your type of use case.
Like your style bro. Putting your money where your mouth is w/o YT Premium too 😉 keep it up brother!! Thx 4 YNAB rec btw and your hair styling (time mgmt) app looked very pretty
Hey Terry, (1) The Siri option is decent, but the drawback is that it deletes ALL alarms whether they are enabled or not. So a better option might be (2) this shortcut I made called “Alarm Clean Up” that deletes all disabled alarms (but doesn’t delete ones that are enabled). Here is the link: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/08ed0a105332430a9e82cdabbaf3798c Finally (3) I may take a shot at adding this feature into a future version of the shortcut which I will make a video about shortly. Hope that helps!
@@spencerhealey You’re incredible! If you sold a book of these with QR codes where I could buy, read to understand, and still get the automation/shortcut link… I’d 1000% buy.
@@spencerhealey Thanks for the response. I actually started using CHATGPT to help me through your code. I was trying to get the alarm to start 10 minutes before my actual alarm. And I didn't want day events to alarm and 12am. It took me a while to get it the code going and I got the day ones to not go and I think I figured out how to make it go 10 minutes before as well. So I reloaded your code, and the alarms didn't work anymore. :) So more coding on myside. I did think of a way to delet alarms - by putting a symbol when I schedule like "*" this would be the sign to delete this event. as I have events that are only activated during the week. Thank you again for your response.
Hi Spencer, loving the Calendar/Alarm feature like everyone else, I'm just wondering if there is any way to set it up that future events (further than 24 hours away) automatically add themselves as alarms if they have the location set to "Alarm" too?
Ah, a couple thoughts: (1) if you use your calendar a lot, then eventually even those distant events will automatically get added (whenever you close you calendar with less than 24hrs to go) so you might find you can just “trust” the automation. (2) If you don’t use your calendar enough to trust it, then you can make the automation run more frequently (I.e. by triggering it to run from a few more frequently used apps). (3) I’ll plan to update the automation in a future video now that I know it’s something you’d like to see. But until now I’d stick with options #1 or #2.
@@spencerhealey thats great thanks. I do use the calendar a lot but its always nice to know there's the backup there should I miss using it for any reason
A lot of these automations are to make up for the fact that iPhone actually has a really, REALLY bad notification system. For work and life admin I rely on my Google pixel. I can pin notifications, look at notification history, snooze notifications or even have notifications sit at the very top of the screen, ( if you choose for that to be the case - so no matter which window you are in, if you like , you can see the notification icon at the top left all the time.) Not just an android fanboy but it's worth raising this for everyone within the apple eco system doing crazy workarounds. For the record I have an iPhone 15 pro & Google pixel seven. If I want to get things done and stay on top of everything, I use the pixel. if I want to record nice looking video for social media, I’ll have the iPhone ready
Hi Spencer, I tried to create the shortcut for Budget Auto-Add(YNAB). When I get finished, the shortcut will not let me press the done button. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
@spencerhealy : thanks for uploading such a wonderful and informative video. Can you upload a video, sending mutliple msg to a specific number ‘n’ number of times and stops at a particular time.
Great suggestion! I’m curious to know about your use-case. Are you messaging yourself, or someone else? What is your end goal? To remind someone of something? Depending on what you’re trying to accomplish I’m wondering if there might be a better app/tool/approach for the job.
@ really appreciate for your reply. Am sending messages to another number with, multiple messages. Lets say I would like to send message to a number every one hour.
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Bro, i am under utilizing the phone SO MUCH. You are a legend!
lol thanks! And glad it opened your eyes to some possibilities!
I found myself saying “Woah”to each of these automations. Totally doing the night light one right now.
I immediately subscribed after watching. Then I went to look for more automations on your channel but haven’t found any. Lol please make more. These shortcuts are underused mostly because the people that need them the most don’t focus long enough to work them out. Please help more 🙏🏼😂
I appreciate the encouragement, and I couldn’t agree more. I’ve got another shortcuts/automation video in the works. Anything in particular you’d like to see me tackle with shortcuts?
Excellent content. Super clear, super helpful, and great production value. By my eye you should have 100k+ subscribers
Glad to know the finished product is valuable, thanks for the kind words!
Just did the orientation lock automation. Amazing! Thank you sir.
Glad you enjoyed it! I also find it useful for Photos and Safari :)
Launching Reminders app after closing a specific app is an AMAZING idea!
I know, right? I think it’s more helpful than people realize until they try it. You could also try opening a specific reminders list by using the shortcut action “Open Reminders List” :)
Great and different shortcuts I've seen other places, actually useful
This is a terrific video. Your shortcuts are both truly thoughtful and very thorough.
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you found it useful!
I use YNAB and I just loved the auto add automation! Thank you!
@@lincolnlohann Thanks! It was especially helpful since my bank wouldn’t sync to YNAB, I almost gave up on YNAB but this pulled me back!
Cool can we use it for google calendar on iPhone ?
Not directly, since Google Calendar doesn’t integrate with shortcuts. One option is to use Apple Calendar (the app) but sign into your Google calendar account. That would still allow you to interact with your Google account (but using the Apple calendar app). This would make the whole thing start working as expected. I actually prefer the Apple calendar app myself. What do you think? The other related option (which I tested successfully) is to perform the above steps but then continue using Google calendar app as you are. This would provide a sort of “back door” option for shortcuts to read your calendar events through the Apple calendar app. The drawback is that you would be somewhat dependent on however long it takes for Apple calendars to refresh in the background. You can force a refresh manually, but that would require opening both apps whenever you add an event and would get quite cumbersome.
Agree with other comments, nice work. I always knew shortcuts have great potentials but never got really a good idea for them. Thanks
Thanks so much! Glad I've nudged you in the right direction!
These are awesome ! Great video
well thought 👍, orientation toggle is my favorite
Glad you liked it! Hopefully Apple will eventually bake that feature right into an app’s settings.
This is literally the first video that had a shortcut I will actually use
i agree. i tried shortcuts this year and quickly found out how limited they are. this guy changed my mind.
Spencer, these are great shortcuts! Do you have ideas on how to trigger do not disturb while a calendar event is happening?
I’ve looked into this many times and unfortunately there isn’t a great way to do this. However here’s one option: you could have an automation that runs every 30 minutes and then it checks to see if you have a specific calendar event scheduled. If you do, then it could turn on do not disturb for the duration. That would be my basic idea, but it would really work best the relevant calendar events always lined up cleanly with the calendar (e.g. 10am, 10:30am, 11am, etc.). But I wonder, are the appointments are predictable in some way? At the same time, or location? Use the same title? Let’s say you’re tired of getting phone calls during a visit to a massage therapist. In that case you could set up a location-based schedule in the do not disturb focus mode that turns it on. And you can actually list multiple locations so that they all separately turn on your focus mode. That’s somewhat of a shot in the dark since I’m not sure of your specific use-case. Would anything like that make sense? Or do you think you’d need something different?
@ Thanks for the prompt reply! I have actually managed to make this work. It isn’t elegant - but I run a shortcut each morning that creates an alarm for each event on my calendar using a unique label. Then I have an automation setup when any alarm is triggered, if the label is the unique one I created, I turn on do not disturb and delete that alarm. It is working fairly well for events on my calendar that were scheduled in the morning when the alarms are created. It isn’t working so well *yet* for events created during the day. My need is that I am in a LOT of meetings during the day and I get so distracted by constant texts and emails. This is helping to limit my distractions!!
Great video ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
I learned today, thank you
Awesome, thanks for the encouragement!
Great video. Love the way you explain everything. New subscriber here. Thank you.
Thanks Steve!
Great video, very unique angle on shortcuts.
Wonderful video Spencer! That calendar to alarm shortcut is a lifesaver for me!
Ya I love it. Glad you found it useful!
Is there a way to offset the alarm from the calendar time? As an example, I would like the alarm to go off 30 mins before the calendar event.
@@kutler100 Yes, in shortcuts you can add an "Adjust Date" action right before you create the alarm. Then create the alarm with the adjusted date. It's a bit confusing so I put together a separate shortcut that does exactly what you've requested, if you check it out you'll see it subtracts 30 minutes just before creating the alarm: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/87583bbbd21f4a4cb2696cca15d1eba7
@ oh wow, thank-you so much. You really didn’t need to do that, but it’s certainly appreciated.
@ 🙏
For the first alarm shortcut, i feel its super useful at times , except there maybe a mistake i believe , being , you have to automate to everyday morning 5am or something cuz ; for a scenario uou have scheduled an event for next week and you added a notification , but since you have set it up to search event for next 24hours, it shall misses the event and if uou dont open the app for next 10days , you wont be notified.
Good catch, it would slip through the cracks in that case. I was originally considering someone who is already using their calendar frequently, but I like your idea of automating it to run every day at a set time each day. Another option is to trigger the automation to run after closing a few more apps (you can select more than one), so for example it may run when you close the calendar, but also whenever you close facebook and messages, etc. I'm currently working on my next video which will feature an updated version that works for events up to 7 days in advance. Thanks for the feedback!
Some great techniques here, well done
Thanks! Glad you found them useful!
Enjoyed your video and look forward to more!
Glad you liked it!
Great stuff
Glad you liked it, thanks for the encouragement!
Oh man. The "Calendar to Alarm" shortcut is very useful! Question: Is it possible to create the same shortcut, but create an alarm on the Apple Watch rather than on the iPhone?
Ok I’ve done some digging on this: you can’t use shortcuts to create alarms on the Apple Watch per se. There is a workaround but I think it could be a dealbreaker. Here it is: if you were to manually add an alarm to your phone but set the sound to “none”, the alarm will go off on your phone and watch, but it will only make a sound on your watch. You can use the same trick to set the haptics to none (on your phone) and you’ll find that the haptics still work on your watch when the alarm goes off. The end result is that the alarm is “going off” on both devices, and you can turn the alarm off from either your phone or your watch, but only the watch has sound/vibration. The REAL trick here is that any subsequent alarms you create will follow the same settings as the previous one you made. As a result, any alarms the shortcut/automation creates will also only sound/vibrate on your watch. I’m not sure what your use-case is, but *perhaps* that would do the trick. But like I said, to me that feels like a dealbreaker since now, by default, every future alarm created by you (or the automation) will now be silent on your phone.
You can reverse this by using the same trick again: manually add another alarm with sound/haptics on your phone, and then any subsequent alarms will sound on your watch AND phone… does any of that make sense or did I lose you? lol
I’m curious to hear what your use-case is in case there’s another solution altogether.
Thank you for the time you spend on this point. The fact is that I generally prefer alerts and alarms to sound on my watch rather than on the phone. I'm going to give this solution a try, as it suits my needs.
Can you make me an automation
Whenever A specific notification from a specific app is delivered
It corresponds to 2 second timer
I beg you to make an automation that can be triggered with a focus mode that lets you track sleep at variable times throughout the day. As a non apple watch user it drives me crazy that my 15 pro doesn't track the correct time in bed when I go to sleep outsite of my set sleep-times. Idk why Apple made this feature so annoying... sleep and tracking it is so essential for people with ADHD. Amazing video, earned yourself a sub!
Oooo, yes I’ll do this. Great idea. Do you want it to log straight into the health app as sleep? Or just keep a running log of sleep sessions somewhere else? Tell me more!
@@spencerhealey Definitely in the Health App as i'm also tracking steps etc. in there. I just want to have an overview of how much I've really slept per day / avg week / avg month. On the other hand, having the data in a format that can be exported in some kind of way would also be beneficial.
I've read that there are some 3rd party apps for the Apple watch for this general problem, but had no luck finding something that works "native" on the iPhone via shortcuts
Looked it up in r/shortcuts but couldn't find the right thing at glance. I just maybe want to trigger a Focus mode manually e.g. taking a nap after work, or when finally going to bed in the evening (or morning LOL) after a unplanned longer study session. Hurdle would be to remember activating the mode every time hahahaha.
Btw is there a way to easily {get} the screen time (just on/off) from iOS? I've just found this, but way beyond my current skills: felixkohlhas.com/projects/screentime/ - could be a workaround to at least get some estimations during the night because checking your phone is oftentimes the last thing in the evening and the first thing in the morning.
As the iPhone might not be able to detect REM phases and when exactly you're falling asleep, it would maybe be useful to just build in a delay of around 15 minutes until it really starts tracking the time "asleep". This delay would be prolonged when using the phone again whilst/after that delay is running (if possible). Also for now I have no idea if its even possible to get a number thats useful and reliable for calculating "quality" of sleep, as I don't know which metrics are needed.
As I'm going to bad at very random times, I often use the site sleepopolis.com/calculators/sleep/ to calculate when to wake up, depending on full 90 minute sleep cycles. Maybe its possible to integrate a calculator that uses getCurrentTime, add 15min+90min*5 (for 7,5h of sleep) , set my alarm/s to the calculated result.
What do you think?
For the alarm automation. Does the calendar event have to be set at a specific time, rather than "all day"?
Oooo, fantastic question. As it stands it would set an alarm for 12am (i.e. the beginning of the day). In the original build the idea was just to help you move from designing your plan for the day to executing on that plan (i.e. remembering to do certain things at certain times), but I'd be curious to know more about your use-case. What you would want to happen? For instance, it could always set alarms for all-day event alarms at 9am (or another fixed time), or it could prompt you to choose the time (though then it starts to feel like less of an automation). Any thoughts?
@@spencerhealey I know in the IOS calendar settings their is an option of what time "your day starts"- I set mine at 8am. So for an all day event, the alarm would go off at my "day start time" - 8am. Instead of waking me up when Im sleeping at 12am lol
Hi, I am new to looking in to using shortcuts. This video is great and I can see the the Calendar event / alarm shortcut working quite well for me, one question I have as seem to be getting stuck for my use case, can this shortcut also work for reminders that you have linked to your Calendar? I am trying to add 'Alarm' as a location on my reminder but it will not accept it? thanks
Hey thanks Steve, and great question. It won’t currently do that because even though they are visible in your calendar those are really only just reminders. However I’ll be releasing an updated version of this in an upcoming video and I think I’ll take a shot at working in some reminders integration for your type of use case.
Like your style bro. Putting your money where your mouth is w/o YT Premium too 😉 keep it up brother!! Thx 4 YNAB rec btw and your hair styling (time mgmt) app looked very pretty
Thanks! Lol, ya I use YT ads as my reminder to move: my (sorta) habit is to turn my head left and right whenever a YT ad comes on 🤷♂️
Spencer, downloaded the alarm and calendar shortcut,but then how do you clear out all the alarms that were created automatically
“Hey, Siri. Delete all alarms.”
It’ll delete every alarm you have other than the health/sleep one.
Hey Terry, (1) The Siri option is decent, but the drawback is that it deletes ALL alarms whether they are enabled or not. So a better option might be (2) this shortcut I made called “Alarm Clean Up” that deletes all disabled alarms (but doesn’t delete ones that are enabled). Here is the link: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/08ed0a105332430a9e82cdabbaf3798c
Finally (3) I may take a shot at adding this feature into a future version of the shortcut which I will make a video about shortly. Hope that helps!
@@spencerhealey You’re incredible! If you sold a book of these with QR codes where I could buy, read to understand, and still get the automation/shortcut link… I’d 1000% buy.
@@spencerhealey Thanks for the response. I actually started using CHATGPT to help me through your code. I was trying to get the alarm to start 10 minutes before my actual alarm. And I didn't want day events to alarm and 12am. It took me a while to get it the code going and I got the day ones to not go and I think I figured out how to make it go 10 minutes before as well. So I reloaded your code, and the alarms didn't work anymore. :) So more coding on myside.
I did think of a way to delet alarms - by putting a symbol when I schedule like "*" this would be the sign to delete this event. as I have events that are only activated during the week. Thank you again for your response.
Hi Spencer, loving the Calendar/Alarm feature like everyone else, I'm just wondering if there is any way to set it up that future events (further than 24 hours away) automatically add themselves as alarms if they have the location set to "Alarm" too?
Ah, a couple thoughts: (1) if you use your calendar a lot, then eventually even those distant events will automatically get added (whenever you close you calendar with less than 24hrs to go) so you might find you can just “trust” the automation. (2) If you don’t use your calendar enough to trust it, then you can make the automation run more frequently (I.e. by triggering it to run from a few more frequently used apps). (3) I’ll plan to update the automation in a future video now that I know it’s something you’d like to see. But until now I’d stick with options #1 or #2.
@@spencerhealey thats great thanks. I do use the calendar a lot but its always nice to know there's the backup there should I miss using it for any reason
A lot of these automations are to make up for the fact that iPhone actually has a really, REALLY bad notification system. For work and life admin I rely on my Google pixel. I can pin notifications, look at notification history, snooze notifications or even have notifications sit at the very top of the screen, ( if you choose for that to be the case - so no matter which window you are in, if you like , you can see the notification icon at the top left all the time.)
Not just an android fanboy but it's worth raising this for everyone within the apple eco system doing crazy workarounds.
For the record I have an iPhone 15 pro & Google pixel seven. If I want to get things done and stay on top of everything, I use the pixel. if I want to record nice looking video for social media, I’ll have the iPhone ready
Hi Spencer, I tried to create the shortcut for Budget Auto-Add(YNAB). When I get finished, the shortcut will not let me press the done button. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Nice
Thanks, I’m glad you liked them!
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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
1:47 so, not exactly an automation. Looks easier to just tell Siri to set an alarm.
Don’t blink
lol, what?
6:40 What app it that on the left
Pls help me
Routinery, check out how I set this up (and the other apps I recommend) in my guide: stan.store/spencerhealey
Great video! 🎉 Any free or cheaper solution for YNAB? Thanks!
Curve
@spencerhealy : thanks for uploading such a wonderful and informative video.
Can you upload a video, sending mutliple msg to a specific number ‘n’ number of times and stops at a particular time.
Great suggestion! I’m curious to know about your use-case. Are you messaging yourself, or someone else? What is your end goal? To remind someone of something? Depending on what you’re trying to accomplish I’m wondering if there might be a better app/tool/approach for the job.
@ really appreciate for your reply.
Am sending messages to another number with, multiple messages. Lets say I would like to send message to a number every one hour.