Been contemplating on whether I should switch back from Android to iPhone. By accidentally seeing your channel, now it's it a final YES for me. Damn. All thanks to you! Been wanting to know how I can further push an iPhone for efficiency and convenience. Watched three of your videos already! They're all freaking useful! Thank youuu! Subscribed! Please keep these videos coming 🤓
What about a morning alarm where it wakes you up with siri speaking. Tells you the weather, rain if any, birthdays that day if any, speaks the reminders of the day and finally wishes you a nice day with siri speaking again?
I created one that immediately runs the automation when the alarm goes off > find all calendar events where start date is today > get current weather conditions [as mentioned in the video, am struggling to get high temp or rain for the day] > create text write what you want Siri to say. include variable of previous two where desired in text > speak previous text > show notification of previous text. Update: I changed the initial setting to when is stopped
Another automation that I have created runs every time I connect to any WiFi network. It searches in an iCloud Drive folder containing two files: "trusted" and "untrusted" networks. If the network name is listed in the "trusted" JSON file, the shortcut ends. If the network name is found in the "untrusted" JSON file, the shortcut turns on the VPN. If the network name isn’t in either file, the shortcut prompts me to indicate whether the network I'm connecting to is trustworthy or not. It then adds the connection name to the corresponding file and executes the appropriate action, either turning on or off the VPN. The only downside is that Apple doesn't allow the disabling of execution notifications for WiFi automations, so every time I connect or disconnect from a WiFi network, it displays a notification.
Hey Stephen. Love your videos! I was wondering if it is possible to make a ''Morning Summary'' shortcut where it will tell you the weather and calendar events for the day, as well as run homekit scenes. Thanks!
Your videos are very informative and inspiring! Thank you for taking the time to share them with us. I wanted to ask if you can create a shortcut to send you notification before the sun sets on a daily basis. That way you can know what time the sunsets wherever you are. Also, more shortcuts automation for battery, if possible.
3:13 I have a great suggestion for the rotation lock automation. Because sometimes when you are laying in bed or something you don’t want it to go horizontal. So if you add: get orientation>if>orientation is horizontal left>turn on orientation lock>otherwise>if orientation is NOT horizontal right>turn off orientation lock. I didn’t do “if vertical>turn off orientation lock” because sometimes your phone is not 100% but also a little bit tilted forward and then it won’t work. So now it always work unless it’s completely horizontal (when you’re laying in bed). Especially handy when you’re in Safari.
Hello Stephen, I can’t find it on your channel, so I’m writing here: I believe you presented a shortcut a while ago that allowed saving Apple Notes in a folder as PDFs. I set it up and tested it back then, and today it “saved my life” when I was able to retrieve a very important note from the backup - thank you! :) One thing I noticed: if the title of a note contains a slash, like foo/bar, the backup folder creates a subfolder “foo” and stores the note as “bar.pdf” there. Understandable since a filename can’t contain “/”… not sure if it can be handled differently with reasonable effort?! Anyway, keep on doing what you do - I learned a lot here!
Hey Stephen, This may help with your weather shortcut problem. I was able to get the High temp by doing a get 'Daily' forecast at 'Current Location', then Get 'High' from 'Weather Conditions'. When I do a Show 'High' in Quick Look I'm able to see today's High, but also each of the next 10 day Highs in the icon list. Hope that works for you also! Thanks for all the shortcut ideas as always.
@@beardfm You're welcome, after I submitted I realized it doesn't solve the problem of what time the high will be, but perhaps you could do the daily and the hourly to find out when the high matches a specific time of day
Well, I know the comment if from some months ago, and I've just seen this video. In case someone wants, I was able to create the result of High temperature + hour that will happen. The result text is "High for today: 13º at 15h" - I used the action "Get Weather Forecast", set it to "Hourly" - Added the action called Number and set it to 0 - Added the action "Set Variable", called it HighTemperature and set it to the number added before. That will make the high start at 0 - Added the action "Repeat with Each" and put "Weather Conditions" - Added action Get Variable inside the repeat, for Get "Temperature" from "Repeat Item" - Added another Get Variable inside the repeat, for Get "Date" from "Repeat item" - Still inside the repeat, added an If condition, and put if "Temperature" "is greater than" "HighTemperature" "degrees" - Inside the if condition: ---- Set variable "HighTempTime" (this is a new variable) to "Date" ---- Set variable "HighTemperature" to "Temperature" - End if - End Repeat - Action Format Date and set it to format "HighTempTime", using Date Format as Custom and format string to "HH" (this will only show the hours in 24h time format) - At the end, I added the action Show Result and set it to "High for today: HighTemperature at Formatted Date h" When running the shortcut, it shows the following: High h for today: 13º at 15h I could confirm that is the highest for today and at that time here in my country
Thanks for the great tips! I’m looking to create a shortcut that will allow a timer to be announced through the HomePod system in my house. Not only would I like it to announce when the timer is finished, but also give me warnings as it approaches being complete. I was able to do this by making my own timer by using a 60 second wait and repeating it depending on an input, but it was horrendously inaccurate the longer it went. Thanks.
There is a way to scan documents to a specific folder: Use the File action to select the folder of your choice Then use this as an input for the "Open File" action and afterwards use the "Scan document" action. (My phone is set to German, so the action names are translated by me to English)
Shortcut I’d love, but think it’s impossible: I travel a lot for work and like to have a complication on my Apple Watch for my home time zone when I’m traveling outside of that zone and when I’m back in the zone, I usually set that complication to display the time zone that my mother lives in. But right now, what I do is that when I land at wherever my destination is, I manually change the complication from the watch face. I would love some sort of automation that looks at my current time zone, or location, and then somehow which is the complication based upon the zone that I’m in. I couldn’t figure out how to do it, but if you can, it would be amazing ! Thanks!
Thanks for the great video. Is it possible for a shortcut to create an alarm 15 minutes before every appointment that’s on your calendar for the current day..
Is there a way to make the Say Cheese shortcut take a 24mp photo in HEIF Max format on iPhone 15 Pro to match the camera settings instead of just a 12mp jpeg?
Thank you so much for trying to answer my shortcut request. I’m closer now and hope Matthew or one of the other shortcut experts have the answer. I really appreciate that you looked at this for me. Keep up the great work. I love these shortcut videos 👍🏼
To get the highest temp I use "calculate statistics" and choose maximum. you can put this block right after the "get hourly forecast" I use a "round" block to make it a round number
Thank you Stephen for this wonderful shortcuts video. Can you tell us how to create a shortcut that triggers calls from unknown callers / contacts not in one's contacts list?
You're welcome! And the only action available for this is to toggle the "Silence Unknown Callers" setting from Shortcuts. Unfortunately you can't run an automation for specific types of callers.
Wonderful tutorial Stephen. I have an alert / notification when the battery reaches 80% charge. However sometimes when the charge is more than 80% and discharge reaches 80% on its way down the notification appears again! Is there a way to stop that? 🙂
I’d love to see how to build a shortcut that reminds me on Sunday mornings before I leave for work to take my guitar because I use it for work. I occasionally forget it and have to turn around. I use Apple CarPlay in the car, so maybe there’s something there we can use in the automation.
One that seems easy and is not. If you have an alarm or notification from a home based device( fridge, alarm system, front doorbell etc) how about a shortcut to notify you of the event. Texting to your own number or emailing to your own address is likely out but can another apple native app (like reminders) be used for remote event notifications? That would be great and no seperate app needed. Thank you for a great channel
What about a shortcut for Apple Maps in regards to having multiple destinations, when I leave my home in the morning I have to go drop my son off to daycare then make another stop and then head to work, I would like to set up a shortcut to where I tap the shortcut button, and it automatically loads to directions from one place to another
Hallo there mu friend. I like your videos. One question,is it possible to create a shortcut to put my apple watch in low battery mode when the battery reaches 25%?
id love an automation to send a text message (at random from a list of pre-written text messages) at a random time (say between 9am to 3pm). Is this possible?
Thank you for your channel, this short cut is hard to explain. Background I were Behind the Ear hearing aids which are connected to the IPAd and use Bose headphone connected via blue tooth to my iPad. The problem is hearing aid feedback. The solution is turn down the volume on my hearing aid. The shortcut, I need is open settings, then open accessibility, then open hearing devices, then it displays the hearing devices connected under (MFI Hearing Device) click on the hearing device then it some functions, one is to reduce the volume, which I do from 75 to 45. This reduces the feedback so I can wear the headphones, cheers Vancouver Island Canada
When I am driving home, I would like an automation to text my wife asking her to get the dogs inside so I can open the gate and drive in. At about a 2 mile radius away, a preset text would say, "Hey hun, I'm 2 miles out." I would like this to happen without me having to do anything other than drive across the digital geo-fence. Is this even possible? Great video!
Hey Stephen. I hate the Clock > Alarms function, as if you need to set multiple alarms that screen has no folder function and can get messy quickly. Is there a shortcut to say set an alarm for 7am and rather than snooze at the default value of 9 minutes, to say 20 or 30 minutes? or even random snooze say greater than 10 but less than 30 minutes? This is the one area I wish Apple would fix up, as I've seen many people with 5-10 alarms and they're scrolling through them, to adjust them for the day, or following week. The snooze function should be user set, not default set. If someone wants it at 9 mins with a degrade of 2 minutes for every time the snooze button is hit, let the user decide..
Hey Stephen - how would I be able to do an auto reply to an email as an automation? I see the send email but I am not sure how to assign the pre written message? If you have a video on it already that would be great!
Hi Stephen can you create the following automation?: Do Facetime call with contact and if call goes unanswered (either based on ring cycles/time based or not connected) then send an text message
Hi could you please create a automation to dismiss a alarm before it runs(as in if u get up earlier than ur set alarm to have a option to dismiss it) 😊
Question… I put a motion sensor in my mailbox. I get the notification BUT can you show how to make the phone AND HomePod say “Go get your mail” thank you in advance. I appreciate your sharing your knowledge.
Hi Stephen, this is an idea for a shortcut, I almost have it working. The goal is to ensure your phone is locked whenever the camera is open. Use Case - So let's say you have opened up the camera app to take a picture and you are taking it. You opened it up through the icon, I know you can swipe to open and still keep it locked, this is just is case your phone is unlocked with the camera open. So you are taking the picture, camera app open, phone unlocked. Now someone walks by and asks "hey I'll take your picture", they would have an unlocked phone. So is there a way to always lock the phone when the camera app is open no matter what? Regardless of how it is open, the phone gets locked? Hopefully that makes sense. Kind of like changing screen orientation when RUclips is open. Thank you
I don't know about a Shortcut, but if that scenario happens, but lock the phone and swipe to open the camera before you hand it to them. Yes, you'd have to remember to do that, but until there's a Shortcut, that's a solution.
Another great one. Can you make a shortcut for the watch, like the one for the phone, that allows me to turn off the homekit power socket, charging the watch, at a preset battery charge level?
Thank you I can use three of your shortcuts I am interested if you can create a short cut to tell me the traffic on my state we have a bridge closed and I would like to know what time I should leave work if there is a lot of traffic or accidents
A tip about the RUclips app that Ive been neglecting for some reason is the fact that you can swipe up on the video you’re watching to go landscape even when your screen rotation is locked
Thanks for the video! Is there any way I can set my Apple Watch to automatically go on low power mode when I get to work (or even immediately after I put it on?) my battery never gets me through the day!
Request : a way to automate sending a certain message at a certain time on a channel on an app, for instance, on Slack. Like I wanna send Hi every 8 AM on a certain channel on Slack? 🤓 Thank youuuu
5:10 I recommend first getting the current volume, than saving it to a temp file. So that when you finish the muting you can turn it back up to the original vollume
@@beardfm I think best implementation would be to have a few variables saved somewhere. Then put a automation on double tap the back of the phone. Check if Variable Active = False - Then Save current volume to file. Set volume to 0 Set variable active to true End - If Variable Active = true Get volume from file Set volume to ^ Set variable Active to false. End You could also save current date time instead of a true false to check if the muting is active. That way you could make it treat it as the “deactivated” if more then xx minutes passed. In case you would manually turn the volume back up. Double tap the back of you phone when the ad starts. Double tap again if it ends.
Hi great video. I was trying to do the scan shortcut and it kept saying I had to allow it from toolbox pro. I was wondering if that means I have to purchase the premium addition for this to work. Thanks for any info
I don’t know if it’s possible or not, but can you make a video on Screen Time Shortcut - which gives us an option of using Screen Time limits on say Instagram for 12 hrs a week and not a daily one. In this way if I use Instagram less on weekdays I can cover it on weekends.
Man! Lot of food for thoughts ! Thank you for sharing ! Do you know if it would be possible to turn an app (or functions) off on my Apple Watch when I go downstairs (underground level) ? I’m a drummer and when I go to my drum room and play, the watch thinks I’m walking or exercising and it messes up with my health data’s (like walking 38000 km/day) (Hope it make sense)
Appreciate that! And great question, but there are no actions or options to stop counting motion and movement from Apple Watch unfortunately. Will keep an eye out when iOS 18 is announced in June!
Hello sir…. Plz make shortcut to enable and disable auto brightness on and off with regards of foucus mode. For example when gaming focus mode turns on auto brightness turns off and when gaming focus mode turns off auto brightness enabled
Hey, great and useful content, thanks for your effort and work! As for the shortcuts - is it possible to make a shortcut/script for a Camera app to take 3 photos instantly, but with different exposure values with the main camera, preferably 48mpx? iPhone has a good HDR, but not a great one, so was thinking if that is possible. Thanks and lots of success!
Hi Stephen, I like your Shortcut videos and was wondering if you could help create a Shortcut of posting a specific photo to my WhatsApp Status everyday or weekly. Thanks, Sbu
Great video! Would be great if you could made a shortcut that only by tapping, it chance to “today” all the expired reminders. I’ve been trying for a while and I couldn’t find the solution. Could you help? Thank you!
can the following be done? I have an airtag attached to my dog. Whenever my dog exits an area i've determined in advance, my Iphone sends me a notification & location.
Unfortunately there are no Shortcuts actions for AirTag, but if he wanders away from home or your trusted locations, you should get a notification that it's "no longer with you."
Yo, for that weather forecast, you could utilize the chatgpt api, feed it the data, and have it spit back the response in whatever format you want, could be json (and then you could retrieve dictionary values) or you could have the AI split the info by a special character, and then grab that info back in shortcuts.
Here is an idea. If I get a call while I am in a zoom or teams meeting, I want to send a custom response addressing them by their name. I want this to happen only if the caller is in a specific list.
For the Scan Document Shortcut you don’t need that extra app. You just have to add: File (choose the Path you want to save your Scan in) Open File (link this variable to the previous „File“) Scan Document. This will save it in that specific location. And with the choose from menu option you can even choose between multiple locations if you know how to use that shööfunction
Something I've been curious about since I got my iPhone is if it was possible to utilize the shake motion to turn my flashlight on/of. My previous phone was a Motorola and I was a really cool feature. And if not, what could shortcut could I make that closely resembles this?
hey, I have my school schedule in my calendar. I want an automation where me sleep alarm gets edited to where the time is 1.5h before my first class starts. The problem is that at the moment you cannot edit the time of alarms. I already created a shortcut for when I arrive at school, it’ll turn on my school focus until the end of the last class.
I got a request for you. I HATE the snooze option on any alarm. However, it's often the button that's front and center when an alarm goes off and sometimes I hit it by mistake.I think it also might be the double tap default. Can you make a shortcut that anytime Snooze is hit, it instead turns off that alarm?
Hello Stephen! I have a shortcuts request that I'm unable to get it to work. I want a shortcut that simply opens an instagram account from the app. I tried copying an instagram account's URL from the app itself, and tried to make it into a shortcut with the Open URL action, but it only opens the home page of instagram. Looking forward for another shortcuts video! 😊👍🏻
I have some HomePods. Like to use my Philips hue remote to start playing radio. Got this working. Now I want the other buttons on the remote for increase en decrease volume. I know I can set a certain percentage. But any way that I can increase en decrease volume by 10% or so? Can’t find the option anywhere…
16:03 the temperatures are usually sorted from lowest to highest, I dont know why the temperatures are sorted like that in your video. Nonetheless, this was my shot at the shortcut Get hourly forecast at Current location ⬇ Get last item from weather conditions ⬇ Speak "At [Current Date - date format is set to none and time format to short] it will be [item from list] For some reason the High in the weather conditions menu doesn't work in shortcuts, but it works in shortcuts automations.
I'd like a shortcut to turn location on/off for workouts. Automating to the start of specific workouts would be ideal. The best I could find was a shortcut to open settings to Location Services, then I can manually turn it off/on. Skipping this step would be better. This runs perfectly on my phone. On my watch however, I'm forced to confirm before the shortcut runs. Can't figure out why.
Hey! I’m trying to set an automation for when I perform an action. It seems like the automations are limited to the presets loaded. For example, I want something like “when screenshot is taken, do [this]” I can’t find where I need to start for the “when”
I own a business and would like to be able to send a message to 20 prospects at the same time without it being a group chat. Is that possible to do with the shortcuts app?
Hi there. By chance is there a shortcut available for converting low quality videos to HD videos? I have been searching and can't seem to locate any. Thanks for the shortcuts you showcased though, just awesome.
You're welcome! And that's a tough task, and not something you can do strictly in Shortcuts. There are third party apps and services online for that, but you can't do on your iPhone directly.
Been contemplating on whether I should switch back from Android to iPhone. By accidentally seeing your channel, now it's it a final YES for me. Damn. All thanks to you!
Been wanting to know how I can further push an iPhone for efficiency and convenience. Watched three of your videos already! They're all freaking useful! Thank youuu! Subscribed! Please keep these videos coming 🤓
Came across this video randomly, but some of these are absolutely life-changing. Thank you!
Appreciate that! Just published a new one too: ruclips.net/video/6rs8c4bnIUM/видео.htmlsi=AzKNI57kjpNeow0X
What about a morning alarm where it wakes you up with siri speaking. Tells you the weather, rain if any, birthdays that day if any, speaks the reminders of the day and finally wishes you a nice day with siri speaking again?
I created one that immediately runs the automation when the alarm goes off > find all calendar events where start date is today > get current weather conditions [as mentioned in the video, am struggling to get high temp or rain for the day] > create text write what you want Siri to say. include variable of previous two where desired in text > speak previous text > show notification of previous text.
Update: I changed the initial setting to when is stopped
Another automation that I have created runs every time I connect to any WiFi network. It searches in an iCloud Drive folder containing two files: "trusted" and "untrusted" networks. If the network name is listed in the "trusted" JSON file, the shortcut ends. If the network name is found in the "untrusted" JSON file, the shortcut turns on the VPN. If the network name isn’t in either file, the shortcut prompts me to indicate whether the network I'm connecting to is trustworthy or not. It then adds the connection name to the corresponding file and executes the appropriate action, either turning on or off the VPN. The only downside is that Apple doesn't allow the disabling of execution notifications for WiFi automations, so every time I connect or disconnect from a WiFi network, it displays a notification.
Do you have the link or step by step to set this up?
Thanks bud! Moving from Android to iOS after 10 years away in the next few days, these will come in useful.
Nice! Plenty more in the playlist too.
Hey Stephen. Love your videos! I was wondering if it is possible to make a ''Morning Summary'' shortcut where it will tell you the weather and calendar events for the day, as well as run homekit scenes. Thanks!
Appreciate that! Viticci has a great Shortcut for that, you can grab it here: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e9889b4b8f74461d933e838acae9bd58
God bless you, my son! Making my life easier all the time!
Glad to help!
Your videos are very informative and inspiring! Thank you for taking the time to share them with us.
I wanted to ask if you can create a shortcut to send you notification before the sun sets on a daily basis. That way you can know what time the sunsets wherever you are. Also, more shortcuts automation for battery, if possible.
Will do in the next video!
I was also wondering if you could make a shortcut to track deliveries and tell you if any deliveries are arriving today
Deliveries are tough as many companies block third-party access, but I'll take a look!
3:13 I have a great suggestion for the rotation lock automation. Because sometimes when you are laying in bed or something you don’t want it to go horizontal. So if you add: get orientation>if>orientation is horizontal left>turn on orientation lock>otherwise>if orientation is NOT horizontal right>turn off orientation lock.
I didn’t do “if vertical>turn off orientation lock” because sometimes your phone is not 100% but also a little bit tilted forward and then it won’t work. So now it always work unless it’s completely horizontal (when you’re laying in bed). Especially handy when you’re in Safari.
Hello Stephen, I can’t find it on your channel, so I’m writing here: I believe you presented a shortcut a while ago that allowed saving Apple Notes in a folder as PDFs. I set it up and tested it back then, and today it “saved my life” when I was able to retrieve a very important note from the backup - thank you! :)
One thing I noticed: if the title of a note contains a slash, like foo/bar, the backup folder creates a subfolder “foo” and stores the note as “bar.pdf” there. Understandable since a filename can’t contain “/”… not sure if it can be handled differently with reasonable effort?!
Anyway, keep on doing what you do - I learned a lot here!
Hey Stephen, This may help with your weather shortcut problem. I was able to get the High temp by doing a get 'Daily' forecast at 'Current Location', then Get 'High' from 'Weather Conditions'. When I do a Show 'High' in Quick Look I'm able to see today's High, but also each of the next 10 day Highs in the icon list. Hope that works for you also! Thanks for all the shortcut ideas as always.
Oh good call! Will experiment with that too, thanks!
@@beardfm You're welcome, after I submitted I realized it doesn't solve the problem of what time the high will be, but perhaps you could do the daily and the hourly to find out when the high matches a specific time of day
Well, I know the comment if from some months ago, and I've just seen this video.
In case someone wants, I was able to create the result of High temperature + hour that will happen. The result text is "High for today: 13º at 15h"
- I used the action "Get Weather Forecast", set it to "Hourly"
- Added the action called Number and set it to 0
- Added the action "Set Variable", called it HighTemperature and set it to the number added before. That will make the high start at 0
- Added the action "Repeat with Each" and put "Weather Conditions"
- Added action Get Variable inside the repeat, for Get "Temperature" from "Repeat Item"
- Added another Get Variable inside the repeat, for Get "Date" from "Repeat item"
- Still inside the repeat, added an If condition, and put if "Temperature" "is greater than" "HighTemperature" "degrees"
- Inside the if condition:
---- Set variable "HighTempTime" (this is a new variable) to "Date"
---- Set variable "HighTemperature" to "Temperature"
- End if
- End Repeat
- Action Format Date and set it to format "HighTempTime", using Date Format as Custom and format string to "HH" (this will only show the hours in 24h time format)
- At the end, I added the action Show Result and set it to "High for today: HighTemperature at Formatted Date h"
When running the shortcut, it shows the following:
High h for today: 13º at 15h
I could confirm that is the highest for today and at that time here in my country
Thanks for the great tips! I’m looking to create a shortcut that will allow a timer to be announced through the HomePod system in my house. Not only would I like it to announce when the timer is finished, but also give me warnings as it approaches being complete. I was able to do this by making my own timer by using a 60 second wait and repeating it depending on an input, but it was horrendously inaccurate the longer it went. Thanks.
maybe start a second shorter timer and repeat that instead of using the the wait block
I did the weather shortcut!
Nice!
There is a way to scan documents to a specific folder:
Use the File action to select the folder of your choice
Then use this as an input for the "Open File" action and afterwards use the "Scan document" action.
(My phone is set to German, so the action names are translated by me to English)
Great call, will update in a future video!
Awesome tip brother. Really works
Shortcut I’d love, but think it’s impossible:
I travel a lot for work and like to have a complication on my Apple Watch for my home time zone when I’m traveling outside of that zone and when I’m back in the zone, I usually set that complication to display the time zone that my mother lives in.
But right now, what I do is that when I land at wherever my destination is, I manually change the complication from the watch face.
I would love some sort of automation that looks at my current time zone, or location, and then somehow which is the complication based upon the zone that I’m in.
I couldn’t figure out how to do it, but if you can, it would be amazing ! Thanks!
Thanks Stephen 🙏 the apple frames and the orientation shortcuts were so helpful 👌👌
Great to hear!
Can you make a shortcut for scanning documents using the notes app?
I'll see if that's possible!
Thanks for the great video. Is it possible for a shortcut to create an alarm 15 minutes before every appointment that’s on your calendar for the current day..
Oh good question, will try it!
I would be keen to see the menu option for adding different content to emails or messages from pre-made templates. Many thanks
Do you need to pay for the framed screenshots shortcut? It brought me to a giant list of google searches
Is there a way to make the Say Cheese shortcut take a 24mp photo in HEIF Max format on iPhone 15 Pro to match the camera settings instead of just a 12mp jpeg?
Thank you so much for trying to answer my shortcut request. I’m closer now and hope Matthew or one of the other shortcut experts have the answer. I really appreciate that you looked at this for me.
Keep up the great work. I love these shortcut videos 👍🏼
You will need to add a notification or a dictate text at the end for it to work perfectly
It was a great request! I'll keep you posted if they have a solution 👍🏻
Yes, just need to figure out how to filter the highest temp and hour marker.
@@beardfm im half way there. I can get the highest temp but it gets all hours at that temperature. I can only speak the latest hour not the earliest.
To get the highest temp I use "calculate statistics" and choose maximum. you can put this block right after the "get hourly forecast"
I use a "round" block to make it a round number
Thank you Stephen for this wonderful shortcuts video. Can you tell us how to create a shortcut that triggers calls from unknown callers / contacts not in one's contacts list?
You're welcome! And the only action available for this is to toggle the "Silence Unknown Callers" setting from Shortcuts. Unfortunately you can't run an automation for specific types of callers.
@@beardfm Thank you for your prompt reply.
@@beardfm Thanks Stephen for the tip. Will try it out. 🙂
Wonderful tutorial Stephen. I have an alert / notification when the battery reaches 80% charge. However sometimes when the charge is more than 80% and discharge reaches 80% on its way down the notification appears again! Is there a way to stop that? 🙂
Not sure if this is an iOS 18 thing but the parameters for a battery % automation let you specify “rises above X%” or “falls below X%”
I’d love to see how to build a shortcut that reminds me on Sunday mornings before I leave for work to take my guitar because I use it for work. I occasionally forget it and have to turn around. I use Apple CarPlay in the car, so maybe there’s something there we can use in the automation.
That's a good one! Will work on it.
One that seems easy and is not. If you have an alarm or notification from a home based device( fridge, alarm system, front doorbell etc) how about a shortcut to notify you of the event. Texting to your own number or emailing to your own address is likely out but can another apple native app (like reminders) be used for remote event notifications? That would be great and no seperate app needed. Thank you for a great channel
What about a shortcut for Apple Maps in regards to having multiple destinations, when I leave my home in the morning I have to go drop my son off to daycare then make another stop and then head to work, I would like to set up a shortcut to where I tap the shortcut button, and it automatically loads to directions from one place to another
Hallo there mu friend.
I like your videos.
One question,is it possible to create a shortcut to put my apple watch in low battery mode when the battery reaches 25%?
I think a auto text shortcut with a menu to choose from would be awesome!
Will cover in the next video!
@@beardfm I am really looking forward to this!
Great tips!
Is it possible to create a shortcut to turn on the cellular data on the Apple Watch once it loses the connection with the iPhone?
Thanks! Unfortunately that's not an action available yet but will keep an eye out!
id love an automation to send a text message (at random from a list of pre-written text messages) at a random time (say between 9am to 3pm). Is this possible?
Request: send an automatic Check In to someone when you leave a specific location at a specific time. Thank you and great vids!
Great suggestion! Appreciate it 🙏🏻
Thank you for your channel, this short cut is hard to explain. Background I were Behind the Ear hearing aids which are connected to the IPAd and use Bose headphone connected via blue tooth to my iPad.
The problem is hearing aid feedback. The solution is turn down the volume on my hearing aid. The shortcut, I need is open settings, then open accessibility, then open hearing devices, then it displays the hearing devices connected under (MFI Hearing Device) click on the hearing device then it some functions, one is to reduce the volume, which I do from 75 to 45. This reduces the feedback so I can wear the headphones, cheers Vancouver Island Canada
When I am driving home, I would like an automation to text my wife asking her to get the dogs inside so I can open the gate and drive in. At about a 2 mile radius away, a preset text would say, "Hey hun, I'm 2 miles out." I would like this to happen without me having to do anything other than drive across the digital geo-fence. Is this even possible?
Great video!
Great idea, and will do in the next video!
Hey Stephen. I hate the Clock > Alarms function, as if you need to set multiple alarms that screen has no folder function and can get messy quickly. Is there a shortcut to say set an alarm for 7am and rather than snooze at the default value of 9 minutes, to say 20 or 30 minutes? or even random snooze say greater than 10 but less than 30 minutes?
This is the one area I wish Apple would fix up, as I've seen many people with 5-10 alarms and they're scrolling through them, to adjust them for the day, or following week. The snooze function should be user set, not default set. If someone wants it at 9 mins with a degrade of 2 minutes for every time the snooze button is hit, let the user decide..
Hey Stephen - how would I be able to do an auto reply to an email as an automation? I see the send email but I am not sure how to assign the pre written message? If you have a video on it already that would be great!
Hi Stephen, I have a shortcut request. Could I create an automation where an alarm is set each day 1 hour before the sunrise time?
Oh that’s a good one, will do in the next video!
Hi Stephen can you create the following automation?: Do Facetime call with contact and if call goes unanswered (either based on ring cycles/time based or not connected) then send an text message
Hi could you please create a automation to dismiss a alarm before it runs(as in if u get up earlier than ur set alarm to have a option to dismiss it) 😊
Good idea, will try that!
Thanks for answering my request Stephen.
Glad to help!
Question… I put a motion sensor in my mailbox. I get the notification BUT can you show how to make the phone AND HomePod say “Go get your mail” thank you in advance. I appreciate your sharing your knowledge.
Oh this is great, will work on that!
Does the “closed” keyword during the auto rotate portion apply only to fully closing out or does it work for switching between apps?
It will work if you switch away too!
Hi Stephen, this is an idea for a shortcut, I almost have it working. The goal is to ensure your phone is locked whenever the camera is open.
Use Case - So let's say you have opened up the camera app to take a picture and you are taking it. You opened it up through the icon, I know you can swipe to open and still keep it locked, this is just is case your phone is unlocked with the camera open. So you are taking the picture, camera app open, phone unlocked. Now someone walks by and asks "hey I'll take your picture", they would have an unlocked phone.
So is there a way to always lock the phone when the camera app is open no matter what? Regardless of how it is open, the phone gets locked? Hopefully that makes sense. Kind of like changing screen orientation when RUclips is open. Thank you
I don't know about a Shortcut, but if that scenario happens, but lock the phone and swipe to open the camera before you hand it to them. Yes, you'd have to remember to do that, but until there's a Shortcut, that's a solution.
Love the content I was wondering if there is a way for Siri to read a reminder when it comes time the reminder to expire.
Another great one. Can you make a shortcut for the watch, like the one for the phone, that allows me to turn off the homekit power socket, charging the watch, at a preset battery charge level?
I wish! Apple Watch doesn't have actions like that yet.
Thank you I can use three of your shortcuts I am interested if you can create a short cut to tell me the traffic on my state we have a bridge closed and I would like to know what time I should leave work if there is a lot of traffic or accidents
That’s a great one, will work on it!
Hey Stephen.. can you make a video on how to find my phone when I place it somewhere in home a when ask Siri it should play an alarm
That's a good one! Will do soon.
A tip about the RUclips app that Ive been neglecting for some reason is the fact that you can swipe up on the video you’re watching to go landscape even when your screen rotation is locked
Thanks for the video! Is there any way I can set my Apple Watch to automatically go on low power mode when I get to work (or even immediately after I put it on?) my battery never gets me through the day!
Request : a way to automate sending a certain message at a certain time on a channel on an app, for instance, on Slack.
Like I wanna send Hi every 8 AM on a certain channel on Slack? 🤓 Thank youuuu
Is it possible for a shortcut to close all active/open apps?
There's not, but you don't want to do that anyway 😏 ruclips.net/video/qGg-wO-baig/видео.htmlsi=h58oEPNJMxINo_kR
5:10 I recommend first getting the current volume, than saving it to a temp file. So that when you finish the muting you can turn it back up to the original vollume
Oh that's a great idea! Data Jar would be a good use case for that too.
@@beardfm I think best implementation would be to have a few variables saved somewhere.
Then put a automation on double tap the back of the phone.
Check if
Variable Active = False
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Then
Save current volume to file.
Set volume to 0
Set variable active to true
End
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If Variable Active = true
Get volume from file
Set volume to ^
Set variable Active to false.
End
You could also save current date time instead of a true false to check if the muting is active. That way you could make it treat it as the “deactivated” if more then xx minutes passed. In case you would manually turn the volume back up.
Double tap the back of you phone when the ad starts. Double tap again if it ends.
is there a way to take a screenshot within a specific app only with automation by pressing volume down or volume up ?
Hi. Needed a simple shortcut for toggle off and on wi fi network
Thanks for a great video, can I also change to Alexa instead of HomePods?
Unfortunately not, there's no Alexa integration here.
Can you make a shortcut where you can do a back and forth conversation with ChatGPT (API) while keeping the context of the conversation ?
Viticci's S-GPT shortcut is perfect for that! I show it here: ruclips.net/video/lZjI5dh9RL8/видео.htmlsi=z90vrk4kJM2-XJ3j
Hi great video. I was trying to do the scan shortcut and it kept saying I had to allow it from toolbox pro. I was wondering if that means I have to purchase the premium addition for this to work. Thanks for any info
I don’t know if it’s possible or not, but can you make a video on Screen Time Shortcut - which gives us an option of using Screen Time limits on say Instagram for 12 hrs a week and not a daily one. In this way if I use Instagram less on weekdays I can cover it on weekends.
Great videos on shortcuts and HomeKit!!
More to come!
Man! Lot of food for thoughts ! Thank you for sharing ! Do you know if it would be possible to turn an app (or functions) off on my Apple Watch when I go downstairs (underground level) ? I’m a drummer and when I go to my drum room and play, the watch thinks I’m walking or exercising and it messes up with my health data’s (like walking 38000 km/day) (Hope it make sense)
Appreciate that! And great question, but there are no actions or options to stop counting motion and movement from Apple Watch unfortunately. Will keep an eye out when iOS 18 is announced in June!
@@beardfm Thanks for the reply!
Can you create a shortcut to run a voice memos during a phone call
Hello sir…. Plz make shortcut to enable and disable auto brightness on and off with regards of foucus mode. For example when gaming focus mode turns on auto brightness turns off and when gaming focus mode turns off auto brightness enabled
I wish auto brightness was an action, unfortunately there’s no way to automate that.
Hey, great and useful content, thanks for your effort and work! As for the shortcuts - is it possible to make a shortcut/script for a Camera app to take 3 photos instantly, but with different exposure values with the main camera, preferably 48mpx? iPhone has a good HDR, but not a great one, so was thinking if that is possible. Thanks and lots of success!
Hi Stephen,
I like your Shortcut videos and was wondering if you could help create a Shortcut of posting a specific photo to my WhatsApp Status everyday or weekly.
Thanks,
Sbu
Great video!
Would be great if you could made a shortcut that only by tapping, it chance to “today” all the expired reminders.
I’ve been trying for a while and I couldn’t find the solution. Could you help? Thank you!
Interesting, will try it!
can the following be done?
I have an airtag attached to my dog. Whenever my dog exits an area i've determined in advance, my Iphone sends me a notification & location.
Unfortunately there are no Shortcuts actions for AirTag, but if he wanders away from home or your trusted locations, you should get a notification that it's "no longer with you."
The orientation on off is really useful thank you much
You're welcome! One of the most useful automations for sure.
Yes it is! You can also just use the toggle instead of making two automations of turn off and turn on. @beardfm
*Hi kindly advise how to create a shortcut for adjusting sounds and haptics ios 18.1, thanks in advance.*
I need one that gives me the option to select WiFi from the available options 🙏🏽
Yo, for that weather forecast, you could utilize the chatgpt api, feed it the data, and have it spit back the response in whatever format you want, could be json (and then you could retrieve dictionary values) or you could have the AI split the info by a special character, and then grab that info back in shortcuts.
👀👀👀 that’s brilliant actually
Is there a way to create a shortcut where you have to scan a qr code you hung in the bathroom to finally turn off the alarm?
Is it possible to have one for the MyQ app to open / close garage door from Home Screen? If so, please let me know!
Screenshot shortcut was awesome 🙌🏻
Glad you liked it!
Hey bro, i need a shortcut tutorial on adjusting left/right audio balance and i want it to be a shortcut on my home screen, thanks
Hey, audio balance on what device?
Anyway for calendar entries to be automatically recorded in a numbers spreadsheet?
Great video -- is there a site that has all/a list of URL schemes for iOS/iPadOS/macOS?
This is a great resource for that! github.com/FifiTheBulldog/ios-settings-urls/blob/master/settings-urls.md
Here is an idea. If I get a call while I am in a zoom or teams meeting, I want to send a custom response addressing them by their name. I want this to happen only if the caller is in a specific list.
For the Scan Document Shortcut you don’t need that extra app. You just have to add:
File (choose the Path you want to save your Scan in)
Open File (link this variable to the previous „File“)
Scan Document.
This will save it in that specific location. And with the choose from menu option you can even choose between multiple locations if you know how to use that shööfunction
Good call!
@@beardfm or use the camera instead of scan document. Camera recognises a document anyway.
Love these videos! Thanks!
Appreciate it!
Hy Stephen do bed time mood shortcuts or automation please please
As in changing the lighting in your room or something else?
You just earned a new subscriber dude
Appreciate it!
Something I've been curious about since I got my iPhone is if it was possible to utilize the shake motion to turn my flashlight on/of. My previous phone was a Motorola and I was a really cool feature. And if not, what could shortcut could I make that closely resembles this?
hey, I have my school schedule in my calendar. I want an automation where me sleep alarm gets edited to where the time is 1.5h before my first class starts. The problem is that at the moment you cannot edit the time of alarms.
I already created a shortcut for when I arrive at school, it’ll turn on my school focus until the end of the last class.
Great request, will work on that!
I got a request for you. I HATE the snooze option on any alarm. However, it's often the button that's front and center when an alarm goes off and sometimes I hit it by mistake.I think it also might be the double tap default. Can you make a shortcut that anytime Snooze is hit, it instead turns off that alarm?
hm will look into it!
Hey!
Hope you are doing good!How to notify/set an alarm when the battery status is 100%. Can you please help me
Hey! Automations tab > Battery level > When rises above 95% (that's the highest you can automate) then send notification or speak text "I'm charged"!
Excellent video with really interesting ideas 👍
Appreciate that!
Hello Stephen! I have a shortcuts request that I'm unable to get it to work.
I want a shortcut that simply opens an instagram account from the app. I tried copying an instagram account's URL from the app itself, and tried to make it into a shortcut with the Open URL action, but it only opens the home page of instagram.
Looking forward for another shortcuts video! 😊👍🏻
Hm good question…will look into it!
What about stopping the music once you stop the alarm?
I have some HomePods.
Like to use my Philips hue remote to start playing radio. Got this working.
Now I want the other buttons on the remote for increase en decrease volume. I know I can set a certain percentage. But any way that I can increase en decrease volume by 10% or so? Can’t find the option anywhere…
16:03 the temperatures are usually sorted from lowest to highest, I dont know why the temperatures are sorted like that in your video.
Nonetheless, this was my shot at the shortcut
Get hourly forecast at Current location
⬇
Get last item from weather conditions
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Speak "At [Current Date - date format is set to none and time format to short] it will be [item from list]
For some reason the High in the weather conditions menu doesn't work in shortcuts, but it works in shortcuts automations.
man you are great you have to get to million bro
Really appreciate that, shooting for 100K this year!
@@beardfm best of luck man you are a life saver for me
I'd like a shortcut to turn location on/off for workouts. Automating to the start of specific workouts would be ideal.
The best I could find was a shortcut to open settings to Location Services, then I can manually turn it off/on. Skipping this step would be better.
This runs perfectly on my phone. On my watch however, I'm forced to confirm before the shortcut runs. Can't figure out why.
Unfortunately you can’t toggle location services via a Shortcut action just yet
can you create a shortuct that we can see our all clipboard history?? and there by we can select the previously copied item easly
I'm going to do a clipboard Shortcut in the next video!
Hey! I’m trying to set an automation for when I perform an action. It seems like the automations are limited to the presets loaded. For example, I want something like “when screenshot is taken, do [this]” I can’t find where I need to start for the “when”
I own a business and would like to be able to send a message to 20 prospects at the same time without it being a group chat. Is that possible to do with the shortcuts app?
Hi there. By chance is there a shortcut available for converting low quality videos to HD videos? I have been searching and can't seem to locate any. Thanks for the shortcuts you showcased though, just awesome.
You're welcome! And that's a tough task, and not something you can do strictly in Shortcuts. There are third party apps and services online for that, but you can't do on your iPhone directly.
@@beardfm thank you very much for your response, much appreciated 👍🏾
Is it possible to make a shortcut or automation to log how much water we have drank throughout the day?
You can! You can do a Log Health Sample action or use a third party app. I'll do this in a future video for sure.
Awesome shortcuts and tutorial, man! Subbed for amazing content, and love your other tech reviews too 🔥
Much appreciated! Thanks for subscribing!
Thanks for sharing these shortcuts. Blessings on your day.
You are welcome!