I wanted to show off some new automations with iOS 16. This is all new to me, so I am also learning as I go, but this stuff is amazing!
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0:00 – Intro
0:54 – New Explainer Layout
1:04 – Change Low Power Mode Percentage
2:12 – Automated location based messages
3:27 – Location Based Focus Modes
4:35 – Open Your music app with BT speaker
5:30 – Send Text and open app with CarPlay
7:13 – Search for wifi based on location
8:31 – Sensor based automations
10:06 – Final Thoughts
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Great video! But wont the location based automations cause much battery drain through precise location?
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.
@magnitech Yea! Here it is:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
@magnitech 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.
@Everton Leandro Thank you!
@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?
Nice!
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?
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.
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).
How did you do that?
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.”
yeah ios 15 used to be true “Automatic”. that changed with IOS 16 for whatever reason – it sucks
Great video, this video helps a lot to get past the intro to the basics and get the ball moving with automations.
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.
This is a game changer, I’ve been doing this with my iPad/iPhone for awhile now
@Aaron yeah it should be the same for any brand of smart plug
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!
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
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.
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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.
@Jorge Hernandez can’t you turn off that option that asks you if you want to run?? I thought there was a toggle for that
can’t you turn off that option that asks you if you want to run?? I thought there was a toggle for that
Manual automation. A feature that only Apple has. That’s why we pay a premium.
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.
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.
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.
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”
@Matthew Sciarrotta 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?
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.
@Matthew Sciarrotta I’ll have to give this a try when I have some time to map out the conditions. Thanks!
I used short, discrete task oriented shortcuts and stacked them in the enter/exit focus so I could stack them in the order or exclude them as needed in each focus.
I Just discovered your channel ……. I love it. Thank you for doing this video as I was all confused about shortcuts but not anymore.