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Action Button Usages and Shortcuts Examples [MERGED]
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Here's mine - made using the same method as outlined earlier in the thread.
View Bank Balance just opens my mobile banking app, and Next Train Home opens a 3rd party trains times app. The others are all basic actions within the OS.
EDIT: In case anyone is curious, iOS 17.1 allows you to set 8 shortcuts rather than 7 as in earlier versions of iOS 17 (previously the eighth slot was reserved for opening the Shortcuts app).
The worst one is someone asks something, and then respond Figured it out - delete. NO Don't Delete! Put the answer so if someone searches the same question, they will actually find a result with the answer instead of 50 with just the question but no answers or people saying I don't know or I have the same issue but no answer
I assume these folks are unaware or forget (or in worse cases - just don’t care) that there are other people reading the forum who likely have the very same question!
At work, I switch my AirPods between my phone for podcasts and laptop for meetings. So my action button quickly reconnects my AirPods after meetings. Then I made a hotkey to connect it to my Mac. At home, it turns on my Apple TV and opens the remote app.
Likewise here. Haven’t really felt a need to customize the button and I using ring/silent mode several times during the day, so that works best for me.
ChatGPT! The limitation is that it doesn’t interact with your phone. But for every question there is a very reasonable answer and the complexity of follow-up questions you can make in these conversations are exceptional.
I started with the camera but quickly realized the button on the Home Screen is just as fast. And going to control center to toggle silent is annoying.
The real bummer is I wouldn’t mind silent being activated all the time but there are always cases that I’m finding where I need to turn it off to get sound to play.
I’m using shortcuts to bring up a menu of most common actions when held vertically.
I don’t really like the aesthetics of the menu so that’s something I’ll look to improve on but in terms of quick shortcuts I like it. I’m also still tweaking the list and quite like the idea above for ‘next train home’.
When the phone is horizontal it just opens the camera.
What I would really like Apple to add is the ability to quick press and long press. Quick press I'd set to mute toggle and long press to open the menu above.
I have mine set to the mute switch. I've played with it for the first week after the release, and then never really played with it since.
I have mine set to selfie camera. My wife and I take a daily hike when we can and have started documenting each walk. For normal photos I still use the homescreen icon. I'm not 100% sold that it's my permanent solution, but it's become almost a reflex so far.
I appreciate the action button and use it to toggle a Focus mode. I also frequently press the button incorrectly while attempting to take a screen shot.
I execute a Shortcut based on how I hold the iPhone. With the screen pointing down it goes into ‘do not disturb’, on it’s side it opens the camera app, and when I hold it normally it toggles screen lock. Works wonders for how I use it😊
It's worthless. Used it the same way as the mute function of the switch.
