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Did the same to reboot the pi and launch homebridge + noip deamon (as the pi serves me as a vpn server).
It clearly saves time!!
Bummer! Thanks for the response! Hopefully in the coming months they will have more updates on more control!
My guess is that they wanted to start with things people can already control, one at a time, using Siri. I also hope to see more soon, and I think we will. Still a few bugs in the current implementation to fix first!
What would be cool is to close all apps in multitasking tray... I am pretty sure it can be done with scripting.
I’m pretty sure you can’t
[doublepost=1537273114][/doublepost]I understand these things tend to develop organically without much control, but also it’d be kind of cool if this thread became more focussed on sharing Shortcuts again. I created a separate thread for help and discussion... just saying...
I just asked Siri to turn night shift on, and it did! So Siri can do it, it just can't be scripted (yet?). Maybe if I say it 10 times, it'll get added as a shortcut suggestion
I created a shortcut that tells me how long it will take to get to work, and then it opens Overcast and starts my drive time playlist. All I have to do is say "Hey Siri I'm going to work". Pretty slick stuff! I also have a Siri Pandora shortcut that plays a Pandora station just by saying "Hey Siri play the blues".
I’m pretty sure you can’t
[doublepost=1537273114][/doublepost]I understand these things tend to develop organically without much control, but also it’d be kind of cool if this thread became more focussed on sharing Shortcuts again. I created a separate thread for help and discussion... just saying...
Maybe we should also have a “Tips and Tricks” thread, too?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/shortcuts-help-discussion.2138854/
I'm hoping people (smarter than me) come up with some cool shortcuts over the next few days for me to look at.
It will help if Apple will get the iCloud links working.
Here’s a link to one of mine: a Shortcut to tell someone in your contacts that you are traveling to visit when you’ll arrive (fingers crossed link works!). The fun part is using Siri to tell the Shortcut your contact's name!
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/8d6ff24b5f4c45d88996cf30f2e2668d
EDIT: Link works!!!!! Thanks, Apple!
[doublepost=1537279239][/doublepost]Here's an interesting article about how to use IFTTT with Shortcuts (even though its not officially supported (yet).
https://www.macstories.net/ios/how-to-trigger-ifttt-applets-with-ios-12s-new-shortcuts-app-and-siri/
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I just created a shortcut that disables bluetooth, wifi and mobile data, I wanted to insert a command that changes 4G to 2G before disabling mobile data in order to save some battery life but as gwhizkids said that's not available. Turning off location services shortcut is not available either.
Grrrrr Apple!
Hey guys, shortcuts link are working. You just need to wait for a few seconds or so to let it load, then a screen comes up and you’ll be able to save it
When it’s working it takes a while, yes. When it wasnt working, it didn’t do it at all.
[doublepost=1537281533][/doublepost]Here is a Do Not Disturb shortcut which asks you how long you want to enable it for. It creates a calendar event of that length and ends DND when the event ends. It’s in hours but you could modify that- I tested it against 1 minute of course!
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/642b171755154d7daa34ba847d25c721
I’m seeing the same behavior. It’s really dumb that those don’t sync. How are shortcuts supposed to work on HomePod if the Siri commands don’t sync?
Yeah, the "Shortcut" would be: turn on scene X
Yeah - good points. That's why I started this thread - so I can get help and ideas really taking advantage of the Shortcut. Good ideas on the text to a friend, etc.
Keep all the great ideas coming folks! Good stuff.
They don’t.
They don’t as in it’s broken or you don’t think it’s supposed to? I’ve seen where HomePods are supposed to run shortcuts. Maybe they do sync to HomePods?
Well maybe shortcuts created in the app run on HomePod as these also sync across devices. But the actual in app “add to Siri” shortcuts seem to be device specific and don’t work for me yet at least. Maybe it’s broken, maybe it’s an oversight or maybe it’s intentional, i have no clue. But it’s extremely frustrating!