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What do you want Siri Shortcuts to be able to do?
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Yes. They are imported immediately upon installing Shortcuts.
I do have an app that can do it, so hopefully developer of said app implements Shortcuts. This is one of the most exciting developments in iOS in a long time, in my eyes. Hopefully it's something that becomes expected of developers.
Agree 100%. The rub is going to be the mass market developers (retailers, primarily) who view their apps as marketing platforms. They will be loathe to give up the eyeballs on their apps just for user convenience. Looking at you, McDonalds and Starbucks!
I find that no matter how I set up a shortcut to send a text. I still have to physically hit send. This defeats the object of the shortcut to me and I may as well just dictate via Siri.
The ability is obviously in the OS or DNDWD wouldn't work. So I don't see why you can't have a pre-defined iMessage send automatically.
Either I am doing something wrong or they still haven't implemented this feature in.
They have definitely implemented it. Did you deselect (slide to the left) the option in the screenshot below (in the screenshot, the button is selected, which you *don’t* want)? And, no matter what, you still have to initiate a Shortcut to send the message. It’s just that if you have a canned message as part of a longer routine, you won’t need to see it, it just goes out. Used this 10 hours ago to tell me wife I was heading home and my ETA.
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They have definitely implemented it. Did you deselect (slide to the left) the option in the screenshot below (in the screenshot, the button is selected, which you *don’t* want)? And, no matter what, you still have to initiate a Shortcut to send the message. It’s just that if you have a canned message as part of a longer routine, you won’t need to see it, it just goes out. Used this 10 hours ago to tell me wife I was heading home and my ETA.
That must be were I was going wrong. Thank you. Will try it later.
They have definitely implemented it. Did you deselect (slide to the left) the option in the screenshot below (in the screenshot, the button is selected, which you *don’t* want)? And, no matter what, you still have to initiate a Shortcut to send the message. It’s just that if you have a canned message as part of a longer routine, you won’t need to see it, it just goes out. Used this 10 hours ago to tell me wife I was heading home and my ETA.
That worked thank you.
However for some reason I don’t now get an option to set the directions to my home address and send the ETA.
Tried all sorts in the search bar but nothing comes up.
Anyone got a step by step on how to:
Send a message
Open google maps
Show directions home
Send ETA in a message.
Thanks in advance.
[doublepost=1535732504][/doublepost]Ok sorted it using the instructions shown here:
https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/05/ios-12-siri-shortcuts/
However a few observations.
- Travel time won't work in my current location (Jordan) as Apple Maps does not support driving directions here, despite all streets and businesses etc being clearly visible with the app open. Apple are most certainly being lazy with Maps as it is the only nav app that doesn't!! (Google, Waze, TomTom, Sygic, Maps.me all work fine)
- If you run the shortcut using a Siri command from the phone being locked. It does not show Google Maps. It just says done on the screen as per the screenshot.
- The 2 steps to input the text then send the message can be shortened by just using the send message and typing the message into the input box below.
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I was an early user of Workflow and with Shortcuts hoping I will be able to take my existing Workflows to the next level.
I have one that is called ETA to Contact, that determines my current location and the drive time to a contact's primary address. It then creates a text message with my current location and expected time.
Right now I have to manually select the contact and ok sending the message. It would be great to allow Siri to take the input and just run with it.
(Don't have a dev account at the moment so I haven't gotten to check out the functionality).
I have one that is called ETA to Contact, that determines my current location and the drive time to a contact's primary address. It then creates a text message with my current location and expected time.
Right now I have to manually select the contact and ok sending the message. It would be great to allow Siri to take the input and just run with it.
(Don't have a dev account at the moment so I haven't gotten to check out the functionality).
You can almost do this with Shortcuts with the setup below. It parses the Siri input well to determine the address of the person you want to text but for some reason concatenates the name when you input it into the “send to” dialog for the message so that the contact is not recognized. I’m sure this is fixable pretty easily using text functions but it’s too early on a Saturday morning yet for me to figure this out! Also just noticed that I left the “Show when run” button checked for the message. You would uncheck that to have the message go out without any more input (i.e. automatically)
Here’s the shortcut for future reference: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ee4b8cbabe3d4aeea94fe9d4131e6b2d
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All I want is for it to be able to open certain apps. I want to be able to say I’m going to bed and have it open up my Sleep Cycle and my SleepBot. LOL I’m not asking for it to do anything fancy with them I just want them to open both at the same time with one command LOL I could hit the start sleep button myself lol
Siri shortcuts is going to be AMAZING. I can’t wait to get my hands on it. I wish their was a way to install it before the keynote..
For those that have it already. Do you see yourself using Siri more? Or do you just add it to the home screen so that all you have to do is click and icon?
For those that have it already. Do you see yourself using Siri more? Or do you just add it to the home screen so that all you have to do is click and icon?
Depends on the situation. I use the widget version most. For my “heading home” shortcut I do trigger with Siri.
This may change for me when we get more apps in the Shortcuts ecosystem.
I agree that it is a challenge to learn, particularly if you haven’t done any coding before. Best thing is to take ones from Gallery, open them up and see how they’re put together.
There's at least one way I'm aware of to do that--with Launch Center Pro: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/launch-center-pro/id532016360?mt=8
You can schedule Workflows (and, as of Sept 12th, I presume, Shortcuts) to run at a scheduled time/date, recurring.
You can almost do this with Shortcuts with the setup below. It parses the Siri input well to determine the address of the person you want to text but for some reason concatenates the name when you input it into the “send to” dialog for the message so that the contact is not recognized. I’m sure this is fixable pretty easily using text functions but it’s too early on a Saturday morning yet for me to figure this out! Also just noticed that I left the “Show when run” button checked for the message. You would uncheck that to have the message go out without any more input (i.e. automatically)
Here’s the shortcut for future reference: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ee4b8cbabe3d4aeea94fe9d4131e6b2d
Ok. It was bugging me that I did not figure out how to automatically insert the contact name into the recipient line on the automatic message. I finally worked through it and it was not as straightforward as it seems like it should have been.
I’ve set the thing up now so that if you trigger the shortcut, Siri will prompt for a name and the shortcut should automatically send that person your location and how long before you arrive.
Link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/1b89caeb2f0d4aa8bcd963c720947d49
I have a shortcut that tells me a few things (speaking along the way to say progress), then ssh's into a remote server and runs a remote command which resets one of the server apps running on a windows computer so I can remotely restart the software with the tap of a button.
I would like to scan a QR code which is a VCARD and either display a notification with ALL the contact information, OR create a new contact with the scanned VCARD. I'm not sure it's possible : if I set a notification with the contact it only display 1 of the fields but not all
Hi!
I’m following the discussions about the Shortcuts, do you guys know this website?
https://sharecuts.app
It’s like a Repo for Shortcuts. Hope this helps
I’m following the discussions about the Shortcuts, do you guys know this website?
https://sharecuts.app
It’s like a Repo for Shortcuts. Hope this helps
I am a part time public speaker.
I would like shortcuts to allow me to run a script that will...
1) Turn on Do Not Disturb
2) Dim the brightness on the screen
3) Change my Screen Lock to “Never”
4) Open up the Stopwatch
I’ve got the first two steps down, can’t figure out the last two.
I would like shortcuts to allow me to run a script that will...
1) Turn on Do Not Disturb
2) Dim the brightness on the screen
3) Change my Screen Lock to “Never”
4) Open up the Stopwatch
I’ve got the first two steps down, can’t figure out the last two.